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pskinner

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    Comment #39749102

    Here you go: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asbestos-properti...

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    Comment #35985955

    HL7v2 is just the schema - the mechanism for sending these messages is normally something called MLLP which is just a simple framing protocol and has no built in security. It is po…

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    Comment #33755065

    King of the who?

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    Comment #32244321

    Well that's just not true.

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    Comment #31523851

    Comic chat

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    Comment #29984040

    This is because RoR projects do not do unit testing, they do integration testing with a real DB. This approach is terrible and causes the poor performance. There are whole sets of …

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    Comment #28257565

    Funny because my anecdote is that any devs I've worked with who only use an IDE are average to flat out bad at software development.

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    Comment #26768100

    Disasters like powershell returning a 0 exit code even if there is an error? Its a pile of trash that doesn't add anything new other than a big shiny MS logo.

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    Comment #26762972

    Powershell is a horror you mean, it's got the verbosity of objective c with the consistency that comes with all Microsoft designed products. Just use a proper scripting language.

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    Comment #26678676

    Shut up and take my money

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    Comment #26573988

    We did and so this didn't cause us a major issue today. At my lost job we had the same. And the one before that. This mitigation of a risk that affects business continuity is somet…

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    Comment #26405463

    A lot of this is not true. The majority of women accused (in the UK) were accused by other women, not these all powerful male brewers - around 500 people (men included) were found …

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    Comment #26291238

    The engine being totaled was your fault, always change the timing belt on or before its due to be changed.

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    Comment #25664624

    So I'd recommend Ny-Ålesund (but be prepared for a very long and uncomfortable boat trip if you go there and back in a day) plus the Soviet ghost town Piramida - remember to take y…

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    Comment #25655672

    Svalbard is a fantastic place to visit, especially if you want to get away from everything - it's like having a weight lifted from you as soon as you leave the area of paved road i…

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    Comment #25539812

    It doesn't work because your changes conflict? How would anything else handle out of order modifications to files that cannot be resolved automatically? There will always been a re…

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    Comment #25512192

    From my own experiences, the new assassin's creed game, Valhalla, was much buggier when it came out - hundreds of game breaking quest bugs and things as basic as saved games not wo…

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    Comment #25157622

    JSON schema to provide documentation across system and runtime validation of both types and business rules. Much more effective.

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    Comment #24985374

    Why would it be based in that? The USA is not the centre of the universe.

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    Comment #24795202

    Being able to drive safely is not the same skill as being able to construct a system that can drive safely.

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    Comment #24417696

    Reminds me of the old ActiveX days - I wrote a whole WYSIWYG website editor using the ActiveX component that let you read/write files. I mean that was fun for a young budding devel…