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Sounds like if the OS doesn't track anything else about the user, then it won't receive any other signals and will just use whatever was typed in at account creation. If websites a…

That's not been my experience living in the UK. Whe I've asked for directions people either give correct ones (as far as I remember) or say they don't know. When people ask me and …

They're not, but the point is that users can see the 403 due to network errors. If vpn + networking work then the user can access the resource through the private interface. If the…

I wonder if people are talking about the same things in these discussions. 50 people working on the same deployable in the same repo is going to create friction. Similarly, having …

I think this is exactly it. It's easy to see that there's a chance to improve things while ignoring the ways it could make things worse when they won't affect you. Should you quit …

Maybe splitting them is helpful, but why would you have to do them sequentially? Many of the things that reduce income inequality also help reduce poverty. Poverty isn't "low-hangi…

I think part of the reason is the embrace of an "each package should do exactly one thing" by many in the community, often taken to a ridiculous extreme. Possibly better now after …

And anyone who calls that method may find themselves dealing with the implementation details of Entity Framework and whatever db provider you're using because it's a leaky abstract…

I thought cqrs was a code pattern where you segregate query models from command models, rather than something that specifies where the data is read from or is written to.

Yeah, in my admittedly limited experience the grade I assigned in a live code test (slightly more than fizzbuzz, but no tricks or algorithms required) matched up very closely with …

Coding tests aren't filtering for people who work hard, they're filtering for people who know how to code. Whether they will work hard on the job seems like an orthogonal question?…

Yes. The article does quote the complainants saying that they tried contacting steam and only after getting no response for months contacted the payment providers. Steam could have…

Seems like this is the sort of thing the tooling should do for you. Maybe have a few preset prompts for different contexts. I shouldn't have to type in a magic phrase to get it to …

I don't think discussing further is going to be very productive given how entrenched your views are. Just for the record in case someone stumbles across this in future. Chris Middl…

I wasn't even talking about enforcement, I neither pay nor fall afoul of the terms. I can't find any evidence of BBC employees calling it "far left", all I find when searching for …

I think the important concept that "readable and modular" is trying to get at is how easy is it to continue working on the code in future. There's definitely codebases that are eas…

People aren't forced to pay for the BBC though. Public funding is through a TV licence rather than tax, with the licence being "required" only if you watch live TV or use the BBC s…

I agree that it's an interesting question, that's why I spent so much of my free time reading it. I'd also agree that using AI for sentiment analysis could be a good approach, I'm …

I read the 1st third (it's really long) and while the data analysis is interesting, the conclusions say a lot more about the biases of the author(s) than those of the BBC. Fundamen…