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The JavaScript ones simply don't appear - which is nice. And yes, I believe they're in breach of GDPR if they use cookies and tracking pixels to track me without giving me the oppo…

As in Mutually Assured Destruction? Or do I misunderstand? I'd love to know more...

UK: 30 minutes before work and 30 minutes at lunch

I've read Liars Poker - a real eye opener. I'd recommend Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg. It's a look at 'how not to build systems'.

I don't do TDD on the first version. For me, the first version is a throwaway version. If it turns out to be commercially viable, that's when I start with a brand new codebase inco…

It's helpful to measure design quality and build quality - not just build quality. Software developers are mostly concerned about build quality. Software development should always …

If possible. That would be great. I definitely download it.

Could this be regarded as false advertising? It's not really free if you have to hand over PII. Problem is, no-one seems to know how much PII is worth.

Perhaps it's the fact that you tolerated the technical debt that got you to google scale. I've seen a few projects where developers aim for (as swatcoder so eloquently put it above…

Wow, that last paragraph is spot on. I found both your comments to not only be accurate and clear but also rather eloquent. I've always felt we've misunderstood technical debt. It …

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-technology/digital-privacy-data-facebook-cambridge-analytica-britain In the above article (from a reputable, mainstream magazine) abo…

The hardware engineering world (oil and gas, aerospace, civil) is less about ego and more about well established processes, practices and rules. These are much more mature industri…

Agreed. I think the professional/unprofessional distinction would have been much better. In this article the term 'amateur is used in a derogatory way, a sort of 'put down', such a…

This is a good thing. And there's probably still some way to go with this. A step-by-step approach makes sense to me. Sure it's a nuisance for developers (although I'm certainly no…

I agree. I've always felt that an individual may be more efficient (productive) than a team. Of course, that depends entirely on the individuals - their experience, motivation, dom…

I agree with your point entirely but I wonder if more people outside of tech would care if only they understood what these companies were doing with their personal data.

This was a real eye-opener. As a software developer I've had my fair share of startup failures (and no successes - so far). Advertising and marketing have always been a closed book…

Yep. That's my experience too. But ‘burn and churn’ thrives in the absence of decent human resource management. Is it possible to link 'problem complexity' to 'concentration demand…

Exhaustion leads to serious problems and, in the airline industry, that often leads to disasters ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407 ). Hence the legislation for…

Airline pilots have a legal limit to the number of hours they can work per month. I think this is mostly to avoid the consequences of mental exhaustion (rather than emotional exhau…

I find it odd that the words 'consent' and 'permission' don't appear anywhere in this article. I realise it is a purely technical article but is it off topic to include consent in …

These are two separate things - advertising and tracking. Advertising has been around for millennia. I'm sure an orange seller on the streets of ancient Bagdad used some form of ad…

Nice. That's a really useful way of looking it it. I'll definitely commit that to memory.

So much goodness comes from a well designed database as you point out, but I agree with barbecue_sauce too. Do the interface mock-up first (and get the customers agreement), then d…