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Exactly, one of our teams in China decided to use a popular Chinese web framework, and when the rest of the team out side of China and customers looked at it, the English was gramm…

I find I spend most of my time debugging R, which is astoundingly difficult since it doesn’t report line numbers on errors. Most of my code is in C++, so that helps, albeit it’s st…

It’s figurative, but unfortunately people do kill Buddhas, and continue to try and do so today. From physically attacking them, to poisonings, little has changed in 2000 years.

Yeah exactly, I think a small percentage of people do and they lead the innovation. The overwhelming majority don’t understand even the most basic reasoning behind almost anything …

> Unexpected issues – in addition to routine suffering, long distance live transport can also result in fires, delays or sinking of livestock ships causing the suffering and death …

Has anyone ever been able to make a reservation on that site? Anytime I look at locations they’re either closed, or booked, or you have to plan a half year in advance.

As long as you don’t have more than one person picking up produce from a bin at the same time you can just measure the change in weight from the bin it’s taken out of. That has to …

Interesting, at my Trader Joe’s they always ask, and when I do say I couldn’t find something they just shrug and apologize. Ironically this is the TJ’s up the hill from the new Go …

That makes sense, do you have any annual spikes too? Like Uber has Halloween, which I wouldn’t have guessed as being the worst.

So when does Yelp see spikes in traffic needing a custom Autoscaler? I guess just the daily time zone based sine wave type load?

Not everyone does, the UnrealEngine doesn’t for example, you can see project code words in the commit history.

There’s also the class of pointless meeting where nontechnical managers don’t understand what they’re responsible for so use them to as a way to “manage by feel”. They call them to…

Actually I think it should be ok, because you’d enter the name in the nomative case and then when you write it on the screen you’d declinate it based on the language you’re display…

I’m pretty sure it’s solvable, the main problem is that we break up names into first and last to identify the parts and we do bad data quality checks. Let’s say we did just have on…

We used to have problems with non-ASCII chars in names, we fixed that with UTF, we had problems with currencies and numbers, we made libraries that understand locales and even dire…

I have a hyphen in my last name that caused the California DMV to make one of my last names a middle name, and the Social Security Administration can’t verify my name on their webs…

How is this different than a web server reporting itself as Jetty? Or a web browser repotting it’s Chrome?

I don’t see why there is a technical vs management path at many companies, you want management to be a support for the product that’s being delivered and your teams should be skill…

It would be interesting to see which countries voted for and against the ban. If Italy was against the ban for example, to stop ripping off travelers, that would be amusing. :)

Roaming prices are the equivalent of scamming tourists, I don’t think there’s any body that can prevent it internally unfortunately, it’s just somehow acceptable for companies to s…

Search and a lot of the AI based systems these days feels like talking to a hard of hearing grandparent; as long as you’re saying about what they expect then it’s fine, but if ther…