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That does not counter my point at all. There's a gaping maw between "a person's back garden" and "The North Sea." To demonstrate the difference to yourself, look up "Trump Internat…

Which laws? Who is "they?" Be clear.

I took the wording from the article: > The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) says it has spent £50,000 trying to remove paint from the wall of the Grade II-listed building in Carey Street.…

> The dull blocks have no character That's your opinion and irrelevant. The Grade-II classification and the requirements it imposes don't care about your opinion. > the artwork in …

Just to be clear, you're asking the Ministry of Justice, the department responsible for maintaining the court system, to break the law? I can't think how that could have horrendous…

For the comments questioning why the MoJ are doing this, and the reason for the costs, the information can be found in the article: > A HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) spok…

It's a Grade II-listed building meaning you have to be very careful with it to restore it to its previous state. It's not enough to give it a good scrub, you've also got to ensure …

My uneducated guess would be that the pressure is the natural state because of the fluid/gas involved, much the same way sediment eventually settles at the bottom of a bottle of or…

Speak plainly. You’re making no sense whatsoever.

Wind turbines are not data centres. The sea is not part of Donald Trump’s property.

Fair point: I was using the information in the article to form my opinion. I still think that, if the developer in question ignored a compiler error as described, that’s a serious …

Honestly, I'm going to be a bit harsher: I think they're either: 1. A novice who doesn't know how to debug issues. 2. Totally incompetent and copying code from Stack Overflow. I do…

> This claim that football has always been the "people's game" is in the end sanctimonious romantic nonsense. I never said that. > If we're talking about games out in the park, the…

> I don't live in England I can tell. > Maybe not yours. So why do you continue to talk about it? I know the history and it’s not relevant to my argument. > It's used this working …

Literally none of the things you said refute my statement > depending on where you are in the UK, I specifically referred to English clubs. The fact that other home nations prefer …

While true, it’s not a refutation at all. Look at the attendance makeup of every English club in the last 100 years, listen to the stories of the people who grew up supporting thei…

Did you miss this part? > If the company collapses, those people lose their jobs anyway? We can do what you suggest but the result is the same for the people being laid off.

> Why a company has to survive but not its people? If the company collapses, those people lose their jobs anyway? > Why the employees do not deserve this? It's not about what emplo…

Nah, this is not uncommon in AWS. I came across a similar bug 10 years ago when playing with Kinesis and nearly had a heart attack at a $2m billing alert! Turns out it was just 5c

While I think the example is too fake as to be too useful, let's take it. While we could read the code and say that one appears to achieve the job we want and the other doesn't; yo…

But that’s not my argument at all. I’m saying that quality is impossible to measure if 0 people use it. Once you go above 0, it can be measured and it’s not necessarily related to …

But if it’s unused then how does one measure quality? We can write all the tests, look at architecture patterns, etc. but software truly is a case of “the proof of the pudding is i…

You’re still missing the point: software used by LITERALLY 0 PEOPLE cannot be useful. Whether it’s well written is completely irrelevant because it, by definition, is providing val…

OP didn’t say “little-used” software, they said “nobody,” and I think this was meant to be taken literally in this context. Software that has 0 users is of no use to anyone by defi…

It’s not meant to be taken literally, it’s just a comparison to point out that the return isn’t really very good considering the risks inherent in game development, especially the …