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I typically go with something like "Have you considered extracting this to a separate function"?

Thanks for making it available - I hope it doesn't burn through hosting costs! Purely for interest, but for me, the really interesting part was flipping between the OilSlick and Te…

Digital's VMS/OpenVMS had something that was a fair way towards this, in that a file was created with a version number (myfile.txt;1) and when modified, a 2nd file (myfile.txt;2) w…

Sounds like we should ban you from the shower, then. (Amusing to see “root caused” == “diagnosed” and != “caused”.)

So, Agile?

Hmm, so they reported it to FB & apparently had the vuln confirmed but then retested the vuln a couple of times at 12h & 22h after reporting/confirmation, with the implication that…

Yes... >> "How could any other country take Johnson seriously" Not convinced that the problem's his climate spokesperson, TBH...

So many problems with that assertion... You've got very low expectations if you count those as "good" services - trying to travel with one small child would be challenging, two is …

> JavaScript, as I recall, was the answer to Java being crashy and slow on 50 MHz processors. Not in the least - The early scripting language Mocha, was first renamed to LiveScript…

I'd say that software is "special" because it's ephemeral, meaning there's incredibly few limitations on the possibilities (or changes to requirements mid-project) when compared to…

Back when this happened and the article was written, (really - 12 years ago now!) they didn't have the full story, but it was pretty much the first of this sort of thing that Amazo…