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- Respect the user: We serve far too many ads for what is needed to achieve our goal, and our Cloud division does not always provide the support our users crave when they cannot us…

Reposting a memo I have shared internally: First of all, I’m sorry that I’ve been away from my colleagues and team the last few days. I’ve been through a breakup and it has changed…

My theory is that software engineering is fundamentally a lonely activity. Loading up the context required to solve a problem and hold that state for the several hours to write the…

This story reminds me of when I was a teenager and delivered a weekly free newspaper to the neighbouring houses. The newspaper company would call up a few houses to check if they'd…

For those interested in looking at the raw data, https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map is a useful visualisation of cases by region, over time.

Same :( Darksky was excellent in that you could put any coordinates and any date in the past and then it would give you hourly weather data. I also am struggling to find an alterna…

I feel like this solves a problem which shouldn't really exist - In a perfect world a free trial really should be free and should allow you a choice afterwards to either cancel or …

The problem I have with tipping is the idea that if you don't tip you are stingy and ungenerous - surely me choosing to be at your establishment and paying for your product is enou…