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At my last job, there was an incident (thankfully discovered in working hours) caused by a supplier accidentally deleting the country of Austria from some crucial database. You can…

Or Rust, which - whatever you might think of it - does not feel very designed-by-committee.

> P.S. I am tired of the YADIW excuse. Let's have a nice honest discussion about how it can be fixed. If somebody complains that Scrum is bad because e.g. every day you have to upd…

> Why are we being asked how long it will take to do work in sections of code we have never seen? It is common enough for those packs of estimation cards to include one with a ques…

> You would never run a class this way As a literature graduate, this made me laugh. Maybe literature courses are more leisurely stateside, but for me it was a book a week (not 4 t…

I currently work in one week sprints and we do this. Not 100% of the time of course, and it's an internal facing team where the customers are two desks away. But I've also done it …

That's not quite true - iPads are a huge hit in electronic music for performance and production. Whether that counts as 'revolutionary' is another matter - there was the original L…

What a fine way to rule out of existence almost all subgenres of metal and punk, and all of indie rock, and indeed anything other than bands who do bucket-list arena tours. All thi…

> If removing repetitive code is a requirement then the team needs to be informed that code will be reviewed for repetition, and introduced to various techniques for spotting and r…

I've noticed, in London at least, that there is a new appreciation of the style among hipster millennial types. You can buy maps of 'Brutal London' with all the great examples mark…

The GDPR angle is that this was why they decided to indiscriminately delete inactive accounts. Deceased users are the reason they're delaying it, not the reason they're doing it.

I think the idea is that it's easy to fake excitement until you're asked to spend six hours on a take home test. At which point you'd actually have to be pretty excited to do it.

If it's a sustainable business, I would guess it would be sold off to pay creditors in the event of a wework bankruptcy. So will probably be all right (depending on the buyer, of c…

> Yes, I know some things simply can't be done without a JS webapp, but not all and probably not even a majority, so if HTML and CSS will do the job fine, then so be it; and even i…

You could optimise either, I don't think that's the point. It's just a convenience that more clearly expresses the intent of the code where it's used. Imagine an example where the …

> * Resale - By putting stickers on my laptop, I am either going to have to try to remove them again once I come to selling it, lowering my resale price because the laptop isn’t in…

It's a DDoS, apparently: > We're experiencing a distributed denial of service attack. This affects your ability to login on the web & mobile. It may also create delays sending & re…

> Will MIDI 2.0 devices need to use a new connector or cable? > No, MIDI 2.0 is a transport agnostic protocol. > That's engineering speak for MIDI 2.0 is a set of messages and thos…

There is a slight difference in that all those tools are the basis for their companies' commercial offerings. Google does not sell Go tools or consultancy hours etc. Its interest i…

They're asking for the password to your email account, not your Facebook account.

Further: what about if I'd paid tens of thousands of dollars for a magic hearing aid that could pick out conversations in said Starbucks in which I have a potential business opport…

Apparently somebody tried this to get rid of Alex Jones[0] [0] https://www.adweek.com/digital/twitter-users-are-blocking-hu...

Some friends of mine [0] actually made a puppet opera based on this chap - and a blast it was too. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2017/jan/26/watch-a-...

> To me this ruins the meal. But at that point you're basically just objecting to all delivery food ever. Which is fine but, like, you are aware that it is a huge industry and has …

You may know this already, but there are now several Crystal Maze attractions around the UK. We did the one in Islington for a work away day, it was pretty sweet. Just about worked…