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Not going to lie, I read the title as the Art of Fishing... and spent the entire article waiting for the finale where some how this was an analogy with fishing... came for the fish…

How Twitter (nascent at the time) has changed… let alone the technology landscape and the wider world!

Exciting? Possibly for those involved. I hate to say this, as I'm generally optimistic towards most developments like this, but over the last decade I've become so apathetic toward…

its arcane syntax and tendency to behave in unexpected ways is a massive barrier to entry. you spend way too much time trying to figure out the edge cases to command outputs / erro…

sorry, the UK sarcasm mark-down doesn't always render correctly...

Surely this will become a non-problem as we migrate to NOSQL... no...? oh? we're migrating back? great.

Who are all you crack-junkies, running SQL queries against live...? I've seen enough literature saying we don't do this anymore... ooooooooohhhhhh. right... yes, the people writing…

the explosion of threads is because of twitter's algo... to view a thread, you have to interact with a tweet. this interaction drives metrics that results in the tweet showing up m…

basic manipulation in CF is an absolute pita - so much overhead for simple things like clobbering a header value. but by allowing JS/whatever, it gives you an infinite landscape to…

Happy customer of RevenueCat. Integrated and never looked back.

this is a MASSIVE selling point, BUT, when your users contact support trying to gain access to their account and can't describe what their email address might be... trust me, there…

Question: had Microsoft chosen a less ridiculous sounding name to begin with, would it have been more popular?

... and will be shutdown in about 18 months when our attention wanders elsewhere ...

interested to know your approach to long leases lasting more than 60 seconds (if you have this?). do you go for continual renewing (and bailing out if you get too close to the time…

Well Microsoft had their annual mail outage the other day... I guess they could have coordinated a bit better to get them done and out of the way at the same time.

Just because people are searching for it doesn't mean it's popular. It means people are trying to answer a question about it. I'd posit there is more of a correlation between searc…

Nice, hadn't seen that. I like the comment at the end... If approached in the right spirit, GDPR compliance can be a win-win for email marketers, quite possibly providing a much-ne…

What's interesting here is: - this is the first confirmation I've received from a company stating outright that they're not going to be GDPR compliant and you should stop using the…

hard to fathom there's an entire generation of developers out there for whom this is entirely new magic. there's an entire class of problem and suite of (bad) tooling that they're …

Roughly 1/3 comes from Intelligent Cloud (i.e. Azure and friends)... although revenues increased 93% in FYQ3. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2017-Q3... [edit:…