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by RegW 5y ago
Kudos to the Gruaniad for stopping the BBC hanging itself. I think they should be allowed a small gloat off the back of this.
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by RegW 5y ago
Don't look up.
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by RegW 5y ago
> The problem is not with code reviews but with how ... they have become. Perhaps "banal" is the word you are meant to use. There's a saying about that a 10 line PR will get 10 comments, but a 1000 line PR will get a &quot
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by RegW 5y ago
Paah! I once had a job programming Computer Automation kit using a 120 column teleprinter - you're not even back as far as web0.5
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by RegW 5y ago
Chaos and entropy always get into mechanism, but if we don't even try to get it right at the begining then the system might not even make it to prod.
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by RegW 5y ago
Good point. Well spotted. If we are all quibbling over the wording used in a hypothetical case, then I wonder what's going to happen when the lawyers get going with the real one.
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by RegW 5y ago
> Judge: did you, NSO agree to the Terms and conditions by pressing "I Agree" > NSO representative: No, Your honor. IANAL, but the general understanding is: "Ignorance is not a defence". If your legal advisors did
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by RegW 5y ago
One technique is to ask for 3 point estimates. Get everyone involved to estimate each item in three different ways: 1. How long it will take if everything goes well and according to plan. 2. How long it will take if everything goes wrong a
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by RegW 5y ago
> i've heard business leaders express the suspicion that sw eng teams are trying to avoid accountability by claiming estimating is too hard. If we say that we don't know how long its going to take or how much its going to cost
100.
by RegW 5y ago
From what I understand, a construction "blue book" would give work rates for common tasks. How long it takes one man to dig a trench 10 yards long, or lay a 1000 bricks. From this you could calculate how long the entire job woul
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by RegW 5y ago
Interesting - and no one tried to beat you down on the end date when a task went quickly, or berated you when one overan? I truely believe that developing software is a creative process that you are always doing for the first time (unless y
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by RegW 5y ago
Perhaps I have lived too long out in the provences, but Maven was my first experience of dependency management in Java. After Ant it was a no-brainer because Ant didn't do dependencies. I didn't come across references to Ivy for
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by RegW 5y ago
Ant didn't do package management.
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by RegW 5y ago
Currently 250W and 15.5mph are the current legal limits in the UK. If want buy bigger and take it on the road without registering it as a motorbike, getting an MOT and insurance or paying your road tax, then you may find the rossers feelin
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by RegW 5y ago
You are right. My minimal research was inadequate. There are some shonky kits on EBay for £53 that don't include the battery. At least one on Amazon for £80, but looking more carefully its probably looking more like £350 to £400.
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by RegW 5y ago
Conversion kits start at around £150 and can be fitted to that £50 bike. The biggest issue I see for higher priced bikes is secure parking (as mentioned in the article). No one provides secure/supervised parking and its tricky to get
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by RegW 5y ago
In some places standups work, in others they don't, and it can change overtime as people move in and out of the team. Standups don't work when the team isn't getting anything out of them. Perhaps we all know what's goin
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by RegW 5y ago
Good god. Has Facebook now got such a bad rep it has to change its name? For me it will always be the fat man standing behind a lamp post.
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by RegW 5y ago
The URL identifies an entity. In the old static website days this meant a file - a html file or an image on a file system. With REST, the idea was to create a virtual filesystem and take advantage of the HTTP infrastructure already in plac
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by RegW 5y ago
Either, niether or both stances could be correct REST depending on the meaning you want to give the operation. PUT replaces the entity or thing that has that url. If the entity didn't previously exist then it is created. A cache shou
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by RegW 5y ago
I'd say the adoption of HTTP protocols was certainly driven by firewalls. This was just as true for SOAP as it was REST. However, in earlier times caching was also important, and this is one of the places where REST beat SOAP. Howev
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by RegW 5y ago
I have a congenital cataract. Periodically opticians try to photograph my retina and fail. Is my money safe?
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by RegW 5y ago
Hmm. Well, if you're not one of the sheep - it probably isn't.
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by RegW 5y ago
So do I, of course remembering that this is a completely fictionalised version of events. There's no reason to believe that Æthelflæd was captured by vikings and impregnated by Erik Thurgilson before marrying Æthelred. Or that Æthelre
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by RegW 5y ago
The article seems to make the assumption that this data is collected by apps that would otherwise have no good reason for requiring permission to access your location. Seems like a bit of an assumption. It strikes me that to build a useful
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by RegW 5y ago
https://github.com/neonfuz/rxkit perhaps?
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by RegW 5y ago
I'm amazed to see this here. My colleagues and I have been grumbling for ages that our instance of Confluence must be really badly configured. If you put in a single word search term, there will be lots of results, but no guarantee th
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by RegW 5y ago
> It seems like we’re missing the crucial step of how it all turned out OK. Pulled over, hood up, wiggled a few leads. Light goes out, hood down, back on the road, job done.
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by RegW 5y ago
> but then they all looked the same Yes, I think I detect a definate bias towards a Picasso/cartoonesque style :-) Even Dr Stangelove is in colour. I think our jobs are safe for the forseeable future.
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by RegW 5y ago
Because company laptop comes with Windows 10, company policy dictates "Don't touch" and Friday afternoons are to be wasted by a scheduled virus scan. On my own laptop I use Linux Mint Cinnamon. Installed when Windows 10 got

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