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> Yeah exactly, PR's are based on the fact that you have some person who is the owner that have complete power, and many other contributors who have zero power and whose contributions will mostly be rejected PRs can be approved base
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I voted ambivalently for Remain, but would probably vote Leave today. There are many parts of the EU that are democratically deficit, or anti-democratic, notably the Euro shared currency without shared monetary policy. Edit: s/monetary
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I worked hybrid before the pandemic. It was the best of both worlds. 3/5 days at the office was great. It gave the benefit of socialising and collaboration, with the flexibility of being at home for visiting home contractors, bulk deli
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> SQLite vs nightmare distributed abominations Don't see the benefit of using SQLite over a RDMS like MySQL or Postgres, especially if users are still in the tens of thousands.
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What about automatic security APT updates?
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I've been on many projects that were cancelled, whether unexpectedly or expectedly. That's what made programming less fun for me.
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In the UK at least, solicitors will ask where the money came from to comply with anti money laundering regulations. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/feb/20/cash-buyer-sol...
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> who cares if you burn bridges there on the way out? You only need to maintain bridges that go to good places. There are only potential personal material downsides to burning bridges, e.g. you might need a contact one day in the previo
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> Would you prefer that employee voice their opinion during exit If it's something really important, e.g. safety culture, then the employee should have already raised this much, much earlier. If the company didn't listen then,
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In the 90s, there was more of a technical barrier to publishing things on the web. Today, there is no technical barrier to publishing things on the web, which has been facilitated in part by corporations like Twitter. I think the second is
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Someone with Asperger's who requires a carer was prosecuted after they loudly questioned a PCSO's sex in a public place. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/teen-prosecute... So if that is anyt
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> it does not mean that any individual to whom it applied is in a superior position relative to others, but only that they do not suffer from disadvantage due to one specific thing. That's not the way it's taught to children. T
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White working class boys in the UK are amongst the least likely to go to university in the UK, they don't have a privilege for being white. I think terms like white privilege drive resentment and are divisive. "In fact, a similar
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There was indeed a slippery slope from "2 weeks to flatten the curve" to extended lockdowns. I don't think those policies necessarily were a net benefit, either, particularly in the case of mask mandates for children, which w
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I read some of the abusive tweets after the match. One of them was apparently an estate agent https://bhplaw.co.uk/blog/the-three-lions-the-tweet-and-the-... He said his account had been hacked, which I actually believ
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There should be a year's placement in industry as part of the degree.
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> Communicating with neuro-typical people is frustrating, mostly because I try really hard to communicate clearly. > If this comment is a bit rambling, you know why. :) Everyone has struggles with communicating clearly don't they
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In the UK I watched a company being filmed that openly admits that peeling all the, in this case, biscuit (cookie) packaging, off of biscuits wasn't economically viable, so they just grind it all up.
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Yes same here. I think it is because the wages of the people working for corporations don't depend on denying you repairs to the property.
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Or for hipsters there's https://www.jhipster.tech/
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I don't consider synchronous programming as being legacy. For many projects synchronous programming can work just fine, and it lowers complexity.
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> I recall a commentator speaking about how they'd read the newspaper each morning with a knot in their stomach, wondering if a nuclear mishap had occurred somewhere in the world. Given the Russia, Ukraine, Chernobyl situation, I th
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I used Zotero for its bibtex output. It worked really well.
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I think it's the usually public vs private branch issue. If you're merging a public branch with another public branch, then if you a rebase, rather than a merge commit, then you mess up the history for anyone has pulled that branc
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> That way, everyone knows what to expect, and if they do decide to use it in production, they do it at their own risk. This is the default position for most open source licences, hobby projects or not. I agree it is useful for hobby pro
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One app that is decidedly not "eco" is YouTube on the phone. Google holds your phone's battery to ransom, if you don't pay to use YouTube, as it doesn't allow you to turn off the screen (I can listen to adverts too
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> For those who are team leads, managers, hiring managers, which of 2 above would you prefer? A blend of both can well work in a team.
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> How many times have you helped a friend or colleague with some problem just by googling it even when you don't really understand what they do for a living? I think sometimes it is also the case of knowingly what to Google for, and
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I disagree that writing software is comparable to literacy. I think it's more similar to any other profession, with a skillset you can learn if you're interested, or learn to get paid. Not everyone is interested in writing softwar
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It's a modern day memento mori, but is a bit nicer than keeping a skull on your desk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori I'm not to keen on motivating myself through nihilism, because I don't thin

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