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I think the thing that helped me most was simply to learn more about English (I am a native English speaker) so that I could get an understanding of consistent tense, tone, narrative etc. I suspect there are good general books on English wr
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Because there will be people for whom any changes would massively affect their ability to do their work/business who would not simply accept something as comprehensive as GDPR. As the OP article says, even if not perfect, why not start
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Personally, I would say that not being able to get into my email (or other online services) when I needed to was a MUCH bigger problem than worrying that someone else could somehow reset it in order to take ownership. You know that thing, y
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Is it even lawful to do this? Surely Copyright would forbid them quoting someone elses words/images without permission or citation? Although I have zero legal qualifications so might be completely wrong.
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Yes but there are 2nd order effects to consider. 1) The cooler it is, the more buffer/time you have to deal with a temperature issue 2) There is a thermal gradient between the hottest parts of the system and the cool ambient temperatur
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Agreed. A big problem in the UK. People retire too early for their life expectancy today so massive pressur eon Pension pots, lots of pressure on Nursing Homes, particularly those provided by the state that will cost more, in some circumsta
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I agree that DevOps is often misued but the example is misleading. Many organisations might recruit a DevOps Engineer who can build out a CD pipeline and train up existing Devs on how Devops works, how the tooling works and how the principl
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There can also be a problem at scale. A small team getting the word out to people who will be genuinely helped by your product and avoiding wasting time on people who won't be interested is great. However, at a certain point, with a mu
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A few comments saying it is cheaper than X which is much worse than a space telescope but to me, that is irrelevant. They are proposing to spend this in addition to all the other garbage they spend money on so the comparison is not logical.
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This is one issue like others where we have gone wrong a long time ago and don't have an easy way back. I think Scotland got it right when they passed a law that required a landowner to sell to a not-for-profit at the market rate if th
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I think the sad thing is the contrary to some people's opinions, this is not limited to small "cowboy" companies, it can happen from the smallest to the biggest and it is a mixture of competence, management, desire for profit
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@number6 is right. There are all kinds of problems when you use HTTP status codes to represent something that was correct for HTTP but failed business logic. You don't want a tonne of errors logged because someone has violated business
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Interestingly, many films depicting these future events tend to view things like nervous systems/pain etc. as things that are disadvantages and that technology would remove but humanity is built upon pain, fear, weakness and ultimately
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It does depend why you want to do it and what you are posting. If it is just opinions about stuff, probably not worth the effort unless you are the top of your field and your opinions are worth something (mine aren't!) If you want to g
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I don't think this is "the industry" i.e. Software, it is "industry". The exact same stuff exists in all kinds of companies.
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I haven't faced this, although I could expect it at the worst places. If I do really high quality work, am positive and proactive towards the companies goals, contribute and encourage others, I have never been looked down on for workin
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I agree with the sentiments but there are a number of things that make this hard, some already alluded to. The idea that something we "need" but maybe not in the top 5 and it seems weird to deal with it with "bring it back to
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> It should be unlawful to process sensitive personal data without adequate security It is but "adequate security" is not defined. That is what I am saying. Would someone without 2FA or this particular account reset process be
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My argument is that the blanket "enforce it with laws" is meaningless until this document exists. I'm not saying that I don't practice security in my apps or that no-one should, just that the law (right now) is not the r
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Because you are a pessimist? Even if it only half works, it is worthwhile, which is why lots of anti-climate change action is worthwhile. Add up all the little bits and maybe it delays catastrophic climiate change long enough to get some ne
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What should be illegal? Not having 2-factor auth? Allowing an account change? SOftware is massively complex and not everything has been defined in a way that there is a "right" way and a "wrong" way to do things. What ha
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That's a nice soundbite but it doesn't work like that irl. If in some dystopian future, the C-levels could be given 2 years for what could amount to a basic human error in an otherwise well-run organisation, no-one would do the jo
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At a minimum, a good system would email both old and new email addresses saying, "someone has changed the email address, click here if that is wrong". This kind of slapdash approach to security needs to become criminal because com
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To answer your actual question about success, it is simple to define and hard to action for many people. "Sell something that people want" is how Paul Graham puts it but with a bit more flesh, I would say that being successful in
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Aptitude is more important than both. People can have a lot of knowledge but without aptitude they can be unflexible and not learn new things. If you have aptitude, you can gain knowledge quickly. Attitude to me is complex because it is gen
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What you are claiming here is not true in Europe. If FB hold data about you, the data is still your legal right. You can have it deleted and changed if it is somehow untrue and have variou other rights too. There is a relationship involved
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It depends a bit. If you want a real "micro" framework so it is super fast loading, then that will narrow down your options (I looked at purecss which is really small) but then it is likely to lack the more powerful controls you g
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This is the best suggestion imho. Most developers simply don't enjoy documentation because it doesn't "do anything" and good luck to those who say "employ people who will do it" because we all want to do that b
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Totally agree! Kubernetes isn't just about global scale that most people will never need, which would agree with the article. It is about deploying new apps to an existing production system really quickly and easily. We can deploy a ne
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But you are assuming what they are doing is illegal. Just because the car isn't winnable might be misleading but that doesn't make it a crime if the defendent claims that they never said that you could win the car, they could also

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