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by lol768 6y ago
> No, they will be inclined to not use that device and use one that does not ask weird questions. Weird questions that they got asked already on their Windows machine as part of BrowserChoice.eu? They're only "weird" beca
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by lol768 6y ago
> And let’s not forget that most people now access the web via mobile devices, 75% of which run Google’s Android. Which is a good thing, because these devices can actually run different browser rendering engines. Perhaps the bigger probl
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by lol768 6y ago
Not saying I agree with the lay-offs here, but it's incredibly rare I find myself wishing I was using Chrome's developer tools whilst doing web development. I have missed functionality when I've had to use Chrome though - l
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by lol768 6y ago
> I have just left the UK, several Europeans I know, working in tech, are doing the same. Not data backed, just personal experience. Maybe this is going to be even tougher than expected. Hopefully not. Out of interest, where did you end
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by lol768 6y ago
Best to use a bank which treats you like an adult and trusts you to make grown-up decisions about using a rooted device. Monzo fits into this category.
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by lol768 6y ago
> Very often (not always!) an ORM is just a crutch for a new dev that doesn't have time to learn SQL. I can definitely say that's been correct in a few cases. I'll be damned if it doesn't normally make it really easy
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by lol768 6y ago
Thanks a bunch, I must admit this was one of the motivations behind me complaining about it here ;)
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by lol768 6y ago
Sure, let's throw the framework out of the window along with its built-in CSRF protection, sensible security headers, templating language (which escapes input properly by default) and well-defined interfaces which enable me to e.g. ac
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by lol768 6y ago
There's an argument to send pertinent A/B study information in a request header of some sort, for this reason. It's now no longer enough to just look at the UA.
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by lol768 6y ago
I tried to inform HMRC (and GDS: id4181490) about a bug with their Gov.UK Verify authentication process for self assessment due to this behaviour change. They have no email address to report problems, the live chat agent wasn't technic
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by lol768 6y ago
Accuweather isn't too bad.
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by lol768 6y ago
Bit of a shame we still won't be seeing 5G for a while.
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by lol768 6y ago
I think this could have been stressed a bit more clearly in the section I referenced - since it's vitally important!
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by lol768 6y ago
>instead of building out all the components yourself One of the reasons I bought Tailwind UI is _because_ Adam & Steve knew what they were doing, had good attention to detail and because I'd already purchased Refactoring UI. I&#
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by lol768 6y ago
>January 2020: start actually charging the new prices. So you just started billing them a different amount without even warning them?
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by lol768 6y ago
You raise some very good points. I don't think there's really anything that can be said at this point. It was an entirely preventable tragedy and the author (and his family) will have to live with the consequences for the rest of
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by lol768 6y ago
> And Amazon experimented (or is still experimenting) with building a logistics company to no longer depend on DHL. In the UK it's been a very long time since I got many parcels from Amazon that weren't delivered by Amazon Lo
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by lol768 6y ago
I've said it on here before, but the way in which Elasticsearch used to lock away critical security functionality (like TLS support and RBAC) behind a paid subscription whilst making just enough functionality available for free such th
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by lol768 6y ago
For those unfamiliar, Blackbaud produce software that is (mainly) used for harassing^W updating alumni on university developments and asking them for money. I think Raiser's Edge is used quite a bit in the sector, though I believe ther
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by lol768 6y ago
I don't quite understand how this worked and the article is thin on details - was there not E2E encryption between the participants? > Our servers are node based and located all over the world; all input and output are true end-to-
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by lol768 6y ago
> My "non-professional in the field" opinion of this at first glance is that this seems like a concept ripe for abuse and security holes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=96250
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by lol768 6y ago
> How good is their internet? How do you handle "my internet went down"? Or: I'm in this other timezone, your test is in the middle of the night! At Warwick, we gave 24 hour windows for most online assessments. This resolv
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by lol768 6y ago
> I'm currently in a project which aims to re-write the front-end of a library of banking components - from AngularJS to Angular 9. The product is fairly simple to use, but still it's being delivered a year before AngularJS&#x2
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by lol768 6y ago
> I know right. Banks are so risk adverse now, the biggest thing people are worried about is breaking things and downtime. Yeah, it's funny though that the ones who've stuck to their aging mainframe systems and haven't inv
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by lol768 6y ago
> Are banks still using Perl in 2020? The correct answer is no. > There is no more Perl at JP Morgan, the largest investment bank in the US. The last Perl code was decommissioned in 2019. I see the situation at JP Morgan now extrapola
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by lol768 6y ago
There's also not enough discussion about what happens after recovery. I was pretty ill in March (and, to a lesser extent, in April), which necessitated some time off work. Testing availability in my country was useless at the time, s
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by lol768 6y ago
Blazor's WebAssembly variant is much more interesting and exciting in my opinion than the server-side model. Finally, a language for the frontend that's a joy to use. Still early days of course, but something I'll be watching
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by lol768 6y ago
> The humanities are glossed over at best in public high schools across the United States. I don't know of one that requires a PHIL intro course of students. I'm not sure how much weight this argument holds.. The whole "ge
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by lol768 6y ago
I live in the northern hemisphere, there's still no such thing as a "fall" in my vernacular!
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by lol768 6y ago
This post honestly reads like an ad for the training course.. did it really need 8 mentions on the page?

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