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by powatom 13y ago
> All your replies about external APIs changing are irrelevant. A codeveloper touching functions that call your functions or defining functions called by you will integrate with your work with an innocuous "git pull" and force
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by powatom 13y ago
> Clearly possible to fix code that's in branches/working trees that you don't even have access to?? This is a non-issue - if you're using unstable libraries then that's your own problem and breakages are to be e
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by powatom 13y ago
> Given that other people are working on the same code base and may have added calls to this function, this is not even possible. Except it clearly is possible since I and millions of other developers seem to manage it daily. > Also,
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by powatom 13y ago
> We're talking about programming errors. Are you suggesting the solution to human error is to just not make errors?? Not at all, I'm simply suggesting that people take care to acknowledge and operate within the rules of the la
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by powatom 13y ago
Is this so much of a problem that we need to re-design JS to handle it? Why not just avoid making this mistake in the first place by reading the code? Not to sound dismissive - but if you're making these kinds of mistakes regularly eno
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by powatom 13y ago
Arguing which is the lesser of two evils between Apple and Google is like deciding which fist a mugger hits you with.
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by powatom 13y ago
The author seems to misunderstand what responsive design actually is. Responsive design is not simply 'download everything, show less on smaller screens'. If your version of responsive design sounds like this, then you're doi
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by powatom 13y ago
Can't vouch for down South, but at least in the North-West it's common to say 'And your own' at the end of your drinks order. They usually only take 10-20p rather than the cost of an actual drink, though.
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by powatom 13y ago
Regardless - the point still stands: it is a failure of the business if it cannot handle employees taking vacations or being absent for whatever reason. This is not the fault of the absent employee.
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by powatom 13y ago
> Very often we can't reach a person because he's off and the proxy has no clue. This is your own damn fault. Fix your business.
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by powatom 13y ago
If you live in the UK, it will soon become impossible for many people to access government services / benefits in any way but via the internet. This, coupled with the problem that the people who need these services the most also tend t
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by powatom 13y ago
"It worked out great for me, so it must be ok". In my country, we still have tips - but it's not some kind of obligation. You tip if you want to, but if you choose not to, then nobody is going to chase you out of the restaura
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by powatom 13y ago
Or, this will be rightly construed as an inability to get along with your colleagues and you will be fired. "Because he's bad at his job" is not a defence for any kind of abuse.
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by powatom 13y ago
Which is a perfectly reasonable business model and one which the vast majority of developers follow... If the customer wants the source code, then by all means include it as part of your package, but along with that comes the complexities o
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by powatom 13y ago
My girlfriend is a wedding photographer so I have something of an insight into why you might be having this experience. The RAW files are the (as the name suggests) raw, unedited versions of your photographs. Photographers are generally unw
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by powatom 13y ago
Cool, I'll look forward to reading it - the disparity between QoS with local councils is embarrassing, and as these are public services, the software exposing these services should be open source simply out of principle.
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by powatom 13y ago
I fully support this idea - but you might be best approaching the GDS and working out ways to apply pressure to local government. Indeed, check out the alphagov github at https://github.com/alphagov - much of the groundwork
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by powatom 13y ago
Yes, but you're missing the point - people talk about the time of day, almost universally in relation to the standard 9-5 working pattern that most of the industrialised world follows. What does 'this morning' mean in SUT? &#
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by powatom 13y ago
It solves a problem which does not exist - people organise things based on an agreed timezone already. The pain of transitioning to SUT is not worth the (debatable) gains.
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by powatom 13y ago
But the world still spins regardless of how you end up talking about time - you will still need to figure out the human behaviour at the specific location on earth at that specific time. It is useless to schedule a conference call when the
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by powatom 13y ago
This solves nothing - person X still has to take into consideration the daily routine of person Y on the other side of the planet. Announcing that you're disregarding time-zones does not have the effect of making time-zones irrelevant.
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by powatom 13y ago
You can't claim incompetence is 'rife' and then link to something which has 'scandal' in the title. If incompetence was rife, it wouldn't be a scandal. The NHS has its problems, as does private health care. However, I would argue that the p
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by powatom 13y ago
> 5) Make it very clear to the business owner, all changes cause a delay. And whatever you do, do not let the business owner decide how long a change will take. This, unfortunately, seems to be a rather large factor when it comes to fig
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by powatom 13y ago
If the person doing the cleanup is the same as the person who was directly in charge of running the project, then you have different problems.
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by powatom 13y ago
Possibly, but it depends on the project - the level of investment, and the structure of the company itself. If the project's failure is a threat to the company at large, then it's likely that an internal investigation will take place. The p
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by powatom 13y ago
I was fortunate enough to experience this exact kind of death march over a period of around 18 months. Unless you have the authority to guide the project back on track, there are only so many options available to you: 1: Document your conce
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by powatom 13y ago
I'm not a parent yet, but I suppose I'd be more afraid they end up blowing 50k on a toaster in their adulthood because I didn't teach them the value of money early on. A $50 mistake when you're a kid is nowhere near as much of a problem as
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by powatom 13y ago
Check out the NHS Direct Symptom Checker http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/checksymptoms I doubt it has a public API available (although that's certainly something I'd advocate the NHS building), but it might give you an idea of the sheer comp
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by powatom 13y ago
When asked for a vegetable I immediately though of a banana, then my brain said 'VEGETABLE, stupid', and I thought of a cabbage instead.
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by powatom 13y ago
Sounds like a good idea to me - if users can try it out simply by installing it and either aliasing scp or modifying their scripts very quickly, then I'm sure more would be willing to try it out in a real-world scenario.

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