probablybroken

15 ms·

31.
by probablybroken 9y ago
Yes, I was saying that the vans themselves obviously don't work, evidenced by the legislation - not that it's technologically infeasible. It does however reflect on the nature of the UK that an effectively private organisation is
32.
by probablybroken 9y ago
Television licencing property checks are normal in the UK as well - I've had a few inspectors demand access to my home to verify that I wasn't watching TV illegally. For a long time there used to be "TV detector vans"
33.
by probablybroken 9y ago
My observation is that earlier on in people's careers they tend to be more certain about the limited experiences they have had due to a lack of contradiction.. Of course, if you keep repeating the same limited experiences this will o
34.
by probablybroken 9y ago
Unit tests are not integration tests.. True, but I've seen a lot of developers get far too hung up on what constitutes a unit, where a unit test or an integration test should live, what should or should not be mocked, excessive over m
35.
by probablybroken 9y ago
I think some of this can be attributed to expectations; Many systems such as elastic are expected to run on ram, whereas people tend to expect relational systems to perform reasonably well on disk. I think we all want a magic black box th
36.
by probablybroken 9y ago
It could also lead to a too many chefs situation, since every contributor would have a steak in the outcome.
37.
by probablybroken 9y ago
My experience has been similar in the past. In more recent times I've seen numerous products rewritten from scratch by completely new teams on different continents - the mindset being that they would do things "properly" - o
38.
by probablybroken 9y ago
Ok, maybe it's arrived at via an evolutionary process then - with selection being provided by stakeholders. The outcome is however the same.
39.
by probablybroken 9y ago
In the case of a washing machine, they design the unit to stop functioning in the near future, sell you a limited warranty, and then frequently try to sell you an extended warranty. It's different, but yes, things are dressed up to ex
40.
by probablybroken 9y ago
Tends to be something more mature developers are better suited to; though there might be higher salary expectations.
41.
by probablybroken 9y ago
It could be argued that income inequality is a much greater source of problems for society.
42.
by probablybroken 9y ago
Yes - I've used ASMR videos for the same purpose; Gently varying sounds seem to be enough to suppress the internal dialogue for me.
43.
by probablybroken 9y ago
You could say the same about electrical or mechanical engineering, both of which are already pervasive.
44.
by probablybroken 9y ago
It also used to cost proportionally more of your disposable income; You'd probably be more inclined to borrow an item if it would cost the next month's cash to acquire.
45.
by probablybroken 9y ago
There weren't that many traditional news outlets in the past, and those that publish flagrant lies tend to get a reputation for this ( not that that ever stopped some of them ). Nowadays, I barely recognise half of the sources I see m
46.
by probablybroken 9y ago
Plus there is now the potential for a great deal of purely negative disruption to the economy as a result.
47.
by probablybroken 9y ago
It sounds like you are referring to public properties.
48.
by probablybroken 9y ago
If you have the confidence to exercise in public, then it's probably already less of a problem for you.
49.
by probablybroken 9y ago
I think in the case of brexit, not only were the general public the wrong audience for the question, their opinion was also informed primarily by the UK press; therefore the answer to the question was actually the opinion of the majority o
50.
by probablybroken 9y ago
I suspect that hype in the industry is at least to an extent something of an unavoidable side effect of hiring based on apparent enthusiasm.
51.
by probablybroken 10y ago
I always thought it would be fun to make a version that was soluble every time by making the system reveal extra tiles as required to always allow you to continue play without guessing. I personally found the situations where half way thro
52.
by probablybroken 10y ago
This is a constant irritation for me on Linux too. My other pet peeve is the fact that you can have more than one caret, or a blinking caret visible in an unfocused window - causing you to type thinking that input will go to one location w
53.
by probablybroken 10y ago
It actually only contains a representation of the key roads required for the game; there's really not that much detail in there.
54.
by probablybroken 10y ago
Yes - I migrated from VB -> Delphi - one of the big advantages at the time was you could compile a small executable that didn't require you to distribute several additional disks of vb runtime DLLs with your software.
55.
by probablybroken 10y ago
I think it's certainly been the case with a lot of kickstarter projects and certain startups. There's so much pressure on people to realise short term success, and so many people willing to believe in it.
56.
by probablybroken 10y ago
This whole case seems utterly bizarre; I followed the development of the rift pre-Oculus, and none of what Zenimax are saying seems to be grounded in reality. As I remember, Carmack's real innovation was to create a full screen effect
57.
by probablybroken 10y ago
I've been in this situation for a long time; The worst part is every so often you get assigned a PM who wants you to accept responsibility for meeting artificial development deadlines.
58.
by probablybroken 10y ago
It can be in extreme cases, and in these situations it's better for both parties to resolve things quickly.
59.
by probablybroken 10y ago
I'd say that the single minded pursuit of any political ideology to it's logical conclusion has been proven not to work. I think this applies in both perceived directions.
60.
by probablybroken 10y ago
Price inflation of basic necessities is my major concern with BI schemes, I get the impression that noone really wants to discuss the other systems such as price fixing, and nationalisation of many services that would need to be deployed in

More ›