Posts by Andrew Williams 107 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Feb 2008
I think they have the legal obligation to provide the CE source upon request, at the point of last release. Noting here, that the prices they are asking for their commercial edition is pretty much cost prohibitive for small to medium size businesses. I am just bloody lucky I kept a copy of the CE installers around.
Private businesses apparently cannot discriminate against people, or so the courts ruled regarding the bakers. So, why do social media private companies have the right to remove commentary that they do not like?
They dropped the “Covid came from the Chinese Lab” commentaries like they were hot. Now, they are all plausible and must be investigated.
Basically, social media needs to bake the cake that their users want to bake.
I still have zero idea why these huge JavaScript and CSS black boxes even exist.
My two ideas are… raising the suicide rate, and that they must be a way of Hoovering loot out of companies while pretending they are are lean, efficient and absolutely necessary code. No proof or justification needed other than declaring it so. Oddly similar to the current “progressive” narrative where they are right and must be obeyed even if it means declaring gravity doesn’t exist, or that it’s inherently racist, because slaves… Newton.
Understand the problem domain. Understand the problem. Produce a design. Come up with a build plan, with tests and checks etc.
Nah, duck it, let’s code something, anything and see what happens. That’s agile.
Side note. The “agile crew” at work have burnt two months and produced nothing, while the designers are now looking at a successful product launch and follow on systems.
You cannot write decent code if you do not understand the context. As in, the business, the workflow, what the code should actually do.
How many coders (or anyone involved with coding) ever have that type of knowledge?
Bugger all is the answer. So, this naturally leads to the result that all you get is an “Agile” serving of bad spaghetti.
That are pretty much not going to be filled by Americans. Largely because they do know who they want, and it’s not Americans.
There’s also the collateral damage of this approach. Salaries offered are low (H1b targeted) so a lot of stupid HR think that that is the “going rate” for such a job. Add to that the ludicrous cost of living anywhere near the USA tech hubs, and you’re not going to get these jobs filled.
At least 36 people have been fatally stabbed - and 62 overall killed - in London since the beginning of the year.
Met Police records show 37, 443 recorded knife offences and 6,694 recorded gun offences across the UK in the year up to September 2017.
In London, the problem was even more pronounced than the rest of the country, with 12,980 knife crimes taking place in the capital - 2,452 more than the equivalent year.
Four teenagers were stabbed to death in London on New Year's Eve alone, and 22 were killed in March - meaning the capital now has a higher murder rate than New York.
Well, it depends. There is of course only one Clarkson. However, there is the witty one, the racist one, the violent one, and even more! Primitive though? Well, I'd have to say that is evidenced by his guest choices (presuming he had any choice).
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