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There's lots of countries you maybe should vent your anger on before Britain, one of the most multicultural countries in the world. Maybe India with its racist caste system. Maybe any number of countries in Asia or Africa which have modern day slavery and racist policies.

It was their first time ever buying an ebook so they didn't have a lifetime of experience in buying an ebook. The first time they buy an ebook legally they become filled with moral outrage about how dreadful DRM and write a blog post about how they'll never buy one again. It's just utter self serving hypocrisy.

They said that for the first time in their life they bought an ebook. Yet they have a library of ebooks and let people "borrow" from it. (How do you return a borrowed ebook I wonder?) Yet despite not having the physical copy of the book in question they somehow thought it possible that they might have it in their ebook library, lol. Just like the no starch press books they never bought either I'd say.

One thing that always worries me about buying an electric car is the possibility that the rapid technological advances might destroy the resale value of existing models. That sounds like what this VW model might do.

There was a later also discontinued Basic from Microsoft that a lot of people have been hoping would be open-sourced too.

This feels like a far safer path to take

Thanks for the info. I am involved with a Windows based product and we've thought now and again about doing something like this. We have a competitor that is browser and cloud based but the product seems to be a lot less featured. It feels like they are quite limited in what locally connected hardware (cameras, modems, card readers, barcode readers, printers and scanners) they can interact as well as seamless bridges to other locally installed software. With desktop software this is fairly straightforward but I don't know if this is/was a problem for cloud software.

Is the on-prem one Windows based? Also by less cumbersome do you mean the cloud one has fewer features or is just easier to get up and running with it because it's a browser based. Are the company expecting your on-prem one to fade away over time etc? Could you give any information of what each was written in and an order of magnitude, hundres of thousands of loc etc. Sorry for all the questions but I'm nosey! No problem if you can't.

I'd like to see some idea of what they mean by big. An order of magnitude in terms of lines of code and the number of engineers they had for the job and how long it all took versus how long the original took to write etc. One of the things that scares me about something like this are all the seemingly illogical bits of code that were added over time and are actually that way for a reason because they fix some edge case or whatever. Hard to see those not getting swept away in a rewrite as well as a whole bunch of new rarely occurring issues added. A complete rewrite strikes me as something that's almost guaranteed to be buggier than what it replaces, at least for awhile.

mucho gusto para los votos negativos!

Los pollos hermanos?

It's kind of confusing but easier to understand when you consider the primary goal which is to force people to lock the door.

This is achieved by only allowing the key to be inserted or removed when it's in the locked position. The push through is to allow them to lock the door on either side.

1: it's a key that can only be inserted or removed when in the locked position.

2: It can be only be pushed from one side to the other when in the unlocked position

Therefore you can unlock the door on one side to let someone in, lock the door on the same side and remove your key again. Alternatively you can unlock the door then push the key to the other side, lock the door on the other side and remove your key.

I'll admit that I didn't read it all but that was at least partly because it behaved painfully in my browser (chrome on windows 10).

It must be a great comfort to all the people Bill Gates trod over to see the great credit he's getting today for giving a little back.

In old fashioned small shops it was common to have a display of your merchandise in the front window. This would tend attract/trap wasps in summertime especially if it was a cakeshop or similar. I probably should have said cakeshop! You know you've failed when you need to explain a joke. :)

Man walks into a shop and says "Three wasps please". Shopkeeper replies "We don't sell wasps". Man says "That's odd because you have a load of them in your front window". --joke I heard the footballer Paul Gascoigne tell many years ago.

He's pretty driven all right. Good luck to him. Actually it says on a youtube video that he is half German and half Portuguese though his parents gave him an Irish forename!

Yes, it's a tabloid style account so it lists the accomplishments that are more readily recognisable to a wider readership.

Sounds like he has parents from different countries, first name is Irish, surname sounds Portuguese(?) so head start there on the language front, perhaps. Schull is a very small community, couple of thousand max but there's been a lot of 'alternative' type immigration there from other first world countries, artists etc from places like England (eg Jeremy irons), Netherlands so its secondary school is pretty progressive afaik. They have a slipway to the bay right next to the school so the school does sailing classes etc. The planetarium in question is a stone's throw from the school. County Cork has a youth orchestra. Overall not the worst place in the world to grow up.

That was an example of what could be called a teachable moment. I'm remembering my standout moment as I type, the 'oh no, oh no' as I realised what was happening.

I'd never heard of red mercury before reading this article. I don't think it's a widely known myth.

There's a thought, there's a lot of thoughts, actually!

The potential market for this boat numbers under 1000 people or maybe even under 100 I'd say.

You could imagine that the name was supposed to evoke James Bond because it certainly looks like something from a Bond movie.

Well I was responding to someone who implied that Bill Gates was the greatest. Chuck Feeney lives in a rented apartment drives a modest car and has essentially given away his entire $8 billion dollar wealth. It's hard to top that for generosity in my opinion.

Is he greater than, say, the guy who founded DFS Group, who has now given away all his wealth in line with his plan to do so which he set in place decades ago?

Edit named wrong company initially

I don't like them, where I live we had a view like something from the sound of music and now we have 8 turbines in the foreground. Also they are visible from so far away that they have diminished the perceived scale of the landscape.

Unless you want it restored in which case they'll undelete it for you. It's good design to provide an undo option after all.

I agree with this. It might not be that he feels contemptuously about eliminating discrimination but rather than that he's unhappy with the way diversity campaigns are run.

Sometimes it seems to me that whereas in the past we had Churches in a privileged position, telling us how to behave, that we now have NGOs doing the same thing.

For example there was just last week a report in the UK about how employees in oxfam shops had sign NDAs in settlements so that the organisation would not get negative publicity for not practicing as they preach.

Interbase might not have open-sourced by 1999 but they were using MVCC from the early 80s.