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On September 11th 2001 a small Operations team at the BBC had the job to keep the BBC on the Internet and keep the servers running. At the time, a lot of the BBC's international-facing server capacity was in THNY, close to ground zero. Although staff in the UK were a long way away they still had a job to do. This is the incident ticket from that day and how BBC Ops responded.

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On September 11th 2001 a small Operations team at the BBC had the job to keep the BBC on the Internet and keep the servers running. At the time, a lot of the BBC's international-facing server capacity was in THNY, close to ground zero. Although staff in the UK were a long way away they still had a job to do. This is the incident ticket from that day and how BBC Ops responded.

It's fascinating that modern gang signs might be considered a recent development although they have probably been always with us.

I like this idea although I use vinyl stickers on my MacBook and then, before needing to sell it, I peel them off again. They leave very little residue which I clean with some isopropyl alcohol and they prevent the case from being scratched because they're covering it. For me there's not much difference between a vinyl sheet then stickers or just the stickers themselves.

I totally get all of these points and understand them, and they're really why I do like Go. Implicit interfaces, for example, means you don't need to change code for something to implement this interface. It's a powerful thing that I find really great, especially coming from years of Java having to update everything I want to implement the new interface. If I don't have access to the code, then it's more boilerplate to do that. With Go, I create the interface I want and anything that implements it immediately works.

I understand why people might dislike a particular language and that's cool. That's why there are many languages and we have the ability to choice what works best for us.

The term object-oriented has often been misinterpreted. Alan Kay explained that "[the term object-oriented] was a bad choice because it under-emphasized the more important idea of message sending".

We really do have to radically re-think our cities but the biggest issues aren't going to be practical but emotional. In London parents drive their children around in 4x4s, knowing that their vehicle causes the pollution that is affecting their own children's health. I'm not sure how you even start to get around that but to some extent you will never persuade everybody to reduce their damaging behaviour. You need to enable people to travel in non-damaging ways; cycling and walking primary. That should be the first priority, although fighting the ingrained car culture will be the hardest battle.

Mentioned a couple of times but it's still raw that Inbox has been canned too. Also the Googlers I know use it and Gmail is some ways back although it has been improved. It's been the best thing to happen to email forever, IMO, and I'll really miss it!

As they say 'convenient is better than better' and I've long looked for a company like Netflix who will allow me to give them money and they will let me watch what I want.

I saw Netflix's chief product officer Neil Hunt say a while ago Netflix would "never" offer downloads, but I have to say I'm really pleased with this. Getting the train through spotty service areas effectively rendered Netflix unusable, but now! :)

I totally agree. One of the reasons I've started using an Onion Omega is because of this reason. IoT is pointless if you can't connect to the I easily, IMHO.

I suppose the interesting point is more that it's being marketed as not really operated by humans as a positive when in many instance in our modern world the reverse is true. And also it's an interesting application of the Turing Test too. :)

We do seem to be building in a lot of risk to our infrastructure at the moment from network connections to software delivery and introducing many single points of failure. It's good for a company that wants to control how you connect to the Internet, what you consume and to generate revenue from that but it's not great in any situation where those single points of failure...fail. We do need to consider alternative approaches which include peer delivery and mesh networking. We have the technology to do that now.

It is an inherent issue with the industry, demonstrated by the strategy of adding more people to a project and expecting productivity to increase on a linear scale. Although, intuitively, people surely understand that writing software is a complex task it's surprising how many people seem to just assume it's just banging away at keys on a keyboard.

What did we learn today about security through obscurity, children? ;)

I would definitely visit a "secret Russian space base"! Especially if it was inside a mountain! ;)

Really like this! Merging text with a png to render to the terminal could be the future of cowsay! ;)

Great work and think it goes to show we should all be aware of the effects of what we put out into the world. You've just made it a slightly better place to be! :)

There might be a certain amount of 'flag-planting' going on too. Especially with a new social network, people can register, grab their favourite username, then ignore the network for a while; only coming back when it has gained enough traction for others to join. Ok, a small set of people, but a set nevertheless.