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> now a chunk of the API that references that method is broken, but you only happened to run a test for the method you changed

Why doesn't your best practices document include a requirement to run the whole test suite?

Oh, and just to address this concern:

> future children would be stateless.

If you had children who were stateless by birth, they would become eligible for British citizenship. Also, if you live in the UK for three consecutive years, then any children born after that period will be able to inherit British citizenship from you.

He's not stateless, he's British.

You're a British citizen, you can move to any country in the EU. If you marry your girlfriend, she can move with you, and other countries in the EU will not require her to show income to move with you. You could be there in a few months, without waiting for companies to notice you. Source: am British citizen by descent, have lived in France. Edit: and then to move to Britain from an EU country she doesn't need to show an income at all https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/family-resid...

This doesn't seem like an evidence-based opinion.

If they enjoy it, they will probably keep working. The point is having saved enough that they can make that decision based on enjoyment, not based on needing to pay their mortgage and buy food.

My entire point is that isn't true at all - you have a medical record with some objective characteristics, but it is not possible to calculate the risk of a procedure based on that information. Just like in software, we have a project requirements document with many objective characteristics and we are unable to calculate the time required based on those characteristics.

That's not true at all. Would you want to have surgery done if it had a guaranteed 3 month recovery period of incredible pain, a 5% chance of curing you, and a 95% chance of doing nothing, when your alternative is "nothing will hurt, but in 12 months you'll drop dead"?

This is like asking why software project estimation can't just be done by looking at the size of the project to be built.

Aside from the likely ability to connect it to other sources of data so they can show better ads on those platforms, there's regular market analysis - it's worth knowing that teenagers are increasingly interested in X even if you can't tie that back to individual teenagers.

Natural selection in this case means another Cambridge Analytica. Most people want to avoid that.

Have any of your friends installed a Facebook app? Because it doesn’t matter if you decide they're not worth using, you have to make sure nobody in your network uses them either.

If “open office” makes you think “another human nearby”, you may not be informed enough to contribute on this topic. That would be a shared office - an open office generally means many people nearby.

How are those quotes insulting? Maybe if you came up with the term "Hadoop Heroes" and thought it was amazingly clever?

> A basic principle of private property is that you don't have to secure it.

That’s not even true. Trespassing requires that you be told not to be on the property, that’s why people post signs. You can’t be charged with trespassing because you went hiking and wandered onto unfenced land with no signs, it doesn’t matter if the dumb owners thought nobody would ever hike over there.

Whether it is common knowledge or not has no bearing on whether it’s criminal, so I wasn’t using ordinary to mean “of normal computer literacy”. If you want to use some specific definitions that turn your claim into something trivially obvious, please define them ahead of time.

> Ordinary law-abiding people don't go fiddling with URLs

I’m an ordinary law-abiding person, and I fiddle with URLs. I know lots of people in that group.

Not everyone is a sociopath.

There have been massive improvements in average nutrition over the last few decades though.

In December 2007 in Australia I saw a presentation on the coming collapse of the US subprime housing market - in a lunchtime seminar given by a (tech) colleague for interests sake.

I had to double check, but you mean Bellingham, not Bellevue.

I suspect that a parent on hacker news with a t1d kid actually knows something about diet and diabetes already.

> Seattle does that and potholes get filled fairly quickly,

We must have different definitions of quickly! Or perhaps different standards for “pothole”.

A graduate certificate? Not sure what you’d want it in, something like this Applied Statistics option? https://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/degrees-and-certificates/app...

I’d say most software isn’t global because it works with the real world - uber, Amazon, Facebook, all of them started local.

I've never been a morning person. Always been awake late and struggled to wake up in the morning. Imagine how it feels to have people dismiss this as a problem with screen time when I grew up without any screens! (Literally - not even a TV).

Unfortunately for your argument, companies in the UK also compete by offering paid maternity leave longer than the legal minimum - like PWC which offers an entire paid YEAR.

They gave a citation 5 hours ago, perhaps you could read the whole comment thread.

In my case, taking the bus is a good 15-20 minutes slower than biking, so by the time I'm looking at rain and having second thoughts, I'm usually too late to catch a bus and be at work on time. Very effective!