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Sadly not true - father was a civil engineer in council highways dept before he retired. For years he had been saying that funding was so small they were having to patch roads where they should have been renewing the road bed. Now they can't even afford to do all roads. It might be a problem of funding allocation of course - but it wasn't a lack of desire.

That’s one of the most frustrating aspects of GDPR in relation to cookies - many businesses that could happily run a site with no cookie opt-in end up implementing one anyway because that irritating pop-up gives the end user a perception of ‘handling privacy well’.

I’d be so keen for the solution to lie in the browser UX- in the same way as we currently request location information - rather than the current mish-mash of badly implemented, often disingenuous site overlays that have become the modern equivalent of the ‘enter site’ splash screen...

We've been going through the same exercise for the last 6 months. As a dev company that services a bunch of small to medium size clients we found we couldn't get insurance for data loss - and increasingly our clients require a clause in the contract that makes us liable.

One step we've had to take is to stop using copies of the live database in our dev environments (I suspect that practice is fairly common!). Instead we've build an automated rule-based system that produces 'munged' copies of the data (i.e. realistic size and type, but with no useful information), transferring that to our build and dev systems nightly - and reporting on what steps have been taken.

Shameless plug - we're also in the process of building plugins for platforms like Wordpress[1] to simplify some of this for smaller projects.

[1] http://datamunge.io

I grew up in sight of 4 coal-fired power stations - I know which of those two I find more aesthetically acceptable :)

Modules in the list at the bottom of this page:

https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/serverless-web-app/

are broken - but the links to the modules at the top of the page work OK.

Yeah - we need a Geiss port :) http://www.geisswerks.com/geiss/

To be honest - one of the most disheartening parts of this experience is the lack of coherent opposition to the process being carried out. It's like we've moved quickly from a slender majority in a doubtful referendum to an almost entire acceptance that the consequence must be the 'hard' brexit narrative.

The only voices actively trying to counter that are former prime ministers (sorry Tony - right message, really really wrong guy) and the Lib Dems who lack the political presence at the moment.

When do we get a meaningful opposition to this?

Ah ... Father Ted! I was thinking the same :)

What will happen to 'Jim'll Paint It' once the new version arrives? http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/

It wasn't as highly rated as 'Cloud Atlas' but I particularly loved 'The Bone Clocks'. Something about his vision of a post-apocalyptic future seemed very plausible - and very memorable.

Other comments rightly point out that grammar capabilities are not always good indicators of ability in other areas. But you'd be amazed how many job applications we see (from both designers and developers) with very basic grammar errors.

Even if the role doesn't demand skills in English you should at least care about creating a good impression enough to make sure you've ironed out grammar errors in your application.

The phrasing of the email didn't really help to clarify matters:

> "UserVoice has confirmed that about 0.001% of users' encrypted passwords were taken, and we are notifying those users directly. We are notifying you because you are listed as an administrator of your UserVoice account, and we want to inform you of steps we are taking to protect your and your team’s information."

Does that mean you're notifying me that my details were taken, or that this is just a friendly "hey, we got hacked" message?

Exactly what I thought - we're a small dev team who have used Mandrill on a bunch of projects that have minimal transactional email needs. A proportion of those have moved into the paying tiers, the majority stay under the free limits.

The tone of the announcement, and miserly transition period leaves a pretty bitter taste that will make recommending Mailchimp in future hard.

There's actually a UK citizen science project running along very similar lines: http://www.mappiness.org.uk/