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Sigil?

This person as far as we are aware is NOT a designated person that sanctions are impacting and they are NOT located in Russia.

If the author's statements are true then Packt Publishing is acting terribly here - There's a good chance it's not legal.

They only should have two options from a legal standpoint - honour the contract if the author isn't a designated person or cancel the contract if they are a designated person. Either way that shouldn't mean they continue to sell the book without paying royalties or keep existing earnings.

I hope the author keeps publicly updating us on their case - it's of interest to anyone who wants to publish and are considering Packt as an option.

Here's Fry & Laurie in 1995 telling the story of Rupert Murdoch's Soaraway Life:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xflqt2

Possibly NSFW

Canary Wharf is absolutely soulless but it's neither dead or frightening. It will almost certainly be the safest place to live in central London due to the fact that it's private land and you can be expelled from it permanently and the cameras everywhere will help security find you.

I've heard stories of a person who worked at a certain bank getting into a fight for the second time in a bar and then getting banned from CW - they could not go to work anymore.

It is absolutely a place that sets narrow parameters for your behaviour and if you can operate within those parameters there are companies who pay well operating there, clean streets, no visible crime etc.

Dave Farley is a good guy and the real deal not just a talking head - I worked with him at LMAX which is where he was working when he was writing the Continuous Delivery book and that place had agility and the highest standards of engineering I've ever seen as first class concerns in the business (I was the agile guy and Dave was Head of Development both reporting into the CTO, Martin Thompson of Disruptor fame).

LeSS from Craig Larman and Bas Vodde is definitely worth a look too.

Yes, but the problem is that the organisations will only listen to McKinsey and they have a motivation to not solve the problem but to merely adapt it and bill the client again.

Agile is one of the few significant shifts in business where the board members are unaware of the creators and don't hire them in to consult authentically. I think only Kent Beck was hired by Facebook at a somewhat senior level, and Ken Schwaber spoke at Google a couple of times for mega money. It really should be a thing where every manifesto signatory is a consultant to big business at board level.

Not sure why anyone would want to buy Disney with regards to it's media arm to be honest - the IP has been flogged to death recently and most recent iterations aren't earning the big numbers.

I think Amazon could probably utilise more of it (toys, free prime time adverts, tv content, games etc.).

Yeh this paper is something else - I've never seen one written using a tone like this before.

My ex-GF was textbook BPD. Finding the survivor resources was so helpful - people who have never experienced someone who has BPD simply find it hard to believe what you say happened actually happened and those resources are almost as though someone has been dating your ex-GF as the experiences are so similar.

Either BPD doesn't exist and there's a grouping of consistent traits that many people have seen first hand or it does exist and either way the outcome is the same for those observing it.

It was unsuitable content for children which is why it was shown after 9 PM on TV.

It was shown after the watershed in the UK and that's commonly understood to be "not suitable for children after this time" and it's a 15 certificate on DVD.

Teachers aren't the people to decide to show that kind of content to 9-yeard olds without parental warning/approval.

It's not a straightforward question.

40-year old VBA developer? That's a tough one.

40-year old C++ developer who loves learning? Don't give up hope and maybe look at Rust.

The future for 40-year old developers is to recognise that job certainty has gone, but opportunity is still there as long as you work hard.

I genuinely think a lot of companies are going to realise in the next 18 months that ai generated code wasn't the silver bullet they thought.

I was shown this at school aged 9 in 1984. I remembered it being grim.

I decided to rewatch it last year and it's the bleakest thing I've ever seen in my entire life (and I've seen Salo) and in no way suitable to be shown to nine year olds. It gradually increases the bleakness to be so bleak that by the end of it your first thought is "If there's a nuclear strike I'm standing up somewhere high to be vaporised" as the alternative that's suggested in Threads is a living hell.

What I also realised is that just how many of my teachers must have been members of CND and activist teachers who were wanting to scare us into becoming like them.

Get a Fairphone or old Pixel and stick Calyxos on it :-)

OKRs are another victim of semantic diffusion by consultants and others cutting corners and missing the philosophy of them.

Done properly they should be the equivalent of "we're gonna slam dunk this thing we think is important to do by smashing these X and Y targets" so everyone high fives and is super pumped and energised making it happen.

Now they've turned into "you should do this because we tell you to and we will track you as you do it" and so everyone feels like they have no autonomy.

Birmingham Council has always been effective at wasting money.

I've found the people that publicly speak the most about the importance of it inside their organisations end up being the ones who live it the least.

You can only live by its principles and inform others of them too and hope that they value them and try to be authentic.

The use of photos at the top shows crazy bias painting Musk as a 1920's era style business monopolist who is clearly out of touch with regular people and the Bellingcat guy as a regular person.

Not sure if I trust the article after that.

Morbid fields will always exist and pay well.

If you have a family already then getting into the funeral director industry is safe, well-paid and will be around forever.

The people who pick up corpse parts on train tracks are paid very well and it needs no education.

The UK is absolutely doomed because those with wealth and power are content with gaining a larger percentage of a smaller pie for a minor overall increase rather than growing the pie and having a smaller percentage potentially but a fair amount more pie overall because that takes more effort.

It's classic feudal class system thinking.

At least in the US there's this mentality of wanting to grow the pie under the assumption you still want to grow your percentage of it but at the very least you end up with more pie either way and as a side effect others end up with more pie.

I know loads of people who want to leave the country.

I'd expect the amount of "that's interesting" will be dwarfed by the amount of "I can't believe your great grandfather collaborated you monster, I'm going to get you fired".

The Guardian's ongoing war against western civilisation.

This article really hit home today.

I spent about 30 minutes typing up a recent experience and how I felt. I deleted it because my urge not to impose is too strong.

I need a dog.

I bought two and they are a massive disappointment.

Is there a place in the US that has tech jobs, has warm weather and has low gun crime? I too wish to jump off "HMS Sinking".

The main issue is that the people behind TV have huge disrespect for their lowly viewers, and we, as viewers are starting to lose trust and faith in their decision making and so we're doing the sensible thing and waiting.

What's needed is a contract with the viewers so that a single extended length "wrap up" show is guaranteed to be made to round out the story in a satisfactory way - no more cliffhangers or partial stories.

Unless you live in London or Tokyo, it's hard to understand the situation for most people who do live there - you think "why not move somewhere else?" and the reality is that the entirety of the state has made it a mission to concentrate everything good in London, and businesses as a consequence put a lot of their offices there. An interesting and convenient occurrence turned out that MP's got their London properties effectively for free and also many of them are landlords in addition to being MP's and so they've broken the normal supply and demand system - https://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/yoursay/news/23059207.m....

An outcome of this is that there's a lot of jobs that simply don't exist in any significant numbers outside of Central London and so unless you're happy to travel for many hours in and out of work each day to live somewhere cheaper, you're going to pay a huge premium for it.

No one told me this at school or college or university. If they had I might not have ended up in tech.

Now for people who have fairly generic roles that are evenly distributed throughout the country, they're absolutely insane to live in London and if they moan then I'm less sympathetic.

There's definitely some on here that are a waste of resources... https://killedbymozilla.com/

Here's something done badly - Firefox View's Tab Pickup. Because as we know, no one ever opens more than 3 tabs. So that isn't used by many because of that and unless it's implemented into a proper list with actions against it then it will die a death of underuse.

I'd absolutely love to see Mitchell Baker do a Reddit AMA and actually answer inconvenient questions because there would be plenty of them.

I posted a years ago about how austerity was an outcome of the misuse of Excel for problems of scale that it wasn't designed for. Once some researchers figured out the problem with the spreadsheet that these governments were using, almost all stopped with austerity policies, but the UK didn't.

I posted that there would likely be one of two outcomes - a lost decade, we'd be in a worse position and no one should ever again think that the Conservatives are economic masters compared to Labour again, or that George Osborne was a bona fide economic genius and the UK would come out of this extended austerity in a fitter and leaner state ready for the challenges ahead (ala early Thatcherism).

The answer is the the first one - we had the lost decade, are looking at potential second lost decade and we're now equivalent to a central European country not France.

The Conservatives deserve to die at the next general election for this and should be replaced by a completely new right of centre political party as the opposition.

It's planned destruction by bought and paid for politicians from both Labour and Conservative working on behalf of agents of foreign governments. Hell, two of our most recent Prime Ministers have citizenship of a foreign power and no one sees that as something that should stop them from being Prime Minister.