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I typically go with something like "Have you considered extracting this to a separate function"?

Thanks for making it available - I hope it doesn't burn through hosting costs!

Purely for interest, but for me, the really interesting part was flipping between the OilSlick and Terrain maps, picking out the way that the landscape dedicated the roads, etc, which while visible, doesn't stand out in the same way on conventional maps. As such, if you do any enhancements to the mapping, I'd request the ability to overlay road/rail/major towns over the OilSlick map, but obviously that's without the least idea of what that might actually entail!

Digital's VMS/OpenVMS had something that was a fair way towards this, in that a file was created with a version number (myfile.txt;1) and when modified, a 2nd file (myfile.txt;2) was created, and so on...

In practice we used to work on things then purge when happy with the final changes, as we didn't have that much 'spare' disk, but it was a nice feature.

Sounds like we should ban you from the shower, then.

(Amusing to see “root caused” == “diagnosed” and != “caused”.)

So, Agile?

Hmm, so they reported it to FB & apparently had the vuln confirmed but then retested the vuln a couple of times at 12h & 22h after reporting/confirmation, with the implication that each time they were exposing other user's data...

Not too surprised they reduced the award, tbh...

Yes...

>> "How could any other country take Johnson seriously"

Not convinced that the problem's his climate spokesperson, TBH...

So many problems with that assertion...

You've got very low expectations if you count those as "good" services - trying to travel with one small child would be challenging, two is likely to be stressful, even before the issues of getting from the station to the destination for one, let alone a family... Then there's the costs, in both time and money...

There are certain people for whom current EV's don't make sense - from what she say's, she's currently one of them. Maybe not ideal, but in the real-world, that's sometimes the way it is. Doesn't mean that the issues shouldn't be addressed, but not all obstacles can be avoided at a reasonable cost.

> JavaScript, as I recall, was the answer to Java being crashy and slow on 50 MHz processors.

Not in the least - The early scripting language Mocha, was first renamed to LiveScript then Netscape and Sun did a license agreement and it became JavaScript. And the idea was to make it a complementary scripting language to go with Java, with the compiled language.

Purely marketing, to attempt to use the popularity of stand-alone Java for an in-browser scripting solution.

I'd say that software is "special" because it's ephemeral, meaning there's incredibly few limitations on the possibilities (or changes to requirements mid-project) when compared to projects involving physical items. It /can/ be managed like a physical engineering project, but the cost and time ramp up so severely that it's not practical for most situations.

Back when this happened and the article was written, (really - 12 years ago now!) they didn't have the full story, but it was pretty much the first of this sort of thing that Amazon had to handle. They did review, admitted they'd handled it badly and stated they'd not repeat it, as I recall...