I actually had it happen on me.. visited certain websites, pressed "Restart" in Windows and left the room, computer came back on with Chrome displaying my last session in its full glory. Thankfully no one else was home.…
Why, yes, I think what you're describing is a management problem: a) the new employee was given customer-impacting tasks without checking their competency properly, and then b) his work quality was not constantly…
And sometimes it's an entire city that's the problem. My girlfriend comes from a mountainous zone. We live in the city that I was born, a dusty place in the plains. Guess what, within one year she developed respiratory…
Notifications have this huge downside that they disturb you from your work and from your leisure time, fragmenting attention to the point of being useless to yourself. This has long been decried by people like Cal…
It's an interesting bit, this. When you open an avenue of communication, then others get re-prioritized accordingly. Having text options lowers the perceived need for calling in person. Having Facebook lowers the need…
The objects under test are brittle and bound to change dramatically. Selenium can't offer you insurance against this. I now remember a test suite we had on my project (automotive). We tested against the code…
Perhaps this article will show you what your interlocutor means: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/06/catherine-nich... It is not a new phenomenon for women writers to be taken a shade less seriously than their…
> If you only ever expect to get to go to London once in your life, you're going to be very busy trying to see everything in the week you have. The trap is, of course, that it's monumentally stupid to cram "seeing…
People learn better when there's pain involved. Let there be much pain, and people will learn.
That sounds easy until you realize you would need a special adblocker for Facebook. Ublock Origin doesn't handle those. And don't even get started on mobile adblocking, it's still widely uncharted territory. I had to…
Publishing words also involves a bit of typesetting; not much, but some. It may need to be re-done on a new platform. Exporting a large body of work is not trivial if you don't know how to do it programatically. Heck,…
I actually had it happen on me.. visited certain websites, pressed "Restart" in Windows and left the room, computer came back on with Chrome displaying my last session in its full glory. Thankfully no one else was home.…
Why, yes, I think what you're describing is a management problem: a) the new employee was given customer-impacting tasks without checking their competency properly, and then b) his work quality was not constantly…
And sometimes it's an entire city that's the problem. My girlfriend comes from a mountainous zone. We live in the city that I was born, a dusty place in the plains. Guess what, within one year she developed respiratory…
Notifications have this huge downside that they disturb you from your work and from your leisure time, fragmenting attention to the point of being useless to yourself. This has long been decried by people like Cal…
It's an interesting bit, this. When you open an avenue of communication, then others get re-prioritized accordingly. Having text options lowers the perceived need for calling in person. Having Facebook lowers the need…
The objects under test are brittle and bound to change dramatically. Selenium can't offer you insurance against this. I now remember a test suite we had on my project (automotive). We tested against the code…
Perhaps this article will show you what your interlocutor means: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/06/catherine-nich... It is not a new phenomenon for women writers to be taken a shade less seriously than their…
> If you only ever expect to get to go to London once in your life, you're going to be very busy trying to see everything in the week you have. The trap is, of course, that it's monumentally stupid to cram "seeing…
People learn better when there's pain involved. Let there be much pain, and people will learn.
That sounds easy until you realize you would need a special adblocker for Facebook. Ublock Origin doesn't handle those. And don't even get started on mobile adblocking, it's still widely uncharted territory. I had to…
Publishing words also involves a bit of typesetting; not much, but some. It may need to be re-done on a new platform. Exporting a large body of work is not trivial if you don't know how to do it programatically. Heck,…