Also, the tide never really stops. It slows, reverses direction and speeds up. Also different sides of an estuary or river can have different tides from each other. It is not a precise, digital on/of… (View Post)

Well, that is the UK well and truly stuffed..... Boris... detail? No doubt he will wow them with some press-ups on the floor or tell them a spiffing after-dinner speech and then waltz out. (View Post)

Pre Covid, I used to use Charity shops as a library. Buy a book for 50p read it and return it to the shop so they can sell it again. It works for DVD "rental" too :) (View Post)

I blame the "Agile development" more than a language. Too many took it to mean "no testing needed" and too many managers took it to mean "shorter development time = lower cos… (View Post)

The real failure here is the lack of checks that the import processes worked correctly. There does not even seem to have been a simple check like "We have the same number of records in the sprea… (View Post)