Even after all this time. Even after everything that Russia has done. They can still amaze with their cynical barbarity. (View Post)

I've seen code modified to fix the Y2K bug. This was a problem foreseen and then avoided as a result. Which has now gone down in myth and legend as people crying wolf. There is the opposite of c… (View Post)

One of the proudest moments of my working career was delaying a LIVE switchover by thirty minutes because I could see that there were still some errors and a prior step has to be re-run. To add to al… (View Post)

This is also why the "reminder to move" on fitbits and Apple Watches is at ten minutes to the hour, so that people will be encouraged to go and get their dose of caffeine with time to retur… (View Post)

There was eight years between the banking collapse and the Brexit vote, and about five years after that until Brexit actually happened at the end of the transition period, so the density of economic … (View Post)