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JonoW

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South African software developer living in London. Interested in .Net and Alt.Net dev, as well as tech-industry and startup news.

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I don't follow how this could be true, as normal Russian viewers would have seen a "we started a war" narrative that is essentially blocked everywhere else. I.e. there is a lot to lose, and also, everyone in the west knows there are lots of "good" Russians. They just need to see more of these sorts of messages, so if the Kremlin arranged this - win!

Any Russian users here - does the average person here not wonder why so many previously acceptable services are being blocked and/or silenced? Do they not wonder what it is that the authorities want to shield them from?

For a UI app, I think it's critical to first know how the app works from a user point of view. Then pick a (small) feature, and try figure out how it's rendered to screen by: - Read high level documentation (hopefully it exists) on the overall architecture, not deep-dives in the beginning - Find text that is rendered and tracing to where it comes from - Use the debugger; set breakpoints on client + server code to see the flow of data, particularly into lower layers that get data from DBs/APIs - Hopefully it's a TypeScript project and you can use an IDE to find references and otherwise navigate from symbols to see where functions/class/fields are used

There is quite a long tail of small/niche frameworks, but for most folks there aren't many major ones, really it's 3; React/Angular/Vue. There's probably another 5-10 in the next cohort, including Svelte

I'm confused, why would a fraud bot click on ads that makes LinkedIn money? Normally ad-fraud is when a fraudulent publisher is set up, made to look legit, hosts ads, which a bot then clicks the hell out of. Where's the incentive here for a bad actor on LinkedIn?

Whilst I'm sure landlords are in a tight spot too, what good actually comes from evicting any business right now? It's not like there are any new ones to take their place. Having an existing business with known revenue, waiting to restart once lock down ends seems better than hoping a new one will fare any better.

This all has to happen without any human intervention, so the central computer software has been programmed and extensively tested to make sure all corrections can be made on the fly.

I'd love to get some deeper insight into how NASA writes and tests software, I can only guess it's a million miles from how most of us work. Anyone know of any good talks, articles from engineers there?

Company I work at uses VSTS and we're happy with it. It's actually a much larger product than just code hosting, as it also includes loads of other things like Agile Planning tools, Build system (which is now much simpler than the crazy old TFS XAML based TeamBuild. Although you only get an allocation of build "minutes" every month) and Release Management (OctopusDeploy style system). You can do cool things around PRs, like enforcing that certain users, or groups of users must approve to be mergable, or that a certain build off that branch must succeed to be mergeable. All this stuff is possibe obviously in GitHub, it's just a bit more integrated. Worth checking out

The article mentions driverless trucks would drive slower, at 45mph, wouldn't this make a key difference in this scenario, eg a much shorter breaking distance. Also, a driverless vehicle has one option a manned vehicle doesn't - self destruction to save life, eg drive off the side of the road and crash (assuming it could determine that no one was there)

Why don't they just weigh the bikes? Website states the motor weigh's 1.8kg, that would be easy to detect surely? The component spec for the bikes of a race team are probably fairly fixed, so shouldn't be hard to figure out what a bike should weigh?

I reckon business + value customers are their best bet right now. To compete for high-end customers, they need to plug the app-gap. But yes it does seem odd, they seem to be reducing their work-force but they're being more ambitious.

I'm actually a high-end Windows Phone owner - I love it, but there are a few annoying gaps in apps, not so much the big apps, just the niche apps. Having Win10 universal apps could help if Win10 takes off; if you're going to make a Win10 app, you may as well make it work on mobile too...

At a better interest rate, with a haircut to the original debt and saving you from defaulting on that original debt (by delaying payment deadlines). So yes, there is a benefit to you