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"The general rule – IP ownership

The general position under English law is that IP rights created by an employee within the course of employment automatically belong to the employer; where there is any doubt as to whether an employee or their employer owns IP rights, the relevant legislation largely favours employers."

It's been that way for decades, while the UK was in EU.

I had to get it written into an employment contract that Open Source activity outside of work was my own.

If all the environments are made of rocks and water (and therefore oxygen and hydrogen atmosphere) then chemically you've got enough for converting sunlight to power, surely?

By using a machine you switch from having one well understood, pretty standardized ui paradigm: put stuff on track, tracks goes to checker, checker checks them through, you pay and bag your stuff

Even this is not universal. In Sweden the checkouts have that divider so the checkout clerk can start scanning the next customer's products while you're packing.

In the UK, you can't move on until the other person has bagged and removed which you're expected to do before paying, which makes self-checkout considerably faster because you're already bagged.

Sugar for the base.

I made pizza yesterday, it was pretty much the above. I also added Tabasco for fun.

Most houses don't have an external mailbox, the mail goes through the front door and into a basket. A lot of houses on terraced streets have no front garden and open directly onto the road, especially in cities.

There is doorstep letter and parcel collection for less than a dollar.

https://send.royalmail.com/

There were shops which had ways to get data on and off mobile phones possibly with custom cables, I'm not sure how they did it. I had a Nokia data transferred to a Samsung once.

I think they could also SMS the ringtones to the phones.

25-29p, I seem to remember the larger Mars bars were 35p or 40p around 1996

haha, oh god the twisted pair coax and "can everyone come out and COMIT again"! Man, those were good times!

The rule is supposed to encourage being apart from each other, not how many can you pack into an arbitrary measurement from Some Agency.

In the UK it's 2m which is MORE than 6ft.

Nodejs is faster than Python as a general rule, anyway. As I understand, Nodejs compiles Javascript, Python interprets Python code.

I do a lot of Django and Nodejs and Django is great to sketch an app out, but I've noticed rewriting endpoints in Nodejs directly accessing postgres gets much better performance.

Just my 2c

If you're "Pro-office" you're dictatorial. This is a problem.

The cat is out of the bag. I haven't worked in an office in nearly a decade, anyone saying "you have to be in the office" will be drawing from a dwindling pool of supplies.

Same. I've got a purpose built office in the garden I built for my wife and I five years ago.

We've got wired internet, power, whiteboards, sofas, variable desks, multiple monitors, it's great.

But we built our business fully remote back in 2014, we've been doing this forever now. While our work colleagues are in their kitchens or on their sofas. It's not sustainable.

They didn't know where the front line was?

I like Go and Elixir from the minimalist approach but I've delivered so many projects recently by using Django and Django Rest Framework with a React front-end simply because you get ORM, Admin, form validation etc out of the box.

In a couple of days you can have a production-ready site and I've never seen anything quite like it for productivity.

Isn't that the argument for Node or Python? You can get a damn powerful VM for the same monthly cost as 1 developer day?

Ever been to IKEA restaurants? If not Google it. Lots of stuff they dish up for you out of massive trays.

It's not the same color, no. Brown doesn't exist.

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU

Another: mix a stock cube/gel with 1 pint water and put in a pot on the heat. Throw in some dried rice noodles, sliced salad onions, chopped pepper.

Cook for 3 minutes and you have a delicious noodle soup. Add chicken or protein for extra fun.

Here's one: Get some shelled shrimp/prawns. Mix mayo + ketchup, lemon juice, paprika + tabasco to make a sauce and pour over the shellfish

Shred lettuce, slice avocado and serve with some chunky bread rolls. Shouldn't take more than 5 minutes, 1 bowl and a plate.

Sounds like "conscientious"

In the UK, they literally are.

The law says you need to be covered by a TV Licence to:

watch or record programmes as they’re being shown on TV, on any channel

watch or stream programmes live on an online TV service (such as ITV Hub, All 4, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV, Sky Go, etc.)

download or watch any BBC programmes on iPlayer.

I don't know why you're arguing this, it's all verifiable.

From https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one

The law says you need to be covered by a TV Licence to:

watch or record programmes as they’re being shown on TV, on any channel

watch or stream programmes live on an online TV service (such as ITV Hub, All 4, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV, Sky Go, etc.)

download or watch any BBC programmes on iPlayer.

This applies to any device you use, including a TV, desktop computer, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, games console, digital box or DVD/VHS recorder.

No because Netflix account isn't written into law. It's a criminal act to watch TV without the license.

The definition of license is a permit to do something. It's a permit to watch TV, given to you by the government.

How is it not the same? They are both permits to allow you to do something.

Lose your license, can't drive. No TV license, no TV for you.

It's 4 hours for me. Doesn't matter how long the day is, maximum concentration tops out at 4 hours. The rest of the time is just admin work, emails and house keeping.

I think the software metaphor for your building codes is basically "Software coding standards and guidelines" and most large platforms will have them. For example https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/seccodeguide-139067....

And yes, good software engineers are expected to know those practices.

I'm not sure it answers your question but in software, the requirements are almost never codified up front because extracting the rules is part of the project.

In terms of the dog-house, there's that rule "Build one to throw away". Since no two software projects are similar, the only way to truly know what you're building is to build it, see what works, throw it away, then build it properly.

Part of what makes software so good is that you _can_ upgrade the skyscraper while people are in it, metaphorically hardening floors or adding new levels.

Apple?

I think the pattern is

    Public Web -> Reverse Proxy -> Application Server

    Public Web -> Nginx -> Node (In his example)

    Public Web -> Node reverse proxy -> Node Application Server

Your reverse proxy can also handle blocking dodgy requests (Fail2Ban) or act as a lightweight static file handler, leaving your application server to do the grunt work.

And what happens when I don't have any signal? Writing an offline-first mobile website is INCREDIBLY hard. Where are you going to store the data? How are you going to detect the network connectivity without polling and hosing the battery because the radio doesn't timeout? Geo-fencing events?