flooq's comments

If you swap decentralized for personalized then the point about hyper-curated media bubbles do make sense. It feels backwards because it’s not how we use decentralized in the industry, it’s probably the same reason you correctly said web instead of internet.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Isn't AI supposed to work for us rather than the other way around? If AI can't learn to code, it's not AI, and it's not going to make it.

It’s certainly a reason not to use it in production though.

Due to all the reports of mangled English (which is indeed a problem), a lot of people seem to have the false impression that real Scots is wildly different to English. The Scots for "Italian cuisine" is in fact "Italian cuisine".

It's ridiculous incident but it's also overstated, I haven't seen any decent translators with Scots support but if they were based on that wiki they'd probably tell you that the Scots translation of "to know" is "tae ken" which is perfectly correct. It might also tell you that the Scots word for physics is "pheesics" instead of "physics" but how faith should you be putting in a public wiki as a data source in the first place?

Probably better than Sweden. Estonia did a great job and influenced the UK but GOV.UK is a much bigger project due to the relative population size.

GDS don’t actually take over many services. It’s HMRC’s responsibility to update their services to meet GOV.UK standards.

It's definitely illegal to discriminate on those grounds in the UK (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance).

There are exceptions like modelling or acting where roles where there could be reasonable reasons for being gender-specific but not for the tech and public sector jobs described in the article.

Given the way issues like this overlap with the European Convention on Human Rights I would expect it to be very similar across Europe (certainly within the EU).

Yes, if it happened today it'd be covered by the Data Protection Act 2018, which is the UK implementation of GDPR. The limit has increased to £17 million or 4% of annual global turnover (whichever is higher).

Without regulation like GDPR, Facebook aren't obliged to state what those stupid buttons actually do with regards to the information they store about you.

Being open and honest with people really doesn't slow down development all that much.

Not just a site too. Almost every significant government service is being migrated to that domain, linked from that site and designed to the same standards.

WSL and sometimes Docker. If it belongs on the command line I keep it in the Ubuntu environment.

I've been swinging between the Jetbrains IDEs, Atom and VS Code over the last year but I think I'm settled with VS Code now.

I'm using Hyper for terminal, or VS Code's terminal.

We call them semantic because they have extra technical meaning in HTML (built in WAI-ARIA roles for example). For example, browsers expose them as landmarks for screen readers.

That said there are a lot of similar examples of magical beliefs that are unfounded. Extra <div> tags rarely matter and "semantic" CSS values don't do anything.

It's not after event, the "after" is for inserting a pseudo-element. That then sits inside the original link element and hits the tracking URL by trying to load a resource from it when the link is active.

Worse than the Hackintosh users, Apple have just about lost me completely to Windows.

Apple held my attention for years because I need Adobe software and prefer a Unix enviroment. I'm pretty happy using using a Windows 10 desktop with Windows Subsystem for Linux now. My workflow is pretty much the same as it is my MacBook now. So much so that I'd probably do the same with my next laptop.

I thought it was more that they were opening a connection for several queries but doing other blocking IO tasks in between the queries, rather than just computation.

In the 90s, when they introduced the Advanced Higher they changed the Higher Grade to remove a lot of the deeper computer science components. Having been in one of the last years to sit it I then ended up studying a lot of the same information in my first year at university anyway. Unfortunately having a good school curriculum didn't automatically make the degree level education better.

For the reasons we don't have one true server-side framework, (other than languages).

I think they're okay for mass communication (product updates, etc) but not in reply to a customers email.

Older versions of iOS had a bug where zoom levels would mess up when device orientation was changed. For a while disabling zoom was a reasonable alternative but it's not justifiable anymore

On the other points I think it's because a lot of companies are still treat their mobile UX as an afterthought, even the ones who wouldn't like to admit it. It's a lot of work to handle all the variables well and few are willing to commit the resources in the right places early enough to implement a good mobile experience without awkward technical workarounds later.