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The second, I believe.
TTFN - Kent
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The rare MarketWatch post. I visit that site daily.
Quote: Remote employees are working less, sleeping and playing more
Yeah. Oh look, I have a life! The 1 to 3 hours of commute time each day alone, eliminated for us lucky tech workers that are lucky enough to continue to work remotely "after" the pandemic, is a blessing. Certainly, a blessing that I count myself luck to have, each and every day.
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can anyone recommend the game to play when working remotely ... looks interesting
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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When it comes to error handling, it truly is a team sport Error: The operation completed successfully
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Error: The operation Windows update completed successfully
FTFY
M.D.V. 
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 Ouch!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Now on to the next challenge, how do we make users read error messages? 
Seriously, I recently got a question "why can't I upload this file?"
The error message they got was literally "File already uploaded" and the file was at the top of the list with uploaded files.
I don't know how I could make it any more clear
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Simple: change the error message to "File uploaded successfully". In green, with a big tick. 
For one of our apps, we recently got asked to move "UK" to the top of the list of countries for the admin screen. Two days after the latest release, we got a bug report saying it was now "impossible" to select UK as a country, because it wasn't in the list. Despite it literally being the first option in the list, and the list having a functioning search option. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's when you should remove the dropdown entirely, replace it with a textbox and require them to enter "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" correctly spelled, capitalized, and exactly 1 space per word; and then have any validation error send them back to the start of the process with all input cleared.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Ah, the classic "make this section illogical to all, except the person who uses it the most (or asks for the change)"
I had a discussion with a (otherwise very nice and understanding) client.
They have this overview with a date filter.
The lines shown have a status, like new, in progress, finished, error... Initially I showed new, in progress and error for the last few days.
Then I got a call, Sander, we only want to see today.
So I asked how they're going to see any errors as they usually work through the list at the end of the day and so they probably won't notice the errors the next morning.
"They'll have to check manually."
"Should I show everything from today + all errors ever?"
"No, that would not make sense."
I don't think I'll have to finish my story, but they never checked for errors and some weeks later they asked me how it was that they missed all those errors
To be fair, the guy wasn't wrong, but he wasn't right either
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Allegedly, the company is operating in violation of the state's Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act. Don't mess with Texas faces
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Hopefully they fine them with a big sume
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If I recall correctly, years ago Texas was caught recording the plates of everyone moving about in it, getting a good feel for their residents (and visitors) movements. I don't recall the details.
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As always - it's OK when they do it, but not when someone else does it (and they can be sued to help the budget and make the company look bad. OK, worse in Google's case.)
TTFN - Kent
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So who can we find to sue? Or is that game only open to millionaires and above?
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The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet. Are you positive?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed.
Coming next...
Study: Understanding the quantic behaviour of the proton leads to develope better AI
Who wants to fund it?
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Can you then claim royalties on all protons? 
Asking for a friend...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed "
Uh, I may have worked on this software team in the past
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One of the most concerning insights this year’s hype cycle shed light on is that no single application security innovation can deliver comprehensive security. My research finds 'no, duh'
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There is no 100% security, you just have to make it a bit more difficult than the others...  
M.D.V.
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You mean to say one tool doesn't do it all?
Actually this is a good point that no matter what it is there is no such thing as singular tool that can do it all and that goes double so for the Cloud that is too often seen and marketed as the digital savior of humankind.
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And every additional tool is also a security risk.
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The Overflow Offline initiative is supposed to make it easier to access the repository of coding knowledge (and snarky answers) without internet Closed: Answered in other prison
or arctic
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Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first Because the one thing I hear so often is, "how can I make my applications like Oracle do?"
I wonder if it comes with automatic support payment billing?
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