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.net being a good example of this

I'm sure I still have CD case with 'Windows .net' printed on it which contains Windows 2000 and SQL Server... .net?

The marketers really went to town on that one, would have loved to be in the creative pitch meetings for that swag.

'.net, what is it??'

'Who knows??! But if we print .net in multicolour on enough stuff, somebody might figure it out!'

OmniWeb was a pretty good browser and I used it exclusively until Firefox was released for Mac.

I have a vague recollection that there used to be a Word Processor for the Atari ST with the same name, but I could be wrong.

One of the reason Switzerland is a rich country per-capita is that it has used its resources very wisely by investing in ubiquitous public transport throughout the whole country.

Yes, I can't wait to hear that my car no longer works because all the plastic "rusted"

Have you thought about, or are you already involved in interviewing new developers for the company?

It sounds like you might already have a nose for what makes a good dev (i.e. somebody who holds the same values as you) It's a great way to influence the company culture, and get good co-workers, which can also de-stress you as you now have fellow travelers whom you can trust with tasks.

It's also fun, sometimes humbling but always interesting!

+1 to your comment.

I suspect they are feeling stressed because they're the main goto person on the product, and with enough random bobble heads running around trying to commit sacrilege on your codebase it quickly becomes a problem of control to maintain the quality you've so strongly instilled vs allowing the product to progress.

Their best path to get out of this bind I'd say is to slowly try to make themselves redundant on that product, choose a victim dev to be your successor and gradually disengage. Possibly a new product or project will be started and then they're free to get involved in that instead.

Also learn how to interview new candidates and get involved at that level, getting good (even better than you) coworkers is a great way to influence the whole company culture and make your work life much more pleasant.

The article then goes on to say:

>In fact the picture is rather different: a sorting process is under way

And talks more about the process of penalizing weaker crypto assets, focusing on Tether. So it's actually a balanced and interesting overview of the fallout of the current selloff on what is now becoming a rather large and very complex market all of its own.

I only mention this as your comment seems a bit dismissive based on that one sentence.

Well... you need trees to spread more trees. But if you've got no trees to start with, then you need drones.

>But 99%+ of companies don't have such problems and never will.

Not sure where you get your metrics, but I would say a more general rule would be that the more people work on an evolving product that includes code and schema changes, then the more you need db constraints to enforce what it means to have correct data.

If only 1 or 2 people are involved in a db that changes pretty infrequently then possibly in the long term you can get away with it.

But if you have a constantly evolving product which must carry new features, logic changes and additions to the schema, then I would say you definitely need db constraints - FK and column. It only takes a few different developers to decide that T,F,Y,N,TRUE,FALSE,YES,NO,Null,NULL,None all mean the same thing, and you've got a slowly evolving mess on your hands.

It would be a very sad state of affairs if NATO basically used the Ukrainians to soak up as much damage as the Russians can inflict in order to weaken it, whilst giving only as little support as necessary, and by dragging the war on.

However it's clear that NATO is also mindful of the fact that Ukraine is currently well led by a capable democratic leader, but that might not be the case in a year or 2, so don't give them too many toys.

Saying that, as an armchair general I would like to see Ukraine driving a wedge to the west of Mariupol down to the sea, and a wedge just south of Kherson to surround the forces there. Secondly they could cross over into Russia via Bolgorod and attack the eastern forces from behind, whilst taking out as much military (including propaganda channels) and rail infra on the way.

The land bridge to Crimea should be reduced to rubble and the port at Sevastopol disabled.

Don't know that they have the man power for that, but that should give the old dictator something to worry about.

Never seen it discussed, but maybe the drone landed a bomb on the superstructure which knocked out their radar or other detection systems.

I personally can't see how it would be best for either party.

Elon I would imagine is way too busy with his other concerns to be distracted by a social media company, even though at the moment it does seem to carry an oversized amount of influence.

And Elon's brand is probably too randomly 'firecracker' for a company that's probably already attracting scrutiny from governments across the world due to the above mentioned outsized influence it has on discourse and opinion.

Why is Australia so high? I doubt they need much heating, but is cooling so expensive?

70's

Bowler Hatted Interviewer: 'Well then, what do you know about these new fangled things then?'

Kipper tie: 'Well I saw one once being used on Logan's Run, and it looked quite easy. I'm also really into Led Zeppelin.'

Bowler Hatted Interviewer: 'Well you sound perfect. When can you start? Only, that spinning tape thing over there stopped spinning 2 days ago and I'm awfully worried we won't get our reports out for month end tomorrow.'