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Ah I don’t believe that was available last time I used it - I’ll check it out thanks!

Yep most of the FIX connections I've seen are connected for most of the day, long outside trading hours. Tag 103 has specific error codes for the exchange being closed.

I'm always suspicious when news articles embed tweets as "evidence". The one case that sticks out for me was Tim Hunt losing his job because of his joke at a conference. I wonder if UCL also fell for media manufactured outrage in the decision to hastily get rid of him, or whether there really were tens of thousands of twitter keyboard warriors venting their offence all over the situation.

Either way, for my own sanity I now have to avoid twitter and any article that even remotely looks like it might be about someone being offended about something.

> Should we blame Michael S for wasting hours of his life hitting a small button? We could.

Yep we could, and we should. I'm all for personal responsibility, and this feels like setting up a massive excuse for someone wasting their day on Facebook or Reddit. Unlike the Pigeons in the story, you're not locked in a box and are free to not use the internet if you so wish.

> I am against writing unit tests in general

> How often have you seen a program crash? If it was developed by a large software company, chances are it was written using TDD. Clearly, TDD is not a magic bullet. So, TDD does not "prove your code works".

> Developing software is like a painting commission

Several reasons I gave up a third of the way in. I rarely write tests first, but I can appreciate that it works for plenty of people - my brain just doesn't work that way.

It's hard to take anything in this article seriously because of the nerdrage and the dismissal of anything he disagrees with as "stupid".

I like the sound of this. As well as giving the candidate ample opportunity to show what they can do, it'll also be representative of the actual work they'll be doing in that role so everyone will be going into the post-probation period with eyes wide open.

Falklands have around 3,000 people who actively WANT their home to be a British Overseas Territory. Argentina's claim to them holds about as much water as my claim to Buckingham Palace.

His complaint about returns is curious, not sure if it's country specific. I returned something to Amazon a couple of weeks ago in the UK due to some missing parts. I printed out the label, put it in the box and the next day a delivery guy showed up, slapped his own label on the outside and took it away. I had the refund applied 2 days later.

I've never returned anything to Amazon before so was surprised at how well it worked.

I normally just call myself a developer, although engineer is so widespread in the industry now I wouldn't mind that either. I can't look at someone with a straight face when they refer to themselves as a "software craftsman" though. I do think we need to reign in the job titles a little, many of them smack of one-upmanship.

My first reaction to this was that VPN usage will explode, but I'm not sure how a VPN server hosted in another country would work with their desire to effectively ban encryption.

I feel like the UK is slowly goose stepping its way to a Chinese style firewall.

Given the right's obsession with what I'm ordering on Amazon, and the left being essentially unelectable right now, I'm not really sure where to put my vote at the next election.

Can someone who does more UI work than me explain why you would want to future proof css like this in the first place?

Even forgetting the undesired outcome and lack of testing, it's css...if browsers implement this feature, release it when the time comes. Not sure what's to be gained from adding something like this now. Feels like over thinking the issue a little.

The problem with applying analytics to Martial is the limited dataset - he only made about 50 appearances in his career before joining United. It's looking a good bet so far, but it's definitely a punt.