Personally I view it as a successful project for the client.

The client wanted something done but they only had some time/budget to work on it. The developer looked into it and was able to get the project done. It's great.

Sounds like people who don't read their emails would get the best score because they don't get phished.

Pretty much, yep :) They're also less likely to get phished in general.

Though this property may be suboptimal for other reasons.

A pretty good summary.

If it were me, I would insist some more on the hardware and the delay of hardware.

Have a "bug" in your circuit board? The most mundane thing, you planned room for a 5mm component but it's slightly larger and it can't fit.

It takes 5 minutes to adjust the schematics. It will take minimum 2 weeks to manufacture a new board and until it's delivered to your lab.

The project is now 2 weeks late.

An horrifying article. It's completely missing out that conda/anaconda prohibits commercial usage.

If you want to use conda/anaconda in a company, you have to go out of your way to prevent it to use commercial packages.

Also, the pip example doesn't show how to create a venv, which is the very first thing to do.

Downside, when the company gives you a voucher for £20 to order food (that ought to be enough for anyone!).

Turns out the delivery app automatically adds £10 in delivery/service fee, and there's hardly any food you can pick for the remaining £10. Had to buy out of my own pocket.

I'll add that when you live outside a city and there are food delivery companies, first or third party, the value of the voucher is meaningless. I got a thank you credit for some delivery app that around $100. There was literally nothing that could be delivered, no matter the price. Sometimes being remote actually means you're remote.

I'm not even truly rural and I have never used any of the food delivery services. There are deliveries I could get but nothing I'd want.

And the alternative of having each person order what they want and expensing it isn't much better. You don't pay anything, but it forces everyone to spend a fair amount of time. Plus accounting for different timezones means everyone isn't eating at the same time.

Yep. Filing expenses can take an unreasonable amount of time especially when some percentage are bounced for some trivial reason.

I get the gesture but just let people grab the food and beverage of their choice like they do with any other friends on Zoom thing--assuming a remote team party is a good idea in the first place.

We have two competing food delivery services here, Foodora and Wolt.

Foodora kept doing these "FREE DELIVERY" promos and blasting me with push notifications. And when I'd open up the app to browse through all of the available places, pick what food I'd like to order, add it to my basket and then go to checkout... My 14€ pizza has turned into a 19€ minimum order pizza + free delivery. Also, the minimum order was separate for each and every restaurant, but I could not find any way to find it other than the checkout page.

When I open up Wolt and select a restaurant, the first two things I see, even before the actual name of the restaurant, are the minimum order sum and the delivery fee.

I only have one of these applications installed on my phone these days. Anyone wanna guess which one?

Plus, there are several delivery services that I won't use, voucher or not.

The large majority of the 30x return was over the past 2 years with the pandemic, which is not going to happen for Gitlab.

God forbids if you bought square long ago and didn't hold long enough, they had multiple years of ups and downs.

https://www.google.com/search?q=square+share

How much of that revenue growth was driven by Gitlab more than quadrupling their price in the last two years? ($4 to $19 a month).

They can't pull that trick again.

Who knows? $400/month/dev, here we come!

> Also needs to be replicated for npm, cargo, maven, docker, ...

All these frameworks come with a tool to run an internal repo/mirror.

There are also commercial offerings (like artifactory) that cover all these languages in a single tool.

For python, just set PIP_INDEX in the CI environment to point to the internal mirror and it will be used automatically. It's very easy.

By default the downloaded wheels are cached in ~/cache/somewhere. Isolated builds don't benefit from it if they start with a fresh filesystem on every run, consider mounting a writable directory to use as cache, the speedup is more than worth it.

Just so. It does take a little configuration. The system I was talking about had been band-aided since the company's two-person days, when I'm sure the builds were a fraction of the size. Good example of infra tech debt.

When the newspaper says "unable to buy essential food items", they just mean that there was some items out of stock, not that there was no food in the shop.

If there's no beef today, you can still buy something else.

Fact is, they are invalid in many countries.

One major rationale is that the EULA/ToS is only visible after purchasing the product, which makes it void automatically. How could the customer agree to something they are not aware of and cannot read?