daveFNbuck

If it rings up for $12 when it's labeled as $10, you can usually get it for $10 if you tell someone it rang up wrong.

I've never had my phone die more than 5 hours before needing to drive. I have had my fob stop working without warning. So this would be a good improvement for me.

5 hours gives you plenty of time to plug your phone into your car and charge it.

My fob doesn't give me a low battery warning. I find out the battery died when I can't use the fob to unlock the car.

I locked my keys in the car a few times and had to call for help when I had a mechanical key. This has never happened to me with the fob. When I closed the fob in the car, the car refused to lock and made a very long annoying beep at me until I retrieved the fob.

This feature can still protect you if it works for enough people that it's no longer worthwhile to attempt to unlock a car this way.

If the PM doesn't have enough expertise to understand how severe a bug is, how are they supposed to accurately assess the business impact?

What extra context does "severity 0" give you on top of a bug title like "Site crashes on action X"?

That would be extremely obvious from the bug title and description, which are presumably being read by the person who sets priority.

Why set a severity if you're not going to use it? A crash is still a crash if you don't set the severity and just write that it's a crash in the bug description.

They're saying that severity informs the decision of how to set priority. I'm not sure why that's necessary since severity is implicit in the description of the bug.

What benefits do this measurement and comparison provide?

How does setting a higher severity for one bug over the other help devs?

Why does severity need to be assessed at all if we're just going to use priority instead?

So when you say there's quite a bit wrong, you don't mean that any of the content is inaccurate?

The article is pretty short and straightforward. Can you name a specific thing that's wrong with it?

You need special equipment to accept cards.

The integrations were mostly there to notify the tools about updates and ensure they have the latest versions of every branch. You need this for things like triggering builds on branch updates, but not for things like uploading a diff to code review.

I'm not proposing this. The last place I worked for did this. There are plenty of third-party tools that do these things with good GitHub integrations.

The company I used to work at used GitHub just for git hosting. Code reviews, pull requests, CI, were all handled by other tools. There are probably a lot of others in that situation.

Some people hate unicode quotes because lots of software will automatically convert ASCII quotes to them when you copy/paste your code to Slack or email to share with others.

Notice that you had to add "in the woods" to make it clear that ditching is negative here.

From the representation of her story in the article, it hardly seems like Getty has caused her a billion dollars in damages. It's a slam dunk that Getty did something wrong, but that doesn't mean that they necessarily owe her any money.

What lawsuit did Getty win? The article says they haven't responded formally to her suit yet, and it doesn't mention them suing her.

You may be able to limit usage of your own derivative works, but you can't just declare that everyone using a public domain image owes you royalties.

If you're deciding between two similar candidates, the choice is pretty arbitrary anyway. As a white man, I've never been discouraged from pursuing my career in tech. A woman who is similarly qualified than I am probably overcame more and worked harder to get there than I did, so it's a reasonable tie breaker even if you don't value diversity for its own sake.

Even with these tie breakers, most large tech companies have about 10% women in engineering, so this discrimination isn't affecting the men that much. Are the companies you're thinking of different in this regard?

There's a simpler solution if you don't want to exert control over other people. Don't vote.

I haven't had any issues, and I appreciate being asked for permissions rather than assuming them. It makes me feel safer even if I haven't yet encountered a situation where I said no.

Yes, it happens all the time. There are many news websites that track and correct lies made by public officials.

The problem with the strategy you describe is that if too many people use it, politicians can just openly lie about what's happening in the world and what they're doing about it. A voter who has identified with a party and is no longer interested in learning the facts has no way to correct for this.

What do you find limiting about Firefox? How does your browser of choice free you from these limitations?