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  • 9point6@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlThe Pager
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    13 days ago

    Someone with better knowledge correct me if I’m wrong, but:

    Hospitals because you don’t need to interact with the pager to see the message it’s beeping about (the doctor’s hands may be occupied and/or they want the quickest possible response)

    Prisons because if a prisoner got hold of a receive-only pager, it’s a lot less of a problem than if they get a two-way phone









  • Honestly this is the reason TDD is most important for personal projects.

    If it’s your job, the code isn’t getting merged without decent tests. Yes you should probably write them first so you think about your implementation properly, but let’s face it, many tests are written after in practice.

    If it’s something written in your free time, you’re just not writing those tests most of the time if you didn’t write them up front.







  • What do you think it is if not centrist? It’s certainly not solidly left-wing and it’s certainly not right-wing, nearly all of its reporting (excluding the insert magazines like the TV guide and food mag) is pretty firmly liberal capitalist centrism with some token left wing bits in there very occasionally.

    As someone who reads the paper a few days a week, probably only a quarter of their output is opinion pieces, which I’d say is a pretty standard ratio.