The North Koreans were pretty quick to close their border with China once China announced they had a problem, but that border saw a lot of trade for several months whilst the alarm hadn't been raised. Considering how hard the neighboring South Eastern Chinese provinces were originally hit, I find it very hard to believe that the virus did not cross the border.

As regards how many cases they have, I can't believe that satellite imaging isn't able to provide some answers. When Brazil was suffering under the first wave I remember seeing images of graveyards being extended and rows of freshly dug graves. I can only think that some satellite sources are considered too sensitive that they should be exposed just to confirm this point.

"They're for important niche positions that otherwise a company would have a hard time filling".

Would that be the same niche as those for skills that we need, but for which we don't want to have to pay the going rate?

This reminds me a lot of some of the ideas developed in the 1980s in the Chorus Distributed Operating System. Maybe someone got around to reading the history books?

Been there, got several wardrobes full of T shirts.

If unit testing and staring at code for more than a few minutes doesn't solve this kind of problem, then the assertion hammer comes out. Assert everything, especially the things that are so obvious that they don't need an assertion. The bugs just have fewer and fewer places to hide and eventually surrender.

It seems that all this can really tell you is that there might be 4 clusters of personality type amongst the type of people who do online personality tests.

Exactly what I was thinking. Still, Linux might never have happened if Torvalds took that advice.

I used plenty of shared computers at college / university prior to owning one. My first shared family computer was an i486 box running Linux that I put together and hooked up to a couple of VT100 style terminals (green on black FTW), one for my wife and one for me. So shared in the sense of multiuser time sharing.

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Dark ages... graphing calculator... Hmmm

Well, back *before* the dark ages we had a pencil and a book of log tables, and we thought ourselves lucky.

Now get off my lawn! :)

A long time ago, 20 years or so, I used to go on vacation to the US; visit the national parks, see the sights in the cities, the usual tourist things. It is a beautiful country, and I found the vast majority of people to be friendly and welcoming. I stopped going there by choice when immigration started treating myself and my family as if we were criminals. Now I only travel there on business, if I really have to and not if I can possibly avoid it. There are many countries out there which are equally beautiful, and where the people are equally friendly and welcoming. The difference is that they employ some of those folks as immigration officers.

Agreed.

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Exactly my thoughts. I just got sick and tired of being treated like a criminal every time I went through immigration. And guess what, there are lots of other places around the world which are happy to see tourists and make them feel welcome. Who'd have thought it?

... it points out that I've stopped visiting the US because I'm sick of being treated like a criminal by their border control staff.

There are so many nicer, cheaper places where I'm greeted with a welcome and a smile and if they want to lose tourist dollars to the competition then that's up to them.

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Agreed. This is another anachronism in a world where cheap, reliable sat nav is readily available.

I've been waiting for the next logical escalation in the battle between ad blockers and advertisers. Ad blockers were introduced, advertisers put ad-block detecters in place and refuse content. Well how about if we had ad blockers that downloaded that content, just didn't display it. And to take things one step further, how about there being an option for those with plenty of fast bandwidth to do this by default. Now imagine the implications of a few million browsers doing just that.