This was within a bank and the code in question was related to enabling Apple Pay from within the banking application. The consequences of that information and code leaking or being seen by anyone who had not signed the NDA were very serious (don't remember the details but it made the lawyers were extremely stressed about it).

Needing to figure out a way to protect those parts of the codebase it was decided in the end that the "easiest" way of doing this was to split the repository in half, with the actual artifact building taking place from the half that had the NDA code. The rest of the application (basically the whole application) was then used as a dependency by it.

Still didn't quite solve the issue, but access to that repository was heavily controlled.

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Does it make more sense than ground based data centers? Not sure.

Having insight into the Dutch university education system I've noticed that the students here are incredibly entitled, and even cite "being paying customers" when they disagree with the difficulty of course work or the scoring they get and diagree with.

My experience of my Nordic university time, some 20 years ago mirrors yours. Not unlimited retakes, but very hard exams and no one had this "customer" attitude. Just nose to the grindstone, very long days in the library, every single day of the week.

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Are you even aware of what has been going on in Ukraine for the last 4 years, and in Crimea for the last 12?

"Cattle die, and kinsmen die,

And so one dies one's self;

But a noble name will never die,

If good renown one gets." [0]

- Hávamál, written ~900-1000 CE

[0]: https://www.voluspa.org/havamal76-80.htm

It took 10 days to get rid of the flu like symptoms, two weeks to get to semi normal, but my taste hasn't been the same since. Not entirely gone, but very muted.

If these gums were available off the shelf I would buy them in a heartbeat!

Yeah those early days ~2010ish were very painful. Things got much better as early as 2016 and they have improved each subsequent year since.

I'd say there has never been a better time than now, in terms of tooling, to pick up native Android.

Plenty of rough edges still around though.

They are looking at alternatives in Europe instead.

It's almost like web devs don't know the concept of traveling outside ones county.

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After seeing reports[1] a few years back about the use of Coke as a non invasive way to clean these out, I now drink the stuff when my stomach is upset. With n=1 I can report it has a real effect on me.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytobezoar

[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3292399/