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Each month, the winners are revealed, and in Essex, there was one £100k prize scooped up in October.

The King's sister spent Tuesday in Kyiv, amid a media blackout-out, where she met with President Zelenskyy and movingly laid a toy bear at a memorial.

Ronnie O'Sullivan has revealed why he traded England for Dubai earlier this year - after his wife snubbed Sheffield. The snooker hero upped sticks in the summer.

Residents living in the tranquil Surrey hamlet of Horne say their rural oasis has been transformed into a 'battleground' after unauthorised sites were set up by groups.

The model, 51, has been attending a string of shows during Fashion Week, and the second day was no different as she departed the Costes Hotel after a signing for her book A Love Letter To Kate.

I went to a local pub for a Sunday roast and on the menu it advertised that it came with unlimited Yorkshire puddings.

Because sometimes you need a V2 rocket with your schnitzel

Geek's Guide  It's September and the German city of Munich is celebrating Oktoberfest. But away from the beer tents, schnitzel, and lederhosen lies a set of museums worth visiting for the price of a few beers.…

The grandson of the country's last king, 43, was married on Saturday September 20, surrounded by his family.

The Deputy Prime Minister went on live television to lash out at Mr Farage, after PM Keir Starmer used his main conference speech to hammer the opposition party.

Jonny Mitchell , 53, is also facing tension from his own children, who are said to be struggling with the vast age gap. He started dating former police officer Abi McMahon when she was 21.

Ministers insist the measures are a crucial step in tackling obesity-particularly among children.

Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall oozed glamour as she posed for the new Debenhams campaign, flashing her thigh in a minidress.

Earlier this month, partial remains believed to be Daniel were found by Gardaí after a 16-day search of scrubland in County Dublin. But mystery remains as to what happened to him.

Independent UK bookshops will now be able to sell ebooks via a new platform (Bookshop.org's expansion), keeping 100% of profits and offering a non-Amazon way to reach digital readers. "Bookshops now have an additional tool in their fight against Amazon," said Nicole Vanderbilt, managing director of Bookshop.org UK. "Digital readers don't depend on Amazon's monopoly any more, now that they can find ebooks at the same price on Bookshop.org." The Guardian reports: Bookshop.org launched in the UK in November 2020 as a platform for independent bookshops to sell physical books. Bookshops receive 30% of the cover price from each sale they generate; so far, the UK site has generated 4.5 million pounds for independent bookshops. Customers will also now be able to buy ebooks through a bookshop of their choice. Profits from orders without a specified bookshop will be added to a shared pool, which will be distributed among all participating bookshops on the platform. [...] The platform will launch with a catalogue of more than a million ebooks from all major publishers. It will be available online via a web browser and through the Bookshop.org apps on Apple and Android. "Due to Amazon's proprietary digital rights management [DRM] software and publishers' DRM requirements, it's not currently possible to buy DRM-protected ebooks from Bookshop.org or local bookshops and read them on your Kindle," said Bookshop.org. However, the site is working with the e-reader company Kobo to support Kobo devices "later this year," and longer term would "love to offer our own eInk device."

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During his time on the show, Edward Short, 52, had left viewers in floods of tears in his quest to renovate a dilapidated lighthouse into a luxury eco-friendly home on the north Devon coast.

George Clooney and wife Amal have an estimated net worth of $550 million combined. Yet, the A-list actor insisted he lives a normal life in an interview with the Daily Mail.

Kleyguerth was having a hard time tracking down a bug. A _hasPicked flag was "magically" toggling itself to on. It was a bug introduced in a recent commit, but the commit in question was thousands of lines, and had the helpful comment "Fixed some stuff during the tests".

In several places, the TypeScript code checks a property like so:

if (!this.checkAndPick) { // do stuff }

Now, TypeScript, being a Microsoft language, allows properties to be just, well, properties, or it allows them to be functions with getters and setters.

You see where this is going. Once upon a time was a property that just checked another, private property, and returned its value, like so:

private get checkAndPick() { return this._hasPicked; }

Sane, reasonable choice. I have questions about why a private getter exists, but I'm not here to pick nits.

As we progress, someone changed it to this:

private get checkAndPick() { return this._hasPicked || (this._hasPicked = true); }

This forces the value to true, and returns true. This always returns true. I don't like it, because using a property accessor to mutate things is bad, but at least the property name is clear- checkAndPick tells us that an item is being picked. But what's the point of the check?

Still, this version worked as people expected it to. It took our fixer to take it to the next level:

private get checkAndPick() { return this._hasPicked || !(this._hasPicked = true); }

This flips _hasPicked to true if it's not already true- but if it does, returs false. The badness of this code is rooted in the badness of the previous version, because a property should never be used this way. And while this made our fixer's tests turn green, it broke everything for everyone else.

Also: do not, do not use property accessors to mutate state. Only setters should mutate state, and even then, they should only set a field based on their input. Complicated logic does not belong in properties. Or, as this case shows, even simple logic doesn't, if that simple logic is also stupid.

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SWIFT and 30 banks promise to bake it into international payment infrastructure

Blockchains are still synonymous with the wild world of cryptocurrencies, but on Monday, 30 banks and SWIFT – the world’s most important cross-border payment service – made them an utterly mainstream part of the global financial system.…

Business confidence has plunged to a record low as tax fears stifle sentiment and hold back growth, a damning new poll has revealed.