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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Some that come to mind The Byzantine iconoclastic controversy 8-9 centuries weakened the Empire. Some bits of the ECW (bishops wars) where religious. The northern Crusades (much more savage that the eastern ones) The Hussite Wars
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
The Comment "No effective removable media controls" Is shocking 15+ Years ago QinetiQ used to solder up the usb ports on its lap tops and that's for those working on avowed jobs, not the Secret Squirrel ones.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
You must be new: the rules of software development from time immemorial. There is no such thing as to much RAM There is no such thing as to much DASD (Disk) There is no such thing as to much Screen Size There is unfortunately never enough B
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Yes you can code well on tiny laptops with poor 1366x768 displays - but double or triple set ups are more efficient. Its more about maximising productivity in my opinion.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Not all of those apprenticeships are high level ones and I suspect there is much less possibility of starting as an apprentice and going all the way to a degree as say Mech Eng apprentice at BAE Systems might. This is the route I took BTW.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Its also pushing kids into career directions that they may not really want to do and in some cases are not just suited to. The only time I have seen some one who was just not suited to development was case of this.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
And I believe that jumping tracks is harder in Germany - even after the EU made them reform the system.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
It can also open up a can of worms as companies as big as Amazon can get into trouble with regulators. When I worked at BT we could not crosssubsidize say our online services and had to give up the short dial for access 618 used to connect
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
cough Ryzen, Threadripper and Epyc for that market, as they say that's a Brave prediction.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Oh yes in 94 that was my key take away, you could launch a new system as a website and save a lot on deployment cots on say 500 seats. I recall discussing this with the engineering centre manager about how in 5 -10 years the web could repla
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I remember just before my first web project. I worked on a Oracle client server project (SMDS management tool) and to install the client, you installed about 4 products via 14 floppy disks one after the other on the client PC. Took two days
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Something like Oracle forms with a custom clinet application talking to a database server.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Even for the Mac Pro workstations? I bet Apple Audio and VFX shops will not be happy
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Yes I know that but normally you would expect a union to stick to that industry, also blue collar unions don't always know how to organise and represent professional workers and some members may not want "their" union to repr
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Makes me smile - a few years ago I was working for British Telecom and had to look something up on the internal system that had all the procedures and standards. I miskeyed the search and ended up on a TI (technical Instruction) from I thin
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
This is why you need a union for IT workers to - tell the blue collar union to piss off or more politely set demarcation boundary's. I worked at a unionised company in the UK and the CWU would have got short shrift if they Tried that
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I did not think all union contracts where closed shop in the USA. And this case why on earth where professional roles being represented by an Auto workers union.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
A lot of early US workers organisations where called guilds and one of the aims was excluding BAME (to use a modern term) workers. Also Guild does imply exclusion which is the medieval guild system which I think others have mentioned.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Probably some 24 year old intern with zero political nous
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
And how would an individual teacher negotiate salary ?
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
And in labour organisations "guild" has some unfortunate racist conations in the USA.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
In political terms most Google employees are centrists, wet one nation troy or Eisenhower era Republicans. And Prospect is explicitly not "Political" with the Big P i.e. aligned with a particular party - in fact almost all Profes
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Unions are run by the members
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
The early home installations for electric power where mindbogglingly unsafe.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
If its a decent Job you do need a CV (ideally tailored to the job) and a Targeted cover letter.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
All scraper job sites have low quality inventory eg indeed. Last time I was looking I used those sites to fil the quota for job applications per day that receiving JSA (social security) requires in the UK - whilst putting the real effort in
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
or The Arab Scholars
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Which unfortunately didn't happen at HP with the phone hacking scandal. The Chairman should have taken Patricia Dunn aside early on and told that the board had lost confidence in Her and some of the leadership team long before Patricia
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
That's interesting, I get a lot of job offers via LinkedIn. For my last job search I did very little direct searching for jobs I had enough just from linked in. I think Linked in helps more if you are experienced and have a decent net
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Not for hacking though rob a bank of 70k you get much longer sentences than a hacker stealing the same amount by hacking email and redirecting a payment. Arguably the UK is soft on hacking as there are several News international Hacks that

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