DoubleGlazing

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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
Depending on where you live, this could be something you could report to your local radio spectrum regulator. Usually there are regulations that state your radio devices can't interfere with someone else's. It doesn't matter
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
It's pretty standard where I live in Ireland, to not be asked for references would be seen as unusual. As soon as an offer is made you would expect to be asked for the details of two people they could ask to to provide a reference. Tha
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
There's one more I'd add to that list. Not asking for the usual stuff (e.g. references, proof of qualifications etc) after you accept the offer. The worst three jobs I've been in did that. I found that the work culture in the
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
As a seven year old I was a member of my schools philately club. I could buy mixed bags for 20p each, the local police superintendent was a very knowledgeable member as well. I would talk about stamps and countries with my fellow members, i
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
5G is designed to drop down frequencies in situations like that. The frequency range that 5G can use is huge, but speeds won't be as fast lower down the spectrum.
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
I know someone who still uses the Rabbit handset as their home phone. There was also Dolphin Telecom, the network based on Tetra technology and was only in service for 2-3 years.
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
A broken screen image is another good one. To hear someone come back from break and start loudly asking "WTF?" will never not be funny.
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
My local credit union uses a USB device (IR sensor?) that detects how close to the computer the user is, if they walk away the computer automatically locks. Surprised those devices aren't in more widespread usage.
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
Happened to a friend of mine. He'd posted an article on a website devoted to a specific form of fluid dynamics discussion. This was a site with less than 50 active users. Someone submitted the article (edited to sound more academic) to
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
Pretty much every interview I've had has been like that. Asking lots of exam style question about the language/platform. In my experience most employers say they want good programmers, but in reality they want quick programmers. P
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
Prior to the GDPR I was only ever formally asked a few times for permission to represent. Since the GDPR the few recruiter I've dealt with always asked. I think the GDPR scared them a bit. As for the offer withdrawal, until the contrac
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
That's the case for me. I'm Okay with the Java language, but everything else about it's ecosystem is different from the .net world.
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
That's something I've noticed over the last 10 years or so as job descriptions get longer. All those new terms like React, Vue, SaaS, Azure, AWS etc. They don't really know what they mean. I was asked if I could code in Azure
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
Having been in the software business for nearly 20 years I can state that from my own experiences, recruiters are overwhelmingly bad. The thing is that there are big incentives for the recruiters. Where I live (Dublin) the recruiters finder
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
Had the almost exact same experience, but with Java. I'm a C# developer and although I have some experience with Java, I don't have enough to list it as a skill on my CV. Anyways, in this interview I was being asked about Java and
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
I had one. I loved it, even though I was too young to "get" coding on it. It was the arrival of Spectrum that got me in to coding. That being said, when I got my Spectrum I taped my ZX81 to the handlebars of my bike because I thou
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
I don't think I have ever been more than one week in to a job before I was given some form of admin level rights. In small companies I can understand that. But I've had it also happen in government jobs, in big companies and start
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
But if someone is Okay with a dragnet approach to find criminals, it also means that they are Okay with the government knowing every little detail of their life. And I would assume most people have things they would rather other people or g
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
What we have today isn't really advertising in my opinion. To me advertising should be fairly passive and loosely targetted. Basically putting car ads on a motoring website or serving local interest ads based on your location. What the
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
I like to counter the "If you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to hide" argument with... "If I have done nothing wrong, then no one has the need to take an interest in my personal affairs."
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
But what if an Apple customer wants to deal with a developer directly? Apple wont allow me to do that even though I own the device. That's my bugbear with Apple, If I own a iPhone I should be able to install software from any source -
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
You'd think Google would be wise to that since they do that themselves. E.G. When they caught Bing copying them... https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/ And they definitely do it with maps. T
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
The 1998 DPA was still pretty strict. I have no doubt the DPA was violated when they called my wife. I blame the manager who came from a sales background. His response to every problem was to "call someone", rather than have the t
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
I am a proponent of the lowest common denominator model of development. Basically this means that whatever you develop should be understandable by a relatively new or junior developer. You should develop in such away that a someone coming i
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
This was in 2013, pre-GDPR but in 1998 DPA territory. Yes, I do feel it was probably a DPA violation even back then. In Ireland next of kin is purely for cases where the person has been incapacitated/hurt and someone needs to be told.
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
I was one of the few devs who actually did a README file. It contained all the headline gotchas and links to the wiki. Few people took any notice of it.
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
My ex-manager was the reason I left. He was.... odd. You could warn him in advance about an impending negative issue. You could use lights, fireworks and even shout in his ears, but he would ignore you. The the issue would occur and cause p
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
In this case the server app had multiple DLLs imported from other projects and they had been compiled against a specific version of the Oracle .net driver. My docs clearly stated that you should not update the driver unless you were willing
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
That would cross my mind. Most potential employers I've encountered have usually asked for references from my last two jobs. On another occasion I had to undergo a background check which involved contacting my last 15 years worth of em
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by DoubleGlazing 6y ago
That's what my wife told me as soon as I got home. If it ever happens again that's what I'll do.

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