Spearchucker

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by Spearchucker 6y ago
"... the disaster that was Healthcare.gov " OMG you worked on that? The blame for this one (and Universal Credit) sits with GDS. Their approach at the time was agile or die, and then try to develop an enterprise system like they
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
I do indeed. Here's a complete list of books I recommend when asked - https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Books.aspx The one that made the biggest impact on my approach to architecture is "Designing Solutions f
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
The people using my system never skim my document. Lawyers tend to scrutinize it. As for the document being a war-and-peace epic yes, this happens. Mostly because people cannot write technical documentation. The hugest system can be distill
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Critical outcomes are defined by quality objectives (I mentioned some above, others are reliability, robustness and portability). People don't consider using my project. There's a client with a business problem, there's a ven
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Thanks for putting that out there. It's super interesting to see what we consider architecture to be. Your approach appears operational, focused on how the completed system functions, i.e. getting a new team member up to speed on the c
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Psychologically the enterprise software industry is actively discouraged from creating secure code. The most-heard mantra is to not do it because it’s difficult, making it a pointless exercise. Another is that security testing is too disrup
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Defense in depth suggests using controls to protect each individual resource. This includes individual apps, individual servers and individual user devices. A firewall is a single control, but never the only control. This from experience wo
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Please not the latter. There are sooo many apps out there where you wonder if it's a honeypot, has more or less functionality, or is a completely different product. All because the name is similar, and the app icon the same or impercep
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
I use Office365. Yes it costs money, and yes they provide good support. I also use Outlook so ALL my mail, both sent and received are stored locally and remotely. If my mail bombs I lose max a couple hours' worth of email.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
So today, if I want reliable messaging, I use asynchronous, non-blocking functions. Like async/await in .NET. If I want guaranteed delivery I write logic to provide that. Again, using .NET. If in-order delivery is required, again, .NET
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Yeah... not quite. From the article - " Anger treats its target as someone capable of recognizing that she has done wrong... " This is true in some cases, but not all. Had a girlfriend once who used anger to get what she wanted.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
I will find a copy of the book to see what I can learn from it. Until now I've learnt that one cannot attain happiness as a state. It's fleeting. I stumble across it in moments, and it's gone again. And so I try to be content
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Note I said "possible". Your link specifically states " During the transition period the GDPR will continue to apply in the UK ". That said, apparently they've just reached a deal, and the transition period ends in
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
This is possible now that Brexit has happened. Whether the UK will need to comply with GDPR or not is dependent on the deal Boris strikes with the EU, if indeed he ever does.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
I think the first search engine I used was Magellan. Until AltaVista happened. Loved AltaVista, until Hotbot/Inktomi, which was the only one I had trouble letting go of, I think only because of their really clean and minimal UI. Even w
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
If being healthy is too much work then I guess obesity wins. I cannot imagine eating fast foods. Cooking is cheaper, besides the healthy thing. It's also FUN. I mostly cook German stuff, some French, a little Chinese and a fair few BBQ
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
#3. I agree. Amd yet Ian has this to say under "Firefox was never enough" - All encompassing: The web hosts most of our desktop applications. It should host even more of them, it should host mobile applications, it should be the u
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
There are a number of frameworks that do this, another being SCIPAB: - Situation - Complication - Implication - Position - Action - Benefit It's a bit heavy for my tastes but helps focus thinking. https://www.mandel.com&#x2F
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Wasn't clear, sorry. Facebook censors things, Freenet doesn't. That doesn't mean there's no place for Facebook, and it doesn't mean there's no place for Freenet.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
True. Controlling human thought at scale can be useful though. It stops my 8-y/o from watching what he shouldn't. There's a balancing act between FAANGs, and the wild west where you can go looking for things without being han
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
My boy goes to a European School (schools set up for employees of the Union), because my girlfriend works for a European institution. I sit on the parents association of the school. That said - There already is a common language and it&#x27
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
First thought after seeing the screen shot was "whoa way too much whitespace." Second thought was that I do all of this in Outlook, and get world-class email, calendar, tasks/todo and notes with it. Also importantly, all my d
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
I tried blogging once. Also didn't have enough ideas for content and no compelling theme, to boot. Used to have imposter syndrome bad, but at some point I just stopped caring about it. What I DID do was to write things down. Any time I
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
" ...I felt like I needed to always be seen either in a meeting or butt in chair... " Yeah, norms. Like the expectation that employees remain signed into instant messaging apps. And the associated values where for example being si
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
And here I was thinking I'm the only weirdo writing raw HTML.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Counter example I've been using bluetooth for keyboard, mouse and headphones on my Surface Pro 1 since the Surface Pro 1 was released in I think 2013 or 2014. Never reinstalled Windows, and it works to this day as it did on day 1. I us
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Things have indeed progressed. Thanks for going to the trouble.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Disagree. No idea if it's there now or not, I haven't checked in years but they had no Alien Sex Fiend, Damned or Jesus and Mary Chain. Oh and no Soft Cell either although that might have been because of a song called Sex Dwarf. T
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Once can't just delegate responsibility like that. Any company should enage in some form of due dilligence before procuring software. If there are expecations of privacy then those should be proven by the company procuring the software
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
I do not consider dysfunction something other than the course describes. What I take issue with is that the course offers an outcome but no approach. Read it again.

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