Spearchucker

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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Awesome. I'm sure there are many applications that will benefit. And yet as a consumer / Joe Public I already get that from WiFi. When I'm not connected to WiFi (which is not often), 4G is more than adequate. The only thing I
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
In 1983 a friend got a ZX Spectrum, and I found a magazine for it which had game listings in it. So for my friend and I it started on a Saturday afternoon spent typing code into a ZX Spectrum. A year or two later my dad would let me play on
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Microfocus did a thing where you could port COBOL TO .NET. I haven't worked with it myself but know Barclays used it to migrate a lot of COBOL in the mid 2000s.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
I still use my 950. People get annoyed with me because I don't use messenger or WhatsApp. It does email and phone calls just fine. Anything other than that or surfing the intertoobs can wait until I get to a PC.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
There's some useful templates in there. From many many years' experience as an architect it lacks a fair bit of context though. How do you choose which tool or document template to use at a given time? Why in an architecture conte
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
If it happens once that's once too many.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Exactly.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Right now there is no exist strategy. There are possibilities though. Assuming a vaccine doesn't appear, then we're left with herd immunity through community infection. There are problems with that though, because it's not ye
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Somehow asking a contact for a recommendation or search result has never felt right. I have many friends I value very very much and yet I don't share their political views, I don't like their technology preferences and I sure as d
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Yeah. Because modern tech is bloat. Started on a JavaScript-based search tool the other day. ALL the JavaScript is hand-coded. No libraries, frameworks, packages. No ads. Just some HTML, bare, bare-bones CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. Data is
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Indeed. This (CLOUD) of course runs counter to GDPR. Comply with one and fall foul of the other.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
You proved the point (see my 4th paragraph).
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
I believe the assessment to be true. Windows Phone was doing really well in Europe. It was Americans who refused to write those WP apps that were so desperately wanted.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
When focus is quality, quality rises and costs fall. When focus is cost, costs rise and quality falls. William Edwards Deming, an American, said that. Whilst a lot of what Liam wrote rings very very true (I'm not Amercian either) I thi
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
I stand by my post.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
True. Except that the German app turns on EVERYTHING - LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS. And the carrier gets it all. I had the app installed for all of maybe 2 minutes because it did exactly what it claimed to do, but I'm not giving the carr
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
But the same is true for JSON. Of course you're going to be constrained by a legacy system of you're constrained by a legacy system. Neither JSON nor XML force the implementor to use any of the crazy stuff.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
The same was true for XML.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Why chaos? There's benefit, but small fry. I'd push for Brexit, Scottish independence, and a rift amongst American democrats and Republicans to weaken these states, so that I might bring my power to bear on a now localised objecti
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
You're probably right. My thinking is that with time and with a reduced population the world might become more enlightened. Also if there is an agricultural surplus that it might be put to use feeding the poor. I'm an optimist, an
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Well because Brexit does the UK have much choice? No one survives alone. Not even China.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Identity federation seemed to promise solutions to some of these problems, but never quite took off. The part I liked most was the ability to verify someone as being over 18 without divulging their age or any other meta data. That was 10 ye
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
The distinction between freelancer and consultant is irrelevant. What is relevant is what consulting is. Consulting typically means solving problems for clients. Often that starts by assessing the client's environment to gain insight i
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Agree. Forgiveness is great. It's where I started, which led to me questioning why I do it even. And the conclusion I came to was that the anger I felt was... useless, ineffectual and thus a total, unadulterated and complete waste of m
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Made my balcony private using fake bamboo. Made a pond. Made a Japanese-style bridge for the pond. Made a water wheel for the pond. Made a garden gate. Marked up my CV (resume) and weirdly that led to a new job.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Advice I was given years ago is 7 plus or minus 2. The average person is purportedly able to grok 7 things simultaneously. Some only 5, others 9 hence the plus or minus 2. And so I build my deck with that rule in mind - Never more than 7 sl
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
AD is a directory of EVERYTHING. From users to groups, departments, divisions, printers, to remote access, device management, email, file shares... Many third party apps use it for either or both of authN and authR. You can use it to federa
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
In Europe many just shake their heads and say "Only in America." German police (I'm sure many other police forces too) specifically first aim for the leg.
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Built a water wheel for my pond from an old scooter wheel. Build a Japanese style bridge for my pond. Built an outdoor cupboard for my balcony where I can keep my martial arts gear (I train on the balcony). Building a little shed for our bi
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by Spearchucker 6y ago
Playing devils advocate - if I were Google or Twitter or x or y other Valley-based company I'd do what Twitter did and have everyone work remote. I'd hire the untapped talent in the wider US. And then why not globally? I could get

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