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by allegory 12y ago
My boss carried £40k in cash around once a month for a number of years. It was people's pay on the way from the bank to the company. Imagine the consequences of siezing that. In no way should anyone assume anything. That's a bad p
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by allegory 12y ago
It's fine. It's a loosely coupled system that uses quite a few components. It's also a complicated problem to solve. This is trivial compared to our product for example which is an integration hub for financial services compa
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by allegory 12y ago
I just sold my older Moto G. Unfortunately I have to connect to Exchange and Android doesn't cut it at all in any way, shape or form for that task. Also it was buggy as hell. This could be an artifact of being Android though. So I boug
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by allegory 12y ago
Not sure I can keep hold of something that big to be honest without dropping it and smashing it. I think a 4.5 - 4.7 is about my limit.
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by allegory 12y ago
Sorry: "doing business" means accepting calls, changing music, getting a glance at the state of things etc. It's supposed to augment the phone but fails to do so according to him.
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by allegory 12y ago
A colleague of mine purchased a Samsung Gear 2. I think it took about 2 days before it was discarded. He said it was awkward doing business in a display like that when the phone was in your pocket anyway. I suspect the same is true with thi
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by allegory 12y ago
I think you missed a couple of things: 1. Mathematics does fight child abuse. Statistics and analsysis provide insight and understanding into a problem and the outcomes of working with it. Look at the NHS' HSCIC for example which actua
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by allegory 12y ago
Yes. To get cobwebs off the ceiling and walls when they inevitably appear (using the brush attachment). I did a spot as a cleaner a couple of decades back and that was the best way of tackling the problem.
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by allegory 12y ago
Going to interject here. YouGov is pretty good with their predictions on political matters. It appears their panel is roughly aligned with the outcome which is a pretty powerful place to be. Not suggestion that it isn't any more than h
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by allegory 12y ago
You're in the "dyson love" period. It'll wear off, then it'll be: a) they go wrong which happens very often with uprights from experience. The hose goes as does the roller belts and the motor. Also on multiple model
131.
by allegory 12y ago
Unreliable, expensive parts, poor design and now they're introducing more technology and robotics!?! I've owned a few Dyson products - totally horrid. Never again. The only positive think I can say is that their service department
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by allegory 12y ago
A million times this. Not only that, the Derive CAS was buggy as hell so a good tutor can set some traps to see if it was you or the calculator doing the work.
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by allegory 12y ago
Apart from the fact that it was sloooow, impossible to repair as it was glued together, the display was abysmal and you needed to drag the manuals around to be productive. Not a big fan of HP nostalgia to be honest, despite rather liking RP
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by allegory 12y ago
It's a good product that will last a long time yet. You grab it out of a drawer and use it and put it back. It doesn't require any maintenance past some batteries changing occasionally. And it has buttons, real ones. It's rar
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by allegory 12y ago
They're more useful because they have buttons too. It's virtually impossible to accurately enter numbers and expressions on a glass display with no tactile feedback.
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by allegory 12y ago
It holds a monopoly because mathematics teachers teach things by rote and procedure, not the underlying concepts from experience. Any deviation from the non-TI norm is considered a teaching risk because the staff and students no longer know
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by allegory 12y ago
I see DHCP, DNS and AD (in that order), at least in a windows environment as step one of anything. Solaris was nice and easy to get back apart from one machine I dealt with: the starfire E10k. The SSP failed on one that we had and the entir
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by allegory 12y ago
Despite punching windows in the face a while back, I don't agree that GNOME is anywhere near windows. Not even going back to windows 2000.
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by allegory 12y ago
No idea. I never solved the problem. It just worked again randomly after a period of time (a couple of hours). That was enough to scare me away from CentOS 7 and systemd to be honest.
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by allegory 12y ago
Every system has bugs, but as the other reply said, quality engineering and most importantly transparency determine the impact. Never been a fan of Xen. It doesn't strike me as quality software. Then again no virtualization solution ha
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by allegory 12y ago
That's exactly what was done. The guys we had were shit hot ex Microsoft admins. The DR environment was the staging environment for the patches. Periodically the production kit would be block copied back to the DR environment and syspr
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by allegory 12y ago
I think it's completely fair. Windows is completely non-deterministic due to the insane amount of coupling inside it and the sheer snowball of crap that has stuck to it over the years. In this case, they had tested DR strategy etc in p
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by allegory 12y ago
Three things: 1. working every hour of every day to be the best I could be and proving it on a daily basis. 2. Don't move job without taking a big raise. Play offers off against each other 3. Circulate amongst old fashioned corporates.
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by allegory 12y ago
This, a million times. In the UK, by changing jobs a few times, I managed to get from £14k to £46k in 4 years :-)
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by allegory 12y ago
An anecdote. When the company I was working for at the time's AC failed in the machine room and melted three racks of kit, all 7 of our FreeBSD machines at the time were back online from scratch on hot spare kit in under two hours. Our
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by allegory 12y ago
Well I see it more like it takes e^-x years i.e. it never converges on total non-idiocy but you can get pretty close. (been doing it for 17 years)
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by allegory 12y ago
It is friendly, if you're not an idiot. Not becoming an idiot is the best solution (practice, lots). Edit: perhaps I made my point badly but don't assume that you'll ever be good enough to not be an idiot. Try to converge on
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by allegory 12y ago
I wrote a simple GC for C once. It wasn't simple. I gave up after I hit what I felt like was the five-thousandth edge case and about 6000 LoC.
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by allegory 12y ago
Works here. Why does everyone assume society is collapsing the momemnt a 500 error appears somewhere. Something just went "snap".
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by allegory 12y ago
Yes he does. No problems at all. This isn't the US - there is a different attitude to it all over here in Europe.

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