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by batou 11y ago
Thank you for raising this one noisily; very grateful. I've put a full stop on upgrading our test kit to this while we analyse everything.
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by batou 11y ago
You're right. But this was in an area where there were no staff. One reason I quit was we couldn't even get someone to repair PCs in so I ended up having to do it.
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by batou 11y ago
We still use email like we did 15 years ago...
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by batou 11y ago
Did anyone know they issued a CLR already that worked on ARM, PPC, OSX and FreeBSD and is open source? It even requires perl to build! http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4917 (they yanked offi
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by batou 11y ago
Yes I worked for a guy in 1998 who basically invented both salesforce and AWS and wanted me to join him as the technical lead. I thought he was nuts and told him no. Due to the geographical location of the company he couldn't find anyo
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by batou 11y ago
It will be an asset. The most successful team in my company is built out of mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and mathematicians.
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by batou 11y ago
Very good question.
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by batou 11y ago
That's kind of scary as it's exactly what I did. Same course, same country, same time :) I'd agree with the embedded side though. The business side is a shit sandwich I really wish I hadn't got into.
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by batou 11y ago
I big chunk of us operate on those side channels already.
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by batou 11y ago
Well we can but you end up with a dead limb and a dead animal. This happens with the plants occasionally too.
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by batou 11y ago
I did this, on a smaller scale. The house I live in was built on an old orchard and we were graced with one of the very few remaining apple trees in the garden. It produces relatively sour apples useful for cider and cooking etc. We think t
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by batou 11y ago
This sounds similar to a reporting system I wrote in about 1999 using Word automation API. It sat on a windows NT box and watched for changes on a netware share. That would load up a text file, read it, parse it and pick documents and fill
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by batou 11y ago
Yep. I decided to take the piss as much as possible. I wanted the income and less hours and demanded it. They said no, so I automated most of my responsibilities and do a 25-30 hour week anyway. I work from home and most of my job is thinki
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by batou 11y ago
Not joking but these are all fads, mostly recycled ideas and nowhere near the leading edge of thought. The moment you hit your mid 30s or ~15 years experience, motivation is driven by two aspects: 1. what hurt you badly in the last 15 years
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by batou 11y ago
I do this on a small scale. Couldn't agree more. It really does bring a lot to your mental health. I'm sitting in the kitchen writing this staring out the window at a nice juicy tomato with my name on it. I'm having it for lu
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by batou 11y ago
No, CQS. CQRS is slightly more complicated and decouples everything via a service bus model along with a massive software ghetto lead by Udi Dahan who I personally despise. An excellent marketer but a poor engineer. I've cleaned up two
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by batou 11y ago
I'm there. I decided one day that it's just a job and found what I really wanted to do. So I'm reading maths and physics now. The joy in my life is actually from taking things to pieces and seeing how they work and there is p
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by batou 11y ago
I agree with this to a point. I just built an API over HTTP, ignored all the REST rules and separated everything into commands and queries. Commands are POST and do something. Queries are GET and get something. I need to write this up. Sche
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by batou 11y ago
I'll try that. Thanks for the tip.
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by batou 11y ago
Sorry to hear this. Thanks for the warning - I'll get my eyes tested next week!
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by batou 11y ago
I'll pass on both of them. Thanks for the info!
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by batou 11y ago
That sounds like it's dangerous so I'd avoid that :-) Thanks for the confidence builder; much appreciated!
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by batou 11y ago
I drink (water) like a fish. Have tried that one for over a year unfortunately :(
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by batou 11y ago
Off topic; does anyone know if there are any services that get rid of floaters? I've got a nasty one right in the middle of my best eye and it is very annoying. Has been there for two years and I haven't got used to it yet.
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by batou 11y ago
It slowly fell behind. I made the mistake of using it for a product pre-MVC. When MVC came along they jumped the shark and we ended up ripping it out and replacing bits with Autofac and some light weight abstractions we put together ourselv
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by batou 11y ago
This is right and wrong. Right because yes there could be a ton more open source solutions out there. Also right because most of them are either shit, commercial or abandonware. This is a big problem. We imported a lot of stuff and found it
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by batou 11y ago
Some organisations won't allow use of a product unless there's a support option. I can understand this after a complete system failure a few years back on an open source unsupported product. I was hired to fix it! :) Mostly though
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by batou 11y ago
Ugh this brings back memories. After spending 1988-92 on ARM stuff (Acorn) I ended up doing something on DOS with assembly, well MASM. x86 was horrible in the 16-bit segmented mode. I finished the job off in Turbo Pascal in the end. To this
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by batou 11y ago
It shouldn't be. They're POSIX focused.
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by batou 11y ago
I'm actually arguing that my RDBMS is no place for a compiler. I want to compile everything externally, test it and then deploy it. Not deploy it, compile it, cross fingers.

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