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901.
by baz00 3y ago
The funny thing is the last thing I did code generation for just generated classes which inherited abstract base classes. Then we had to inherit the generated code to extend it. It massively increased the complexity. Then someone came along
902.
by baz00 3y ago
I mostly had my kids because I was drunk.
903.
by baz00 3y ago
You kids sitting there. All you do is change your EC2 instance size and restart it. Back in my day I had to go and install the RAM by hand. And you know 128Mb of RAM then took up a whole suitcase and weighed more than your laptop The I fa
904.
by baz00 3y ago
This is my retirement plan.
905.
by baz00 3y ago
This is where I am heading. The article is motivating me to change that.
906.
by baz00 3y ago
It takes longer than 12 weeks to start the Jenkins server!
907.
by baz00 3y ago
Depends. Most of the stuff would have an RTOS in the hardware interface and a windows GUI.
908.
by baz00 3y ago
Linus does really well with the kernel ABI and API but the problem is really with literally everything else. It's usually impossible to get something to even compile that's more than a few years old let alone run an old binary.
909.
by baz00 3y ago
If you want LTS, target Windows. I have stuff I wrote on NT4 that still runs today. Linux and macos can't get near that.
910.
by baz00 3y ago
I think the thing is that no one in the industry gives much of a crap if it's open source or not. Most of the EDA users out there are on Windows so there is no reason to ship source for that platform either. The end users only care abo
911.
by baz00 3y ago
Same. It'd hose the whole X stack sometimes. That's how I learned about STOP+A.
912.
by baz00 3y ago
Interesring study but I'd rather wear polyester either way because it doesn't grind bits of you off when it gets soaked with sweat.
913.
by baz00 3y ago
It's really easy. The problem they have is finding technically competent people in the desired budget.
914.
by baz00 3y ago
Finding technically competent people is easy. Finding people who continue to give a fuck the moment their trial period is over is difficult.
915.
by baz00 3y ago
I think you misjudge the situation. And I'm not that manager. If there's an enabler I'll help you get it out and keep the politics away from you. That's my job. But most stuff out there isn't moonshot project work
916.
by baz00 3y ago
That is exactly the problem. Business assumes highly technical people are fungible. They are not. There are very few highly competent people on the market. Not enough to cover realistic requirements for business. So they hire anyone who mak
917.
by baz00 3y ago
As a manager we like people who actually build a house out of something other than shit and straw as we have to present that to people who don't like us and we just want a peaceful life too. So keep it simple, quality and don't ge
918.
by baz00 3y ago
A finding I had when I took a management role was that it's really hard actually getting anyone to do a good job of something. This is utterly frustrating. So many people actually don't give a fuck if what they do works or is of
919.
by baz00 3y ago
Cursed with the two shittiest UK organisations in existence there. Having dealt with Virgin Media and Thames Water for years they are quite frankly abhorrent even if you don't have a disability. From piss and rubbish filled street junc
920.
by baz00 3y ago
Like all technology which is conceptually indistinguishable from marketing materials, hold off on any judgement until it's reproduced and commercialised. At best so far from my understanding, this is a new starting point and milestone
921.
by baz00 3y ago
I'm not surprised at seeing this. Most of my electronics "purchases" in the 80s to 00s were perfectly good discarded things just thrown out on the street because they were inconvenient or someone bought something shinier. I e
922.
by baz00 3y ago
We get this on a much lower scale. We have to maintain many forks because no one is responsive on taking patches.
923.
by baz00 3y ago
This is terrible. Instinct cannot be trusted. Write it down.
924.
by baz00 3y ago
1. Difficult to reason how it came to a conclusion which is required for evidencing spending. 2. Cost
925.
by baz00 3y ago
Yes this. 25 years ago we had a big engineering management system and ran statistical analysis on assembly level MTTF and MTTR. This analysis would be fed back into maintenance scheduling and recall notification. Result interpretation after
926.
by baz00 3y ago
I don't think it's the same. It's more the assumption that stuff is going to keep working forever. A lot of us have been around long enough to see the change. Many haven't. Their first email address may have been a gmail
927.
by baz00 3y ago
I would agree but it's best to boil the frog slowly I find. One divorce was enough here ;). I've just got her to back up her stuff onto OneDrive and an external disk so if she's hacked or the house burns down then she's
928.
by baz00 3y ago
Well that's exactly it. Her entire professional life is also tied to a free Gmail account she refuses to pay for too.
929.
by baz00 3y ago
Github has some very dangerous features when it comes to tagging and mentions. For example, when you add someone to an organisation, it autocompletes the username. We had someone with a fairly common name and accidentally added someone else
930.
by baz00 3y ago
The problem here is that most people don't give a crap. I was explaining this situation to my girlfriend last night over a drink. She's a high level academic with a strong mathematical and logical background in a different field b

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