blackbeard

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by blackbeard 11y ago
.Net 50-60k. We have a billion applicants but they're all shit.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
FFS. I think they have no idea how few people we can get locally in London who don't need a visa...
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Ok you're lucky to be on Azure PaaS!
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by blackbeard 11y ago
That works for simple deployments but when you start having to deal with signing, licensed components and stuff like ours (55 deployable packages) then it gets hairy. Also managing windows infrastructure is hell.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
You're 100% right about discipline. I work for a very undisciplined and border-line incompetent company that decided to roll out a microservices architecture, continuous delivery and devops culture into a behemoth enterprise product. T
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Possibly but you can get unlocked handsets with monthly payments from giffgaff for example. Or you can just save up like we used to have to do. Or sling it on a credit card like its 1990 again...
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by blackbeard 11y ago
I use a Lumia 640. Paid £105 for it on a deal day. Never had a problem with apps; most of what I do is built in. Only use HERE drive and adobe reader. That and giffgaff £15/month gives me 4Gb of 4G tethering, 1000 mins and free texts.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Just buy your handset from amazon and use a SIM only deal. Don't have to go out then :)
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by blackbeard 11y ago
....going forth and only because the ICO fined their arses.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
We gave greasy cafes in the UK. They are the equivalent. I used to get breakfast every Thursday with a one legged motorcycle courier (still have no idea how that worked) who fought in the gulf war, an HSBC executive and a fishmonger. I mis
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by blackbeard 11y ago
You should pass a test to transmit but there's a ton of pirate activity out there. I have some respect for rule breakers on that front because the barrier to breaking the rules is pretty high. If I had the inclination I'd build
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Working smart is letting someone else take the risks and work less. If you're taking risks or working more something is broken. Sipping cold water in the garden with my feet in an inflatable swimming pool and my face in a book sending
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Yes 100% this. This sounds like my mother. She followed every nutritional fad that appeared on the table. I can remember nothing but horrors for dinner for the best part of 10 years of my life. She was scared of eating things in case it aff
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by blackbeard 11y ago
What you're asking demands science in a field of marketing, journalism and baseless opinion. Good luck. Then there's the almost cult-like religious aspects of fad diets to consider which almost drive the above. Ugh.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
This is why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFr5T85F9Zw
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Yep that's about it! :)
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by blackbeard 11y ago
My wife has a phobia of snakes and worms. This isn't going well for my Model X sales pitch to her...
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by blackbeard 11y ago
It appears their strategy is now "embrace everything" .
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by blackbeard 11y ago
That sort of design scares me. I've got a circa 2010 lenovo X201 and a keyboard replacement on that is a 5 minute job max and costs $20 and it's all a small philips driver (I use a swiss army knife). I'm on my third keyboard.
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Yes definitely. I have a floor lamp from them as well and the metal was so thin it folded the first time it was moved so now it's a metal and duct tape lamp :)
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by blackbeard 11y ago
I've stopped buying IKEA products for this reason. They are never durable. The unit surfaces get pitted and discoloured easily and things warp over time. It's crap basically. I have to replace it all every 4-5 years. The last cycl
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Good question but not necessarily. I worked for a company who did this with SQL CE in the integration environment and normal SQL server in production with NHibernate as an ORM. Turns out there are some subtle differences that can creep thro
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by blackbeard 11y ago
They have made at least two attempts to do that in the past as well with dropping the cheap versions of visual c# 2003 and then trying to yank the desktop version of visual studio 2013 express so a fair observation. Plus I think you have to
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by blackbeard 11y ago
It's more that my customers are using it so I have to meet them half way. If I have a greenfield, I'll probably do it in tcl/tk or python/wx but I'm stick maintaining old win32 and winforms stuff for people. My win3
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by blackbeard 11y ago
Windows is not really open, has never has been and never will be. In fact it is getting worse. There's always a black box at the bottom of every stack trace, a secret in every corner and a cost to every solution be it time or money. Us
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by blackbeard 11y ago
First post here. I've been lurking for a few months. So, hello. I'm ashamed of myself for exactly this reason. It's no better than smoking. I know it's not good for me but I keep doing it out of apathy and convenience. I