chewyfruitloop

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by chewyfruitloop 11mo ago
muds were the only way we could get games on the university network back in the 90s the mud of choice back then was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GodWars
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by chewyfruitloop 4y ago
It may be work sometime in the future, but having to prefix every query with a null check sounds bonkers. A view can be optimised to do all that for you. I made the what the flip expression reading that they did a prefix on everything.
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by chewyfruitloop 5y ago
SAFe seems to be a pyramid scheme to get you to pay for the latest SAFe badge its overly complex and seems to be there to make management feel better about itself
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by chewyfruitloop 5y ago
normally I'd define it as something found in the wild being exploited already ... not a bug thats been found, reported and "ignored" this seems to be a zero day just because Apple haven't seen fit to respond the the repo
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by chewyfruitloop 5y ago
0-day ... what they mean is .... I found an issue. Its hardly a 0-day, they've not posted any evidence of it actually being used in the wild, just that "it can be used". Why is a normal "ooh look a bug or two" all
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by chewyfruitloop 5y ago
Probably better than a huge lump of vibrating plastic plummeting out of the sky at them
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by chewyfruitloop 6y ago
we have this thrust on us ... we get pull requests for point release updates but it misses entire versions it decides that packages that have legitimately been forked by a manufacturer should be replaced by the original package because it h
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by chewyfruitloop 7y ago
My house is on land that’s on a 999 year lease since 1870(ish) from the county that moved boundaries 40 years ago...and we have no idea who the the lease holder is... so that’s fairly perpetual
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by chewyfruitloop 8y ago
I used to work for a large US corp that called us all professional developers, just so they don’t have to pay overtime... professional grades don’t get overtime
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by chewyfruitloop 8y ago
I used to remote work in my old job... now I have a commute of at least an hour... and it’s only 17 miles :(
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by chewyfruitloop 9y ago
I'm not sure you got the entire impression of what was going on in the early 90's and late 80's then. There was a massive scene in the Amiga and Atari ST market.... over here we also had the Spectrum and Amstrad things in th
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by chewyfruitloop 9y ago
Yeh $1500 computers.... you where looking at the wrong thing. Everyone else was looking at the not Microsoft market... commadore, Atari etc. I bought my first computer with Christmas money when I was about 10 for under £100 in the mid 80&#
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
i was going to post a comment along the lines of... and once again everyone has to have perfect colour vision.... what is it with these "experts" that think the way they see things is correct? ever met someone with less than perfe
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
...isn't that the standard order size for a week in the states :p
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
not sure ... was it the time I deleted the table space containing the unbanked transactions for a local council which was about £1 million (I did a very hasty recovery) or when i accidentally deleted the table space of the last 3 years data
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
If you find a feature nobody has used for the last 6 months... and its to do with some long term calculations... probably safe to say they use it annually. We have the end of year reports that generally kill the database when people try to
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
i feel the obligatory insensitive clod response to be appropriate to this post.... or is that to slashdot for hacker news?
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
i work for a large US corporation, and also did in my last job (i'm in the UK) .... it seems to be a general thing to forget the US is not the only place people live in the world ... the majority of memo's we get spammed with are
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
nothing like a nice honest bit of gerrymandering
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
I've found that those in charge also have a budget to run you on... how do they justify you spending x hours updating code to do exactly 0 as far as anyone is concerned? ..plus all the regression testing? They just don't... it ge
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
We have 2 apps that are used for the same thing.... the original one and the rewritten one. The rewritten one was coded up in C# over 3 years and isn't anywhere near as robust as the original one. The original one was written in VB3 ci
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
>The process is fine, but sometimes shit is broken and you need to fix it now and clean up the existing mess later. when did you ever get to this land of milk and honey called later? whenever you have a jfdi because its broken, the way i
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
... or whoever wrote the code should have put boundary checks in to make sure a negative altitude was caught and handled properly
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
that early is fine if you don't have kids... or have kids who start school at some stupid time like 7am.... my kids don't start school until 8:50... so starting before 9 is completely unrealistic unless i get a massive pay rise to
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
nothing motivates people like having their exact hours monitored
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
i think your right... sounds like absolute bs brewed in the finest dung pile of clock watching excel pushing loonies. everyone can be autonomous when we tell them they can be, and only then.... I don't start until 9:30 and work until
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
I've been code reviewing everything for my entire team for about 6 weeks. The idea being that we have some kind of quality control on the stuff being developed. We're using TFS to ask for reviews, which actually works really well.
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by chewyfruitloop 10y ago
hummm.... i wonder why jersey and gurnsey have 1 different in their numbers... considering they're both channel islands... thats a fairly odd chart
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by chewyfruitloop 11y ago
Enterprise applications moved to Java on purpose to lose the issues that memory management causes. In my last job I first came in contact with people who had never had to do any type of memory management, that was only 8 years ago (that guy
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by chewyfruitloop 11y ago
I worked at a place ~10 years ago that had full PCI certification, you only have to be compliant if your the one doing the processing. We had loads of 3rd party clients using one of the customer facing applications that's stored the c

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