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by cjsuk 9y ago
I've only met one electrical engineer who ever knew about anything below the typical EE abstraction. Everyone still gets the job done without having a clue. It helps if you're doing RF design or very high frequency stuff and that&
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by cjsuk 9y ago
1. Make it work 2. Make it ... err actually fuck it, let's build a hairball on top of it. That's how it really rolls. You have to think it fast, think it right, then make it work because if you do it the other way round, it never
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Oh wow. I really liked "old yahoo". This is a great thing.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
When I was at university doing programming, we just sat three people to a machine.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I'll give you that :)
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Personally I'd find it irritating, as I do with Google Docs. This is a neat gimmick but I don't think it'll revolutionise anything or end up being the status quo in the future.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Sounds like a good idea. Good luck - you can do it! :)
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by cjsuk 9y ago
It's not really for public consumption because it's embarrassingly badly written :) It's pretty dumb really. Just figured out the search URLs and then parse the list responses. It then stores the auctions/ad IDs it has s
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Using this as well with Requests to automate eBay/gumtree/craigslist. Works very well
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by cjsuk 9y ago
.Net does have two major downsides that kill it for me entirely (as someone who has used it for 15 years now): schizophrenic roadmap and deprecation, immature libraries. The deprecation means you can't rely on the longevity of the vend
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I love trains. As long as I don't have to get on one. Car trains is an idea I could buy.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Rev. Lost his certificate about 15 years ago and can’t remember here :(
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I’ve worked in that sort of environment before. Watch out for senior staff obsessively following certain people promoting bandwagons built on lies, conferences and marketing. Next thing you know you hit a wall that’s metres thick and high.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Exactly that. I have had many bad experiences where unreliable software has fucked production even if it is the current fad and has an arena of consultants and conferences behind it. If you don’t independently test and understand the softwa
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I dig my heels in when new tech drops these days. Been burned too many times. Want to use it? Prove it works. Qualify it properly. Conservative engineering builds better quality products and benefits the user the most.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I do this with Chinese electronic modules. I order a bunch of interesting things and get mailbombed about a month later. $10 spent is hours of fun! Granted most of it is crap but it’s fun finding that out and tutting and shaking my head in
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by cjsuk 9y ago
We're doing the same. I feel like punching myself in the face some days.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I actually found that in the UK at least, you get on twitter and call them thieving bastards repetitively until they are fed up with you and just give you the money to shut up :)
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Probably no worse than what it was subjected to in the production and shipping process.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Sometimes you have to update the people to make the software work. I’ve watched a company’s staff sabotage an ERP system because it made them more accountable.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
This is a very good point. In all the companies I've worked in we've had more UPS outages than line outages as well.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
I've found that the inverse is true. If you are polite, Royal Mail will ignore you. If you call them thieving bastards, you'll have your refund sorted by the end of the day.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
In the UK we can get our money back if the goods don't make it into your hands. It's up to the seller / courier to prove otherwise although it's usually a battle arguing with them. Royal Mail delivered a £560 multimeter
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Happens here in London, UK. Amazon like to leave packages on my doorstep. Stolen every single time. To fix this they appear to have left instructions to "sling it over the back fence" or "jam it in the letterbox and destroy i
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Good advice. We had some serious trouble when .io went down a few weeks back.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Java is fine to be honest. It’s a good solution. Now I’m going to duck for cover!
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Mirror your data onto another provider continuously (log shipping/rsync), Switch DNS. Ansible works for this stuff as it allows you to can the task of “quick get me a production environment up on Linode!” If you can afford some downtim
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by cjsuk 9y ago
Yes and no. What the generator vendor says when they sell you the generator and what actually happens 5 years down the line are two different things.
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by cjsuk 9y ago
A lot of people I know are bailing on .net because it doesn’t live up to the promises. Everyone else gets the cool stuff first, the vendor that owns it is a dick and there has been so much schizophrenia over the last few years that it’s a b
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by cjsuk 9y ago
To be fair people do test generators on a monthly schedule usually. Problem you find is it’s getting colder now so any problems are amplified suddenly. Might have been entirely tested a couple of weeks ago.

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