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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Cutting the jobs is very doable, the UK shed hundreds of thousands of public sector employees over the past 5 years. The concerns I have are: a) a ratchet effect along the lines of state pensions where the basic income keeps being put up in
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Especially as many of these individuals are recent graduates so likely have student loans, won't have had any time to save, are on the other side of the country from any previous support networks etc. There's also the potential, o
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Small team constantly frazzled by being on call in an abusive working environment - no wonder they're writing unstable software. I'd far rather get 30 hours of productive coding out of a rested, happy and motivated employee than 6
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
> just move on and get a different job if you dislike it Because they tie you in with money - your signing bonus and relocation expenses have to be partially repaid if you leave within the first two years. An interesting question on the
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
If Sweden was such a terrible place for Assange to be why did apply for a work permit there? Why did he leave and go the UK, after all a nation with far closer ties to the US? Onward extradition would have been far more complicated via Swed
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
It would be rather helpful if you sourced your quotes. The Queen's Bench ruling (which does contain the apposite phrase in para 71) in http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_11_11_assang
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Except the Swedish appeal courts have had several opportunities to review the warrant, and whilst they have reduced the severity of the allegations in 2010 they upheld it. Again in 2014 Assange went to the Swedish courts to try and get the
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Except many of the claims his supporters make, including in this thread, are that what he allegedly did aren't actually crimes. The UK court system has repeatedly held that they are analogous to UK sexual offences. Others have argued t
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Well he became afraid of extradition conveniently at the point at which he was facing extradition. Before then he was quite happy to spend lots of time in the West apparently unconcerned by the threat. Something that is often left out... Th
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
And they did when the time bar was about to approach. At that point Ecuador conveniently starts causing problems, quite why the Swedes would lie about Ecuador's demands when they could have just waited for the time bar to expire doesn&
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
That Sweden recognise his asylum claim in Ecuador as valid, which the Swedish prosecutor does not have the legal authority to do. There is a good writeup from a British legal blogger at http://jackofkent.com/2015/08&#x2
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Except "willing to carry pagers" is currently the basis of employment at Amazon, and not just for AWS but for whole chunks of their technical business. It's one of the many reasons why they have a pretty dire reputation (see
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
And then along came Japan with Kaizen and demonstrated that assembly line employees can be used to add value. Japan is probably a very interesting case study in employer / employee loyalty. I'm sure patio11 could have plenty to ad
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Loyalty is not an anathema to a non trivial company, but it needs to be a core value practised across the board not just in part of the firm. It's just like altruism has been shown to be a benefit in natural selection (somewhat counter
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
It needs to be made clear that the decision making process also did not know about the "good" Czechoslovakia of the 1980s, it knew about the brutality of the Spanish Civil War and Soviet Purges, mass starvation of Ukraine. Stalin
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
No. It's perfectly possible to create queries via an ORM which work with one database engine but fail in another - whilst not SQLite and Postgres I've managed to do this several times with Entity Framework and Oracle trying to use
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The developers we hire in their 40s don't all have degrees, but what they do have is relevant experience. Now that relevance may be domain knowledge in the industry, or it might be experience with particular part of our stack - the c
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
There was a documentary a while ago about the building of the QE2 in Scotland in the mid 60s. One of the former trade union leaders interviewed remarked that in hindsight the giveaway that things for the UK shipbuilding industry was going t
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Why would anyone ever want debt? To help start building a credit history so that if/when you do want to borrow more for some reason you've already established a history of successfully repaying debt. Plus don't forget that th
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
This. Database impact analysis is painful enough without a developer assuming 5 years ago that their table was so obvious it didn't need a comment.
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
I work with Oracle these days, or the ... might contain it - but is it not also missing a NOT NULL constraint? Documentation that conflicts with the DDL makes for an easy code review at least. I look at it more like an interface specificati
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
I agree that normally code should be clear and obvious and require little in the way of comments. The difference is that tables aren't code. I work with a large Oracle DB which has a mixed attitude towards column comments. You don&#x27
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Well there is a school of thought that says the only "new" feedback you should be getting in your annual review is very recent feedback. Negative, constructive of course, should be being brought up earlier in the year in order to
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The significant word there is student. CS departments started using Java for an awful lot of teaching. I would wager that plenty of those "hard" OSS projects have a genesis in academia, and even if not that Java became a sort of l
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Rubbish - there would be a video of them on a test track. Much like all the videos proving quite how fast the cars can go. You don't drive a McLaren F1 at 240mph on the Interstate and post it to Wired expecting to get away with it...
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
It can be both, security researchers don't get a free pass just because they are exposing a wrong. Had someone died you might (in countries which have it) get corporate manslaughter on a company that ignored security warnings. You abso
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Alternatively writing web apps using Knockout seems so much nicer than WinForms and INotifyPropertyChanged hell. Maybe WPF solves this, but I wouldn't want to go back.
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
If you're using a typed server language, or can get typed API definitions you can get through stack compile time safety. Writing an ASP.Net MVC application using Entity Framework I can now have a DB change go into my C# and then into T
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Look at Microsoft receiving multi million dollar payments for continued XP support, there's the potential for more support revenue by announcing the intention to EOL.
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
To slightly adjust a British military saying, you need to remember your irregular verb "to leak": The soldier commits a Federal crime. The junior officer displays a marked lack of integrity. The senior officer delivers an off the

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