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by cmdkeen 12y ago
That's just rubbish. US bombing missions were not in any way targetted strikes compared to the UK's night raids. Have a look at what was achieved by the British pathfinder system guiding first Mosquitos then specialist heavy bombe
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Quite the opposite. Tanks were a decidedly underwhelming weapon due to the initial use being squandered by the British - though it was part of the push to relieve pressure on Verdun and thus keep France in the war. The real lesson from tank
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Armed Response Vehicles (ARVs) are the mainstay of British armed policing, outside of London they are pretty rare and often fall back to traffic policing duties. The qualfiied officers are Authorised Firearms Officers who will also stand up
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's interesting that the potential UN peacekeeping use of private military contractors is mentioned given that is pretty much what happens anyway. Many UN peacekeeping operations are carried out by nations which are reimbursed by the
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
In the military if you want kill (not murder) everyone in a room you use a fragmentation grenade generally. Flashbangs are for when you might want to leave some of the people inside the room alive, either to capture or because they might be
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
As a former UK police officer I can assure you that if armed police officers came across someone with a drawn knife at least one firearm would be aimed at them. One of my officer safety trainers was a qualified close protection officer (i.e
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
This is like the 100th boom busy cycle in the stock market and each boom has been bigger than the last. Why not invest in equities? Because past performance is not an indication of future performance, and because you don't know when th
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Alternatively, and without your unsubstantiated knocking of Microsoft, perhaps they were needing to conduct serious regression testing. This isn't the "unit tests pass, whack it into production" leagues after all. Plus there&
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
What about the people hit by the breach in the following 48 hours after the vulnerability is announced? Especially when attackers know they have a short window of opportunity before patch Tuesday hits. Microsoft do issue out of band updates
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
For a rather asymmetric alternative Gibraltar is a fascinating visit. The tunnels are amazing, they're still rediscovering parts, not surprising given there are more miles of tunnel in the Rock than there are miles of road on the surfa
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
I grew up hating M$, plus I'm British so we get the whole EU anti-trust thing to boot. But over the past few years Microsoft has made huge strides, especially the work the two Scotts have put in. Huge amounts of source code open source
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
More than that the Community Edition keeps getting more fully featured. To the point where for the average indie developer there isn't that much difference, especially compared to the intro paid edition. Plus with Bizspark you get 3 Ul
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's also worth pointing to Tuckman's "forming, storming, norming and performing" stages of group development. The example you describe is an institutional level of norming. During the performing stage, which many teams
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
If #1 was a concern they wouldn't be pushing AtScript. Angular has already conceded that extra build steps are a good thing, so why not add JSX into the mix as well.
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
The other big thing, as a Knockout user, is the massive difference between observables and Angular's digest cycle. Choosing a slightly cleaner syntax over having a dependency graph strikes me as an absolute folly - and leads to bind on
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
In my (albeit limited) experience with Angular the level of complexity is much greater than say using something like Knockout for data binding only. Not everyone wants to build an SPA and make use of $http. Also not everyone is currently ha
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Certainly at ng-europe AtScript was being touted as the way you should be writing Angular 2.0 As a massive fan of Typescript I'm not convinced it is actually that much of a problem. But when you see the JS you have to write to achieve
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Drunk driving has become a huge social stigma in the UK over the past few decades. People will report drunk drivers, even their friends and relatives, as they see it is a social good. They still exist but the incidence of it has deceased ra
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's not shared. It replaces single lane roads where you overtake into oncoming traffic. Driving is one of those things that lots of people thing they are better than average at. This removes drivers having to judge when it is safe to
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
This rant (not by me) explains why[1]. PHP is full of gotchas, things that make security hard, and areas that are likely to break and be really hard to debug. There's definitely scope out there for a better effort to be made addressing
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Why do we cooperate though? Internet Explorer didn't get better through cooperation, despite having a big team, until there was competition. The Space Race was competitive with the Soviets. Cooperation isn't the inverse of shortcu
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
There's a big difference between a system for submitting and collating issues. You want to be really flexible with inputs on this kind of thing, and specifically to allow anonymous (which means non-electronic) means. Free form text is
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
"the claim that the single metric that matters in software is how easy it is to change" Not if you have actual business people that you work for, then you're delivery ratio (things achieved per person/unit of time) is ke
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
The Guardian like to run these stories about how terrible competition is without acknowledging that no other system in reality actually fixes the problem, no-one is actually ruled by philosopher kings. IT security is notoriously bad in many
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
And that another country could attract those 95% and do great things with them. Several European countries are keen to do so, and with access to the EU's pool of citizens it would be a great place to try and a new tech hub from. Sadly
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It was the same thing that won the battle on land. Napoleon, a artillery officer by training, was ultimately defeated by Wellington's infantry firing fast enough to destroy the French columns. The allies at Waterloo were willing to sta
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Napoleon didn't tear down the ancien regime, he was still a very junior officer when that happened. If anything he turned a Republic back into an Empire.
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Napoleon complained of "Pitt's gold" that Britain sent to the continental states in the coalitions. But there were 7 coalitions in total - Napoleon kept defeating them on land, so Britain couldn't rely on them. I'm
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Napoleon had many of the same advantages as with the War of Independence, once France and Spain were allied he had a naval numerical advantage and at many points an isolated Britain. Even the revolutionary French and Spanish Navies had show
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
You mean Marxist-Leninists, Marxism in and of itself doesn't require violent revolution. The real irony is that if governments are rational actors, and power is in their best interest, then the Leninist insistence on the need for prole

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