cmdkeen

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by cmdkeen 10y ago
IT people try and "trip you up" because we've been burnt so many times in the past with systems that don't do what is promised by the sales people, don't integrate well and who stiff you during the implementation ph
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Retirement at 50 is not the way to solve the risk of ageing bodies on physically demanding jobs. 30 years of fire/policing experience is perfect for training, fire prevention, home / business security advice, more administrative r
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Extended warranties are a massive profit source, hence why salespeople are pushed so heavily to upsell them. It is not the case that the $X charged for the warranty is the amount the price would need to rise by if the warranty had to be inc
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
On the more corporate end of the market in Edinburgh there is a definite shortage of tech talent. Pay isn't at American levels but Edinburgh is the best city in the UK in terms of average disposable income - an average £800 per month c
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
"If you're the smartest person in the room, find another room". Especially if you're at all early on in your career when you should be learning all sorts of things from the battle scarred veterans.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
From the way I read it he is a contractor hired for a specific project - in which case there is an expectation that he will leave at some point. There's also a couple of serious red flags in describing a contract as "In my contrac
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Scotland also isn't cosmopolitan, certainly not on the scale of London. It hasn't had anything close to the scale of immigration that other parts of the UK have had. It has deep seated issues with sectarianism rather than race. Th
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
A scrimmage in a Border Station- A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. As Kipling put it the last time we were in that part of the world. The Western militarys spend the $80,000 because
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
That's the thing about Parliament being Sovereign it could pass an Act saying "notwithstanding the Fixed Term Parliament Act the next election is on X" and call an election. It could also just repeal the Fixed Term Act.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Mrs May has a 14 point lead in the polls and justification to call an election were Parliament to block Article 50. Given the current state of the opposition, their leader, and the fact that many Labour seats voted Leave it is a pretty safe
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
From some of the management training I've sat through money is a poor motivator but a really powerful demotivator. If I give you a pay rise you very quickly come to see yourself as "worth" that amount of money and so any boos
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
They changed that up with the new fortification mechanic where only some provinces have forts and they block hostile movement through adjacent provinces. It had some pretty major gameplay ramifications.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
It changed during the pre-1.0 era when the team were very clear about the potential for changes. The big changes were made with plenty of notice and short term backwards compatibility baked in. MVC 5 is still there and still being supported
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Firstly D-notices are only advisory, while the media tend to comply with them they are in no way legally enforceable. Secondly central London has rather good wifi and 4G coverage. Presumably the "appropriate contingency plans" are
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
It is also worth pointing out that the UK has to give permission for onwards extradition from Sweden to the US if a request were to be made. If the ultimate game plan for the US was to engineer his extradition it seems a little odd to not h
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
If he is guilty he also has every reason to avoid extradition - there are plenty of possible motivations. Regardless of what he believes criminal complaints have been made and demonstrated, to the satisfaction of the highest court in the UK
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
For crying out loud. He went to the UK Supreme Court arguing that he shouldn't have to face extradition and that the crimes he was accused of weren't crimes in the UK and didn't warrant extradition. The Supreme Court disagree
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Some debt is also a good thing for a country to operate - it's populace, especially their pension schemes, will want to buy government bonds.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
What you also have to appreciate is that the fee scales you mention are for you investing $10,000 with an active manager. If you're investing billions you won't be paying anything close to that. If you have the world's larges
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
If we want to provide Government services via the internet, which is far cheaper than other forms of delivery, then a setup that doesn't ignore 0.9% of your user base who can't run JS is worthwhile. They should also be caring abou
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Unfinished because they essentially announced Angular 2 as the "we got the first so wrong we're throwing away huge chunks". It literally got announced with gravestone images and tolling bells for various features. As web devs
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Are "cops" prepared for handling multi-million dollar frauds in general? The people reporting this sort of activity aren't wandering into their local police station, they will have the right contacts with the right parts of t
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
The Newman book is worth a read - I'm going through it at the moment and a lot is applicable to SOA as well. Microservices is partially a re-branding exercise to take the massive space SOA covers and talk about a more specific definiti
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
I know it is a bit tongue in cheek but if you're working somewhere where Data Segregation can be solved by "a simple cascading delete" you aren't operating anywhere close to where any service architecture is relevant.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
The DPRK can be thought of as rational in that they follow reason and logic, it may not be the same reason and logic that other world leaders and states follow but that doesn't mean that it isn't there and isn't possible for
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
You don't buy them for when they work. You buy them for when it goes wrong. At that point EMC type firms will throw engineers at the problem and provide plenty of relationship managers to help you keep your job (sorry, assist in ensuri
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
It supports UWP development. The .Net Framework isn't going anywhere though, if you're doing Windows desktop development in a legacy framework then you don't need the cross platform-ness of Core.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
It isn't replacing IIS, and they're very clear that you almost certainly shouldn't be exposing Kestrel to the internet without going through something like nginx or IIS. Kestrel does the bare basics of a web server, it goes a
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
This is my life. Replacing software that was written a decade+ ago so that the software has become the process. Users find is down right difficult to think in terms of what is going on a business process rather than the steps they have to d
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
In England and Wales all the air ambulances are charities, though receiving government funds. Much like the lifeboat provision by the RNLI it is a story of very different service provision than a purely state run institution would provide.

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