cmdkeen

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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Google aren't in France in order to better serve up search results - that can be done from anywhere. Google are in France to sell advertising, they are carrying on a business selling services to French companies. One of the big things
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Basecamp went through a massive rewrite, and GitHub went through a long period of (perceived) low pace innovation culminating in "Dear Github". I don't know whether Rails maintenance issues played a part in either of those th
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
But it isn't a single function definition it is the whole API. Deciding that you want to pitch your API at a specific level of abstraction and ensuring that level is consistently maintained across a whole language is hard work. The rec
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There's also the element of unit cost. An anti ballistic missile system can easily be worth spending billions on even if effective against low numbers of weapons thanks to North Korea. An anti RPG system is going to be protecting again
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
So "happy hobbyists" is being used by you now rather than "unemployed hobbyists" which you mentioned in the other thread. I've sat through a workshop by Damian and David on ASP that was full of professional programm
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
And it was a valid Release Candidate, they could have gone live with it. A bigger strategic decision was made to take various concepts from it and apply them to .Net in general not just web specific things. At the same time it gave the ASP
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
What were you using? RC1 came with a go live licence and should not have been having constantly breaking changes. From what you're saying it sounds like you were hooking up to the MyGet streams for the RC2 work which has never been ann
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
It's Read the Docs - you can switch between versions at the bottom left. Plus more generally it is a pre-1.0 product which, while having a go live licence, means it isn't for everyone especially if you're not happy potentiall
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Also it is worth saying that an employee coming to a manager / founder / owner to report a problem "in confidence" is not the same as you not being able to do anything about it. You need to manage that person as well so
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
OK to address those: The micro packages are Microsoft packages which means they'll be testing them thoroughly and independencies between them will be recorded via NuGet. The whole "delete numbers and update" bit makes no sens
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
The data story in general for Core is something they have repeatedly said is going to be worked on incrementally. Entity Framework Core is explicitly being sold as a "use only if you have to run on Linux/Mac" otherwise stick
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Not all parts of a deployment can be automated in every case. I've helped craft a checklist we use on our releases based on lessons learned over several years, an awful lot of it is about communication to end users / other teams.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Oh to be using SQL Server. Big old Oracle databases with lots of big packages and inter-related tables equals an impact analysis fun zone. If your release script doesn't measure in the tens of thousands of lines then you're living
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Very few people bat an eyelid because the upcoming election is a guaranteed SNP win, and they aren't planning on raising taxes - despite claiming to be a more progressive party. If Scotland was really keen for tax rises the SNP would i
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Well the website you link to has several different calculations for £5 1300 in modern money. The "real price" is £3,534 but the "labour earnings" is £69,140 which would certainly enable you rent/buy a property in Yo
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
I write software in-house for a company that does other things. The company has a strategy of bespoke software rather than using the industry standard software in order to get a competitive advantage (i.e. we can do things our competitors c
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
I'd say a majority of those who graduated my CS class 6.5 years ago now own their own home, and that's in the UK where devs aren't as relatively well paid and house prices are high. There are plenty of good employers out ther
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
"The first round had four interviewers in the room. It was an open-ended discussion about me, my accomplishments, my projects. To be honest, I was not prepared for this interview format, so my presentation was probably all over the pla
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
A man who has not been a socialist before 25 has no heart. If he remains one after 25 he has no head. — King Oscar II of Sweden Whilst that's a variant of an older quote there is generally an expectation that 19/20 year olds are g
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Yes both in terms of degree and scale. In my mind the CIA's actions are morally indefensible but still pale in comparison to what those organisations got up to. Even if you throw in the FBI in its darkest days under Hoover you don&#x27
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Good luck getting legal to approve the contract that comes with the simple price, or billing to pay the simple price without a purchase order being raised etc etc. I agree with you on the small end of the spectrum - but there is a reason ma
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
An example of a law written with the (gender neutral) victim's interest in mind is that of statutory rape - you can contain all the consent you like but if the person is not viewed as being able to give it then an offence is committed.
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
The justice system is unfair in that it requires "proof beyond reasonable doubt" or similar. Two wrongs don't make a right - if rape has occurred then it cannot be undone, but the potential miscarriage of justice has yet to o
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
20 years in the same fund / strategy is generally a poor strategy, especially for retirement savings. That said investing for 20 years plus Early on your appetite for risk should be much higher but as you get nearer to your end point (
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Typo in the parent - their Sovereign Wealth fund has assets of ~$700 billion. Though they've been using it heavily to prop up state spending with the collapse in the oil price and war in Yemen.
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I'm surprised Dan Wagner was being so upbeat about things in the immediate leadup given the UK's "trading whilst insolvent" ability to go after directors. A £25m a year salary bill and £200k in the bank sounds rather clo
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by cmdkeen 10y ago
Jacket pockets - for those of us in countries where the temperature goes low enough. I spend most of the year wearing some form of clothing that has a pocket that comfortably carries a Kindle - I don't have to specifically shop for the
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Sweden is at best Social Democratic, and not all of its political parties subscribe to that. It certainly hasn't been through mass nationalisations of industry or utilities. Socialism is the workers controlling the means of production,
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Indeed - their website http://www.mapeley.com/OurApproach/Customers/HMRC.aspx The key thing is HMRC sold their properties off and then paid rent to stay there - rightly or wrongly that was the craze for a while. T
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Looks like I was led astray by a newspaper article today, thanks for the correction. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/04/kim-philby-was-a-...

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