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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Because part of being open is being accessible. "It was on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard." Linux is difficult to use for the kind
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The UK's approach is generally to have "gardening leave" - if you want to be able to ensure I can't work for a competitor for 6 months after leaving you agree to pay me my full salary for 6 months after I leave in return
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Except you don't have to take the lowest bidder but the best. In this instance the Scottish Government desperately wanted to not take the Anglian Water bid - if they could have pointed out the bid was infeasibly low, or that Anglian ha
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The UK also has a partially privatised water system. When it first happened it was highly controversial, especially regional price disparities. Now years later there's an interesting political storm in Scotland which has retained a pub
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
That was acutely tied up in consequences for politicians and regulators - and as Flint is showing the one thing political turkeys don't vote for is Christmas jailtime for themselves. The Federal Government actively encouraged the mortg
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Except this specific thread is all about how the municipal system is failing because either the populace won't vote for investment or higher political bodies block it. In that case privatisation can work because it removes short term p
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Here's the kicker - the UK's permission would be needed if Sweden went on to consider extraditing to the US http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19426382 It's because we're still vicariously liabl
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
"Then he would certainly be extradited to the USA" Now you're the one using absolutes that no-one can be certain of. One of the key points about the whole process is that Sweden can't pre-emptively say what they would do
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Probably because at every stage where a court has looked into the issue they have crushed him. The UK Supreme Court's ruling was very clear on the matter and did him no favours in terms of public opinion. Taking to the ECHR and losing
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The Russians don't rely as much combat air support - they do not care about the cluster munition bans at all making the US seem positively humanitarian. They'll remove entire map grid squares with artillery. The Russian army has a
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
I think this is more important than just diversity in tech (and that is important) - and I'm a relatively recent convert to caring. We all, even founders, benefit from diversity of founders. If start-ups predominantly get started by si
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Ask the populace of Ukraine what modern warfare looks like, because the US and its allies haven't been fighting any modern wars for a while. Russia and China haven't stood still over the past 15 years while we've been otherwi
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
You can use https://report-uri.io/ to capture violation reports.
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Interestingly the new P8 Poseidon doesn't have Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) equipment on the US variant, though the Indian one has had it fitted. You need to fly low for it to work which is less efficient for the jet powered P8 com
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
There's also the whole concept of feudalism to throw into the mix. Longbows were cheap so you could require your peasantry to own and practice them - or at least for a community to supply X archers per Y population. Knights are signifi
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The wreck of the Mary Rose has provided numerous well preserved skeletons of well trained longbowmen, and sailors (for comparison) and allowed studies of the effect upon their body. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
I think the big problem with isomorphism is that there's a fundamental disconnect between the lifetimes of front and back end systems. Well written back end code (hell, badly written back end code) could be left running for decades wit
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
ASP (i.e. ASP Classic) is 90s though, and plenty of its legacy lives on for instance in the ASP.NET Request object. ASP Core isn't going to be able to do "a few tricks" when it's released, it's going to be productio
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
"A small built in webserver" is exactly what ASP Core now gives you. ASP.NET was never previously about providing that, and it wasn't a thing until fairly recently. Now with Kestrel you only need a handful of lines of code to
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
dotnet is replacing dnx/dnu - the dnx concept impressed and so has been more widely adopted within the .Net chain. Having had a play with the RC2 CI build it is considerably more streamlined than ASP 4.X development. I'm really lo
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
"The owner of the company I work for approached me in the car park and asked me to dinner, it made me feel incredibly uncomfortable and I felt my career depending upon saying yes" "The owner of the company I work for approach
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Again there's a specific issue about power imbalances. A colleague says some things you don't like it is quite easy to ask them to refrain. With a manager that may not be the case, especially if you're new to the world of wor
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Unwanted sexual advances "from a superior" is the bit that makes it harassment. You can ask out a co-worker but you don't ask out people where there is a power imbalance in the relationship, it's not rocket science.
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Folk mythology isn't always based on underlying facts. Thatcher wasn't perfect but the decline in British manufacturing and mining had been happening long before - the graph of employment in British manufacturing is essentially a
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Has anyone built a decentralized, egalitarian system on any foundation? Call be cynical but at some point you run into human nature, and we're not fundamentally decentralising or egalitarian.
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
This is all tied up in the Scottish independence debate, a "once in a generation vote" which is set to be replayed in the next few years because the "wrong" outcome happened. The economic argument for independence has co
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
Yep - he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal which was the other ranks version of the Distinguished Service Cross which Lt Cdr Balme was awarded. The Daily Telegraph usually does good obituaries: http://www.telegraph.co.
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
I agree with that assessment except for "the product owner should be the project manager". I do internal dev so product owners are from the business and know the problem domain and (with our help) know what they want. It's go
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
The crunch approach to sprints is the killer. If you know you can't complete all the work in a sprint the answer should not be to bust yourself to try and complete it. Have a conversation with yourselves and the product owner to readdr
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by cmdkeen 11y ago
If you can't keep a backlog stable for a few weeks then you aren't doing project work you're on support or firefighting. Scrum is all about IT project work, Kanban is a more general "efficiently get a pile of tasks done&

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