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by ellen364 4y ago
Demographers sometimes describe age as “the number of completed years”, which always struck me as a wonderfully simple explanation.
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Sony could face £5bn in legal claims over Playstation game charges(theguardian.com)
21 points by ellen364 4y ago|2 comments
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NHS [UK National Health Service] 111 software outage confirmed as cyber-attack(bbc.co.uk)
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Gigabit broadband: how to follow the UK national roll-out(commonslibrary.parliament.uk)
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Neopets data breach exposes personal data of 69M members(bleepingcomputer.com)
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Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum(theregister.com)
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by ellen364 4y ago
The same is common in Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). Doctors frequently complain about incorrect pay. Some I’ve spoken to claim their pay is wrong most months! (Usually due to picking up extra shifts, especially overnights.) I sus
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by ellen364 4y ago
That’s useful to hear, thanks.
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by ellen364 4y ago
That’s interesting to hear. If someone who’s just graduated from a top UK compsci course asks me for advice, where should I recommend they apply to get a starting salary >£100k?
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by ellen364 4y ago
It’s weird that we don’t throw more money at the social sciences, in particular. People often laugh at the social sciences because of things like the reproducibility crisis. But if we’re finding it difficult to research fundamental question
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by ellen364 4y ago
I suspect that’s often true, but the outsourced work isn’t always as routine as cleaning up training data. E.g. I worked at a company that provides “real-time transit data feeds for journey planners”, to quote the marketing literature. The
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by ellen364 4y ago
In a proper interview, I’m not sure I’d feel comfortable asking the money question first. E.g. I’ve chatted to managers who consider it a sign the candidate is only interested in money, not the company. Though, as I write, it occurs to me t
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by ellen364 4y ago
Recruitment is bizarre right now. I chat to recruiters sometimes and in the last few months have specifically asked about salaries in the UK. Essentially, “What’s the going rate for a web dev with 5 years experience?” The answers have range
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by ellen364 4y ago
> Software is an extremely scalable business where the marginal cost of every copy beyond the first is nearly zero. and > If you can drive the cost of doing business and your inputs toward zero almost any business idea could theoretic
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by ellen364 4y ago
I wonder about the legal position of recipients of these cheatsheet. In particular, how much trouble can they get into for using the passwords? Say probate is taking a long time, so someone logs into the bank account and withdraws money for
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UK health privacy watchdog still in talks over who is accessing Covid data store(theregister.com)
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by ellen364 4y ago
Completely agree with these. Another is “My company has been bought by private equity, who’ve given us N years to make the company profitable.” I’m not sure why it happens, but sometimes the recently purchased company goes on their own buyi
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by ellen364 4y ago
The article isn’t what I expected from the title. It contains a lot of thoughtful advice on writing, improving and sharing documentation.
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by ellen364 4y ago
Google Cloud offers a semi-permanently [0] free e2-micro VM instance. It includes 30GB disk space and 1GB outbound traffic. Can only be spun up in certain US regions, though. More info in the Compute Engine row of this table: https:/&
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First Amendment Absolutism and Florida’s Social Media Law(lawfareblog.com)
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Examining State Bills on Data Brokers(lawfareblog.com)
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Loot boxes in video games(commonslibrary.parliament.uk)
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Open dataset leaves job seekers from Eastern European at risk(cybernews.com)
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by ellen364 4y ago
My theory is this happens for two reasons. First reason, product managers at a company start getting pulled into a lot of client management stuff. They have less time to spend on the product itself and the resulting vacuum is often filled b
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by ellen364 4y ago
From the article, I’m not sure if the author is using all of Phoenix + HTMX + alpine.js or just exploring the combos to see what works. I recently started playing with Phoenix and the intro to channels and LiveView has been a bit confusing.
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by ellen364 4y ago
Can you remember where you read the allegation about Politico? It isn’t in the “controversies” section of the Politico Wiki page [0] and a couple of Google searches for things like “politico corruption” and “politico pay for articles” weren
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by ellen364 4y ago
Interesting idea from the article: that Agile methods “compartmentalize features” and risk creating “an assembly line in which no one, at any point, takes full responsibility for what the team has created”. The author meant responsibility f
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by ellen364 4y ago
I learned adhoc at work, so unfortunately don’t have any good recommendations.
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by ellen364 4y ago
Last year I got to ride an automated shuttle bus as part of a trial in Cambridge. That had an extremely short route and was very much a trial, with a small number of pre-booked tickets available.[0] Sounds like the Scottish trial is much fu
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by ellen364 4y ago
If I’ve correctly understood the second paragraph, I think you want to learn about completely automated deployments? If that’s the case, I’m not sure you’d learn a lot more about Docker itself. You’d be doing things like - choosing and sett

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