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by gaius 8y ago
I got my iTunes on Windows via Microsoft’s App Store ironically. It’s seemingly the only way to get iCloud working properly on Windows, they share certain common components.
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by gaius 8y ago
Docker the company is a lame duck, and docker the software is being rapidly supplanted by podman and buildah. There would be no point.
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by gaius 8y ago
My undergrad did that... there were 80 of us on day 1 of term 1 with people sitting on the steps and standing at the back during lectures. On day 1 of term 2 there were 40 and we fit comfortably.
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by gaius 8y ago
Getting a weird sense of deja vu... colleges were oversubscribed for CS just before the dotcom bubble burst too.
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by gaius 8y ago
non “core” products, they stopped making them because there is not much money in it The idea of Mac was always “it just works”. You could go to the Apple Store and get everything you needed and know that while it wasn’t cheap, it was amon
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by gaius 8y ago
Right. If you are doing the work at salary X then you have sent the signal that you are willing to do the work at salary X. The only way to send a new signal is to leave for a job paying salary X+n, then repeat the cycle in a few years.
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by gaius 8y ago
A previous job had a monitoring system called Watcher Of Many Batches And Transactions. The British Army had a Weapon Of Magnesium, Battalion, Anti Tank once too. Wombats fascinate everyone!
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by gaius 8y ago
After losing the War On Emus I can see why the Australian military is wary of taking on the Kangaroo Nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
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by gaius 8y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/blind-anonymous-app-data-e...
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by gaius 8y ago
Didn’t they have a de-anonymization incident recently? Signing up with real work address is madness.
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by gaius 8y ago
The Vietnamese parliament is called the Diet but I don’t think it’s etymologically related.
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by gaius 8y ago
It absolutely does. We studied SSADM in college.
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by gaius 8y ago
That's just not how software works in industry. If by industry you mean “webdev” but fortunately “full stack engineers” don’t work on avionics or indeed anything important.
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by gaius 8y ago
think this is a bit of an overstatement, because it implies an often unrealistic separation between writing specs and writing implementations Every government IT project that is years late and billions over budget is because of this
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by gaius 8y ago
That and the fact that amiga was clean room design. IBM Pc was already Well the PC wasn’t backward compatible with CP/M so that’s an odd critique to level at the Amiga.
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by gaius 8y ago
more complicated applications on top of these primitive systems is that they would crash the entire system, constantly That’s chicken-and-egg. Why do modern apps with actually quite simple functionality need all this vast power, the GHz a
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by gaius 8y ago
your standards for acceptable software were frozen in time in 1985 Haha in 1985 Amiga had a multitasking GUI desktop in 512k and 7Mhz. Now we have millions of times more computational power and struggle to deliver an experience as crisp a
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by gaius 8y ago
Right, and a guy who was a prince/princess one day isn’t going to be unblocking toilets the next day...
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by gaius 8y ago
Or their investment in SoftBank. It’s got to be pretty weird to work for or in a WeWork and know what sort of regime you are sustaining.
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by gaius 8y ago
Is that even a thing? I’ve never heard that being possible before. I would be willing to pay a premium for guaranteed non-commingled products. But Amazon commingles to make their own internal logistics easier.
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by gaius 8y ago
If a product is a counterfeit then the cost they are soaking up is not that of the return, but that of failing to police their supply chain. And they absolutely should be looking to minimise the hassle to the customers in that case.
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by gaius 8y ago
The Archimedes never took off unfortunately. If it had been the “standard” PC we would be a decade ahead in computing now, maybe more
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by gaius 8y ago
No one writes a tutorial to teach others, at least not for free on the internet. The real purpose is to signal their own expertise (even if they know nothing more themselves than what is in the tutorial). You see a similar dynamic at work w
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by gaius 8y ago
Don’t take anything seriously on dba-oracle.com - Burleson is well known in the Oracle community as an expert in self-promotion but his technical skill is mediocre at best. Jonathan Lewis, Guy Harrison and Craig “the Hammer” Shallahammer ar
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by gaius 8y ago
You know, the mines were making a loss and Scargill could have said, sell them to us for £1 and we’ll run them as a collective and prove to you they’re a viable business and more importantly provide an income and dignity for the Workers. Bu
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by gaius 8y ago
Most people outside of management are absolutely incapable of seeing it Isn’t it the opposite - that management/officers are oblivious to their own toxic behaviour that led to the rank-and-file distrusting them?
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by gaius 8y ago
Some problems I had were that sometimes the car wasn't where it was supposed to be, a couple of times the car was double booked, and quite often the cars had other people's rubbish in them. One time the car was full of sand (clea
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by gaius 8y ago
Because positions are made redundant, not people.
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by gaius 8y ago
This is a very German solution. A British union would have rather destroyed the company with a series of strikes ultimately costing everyone their jobs. That is why unions have a very bad reputation, but it’s not inherent to all unions, t
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by gaius 8y ago
imposing a patently unworkable timetable of two years That simply isn’t true - the 2 years is written into Article 50! Any PM would have faced the same timetable.

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