gouranga

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by gouranga 14y ago
I'd rather die. That's a big thing to say but without motivation to do things before you die, humanity will descend into chaos.
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by gouranga 14y ago
If VMware are going to run me, I'd probably end up dying due to the license fees...
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by gouranga 14y ago
I've worked under MSF, RUP and good old waterfall. They're all dead ends if you ask me, even delivering massive enterprise software. To be honest these processes were fine with earlier tooling such as Visual Basic which was rigid, inflexibl
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by gouranga 14y ago
I see lots of vitriol here. I think there are a lot of bad experiences, probably I imagine from the ivory tower architects that you get from big consultancies and the like. I am a proper solution architect. I'm there to serve others with
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by gouranga 14y ago
In that case I withdraw my comment :) Best of luck - sounds good.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Looks a bit shonky to me, but if it works, good for you. I worked for a design agency back in about 2004 which had the same sort of infrastructure internally. They had a cheap desktop Exchange 2003 box, cheap desktop Fileserver, cheap deskt
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by gouranga 14y ago
We only accept the title because it comes with an extra £20k :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Just managed to get rid of SPARX Enterprise Architect here - we're on digital whiteboard, balsamiq and plain use cases now and it rocks.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Another "architect" here (actually just a slightly better paid, higher skilled developer and as you say full of war stories). I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head there :) The amount of other architects I have to deal with from
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by gouranga 14y ago
If you're going to down vote, please at least say why...
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by gouranga 14y ago
The root cause was Technical failure, not pilot error. The instruments were wrong and the burden of accuracy on such a technically complicated machine is on the aircraft. But that's too easy to sue for so the manufacturers of the systems pr
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's great - thanks for posting it :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
> Adding on top of that was my own dynamic language background not mapping well to the JVM There's your problem...
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by gouranga 14y ago
You are correct - it is not a financial organsiation. It does know who you are, what you eat, where you've been, who you're friends with, what you're interested in, what your political allegiances are, what your bowel movements are like etc
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by gouranga 14y ago
You nailed it - thanks for the absolutely spot on comment. Design is the key word here. It requires thought, it requires intelligence and it requires multiple people's input.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Either way, it simply doesn't matter.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Thou who uses unit tests, UI tests, precondition, postcondition checks, heavy logging, knows the language and toolchain and knows arse from elbow NEVER debugs in production out of necessity or desire. It just works. In the last 5 years, we'
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by gouranga 14y ago
What a crock of shit: after boot camp, all engineers get access to live DB I can understand on a startup or small org but an organisation of that size, there should be very tight access control. Despite what anyone says, the probability t
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by gouranga 14y ago
They're only pissed off because Android sells at a lower margin and a lower price point and therefore has more volume and marketshare. If they actually cared about the similarities, they would have picked a fight earlier on. They only pick
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by gouranga 14y ago
Just remember Apple clutching people all around: You paid for that bond!
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by gouranga 14y ago
It's a nice place, bar the epic amounts of students and associated noise and vomit, insane traffic jams, very odd traffic management, chav ridden Arbury, nazi bus drivers, extortionate public transport costs and epic levels of bike theft. (
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by gouranga 14y ago
It's not worth it, at least here in the UK. Just vote UKIP/Green.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'm dropping too many references to Black Mirror these days but it's worryingly apt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#3._.22...
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by gouranga 14y ago
A big thank you to those who did lobby! I concur with the toxicity of the subject. Unfortunately, as I live in the UK, I suspect that ACTA could reveal itself again here.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I've had the same experience as well which is why we canned Google Apps during the trials for our business. We had a show stopper when doing a test exchange migration and we never got an email reply and never found a human to talk to that c
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by gouranga 14y ago
Pedant here. Can people please stop posting intervals in headlines i.e. "20 minutes!" It expired a long time ago and was probably too late by the time the first people read it. Please use at 12:00 UTC or something (a time).
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by gouranga 14y ago
Actually no, that's part of risk assessment i.e reactive security. A better basic principle is guard all your doors, windows (excuse the pun) and cracks religiously (proactive).
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by gouranga 14y ago
A victory of common sense. It's nice to see a logical outcome rather than a sponsored outcome (which is how the US and its intensive lobbying works).
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by gouranga 14y ago
Looks like ChromeOS Aura: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Chrome_OS_21.0... I still like my 90's plinth buttons - at least I know which is a button and which is a piece of headline text.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Spot on - you nailed it. The end user counts here, big time. A lot of the products out there would have precisely zero traction if they required literally hours of piddling around. If you compare it to JVM based commercial offerings, and I'

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