harkyns_castle

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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Fair enough, and I have and will continue to not really want to invest time into learning Microsoft's stuff, based on past experiences (my first being wanting to develop for the platform as a scrub, and they charged thousands of dollar
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I basically do my best yes, whilst having to earn a living in my chosen field. FreeBSD and Linux where I can advocate them. Part of my current contract is migrating a customer away from SQL Server to Postgres, and it feels good. Automating
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Pleasantly surprised by powershell? I don't know what to say. I have to essentially copy and paste fragments of things that work, it's so arcane. Its like writing 90's Java on a command line. Its revolting. Still to this day
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Personally, I'll never forgive them for their practices. They deliberately stifled competition, shafted developers, abused their position, and rubbed it in our faces. There's no coming back from that, and I'll gladly educate
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Perhaps, it just sounded like you thought these very intelligent (for the most part) doctors, were unaware of what they were accepting, which isn't the case. It's very clear in the industry that it goes on, and anyone that partake
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
They're not falling for anything, its just plain and simple greed. My father was in the radiology area and he constantly received 'bribes' (didn't accept them, but had the offers).
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I'm guessing Brazil.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Well, the religion is nonsense. Not that that differentiates itself from others. Love one another, as you would have banks do to you.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
It sucks to watch corruption and violence win the day. We seem to be seeing it. Where an economy can be based on maintaining a military force in other countries, to maintain the petrodollar and central banks. And a lot of good people losing
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
A good point. It seems to me an increase in people annoying you throughout the flying process is only going to have increased costs, coupled with expensive hardware and presumably billions in software too. Speaking for Tasmania, there'
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I'd do it if I have cause to fly into the States again, but I can't help but think its not really going to help much. From my youthful experiences at being a knob, I'd say don't piss off food makers/deliverers, or a
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Definitely a way to find a silver lining hehe. Maybe we're getting better at shining a light on things, and they'll crawl back into the slime over a generation or two.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
It's bizarre it can happen. Surely the wheels have to fall off that out of control cart soon.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Well, all of the Five Eyes are complicit, no argument there. Certainly a top-heavy weighting from the US though, with basically control of the net, and a stellar budget. The peons just follow the marching orders.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Any time I read this type of article, I keep recalling what irritated the hell out of me with the Snowden leaks and responses of US citizens. To paraphrase: "It's terrible they're spying on US citizens (but everyone else is f
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Seems to still be a lot being done in the name of security theater in the US, and just wasting dollars on the TSA, for what appears to be very little effect. Who's really profiting there? Is it just for the employment of people that ot
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
> Quite a lot of the stranger aspects aren't so much "features" as blast craters of past disasters. Cracked me up, very well said. In general I agree that the document-centric browser has been abused horribly. Then we get
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
There's createdb from memory (?), but for other bits and pieces, it might be worth spending a bit of time on a thin wrapper script e.g. "create-pg-user foo" that just wraps the annoying parts, but using your environment speci
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I think the problem is, its a bit more complicated than that. There are a myriad of factors that might influence that IQ score, and I haven't looked at the studies. Lack of wealth/opportunity I think is definitely a factor in the
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
True. As a consumer, I'd have to subscribe to three+ different providers, all charging a monthly cost, to get at everything now. Or more specifically, just the things I want to watch. The 'old' Foxtel model was similar; you w
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Its fairly poor comparatively. The way things are going though, I wouldn't be surprised to see VPN's banned, or attempted to. I'm not against paying for content I must say, there needs to be an incentive to make it after all.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I'm thinking nonsense. We have to descend to the lowest common denominator to make things work? That seems lazy to me. The system we have at the moment is geared towards a few, extremely wealthy individuals and companies, and they basi
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
If they get the data? Hehe. Its a hosepipe direct to the people you don't want having that data. It's really beyond me why anyone would sign up for Facebook nowadays. Feels like we need to reboot the Internet honestly.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
My immediate reaction is, if they hire someone that has great security knowledge, they'll be better placed to compromise mine; their business model seems to be pillaging my data and selling ads, same with Google. Why the excitement?
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
No grads worth hiring globally? I don't hire, but that seems a bit rough anecdotally knowing a few. I had a quick read of some parts, but I'll have to sit down and read it properly tomorrow once the beer has taken its course. I di
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
They'll have to lift their game in Australia then, their offerings are fairly stale and generally B-grade stuff. I've cut the cord, but the old guard are holding onto some of the content at least. I suspect that is Uncle Rupert&#x
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
That's a surprise to me, I hadn't heard any of that. Not that I've followed things that closely. What I found so far is [1], in which he seems to just be doing a bit of a "show me the data" thing wrt global warming
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I guess Wolf of Wall St puts that behaviour on a bit of a pedestal. I personally don't know anyone that is that kind of a prick, but presumably they exist. I think we all know what is selfish, and what is greedy. Some will choose to ig
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
I don't see any light either, that is what is very depressing. We're ruled by very greedy, short-sighted people, that don't care what you think, or care what they are doing.
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by harkyns_castle 11y ago
Idk, but longer term I'd think a co-operative approach would make more sense, and stop destroying the planet for elfish short-term gains. Crazy idea though. Can't have anything compete with those beautiful oil, fracking, banking,

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