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by hughrr 5y ago
Yes I agree. However neither side left with their dignity intact if you ask me. It was depressing to watch and the media circus around it was a train wreck.
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by hughrr 5y ago
They haven’t finished the deregulation bit yet. They need to do that so they can hide the funding streams and private market involvement. Watch this space.
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by hughrr 5y ago
The point is really that European technology industry needs some differentiating characteristic to succeed. It is quite far behind both the American and Chinese side of things. The EU has promoted privacy and human rights first which was a
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by hughrr 5y ago
Well you can do what we did in the UK: the non apathetic portion of propagandised society collectively decided to exit the EU backed by some dubious political and financial motives, immediately followed by slow deregulation and privatisatio
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by hughrr 5y ago
Well bye bye European tech industry. Why the hell would anyone want to do business with such a risk in place?
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by hughrr 5y ago
I was hoping for this reply. The presentation of the facts were intentional. These threads devolve into statistical analysis and reduction of values when the only fact that matters is >1 is terrible. Meta discussion should be about the t
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by hughrr 5y ago
Well it's approximately 4.5 years of shooting deaths in the UK in one day. Regardless of how you look at it, America has a serious problem.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Oh yes it’s absolutely awful. One of my former peers is working in China now because they pay better!
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by hughrr 5y ago
That’s exactly why I never used it. When you’re writing software you need to pretend your successor is an axe murderer.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Board level test ie boundary scan, burn in and ageing on actual hardware. The assemblies I was testing were up to $40k a piece.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I think you over promote the utility of the formal methods taught in the degree. Not once did I use Laplace in EE. It was all cheat sheets or applying data sheets and doing some adhoc calculations in excel or taking a wild guess and iterati
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by hughrr 5y ago
Well for me the degree was of mediocre usefulness. The job I had to sit in an office on a factory floor with no windows, fully airgapped on my own 7 hours a day doing test automation and designing test fixtures mostly. That was the entry po
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by hughrr 5y ago
Same progression and situation as you actually. I am still very hands on. Think my position is probably “internal consultant” really.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I know you made the point in jest but you’re right. To be adaptable you need to embrace change and opinion is the hardest to change. I’ve seen people die holding an opinion which has been thoroughly disproven. Embrace change!
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by hughrr 5y ago
If there’s anything I’ve learned it is that you should always make your own mistakes. Your parent’s mistakes don’t even make sense any more 30-40 years down the line. My father pushed me into EE. I burned 5 years in industry being paid crap
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by hughrr 5y ago
Agree also. I do a lot of Linux dev work and use basically vim and tmux. From macOS!
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by hughrr 5y ago
Oh yes so much this. 20 years here being told that today is the day of Linux on the desktop. Like hell. Apple stuff is consistently good . It's not perfect but there's not really anything that kicks you in the balls every day to
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by hughrr 5y ago
No article required but this smart ass suggests the best way to deal with that is work for someone else’s stupid idea until the money stops and let them worry about it.
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by hughrr 5y ago
There is runtime unification but the user interfaces are still well separated based on the target device and screen size. I suspect the end game is one app package that runs on phone, tablet and desktop with specialist UI for each platform.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Acer have always sold utter barrel scraping dog shit machines with worthless warranty made of the lowest bidding vendor's parts. I'm surprised anyone even looks in that direction these days. In fact I'm surprised they are eve
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by hughrr 5y ago
Also the base cluster cost of $0.10 an hour really hurts for test and experimentation.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Find some new friends. Seriously. I know that sounds hard but your friendship choices always end up aligning with your work as you get older and that's not healthy. Literally you work to the work calendar. Eventually you get to the poi
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by hughrr 5y ago
Completely agree. I've seen a lot of people not make it to retirement or get utterly ruined before they get there and then live on scraps. I had a near miss on this front which turned me. I'm a lucky one. Also never listen to an
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by hughrr 5y ago
Correct. my point is that security is no good full stop if there is only one layer. Even temporary rules and default states aren’t protected against until your automation is complete if your box is on the public internet. Or if you screw yo
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by hughrr 5y ago
The real issue here is that the “backend” database engine was exposed on the public internet. It should have been a layer behind that with suitable protection, as mentioned a VPC with security group rules or equivalent firewall. Regardless
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yes. Our stuff won’t fit on any cloud instances for a reasonable amount of money.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I’ve been through this discussion a thousand times before. I bought an officially tested with Ubuntu T495 laptop and a kernel update broke it entirely due to bugs. X just craps itself and the whole thing hangs. I don’t have the time or inc
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by hughrr 5y ago
I can’t speak for android now but when I used it 4 years ago I actually suffered irrecoverable data loss due to buggy SD card handling and was constantly bugged by it every two minutes (Motorola handset) for various updates and issues. It d
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by hughrr 5y ago
I’ve been a Microsoft developer, admin and architect for 30 years as well as a director of a gold partner and probably directly put tens of millions of dollars of revenue in their direction. Hell I even have met Bill back in the early 90s o
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by hughrr 5y ago
I value my time which is where Apple seems to win ie it eats the least of it. That trumps the absolute cost in my mind.

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