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by lbriner 4y ago
This isn't really helpful because it's true until it isn't true or you get locked out in a way that you can't prove ownership or something. All businesses need to at least consider BC and DR, even if they eventually deci
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I agree with others that these posts only have limited value perhaps to people who don't have a clue. For those of us who have done this lots, it doesn't really say much but it does allude to a common fallacy, that the interview i
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by lbriner 4y ago
This is not the real reason imho. We use Consultants on all large projects worldwide and even the Contractors can be paid Consultant wages. The reason that reports can't put their finger on it is that the reasons are as complex as the
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by lbriner 4y ago
I tried to look at OCI but was immediately bamboozled with a slow as heck web site (locations table took 15 seconds to load!), a tonne of management BS about "aligning strategic objectives to operational constraints in a dynamic enviro
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by lbriner 4y ago
That's not how it works in the UK and not because of GDPR. Currently, organisations can claim both consent and legitimate interests as a legal basis so it is already possible to take my data from somewhere, pass it to other people and
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People realise that their dead time at work is now removed due to the day off so they need to start working smarter. They are more energised, happier, get to do things in their extra day that would otherwise be preying on their minds until
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by lbriner 4y ago
Because unless the kids were all off on the same day each week, which wouldn't work for their parents who have to fit in with their employers needs, then everyone would need even more babsitting cover than they already do. If the kids
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by lbriner 4y ago
If we are in the consolidation phase, I wonder if people now understand the risks that software can create and will therefore push for much more professionalism in the industry. Currently, in most countries, literally anybody can write code
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My understanding is that it is always historical. There are still people out there who are "I built my own email tools" or "this was setup in 1992 and still works" etc. These aren't a tiny fringe group but asizeabl
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by lbriner 4y ago
The problem is that the Brits are notoriously bad a moderation with alcohol (I am British) which leads to lots of social problems both on the train itself and at the stations you alight late at night. Alcohol is already a problem on most ni
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by lbriner 4y ago
I wish people would stop posting articles that imply that remote working is somehow objectively better when it has already been made more than clear that it doesn't work well for everyone. I really miss the contact from the office but
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by lbriner 4y ago
Pretty typical BS article. Profile a pointless small app (written in Go, fast but used by very few people) and then caveat that your mileage may vary. It sure does. Having to size for peaks and troughs, for when the updates are running, for
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by lbriner 4y ago
SLA is overrated. SLA mostly relates to "unplanned downtime" so if you need to often fix things, just schedule downtime, mess around with it and bring it back up. Also, we have seen both cloud and non-cloud hosts having significan
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by lbriner 4y ago
GDPR (EU and UK) is much more nuanced than this makes out. For example, there are a number of legal bases that can be used to process someone's personal data. For example, "Legitimate Interest" can be used if there is a reaso
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by lbriner 4y ago
Yeah, I missed my outbound Air Canada flight at LHR after my coach broke down and when I asked about getting a ticket for a later flight, the rep told me that they "weren't supposed to" sell returns if you weren't planni
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The thing that went wrong with front-end frameworks imho was that instead of being what was promised: you could update UI elements with NO NEED to contact the server at all, only posting back when something needed persisting, instead it bec
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by lbriner 4y ago
I've realised this recently reading various stories about what seem like amazing debug stories but boiled down to understanding how to use tcpdump or wireshark or some other profiling/logging tool but they are amazing because most
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This shows how little experience you have of the legal system. Everyone who doesn't know expects the law to be precise, everyone who works in it knows how imprecise it is and sometimes that is deliberate because of all the variables in
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by lbriner 4y ago
But that in itself is an anti-pattern isn't it? A Constructor should be the minimal amount of work to create a valid set of object data. Other work should not be hidden in the Constructor otherwise it fails the principle of surprising
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Not necessarily. The idea here is that the id can be exposed publically because it is random. The problem it solves is someone sees a page /accountdetails?id=123 and can easily look for /accountdetails?id=124 and assume it is like
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by lbriner 4y ago
It's still quite a defective system because Recruiters are so ruthless since so much money is made in commission. What this causes is the creation of fiefdoms and Recruiters trying to convince organisations or individuals to be exclusi
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Artificial meat is a one take on the sustainability problem but a more pragmatic approach that will not solve it but make a big dent is to reduce meat consumption instead of replacing it. Sainsburys in the UK ran an advert at one point wher
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There are lots of what I would call "grey" marketing/sales type articles like this across virtually every saas business, it's how they get people onto their site. Unfortuantely, an article that overstates benefits withou
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100%. Feeling the need to change stuff for the sake of it used to be the preserve of the large rich companies who need to find ways to spend their money. Did anyone honestly think that the old tabs were broken compared to various other &quo
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by lbriner 4y ago
Same with Wikimedia. The association seems to become some kind of cult where it is seen as OK to spend enormous amounts of money on overheads and salaries without really making anything better because "big salaries = good performance&q
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I moved from Firefox to Chrome after using FF for a long time because of the opposite. FF randomnly locked up and used tonnes of RAM, not consistently but occasionally. As someone who uses the browser a lot for work, I cannot have randomn l
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You manage them in the way you manage everyone else. You should know what is expected of every employee including how they code, how they interact with others, how productive they are, what quality you expect and you hold them to it firstly
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A common theme seems to be founders who want to keep all the cool stuff about being a small business while they scale to the ARR of a corporate. It can't happen. 1000 people don't all care about some new feature shipped by someone
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I kind of agree but, of course, the elephant in the room is the whole culture that these companies exist in: Raise large amounts of money Grow exponentially Have a sweet exit for the investors Nothing that happened is surprising in this lig
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I think that's the problem with "what I read". I think the "man on the street" would probably agree but not necessarily from hard data, just from the fact it is easy to blame inefficiency rather than structural or h

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