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by meaty 14y ago
I calmed down pretty quickly :) Changes so far: stopped mass iPad purchase to use as cameras (!?), different acceptable use policy (which stops people being hung without good reason), open systems policy I.e. no single vendor, fired RM PLC,
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by meaty 14y ago
I had the misfortune of smashing an Acorn A310 keyboard on the table at school resulting in most of the keytops falling off. My punishment was served: put the keys back on in the right order with no hints. Zen-like experience that. I now sh
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by meaty 14y ago
Who cares. The government are quite happily coughing up £35bn of tax of our cash to "fight terrorism", yet are quite happily throwing only £32bn of tax at education. I'd rather Google gave all their money directly in schemes like this than
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by meaty 14y ago
That actually made me laugh because it's exactly what I'd probably do with it (or install RISCOS and play Zarch). At the same time, in the process, I'd have to get over a learning curve so perhaps that's not a bad thing.
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by meaty 14y ago
It's still like that. Everything is locked down, locked up and entirely filtered. It's like a computing prison. A couple of years ago, my then 8 year old daughter (!!!!) was actually told off for using the Run dialog (to fire up notepad) in
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by meaty 14y ago
Well logo didn't really have much potential other than for drawing stuff with a turtle. This wasn't because it wasn't capable of glorious things (which it was) but more that it was hard for the staff to understand compared to BBC BASIC.
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by meaty 14y ago
Sounds like a good school! Good to hear, even if it is private. My comment only stands for state schools. State school usually have swathes of kit (mine had CNC lathes, mills and other nice stuff) but it is never used other than to show off
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by meaty 14y ago
Whilst I applaud the effort, I'm cynical. I have three children at two good but different schools and my wife is a teacher. From observation, they will either be locked in the cupboard because the staff won't know what to do with them or
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by meaty 14y ago
Avoid work! Seriously.
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by meaty 14y ago
Might as well just use Go.
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by meaty 14y ago
I worked for a company that just asked people once a week. For a little extra effort, it was 88% accurate (12% of people were filtered out for just hitting random items).
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by meaty 14y ago
When you grow up, the hoodie is replaced with a Berghaus fleece :)
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by meaty 14y ago
There will be no introspection amongst the string-pullers. Have you seen the state of things since the cold war?
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by meaty 14y ago
Some of us will. Most of the human race are ignorant peons who can't spot a warning a mile away. A fine example of this is the amount of people I saw in hospital gowns outside my local hospital the other day with oxygen masks, yet they were
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by meaty 14y ago
Another step in the self-destruction of America. This is resulting in the instant removal of Google Analytics for us.
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by meaty 14y ago
Watch out: you might piss off the fanboys who don't realise that TechCrunch is not the Internet.
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by meaty 14y ago
pkg-config and autotools!
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by meaty 14y ago
+1 for htop. It's actually really useful and intuitive.
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by meaty 14y ago
I disagree. 1. Not really. Most sysadmins have a decent template init file sitting around or you just steal another one on the machine and modify it. They are also more flexible as some startup processes aren't quite as simple as systemd th
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by meaty 14y ago
Prime example: climate change. We have precisely fuck all idea what is going on regardless of the models. Proof of this can be found by examining all the climate change news articles based on scientific papers going back to the impending ic
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by meaty 14y ago
You can't relicense it due to: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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by meaty 14y ago
Regarding your last point, the main thing that systemd excels at is managing the mishmash of power events, other ACPI events, service management and integration with DBus (which everything seems to require these days). However, I run Linux
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by meaty 14y ago
Elegantly described!
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by meaty 14y ago
Big value companies - yes. Big companies - no. They are just fad artists.
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by meaty 14y ago
Doesn't this apply to all of science? I mean we don't actually know why anything really works, but we have some models which fit the observations at the moment. This is just a very shallow model i.e. "we poked it and it worked".
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes this is called "we're stuck with it syndrome"
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by meaty 14y ago
Seriously - just find another language. The people upstairs are crack smokers.
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by meaty 14y ago
Actually no. PHP has many fundamental flaws which do not exist in Python or Ruby.
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by meaty 14y ago
I'm not suggesting that the other people aren't fuckwits either. TBH Rails is just as bad - it's the same culture of incompetence.
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by meaty 14y ago
Actually the comment is spot on. It's a stinking shit crock from end to end. Just because it has a few celebrity developers like Rasmus, doesn't mean it doesn't fuck you in the eyeballs the moment you see it. Just sit down for a couple of h

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