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by meaty 14y ago
Well he's actually right. Honesty or loyalty - I'll pick the former over the latter any day.
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by meaty 14y ago
Spot on. Everytime I have to debug dbus, udev, acpid or anything horrid like that, it throws me one step back towards freebsd. They just aren't part of the Unix philosophy. NT perhaps.
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes we have disabled the local cache. Our build machines are not stateful - the environment is wiped before each build intentionally. We have had problems where maven caches are poisoned and the builds start failing randomly which cost us a
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by meaty 14y ago
Very true regarding St Thomas' - that's where they took him. Very lucky, but not for the poor guy who got stabbed. Not sure what happened to him at the end of the day.
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by meaty 14y ago
That'll be because everyone's got one now... More seriously, YTD is not pretty.
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by meaty 14y ago
Spot on post. Last year replaced a maven shitfest with an old fashioned Makefile which calls javac and manual dependencies. The whole port process took about 2 hours. Integration and test run time has gone from 7 minutes (to drag all the ma
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes this happened to my father. I remember the crunching sound of his ribs to this day. This was at waterloo station in London in 1993. He just keeled over. Fortunately for him, someone had just got stabbed 100 yards away so people were alr
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by meaty 14y ago
That is one of those little stories which is just awesome. That's when you KNOW the machine. You just can't do that with anything these days. Even my HP50G calc is personality-free in that respect.
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by meaty 14y ago
I have been the worst operator - a 12v car battery with a large file brushed across the terminals :) That interfered with EVERYTHING. 25 years later, an EE degree and 5 years working RF comms engineering, I realise what an asshat thing to d
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by meaty 14y ago
I did actually - it was very nice. With some polish, it would have been awesome.
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by meaty 14y ago
TBH they're not really interested I understand as the FM broadcast band is on its way out in the UK.
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by meaty 14y ago
I bet the FCC (or RCA in the UK) will love that :) The amount of noise and harmonics that come off that sort of transmitter will be horrible. At least chuck a bandpass on the end of it.
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by meaty 14y ago
I've written software for all the main platforms apart from BB. My rationale is: iOS is closed / walled garden. Windows Phone is closed / walled garden BB is closed / walled garden. Android is a fragmented, buggy shit tip of an environment
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by meaty 14y ago
This is the first mobile platform that I've been excited about and I've been doing work on mobile devices since Windows CE 2...
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by meaty 14y ago
She needs reprogramming. May I suggest using a 2x1.
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes but this conveniently distracts from the bigger fish...
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by meaty 14y ago
We fizzled out and went back to Debian stable. LTS is far from supported, even when you pay for it.
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by meaty 14y ago
Now it can incrementally suck more. Seriously, after the shit ton of badness canonical have pumped into Ubuntu in the last 3 years I couldn't trust them on this.
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by meaty 14y ago
They haven't shot him because everyone would notice :)
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes that is the reason. It's an easy ride once you get here. Yet, although I think the EU would rather like us to be.
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by meaty 14y ago
Yes entirely. I work in the financial sector and deal with ALL levels of management that you mention above. In fact, I regularly deal with an organisation that has 2500 managerial staff. I've been on the end of management politics for 20 ye
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by meaty 14y ago
I'm not qualified to make that claim at all. However, there is plenty of literature that backs up my claims by people who do have the qualifications. Someone actually posted a good reference in another reply: http://www.amazon.com/Snakes-S
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by meaty 14y ago
That almost sounds like our current political state?
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by meaty 14y ago
Versus socialist Britain for example? (where I live). Dragged through the courts for using Facebook and Twitter, held indefinitely without trial under the Terrorism Act, all the technology is imported from the communist far East, low qualit
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by meaty 14y ago
I should have made the more generic point "MBA types" (high business, executives etc). Not specifically MBAs.
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by meaty 14y ago
The MBA seems to attract a certain type of person, which is my point. I'm an MEng myself but I don't see that type of person around the whole engineering scene.
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by meaty 14y ago
Probably throws chairs at them... To be serious, this is normal in most corporates. It starts when you let the MBA* with the personality disorder in, you're fucked. I've watched three companies fall at the hands of such people. * This is no
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by meaty 14y ago
Perhaps we need a startup that produces craft to deorbit all the junk...
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by meaty 14y ago
I'm all for action but I think people are cautious for a reason. There are approximately 20 million brainwashed individuals, a lot of whom have absolutely no idea what the rest of the world is like. They will defend NK to the death if they
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by meaty 14y ago
To be fair it wasn't rationing - that was a load of crap apparently. It was fixed prices everywhere. Butter was X marks everywhere and there wasn't the luxury of choice (choice was defined to be the enemy which I do sort of agree with - I s

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