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by mjwalshe 15y ago
501 Programmers and Craft? Well Most of the programmers and it types I have worked considered themselves "Professional" and not skilled tradesmen such as carpenters The 501 Manifesto makes some good points but using terms like Craft and bei
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Interesting in yesterdays Daily Telgraph there was a comment on Googles share price drop and how Wall Street wasn't keen on companies with multiple share classes.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And PRESTEL was another hack (and one produced by a PTT) they worked out they could produce an asymetric modem standard 75/1200 to work with the slow speed lines of the day.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Lol interesting I will have to share this with some of my old school Telco mates :-) So whats next Google reinvents x.400 and x.500 (not the special needs version LDAP)
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Which is part of what the proposed laws are ie extending the traffic analysis they can already do on phonecalls to the internet (ok they are asking for a lot more but that may be a negotiating ploy) Though after the scandel with the Met and
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Acuualy the written parlimentry sketches are much funnier.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And the lack or party disaplin means that you have to make lots of dubious deals to dole out pork or to pander to fringe extremists. Oh and in most places adding unrealted riders to bills for pork is banned. Germany has the same problem cau
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Simon Hoggart (the main political sketch writer on the Guardian) has been even more scathing.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Hmm some times custom hardware is needed for switching just of the top of my head you not going to impliment CAM on a bog standard hardware are you. I could imagine some custom FPGA based modules that you could reprogram on the fly when you
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
From what I was told 1 Record all conversations with them. 2 Only talk to journalists from Proper organisations. 3 Only talk to journalits with domain Knowledge. 4 Only talk to journalists you and ideally other People you know trust. 5 Know
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Met any members of CAMRA have we :-) CAMRA is the Campaign for Real ale aka beer geeks
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
For tricky problems I liked to take a 10 min walk to the pub a pint and a couple of games of pinball (thinking over the problem whilst doing so)
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Voted down for this FFS am I the only person on HN with any knowledge of HR and IR issues.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes that's the danger for Google all it takes for one case to go very high profile and they will be living with the court/government sanctioned remedy - that is why banks and other organizations have independent ombudsman - they want to avo
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes and what Google does not seem to realise that there is a lot of legal precedent and custom and practice that expects that if someone is penalized there is some sort of appeal process.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
"Fired" means you have been sacked for a small number or serious offenses and could never be considered "awesome" - I think you mean made redundant.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
oh they found it hard so gave up - as some one who used to work with OSI protocols ad having looked at some the google proposed standards it doesn't surprise me.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
no that's just the high level representation of the program I was commenting the tendency of non political tecies (who are not wonks) to make a very superficial link between using a SCS to commit code and how government and in how particul
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Which have a law that underpins them - I was talking about the more general case/
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
erm no its a very speclised form of document - I wish programmers who have no experience of how laws are made and parliamentary procedure would stop making broad assumptions like this. Any thing using a parliamentry system to draft laws has
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And what "EXACTLY" is the problem with having a devlopment system that mirrors the live production one? I worked at one place where our hardware guy who wanted the dev test and live systems to come from the same production batch from SUN ju
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
this is just blowing up a tiny number up to generate page views very similar to the Spy mania at the out break of WW1 or McCarthy like witch hunts in the 50's
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
In my first job i used to develop for PETs did a project with the BSI that went towards the research for applying iso 9000 to software amongst others And I can still remember the quirks of the different disk drives that you had to use to ge
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes and so are floppy disks - the only hacking (authorised) I had to do was to recover paswords for a customer and I used a floppy disk to extract the secrets from the nt machines.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
that's probably what they want
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Really many eu countries have liberal gun laws compared to the UK and the only reason that the UK doesn't is that the government panicked in the 20's around the time of the general strike and brought in gun laws to restrict ownership of gu
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
I suspect that a fair number if not a majority of MEP's would like that. I think many are still are in the PTT mindset where the national phone company (owned by the state) provided all these sort of electronic services. Of course people li
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Ironically not in Germany they do love their guns - probably a hangover from the 20's And there are very few countries that explicitly ban all fire arms even the Uk which has very stringent laws still allows shotgun licenses.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And you might add make sure any charging method is fit for purpose - I am trying to use Companies House data and they are insisting that we set up a direct debit. HINT! FTSE 100 and FT Global 500 company's do not set up direct debits when t
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Well given the way that many US companies seem to have got drug testing for jobs that do not in a million years need it by stealth - maybe kicking up a fuss early makes sense.

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