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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Hmm I was thinking of trying to get a secondment with our companies VC arm - to try and leverage my experience and to get experience of due diligence so that when our employers make huge investments we don't find out about this new integrat
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Well at least hes not yet in the same boat as poor Samantha Brick and getting crucified on twitter.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Realy I thought company restaurants had wine in France certainly the Concert JV did and that's not that long ago.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
I remember at a meeting with BSI and the head of the IS9000 project told us about when he was younger working as a salesman for ICL in Russia - people would pass out in restaurants and the bouncers would pic them up and throw them outside i
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
you do know that the whole "units" measure was made up when they needed a unit.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Normaly thers no diference to the shares I own as an employee and as an investor (leaving aside the use of share classes to maitain control eg NI and Google)
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Only up to a point - an RSM (CSM) of my aquaintance commented on the use of drinking as a bonding mechanisiam commented "oh and the girls are much worse" :-) There are far more important issues around Exclusion than liking a beer - how man
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Oh dear me looks like the OP desnt get out much if he think programmers drink a lot he shold hang out out with Civil engineers or Squaddies or goto a Political conference where you know your feeling your age when you can't stay in the bar t
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
well making such a huge difference between owning 10% or 11% is not fair in any sense of the word - sounds rather french in favouring national champions where the executives went to ena with the technocrats running the civil service. It als
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Well the sensible way is to buy well maitained clasic cars a nice 911 will keep its value.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes there is that on the BBC there was a fascinating program about modern day spying a couple of days ago they even had SIS and MI5 officers speaking abotu their work. I assume it might end up on BBC America saat some stage
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
err as an ex phone company person this will be only for Law enforcement and Security Services. And if anyones trying to do a side deal floging data to crims,taboids FSB or that cute Russian girl who befriended you in a bar the phone compani
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
yes if you "need" to vet people there are procedures (and quite expensive ones) to do that. However 99% of companies don't "need" to vet any employees.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And much more expensive :-) and if you want 100% Office comapatability for work by a PC.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
um I and those with any HR background would call it "bringing the company into disrepute" and "Gross Misconduct"
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And how long until some dodgy copper flogs it to his contacts in the tabloids. I think in the UK the public accept that the security service (MI5) and SIS (MI6) have greater leway but that the police should be much more restricted. The prob
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
We don't have a "constitution" in the same way that the USA does.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
no CN are an old school publishing house with all "chalenges" that implies :-(
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
cool - sad thing is the "nutters" from the tax payers alliance wil probaly try and stop this.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
just inventing yet more OO languages is not going to help less fetizizing of CS theory and more real world experience might be a better idea.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Really poor story you don't have to do OO to do code reuse. At my fist job "hem hem " years ago we reused NAG algorithm libraries in FORTRAN IV. When you relise the fact that you use the most apropriate tool for the job is when you start to
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
mm like the supreme court ignoring the will of the elected head of state makes the house of lords look democratic
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
I would imagine that the UN woudl say that any contract "to abdicate authority through democratic process " would be invalid and unenforcable. - they will point to the enableing act on 36 in germany and the UNDHR. For example you can sign a
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Realy you should not say "fire" when you mean "made redundant" the former if untrue is profesional slander.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
this is the same bad story that was in the guardian x.400 handled binary attachments over 20 years ago.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
no but they do try and group pagnation pages and wheer its the best result show a result deep inside pagnated pages.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yep you wouldnt belive how much work on a big site doing pagination and faceting (pagnations big brother)an doing it RIGHT! (wel in my case getting developers to go back and fix stuff they broke/messed up the first time) Google thinks pagn
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
thers a world of diference bewteen a local police force and the TLA's
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And Poor John Major was held to ransom by the hardline Unionist parties in the UK a few years ago. Aurgaubly the same happens in the US as the party system is very weak and there is no comback from rebelling against the party line.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yep the movie times searches on the uk are messed up beyond belife even on Google.co.uk - Google insistes on serving up me the restuls for Bedford Texas and not Bedford in the Uk

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