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by richliss 8y ago
I ended up not using the app but I know lots of non-tech people who are unaware and so carry on. That for me isn't great.
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by richliss 8y ago
This is true but let's face it if the 5 Eyes want to spy on you then you have massive problems - one person trying to defend against the state is an absolute fantasy. It's Google/Facebook/OnePlus/Samsung spying on m
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by richliss 8y ago
I'd switched to a OnePlus a few years ago and was delighted by the performance/cost. In the last few years the combined privacy invasion from: 1. Google at the very heart of Android (and even Cyanogen/LineageOS with DNS, Goog
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by richliss 8y ago
Gen-X here... I'd say its 80% the fault of baby boomers, 10% the fault of Gen-X and 10% of millenials own making. Lots of Millenials have serious issues with expectation management. Lots of millenials want to work in glamourous industr
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by richliss 8y ago
Extremely creative hairdressing/styling. I'm being serious - It will be a safe and well-paid job. Some hairdressers in London already charge £500 for a haircut. 1. Women are extremely protective of their hair. The idea of letting
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by richliss 8y ago
Don't trust politicians. He's taking advantage of the public's frustrations with their privacy being invaded by FB to propose a tool that would ultimately be made in his image. The only way a political leader or party should
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by richliss 8y ago
Worked for an "innovation" consultancy that had one of the largest food companies in the world as a client and it asked that we build an animated interactive iPad app for doctors in the third world to be able to push their baby fo
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by richliss 8y ago
I visited about 2 weeks ago from the UK and after 2 days in the centre staying around the SoMa area, I believe SF is the most overrated place I've ever visited. 1. The homeless/junkies felt like 1/3 of all people visible. The
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by richliss 8y ago
Workplace Wanking - comedy becomes reality: https://youtu.be/VKH9ECC_Qa4
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by richliss 8y ago
It's not a very strange thing to say at all - It's the truth. The Waterfall software method is a result of a misunderstanding by the DoD. Waterfall as far as software is concerned has its origins in a paper from Winston W. Royce a
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by richliss 8y ago
In the UK we have embraced Eurovision and Europe by importing Ireland's finest to sarcastically comment on it and ridicule it since 1971. Terry Wogan was made for Eurovision: https://youtu.be/_Ll-_cPNRAk If you like Pe
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by richliss 8y ago
That's not the same Kanban as used in Software Development. This is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development) Since 2005ish. About 10 years after Scrum was formalised at OOPSLA 95'
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by richliss 8y ago
You're incorrect. Scrum is a framework. Kanban is a method of implementing a system. Here's Kanban creator David J. Andersen's own words: http://www.scrumcrazy.com/David+Andersen+-+There+is+no+kanba... . Also
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by richliss 8y ago
Another day and another post where someone who believes their companies incorrect adoption of the Scrum framework is evidence that Scrum itself is at fault and therefore creates a Strawman to attack. Scrum is a victim of Semantic Diffusion.
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by richliss 9y ago
FYI Kanban isn't a process according to Kanban author David J. Anderson: http://www.scrumcrazy.com/David+Andersen+-+There+is+no+kanba... .
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by richliss 9y ago
TL:DR - We're screwed - blame politicians on both sides. This is only going to get worse because the politicians are beneficiaries. One in three UK politicians are landlords: https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network&
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by richliss 11y ago
When I saw the buzz around Holacracy I thought this isn't going to end well as the negatives and cliques that occur have been experienced before in bullying in high schools around the world, early Marxist movements with their purges an
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by richliss 11y ago
It can be cyclical (recession hits, cut staff, longer hours), and it can be job specific (idiot colleagues, failing company). I've had periods where the idea of working another day with arrogant dickhead 'know it all' ex-Phys
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by richliss 11y ago
Thanks for giving me a spray my cup of tea all over my monitor laughing moment :-)
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by richliss 11y ago
Its all about the vested interests. One of the primary problems in London, and probably many countries with similar issues is that the politicians are far more likely to be landlords than the general public. I read that in the UK 1 in 4 mem
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by richliss 11y ago
The best mix I've ever seen in practice had a non technical CTO who hired an uber bright coder as Technical Authority. The Technical Authority had a written mandate, signed off by the CTO and CEO, that his technical suggestions were to
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by richliss 12y ago
This times a thousand. The reason Agile worked is because skilled professionals who wanted to do software better did it properly. Sadly there was lots of money to be made by certifying unskilled professionals who suddenly flooded the market
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by richliss 12y ago
> You have a complete lack of imagination and perspective. Let me help you with some history > people are starting to seriously lack imagination the way you do. Great way to start a civilised discourse there! Not coming off as aggress
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by richliss 12y ago
I don't see the US wanting to conquer territories of any nation, or doing anything severe. I just see their desire being able to exert influence wherever needed, even with actors that at the moment don't really need to take notice
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by richliss 12y ago
The first nation to achieve accurate mobile laser defenses with rapid firing that could shoot down ICBM's could take out the primary weapons of all of its enemies (and even friends). Chances are that its going to be the US. Should the
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by richliss 12y ago
Travel. The best age to travel is now. I had a similar amount of money due to redundancy so went and backpacked up the East coast of Australia for 4 months, sometimes on my own, and sometimes as part of organised coach tours and it was prob
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by richliss 12y ago
One of the things we can be truly proud of... kudos to the original designers and engineers who thought "Lets do it properly". My dad taught electrical engineering, and I think how reassuring the absolute confidence must have been
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by richliss 12y ago
Second person challenging your bullshit statement here... I've lived in London for a total 10 years and I've seen non-boris bike cyclists in Central London regularly do this: 1. Go through red lights. 2. Go through pedestrian cros
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by richliss 12y ago
The issue with Pay day loans are that they are by their nature unfair, and they're run by morally dubious people who have no issue with profiting from this unfairness. Therefore they target people who don't understand what the imp
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by richliss 13y ago
I agree... I visited Stockholm in the 90's and there were many many young people there that were defacto hipsters in they way they dressed, bought vinyl, used old film cameras like lomo's etc. etc. way before I saw the same in Lon

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