setquk

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   by setquk 8y ago

   I think it's still valid but at the same time our stuff is crap too.
2. 362.▲
   by setquk 8y ago

   Interesting - thanks for posting!
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   by setquk 8y ago

   Edit: UK outage vendor confirmed as Ericsson: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-o2telefonica-outages/erics... Old paranoia filled post left below for reference. Thanks to saaaaaam for pointing the above link out.
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   by setquk 8y ago

   I was calling oracle and microsoft the alligator and crocodile for reference. The technology is good on both sides. The steer and the intention is dubious however. I have also used Java extensively, back when it popped up on Solaris for ref
5. 365.▲
   by setquk 8y ago

   I love how the term FUD is used, purely ironically after the decade of shit MSFT gave everyone else. It's only fair to treat them with suspicion. The reason for this is even if the current MSFT objectives are good then what is to say t
6. 366.▲
   by setquk 8y ago

   The irony of this is the original CLR worked on FreeBSD at MSR before it worked on Windows from what I heard. The original build toolchain was perl.
7. 367.▲
   by setquk 8y ago

   They are both malicious and incompetent for sure. Firstly because collecting data is more important than customer preference and secondly because when the customer did make a preference or state a preference they screwed up and told the cus
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   by setquk 8y ago

   They'd fuck it up if it existed. They shipped Debian packages that the environment variable didn't work on. Opt out telemetry is NOT an option. Opt in is. I've been fighting this position since they added it to .Net Core and
9. 369.▲
   by setquk 8y ago

   Versus the whole "we don't want telemetry on by default" argument which the response was "fuck off" then they shipped packages for Debian that the "disable the telemetry" environment variable didn't w
10. 370.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    Because they’re actually nowhere near as good as a DSLR and they want you to think they are.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    I still can’t get over the mental anguish caused by using Telerik’s ASP.Net control suite over ten years ago.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    I shall trade my alligator for a crocodile because he has a nice smile. Edit: I’ve bookmarked this link for when I quote it in about 6-7 years when it has all gone to shit.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    This. I raised an issue where Microsoft fucked up download prompting in IE9 (identified in beta released 2010) and broke ClickOnce launched via Javascript redirection. They haven't fixed it yet as of today (including in Edge!) and rep
14. 374.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    Stupid idea still stupid idea and they’re hoping everyone will forget.
15. 375.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    Might want to check the name for trademark violation...
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Yes it's pretty nasty. For generic stuff, the supermarket manipulates the supplier by pushing huge supply demands on them so they shoot their smaller customers. This leads to a single customer scenario, then the supermarket abuses thei
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Just wait :) If you look at the really cheap multimeters based on the DT830 design root they were originally derived from early Fluke DMMs circa 1985. Fluke hired Intersil to make the ASIC, Intersil second sourced it, the Chinese cloned it
18. 378.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    Interesting. I suppose your value add could be EMC, packaging, support and infrastructure on that.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    I’ve considered leveraging this in electronic manufacturing. Send design off to be cheaply fabricated, wait for it to appear on aliexpress as a clone with all BOM cost optimisation done free. Buy bulk lots and resell in local country. Bingo
20. 380.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    Assholes hire assholes. Eventually the assholes all float to the top and make asshole decisions. You can't win. This is a failure mode of every organisation I have ever seen.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    It’s down to individuals rather than culture in these things. By purely statistics, an organisation of any size has less than ethical people in it even if they have the best outward impression. Unfortunately these sorts of people tend to fa
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Also as a Microsoft customer since 1989, I agree. QA is definitely in the toilet. Every release is increasingly detrimental to the customer.
23. 383.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    Yes he really delivers for the shareholders. Customers however I’m not so sure. Time will tell.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Yes the heating elements are flexible and are easy to damage and they carry current at mains potential. Neither of those outcomes favour failing safe. Even the best quality unheated wires carrying current don't last that long mechanica
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    by setquk 8y ago

    I’m more surprised that people still use electric blankets. Utterly dangerous things. Now you can connect your state of the art 1950s tech to the cloud.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Just as a point, I’ve helped with open source projects under commercial interest. I’ve fixed bugs and created documentation and all I got was a fuck off or silence from the maintainers. So I don’t bother any more. Most of the time I build a
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    by setquk 8y ago

    Fair points.
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    by setquk 8y ago

    More relevant information at Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-crash-boeing-ex... Couple of interesting excerpts: Lion Air’s flight manual did not contain information about the new anti-stall syste
29. 389.▲
    by setquk 8y ago

    You can't and never could do so why implement it?
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    by setquk 8y ago

    At least Apple didn’t have a funeral for windows phone, switch the platform half way through pissing off every developer, stuff it full of telemetry and unreliable crap then can the whole platform and jump on the cloud all while deprecating