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541.
by setquk 8y ago
Jenkins is one of those things that looks good until you trip over the numerous bugs in it. Such as the slightly terribly leaky implementation that hoses itself once a week, the severely million inodes it decides to gobble up which makes ba
542.
by setquk 8y ago
I saw a lot of people paid 20% more commission once due to a bug. They honoured the payments as well.
543.
by setquk 8y ago
It’s ok running your mail server until yahoo black list you and there is no recourse for 6 months other than all email to yahoo will be deferred permanently. Unfortunately I know lots of people on yahoo (still) and no amount of brow beating
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by setquk 8y ago
Agree entirely. However docker for Linux running .net core is a good option. Automating Windows is the biggest cost in these environments. It’s just not worth the hassle because even on the best of days with the best tools at hand it barely
545.
by setquk 8y ago
I’ve built some big things on SVN. The same mistakes you make in SVN are totally portable to git as well. This isn’t talked about much because people are too ashamed to admit that it wasn’t the tools and was the process and management of th
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by setquk 8y ago
Tooling. Visual Studio doesn’t scale to large projects (2MLOC+). It’s still a 32 bit app and it regularly just throws the towel in and crashes. Build toolchain. MSbuild performance sucks among other things. Also Consider VSTO build toolchai
547.
by setquk 8y ago
WPF, WCF churn, silverlight, appfabric/velocity, the disaster that was windows workflow etc etc
548.
by setquk 8y ago
No it’s really not. We’ve been left SOL on numerous occasions and the churn rate is so high that it’s literally only safe to use the bits right at the middle of their products. And we’re talking on a relatively short three year window here.
549.
by setquk 8y ago
The core of it is very good but the tooling falls on its arse on large projects and the build toolchain is dire and the update mill and roadmap schizophrenia has not been friendly. Also integration with other MSFT products is eyeball gratin
550.
by setquk 8y ago
Indeed. It’s also only cheap until you find a company that was entirely powered by sticky tape and string in excel and the resident excel expert rides his motorbike into the back of a truck. I have been the clean up guy there. Reverse engin
551.
by setquk 8y ago
Yep. He delivers. People are too obsessed about when. Shits’s complicated.
552.
by setquk 8y ago
Or just two DCs in active/active. Still works out cheaper for workloads than AWS does even factoring staff in at this point. AWS always turns into cost and administrative chaos as well unless it is tightly controlled which in itself is
553.
by setquk 8y ago
You can but that’s another costly layer of complexity and distribution to worry about. One of the failure modes I see a lot is failing to factor in latency in distributed systems. Mainly because most systems don’t benefit at all from distri
554.
by setquk 8y ago
I’m starting to favour buying physical rack space again and running everything 2005 style with a light weight ansible layer. As long as your workload is predictable, the lock in, unpredictability, navigation through the maze of billing, wei
555.
by setquk 8y ago
We had our own local version of this a few years back in London: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/news...
556.
by setquk 8y ago
Thank you for pointing this feature out. I had no idea what that flag did.
557.
by setquk 8y ago
Can confirm. No wait, the first thing I did was check HN and now am reading this and oh there's another interesting thing.
558.
by setquk 8y ago
Sounds very much like doublethink.
559.
by setquk 8y ago
Probably correct. It’s a very expensive way to prove ones motivation however.
560.
by setquk 8y ago
This was exactly my experience 20 years ago. Shame things haven’t changed.
561.
by setquk 8y ago
This doesn't surprise me really. When I was at university the programming textbooks we had were vile nasty and plainly incorrect. And those of us who dared challenge it by writing correct, robust code were penalised as the staff teachi
562.
by setquk 8y ago
Not a single item has arrived broken or non functional. I’ve had some extremely discerning buyers. I don’t sell generic stuff for ref. Specialist restored items. Mainly specialist equipment 40-50 years old that has been restored to new cond
563.
by setquk 8y ago
It’s a combination of reputation and the description. I’ve sold hundreds of mid value items with no negative feedback.
564.
by setquk 8y ago
There are buyer restrictions you can set up that stop this.
565.
by setquk 8y ago
I was too. If you list it as "spares/repair only because no returns on XYZ" then it doesn't affect final value. I use this when selling vintage equipment because while fit for purpose at the point of sale it could blow u
566.
by setquk 8y ago
ebay seller protection is pointless either way as the decisions are arbitrary. The receipt offers you protection as in if you have to take the buyer to small claims court or defend yourself then you are covered for transfer of goods. If you
567.
by setquk 8y ago
It’s not that bad. I sell a lot of stuff and have had no problems with scammers other than a couple of people doing a buy it now and then wanting stuff shipped to Lagos etc and payment via money order. You just cancel the sale and relist th
568.
by setquk 8y ago
The ceramic ones never cost 15 cents.
569.
by setquk 8y ago
That’s just crappy circuit design if they do that.
570.
by setquk 8y ago
741 problems: terrible bias current, offset, input range, output range, power consumption, voltage requirements, GBW, noise. They’re just horrid. Fine for noddy stuff like power supplies and PID loops etc though.

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