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by shubb 9y ago
There are places where good technical recruiters earn substantially more than programmers - if they get 10% year salary (which I understand is not the highest number you might see), they only need ~1 successful placement a month to make rea
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by shubb 9y ago
Now that's a little pessimistic. Look at the graph: http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/spending_chart_1950_2010UK... Exactly what would make the next decade special compared to the last 5? If lack of growth is unusual t
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by shubb 9y ago
A large part of this article discusses future liabilities, but makes no mention of growth. For instance, it says total UK liabilities are 1000 times gdp, but past gdp growth over the same duration those liabilities are amortised over is 30
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by shubb 9y ago
Clearly SiteGround is not quite so salable as Heap...
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There are other aspects to programming quality that matter to outsiders more than idiomatic purity and The Latest Framework. These are the kinds of things which in other fields, real engineering, are covered by codes. The security of the sy
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by shubb 9y ago
A lot of people don't like regulation on general principal, but it's important. We need laws to stop people just taking stuff from stores and we need laws to stop companies destroying rivers or putting employees at risk. One driv
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by shubb 9y ago
This was the idea of alphabet - Google the search engine is one of the companies Alphabet holds. Google is an established company that can be milked but revenue has probably grown as much as it can. To continue to show growth, alphabet plan
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by shubb 9y ago
While this is true, sometimes you work on a very large project, the end goal of which you will never see and don't really understand. The abstractness of the work you are doing can be challenging for people who like to be excited about
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by shubb 9y ago
There are other roles like that in large organisations. Release management, standards compliance in regulated industries, maybe scrum master jobs.
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That seems like a wierd expectation for evaluating peoples home side projects. One reason people do side projects to develop and demonstrate effectiveness with technologies they don't use at work. If I saw someone using a familiar and
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by shubb 9y ago
Sadly this. Speculating on why - Doing development work, whether it is application development or infrastructure automation, is really hard if you are being interupted frequently. Traditionally, you avoid interupting programmers by putting
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by shubb 9y ago
There is very little accademic research on Scrum. This person has done some stuff on some aspects: https://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/publicationsAll.ht...
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Hackernews - it's another world
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In terms of why we'd want to, there is this note here: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/comparison-to-java.htm... Other factors to consider are tools support, how often interoprability with java librarie
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by shubb 9y ago
This is a really good thing, and thank you for showing it to me. Something like this could be good if you wanted to rapidly switch between different compartments on a single device. It would be great for e.g. keeping a 'sensitive data&
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by shubb 9y ago
Have a fun laptop, a work laptop, and maybe banking tablet? As a good corporate drone, this arrangement is kind of forced on me, but a lot of small company / startup folks totally mix the two. Might be a good thing to not do. Sure it d
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by shubb 9y ago
It seems that a root problem is not the proprietary OS, but the proprietary and abandoned drivers, hardware management tools, and patient record systems the obsolete OS is required to support. Open source might be part of the answer to this
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by shubb 9y ago
NHS systems are remarkably un-integrated. Communication, especially between trusts and external organisations like GPs, is often by email. I'll be surprised if this isn't an email worm.
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by shubb 9y ago
There are alternatives to patents - for example hosting research intensive parts of your system in the cloud. This is pretty much what is happening with speech recognition these days among other things. No need to worry about opensource, or
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by shubb 10y ago
Can you drop a link?
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by shubb 10y ago
It's worth pointing out that certain normal business practices can feel unethical to us (programmers) because of conditioning. For instance, a good deal in business is one where you all a good for more than it costs. If you were a free
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by shubb 10y ago
I tried this a while ago - its okay so long as you are doing specific, limited activities. If you need to explore beyond the things that you have already figured out for to do it slows you down. Websites you need don't work in lynx, An
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by shubb 10y ago
It's interesting - masks of sanity was an attempt to explain low level serial criminals who were unable to hold a life together. Those folks have little in common with a successful but amoral ceo, or even our powertripping middle manag
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by shubb 10y ago
Okay,so outside battle, what useful things could we do with this? For instance, stick it on a drone and use it to weed a field from 1000 ft?
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by shubb 10y ago
Presumably the amount of energy dumped into the target is a function of how long the laser dot is on it. You'd probably need the laser on a particular area of the target a little while to disable it. If your target is ducking behind wa
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by shubb 10y ago
I wonder how it will effect other vendors - ms is hosting email and storage for lots of UK.gov and health stuff, also amazon.
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by shubb 10y ago
I don't think this is a problem you'll solve with books. To some extent code is a matter of taste, and good taste is more important than you'd think. You need to talk about each change and figure out what is driving it. Why
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by shubb 10y ago
Not trusting vendors is part of the job. IT departments will typically turn off automatic updates from vendors, and instead role them out in an automated way that they control. If they are too slow in doing that, then they are doing it wron
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by shubb 10y ago
Not disagreeing, but a way to avoid this is to pull changes from the main branch into the development branch every day, and write your new subsystem 'beside' the old one until it is ready to go. If you do it like this, it's n
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by shubb 10y ago
Note to self, if need to socially engineer my way into the equipment room at a large company, pretend to be an IBM tech answering a phone home...

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