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spacecowboy_lon
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
Explain stack ranking and PRP then
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
But its the non french international firms that get raided :-)
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
Are they? I worked for a top 5 consultanting enginers and the buck stoped with us in ters of the desugn all the archtects did was make it look purty.
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
It was more the nack of seating the floppys on the erlier drives 3000 and 4000 starting the drive running before closing the door and a sharp tap in the right place.
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
I was told this as well by a CTO at BT who had worked in the UK and in SV and he commented that he got as much work from the UK as he did USA (2 weeks leave) and remember british telecom is an ex Civil Sevice orgaisation (think the laundry
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
Will have to have a look at home - you have made me feel guilty about not geting on with learning keyboard. I amasuing it will work with VST'is running in live or cubase.
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
And the comadore disk drives I used to know all of the diferent models quirks
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
lol you can tell who the old school Fortan programers are a sthey will use i and j
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
American Universities are 4 years and you don't get the same specilaistion like do in some countrys for exampel in the UK where the last two years you do your 3 or 4 A level subjects to prep for Uni where you dont have the major
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
In the UK Schools agressivly game the system to get sligtly dim kids to the required Grade C which is what they are scored on. Of course thise means ingnoring realy bright kids and dumping the ones needing help.
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
well on one of the large Uk Job sites I found a single misplaced rel=canonical tag cost 1/2 a million in less than a week :-)
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
The only problem is these Alternate methods are qute good for small low desity vilages but tend not to work very well at scale like the rapidly growing cites in china and india.
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
First breakout hit not so sure I heard nightvale name checked on the bus 3 months ago.
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
no it means a trusted third party has not verifed who you are connecting to is who he/she says they are
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
It's sad that they did not get that mega Casino - I stayed there a coupel of years ago and 15+ years ago Blockpools decline is shocking. No wonder the political parities no longer hold their conferences (conventions) at the winter ga
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
Justicable I belive is the term you can put whtever you like in a contract say only two weeks holiday in the UK. Even if you sign it that part of the contract will be considdred null and void - and you can efectivly ignore it as teh UK
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
mm must htry an dfind a copy I remember seeing the boo crew preenting at a first tuesday and was shocked how poor they where. I copuld have picked 3 first level managers from BT at rendom and woould have done a better job
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
Quite I once took a call for my dad (who's an EE) from some one who wanted a house rewiring I had to tell him oh he's working as a consultant for London underground on the upgrade to the Tube's power systems. Thers an st
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
Unfortuntly I think CP Snows two nations is still intact and its not the technical/sceintific side that has the whip hand - in the UK techies are regarded as greasy engineers not fit to press our nose against the window (to quote tom
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
ever here of boo :-) for the younger hn readers that was a fashion startup based in London that crashed and burned hard back in the 2000's
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
Depends on the suitation when I worled for BT another devloper and I developed in a month in a RAD/DSDM web project project what another part of the biz had quoted 2 years to develop. But we did have a depty CEO (Bruce Bond) as a spon
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
requireing fee from the candidates isn't that ilegal?
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
Totaly agree with you but certianly in the city its a lot more overt. I know that more staid companies like publishers look down on thier technical staff as does the Pricipal civl service.
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
I saw this a BT in the UK the building services prt of teh comany got ideas above its staion and tried to move peopel out of central london. All the new buildings had poor transport links - they even tried to move the head office to "a
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spacecowboy_lon
12y ago
You have to have a thick skin a mate of mine got told by a big swinging dick in the city "I have a pair of shoes that cost more than your entire wardrobe"