walshemj

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by walshemj 6y ago
And ho many developer hours are you spending doing this at scale? - I doing this in 95 doing this for BT worldwide's Intranet.
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by walshemj 6y ago
Forming is one thing actually getting recognition is much harder.
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by walshemj 6y ago
From the UK the IWW is seen not as a real union but as a "club" - the is a direct quote to me from a DGS (Senior Union Officer) They do seem stuck cosplaying Edwardian trades union activists - instead of actually concentrating o
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by walshemj 6y ago
Actually the BBC color monitor was very cheap - at the time a color Vt100 clone cost over £2k the BBC one was £800 approx. The basic Tektronix graphics display was a lot! more
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by walshemj 6y ago
Not given the conditions in the west, Comparing conditions in one culture with radically different areas with different access to $ and other services - clean water for example. Some parts of the world still have mortality rates of over 20%
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by walshemj 6y ago
Yes I suspect they don't mean they would give up on inheriting their mum & dads home
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by walshemj 6y ago
And IVY (Oxbridge and ENA as well) Grads are massively massively over represented in high status and positions of power. I dont think that article is written in good faith its more like it has been written to keep the poor's and the &q
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by walshemj 6y ago
Or the concentration of traditional media in the hands of a small number of individuals.
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by walshemj 6y ago
Remind me again how well the judge driven breakup of AT&T worked. You would also have to remove the ability any state or city to carve out exceptions
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by walshemj 6y ago
Doesn't explain why European countries don't seem to have the systemic failures that the US is prone to.
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by walshemj 6y ago
Surprised the VMS guys just did not already know about emacs as TECO was one of the forbears of emacs I believe.
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by walshemj 6y ago
Very much so I (UK) have made some nice tax free returns on FTSE 100 companies share saves. Pity we didn't get an exit back in 2000 when I had 0.5% of Poptel (everyone was a dollar millionaire at one point). At the moment I have EMI s
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by walshemj 6y ago
Sounds like pets.com all over again and I am glad I just started diversifying into gold.
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by walshemj 6y ago
Using childish terms like "silly" does not help the debate its also the same sort of term like "gold plated" used to attack civil service pensions.
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by walshemj 6y ago
And I have seen several Germen developers on here saying they are not seen as high status professionals.
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by walshemj 6y ago
You not counting that bank manager in Cambridge that funded Acorn (aka ARM)
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by walshemj 6y ago
Well I normally work with a well known brand and we often have main client 2 -3 locations two or three agencies agencies plus our dev/project teams a Liviv . Trying to get things done properly is very hard if we could have even kicko
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by walshemj 6y ago
With the move to much more remote work this will be a problem for people like this. 1 Write down the issues you need to convey / discuss as bullet points. 2 Metaphorically put your self into a role and play it. Longer term if you want
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by walshemj 6y ago
But collocated teams are still more efficient - there's plenty of studies that prove that. And my current job quite often has multiple teams from multiple employers/agencies from multiple time zones - even being able to have key m
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by walshemj 6y ago
Dodged a bullet there.
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by walshemj 6y ago
Me too not to go all four yorkshire man here, but I can remember when you would have to write your own plotting programs in Fortran and then wait for the pen plotter to slowly draw your plot. And not that long before that you would print th
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by walshemj 6y ago
It was in 3/4 and 4/4 Checkout this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_GY3DB8pL4 which breaks down the arangment
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by walshemj 6y ago
"coders" is just such a red flag here
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by walshemj 6y ago
Yes you can see horror stories in the UK press of well of people (100's of k) putting all their life savings into a single boiler room stock scam.
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by walshemj 6y ago
Actually all of those issues are exactly what Unions representing mangers and professionals do in the UK work on. I have seen a lot of cases relating to "PRP" and Performance reviews.
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by walshemj 6y ago
It's not that simple to create an effective professional union you need to hire specific skills there is a limit to what lay officers/activists can do in there free time. Just remaining within the absolute letter of the law is com
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by walshemj 6y ago
The Activists or the Fulltimers? :-)
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by walshemj 6y ago
Who else would they work with in the USA? - as far as I know the civil service unions in the USA don't have members in the private sector.
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by walshemj 6y ago
In the USA in a tech company its ground breaking
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by walshemj 6y ago
Um this is the CWA i.e. local to the USA not the Global alliance which is UNI - the former President is Friend. Realistically AWU has to partner with another union initially standing up a brand new stand alone union with all the costs and d

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