It's expensive to keep binary groups online (bandwidth) and the text groups are all SPAM these days. Edit: Forgot to say that the tech is fine; a member of my family operates a usenet server over in Switzerland for our…
I understand LINQ very well (right down to code generation and expression trees) but unfortunately I work with a lot of other people's code. Perhaps that is the problem? :-) More seriously, the thing has really leaky…
We do no LINQ near the database so some of those assumptions aren't valid here. We use NH criteria for that. The coalesce operator in C# 5 is welcome but then introduces another problem: var x =…
The problem is that it's a complex trade off whichever way you turn. Knowing which trade off to make is difficult for many people as it requires knowing all of the assumptions and conditions that are before and after…
Not a great fan of LINQ if I'm honest. Sure it's terse and powerful but with it comes great responsibility and a relatively large pile of tasty landmines. Three regular problems I see: FirstOrDefault being passed 2 rows…
Conversely it hosed my test machine (a clone of my main one). I would never risk a shotgun upgrade; I can't afford to lose a day fixing it. YMMV basically.
You're right, but "least shit" is not the best position to occupy.
My entire outlay is now a single laptop running CentOS 7, a desktop as a backup machine if I kill the laptop, some earphones, a dumbphone and a USB stick and USB mp3 player in the car. I rsync the USB stick for the car…
I'm right there now. I just simplified everything by going back and looking for the technological singularity where everything just worked. This is a really hard and uncomfortable thing after years of convenience along…
I've never had coffee come out of my nose before. Thank you for that experience :) I just sat through an hour of shit like that. My eyelids were so heavy they nearly became a singularity.
Look for smaller companies and individual recruiters first. If they get you an interview in under 48 hours for a non shonky outfit and are willing to discuss your terms rather than enforcing theirs then you're probably…
I think that's not true. They do not consider their privacy nor understand the consequences.
You're right on all the points there. I did find that you can play recruiters off against each other quite easily to negotiate a higher rate. Also when you sign, you sign with the company not the recruiter and have a…
Very true. Also the advice about marketing yourself is crap. Recruiters are the #1 way of landing contracts. They're finders and you're paying a finders fee for that service. They have the big guys with oodles of cash…
No one wanted this implementation. There are plenty of ways of solving exactly the problems without the amorphous concept of the cloud without introducing any burden on the user. I have a 3 desktops, 2 laptops, a NAS…
I spent a number of years working for nefarious defence contractors so the paranoia is somewhat justified. My paranoia is clearly required as I've been responsible for the security architecture at a number of financial…
I assure you this is not specious. We have to test against the lowest common denominator so we're not using Enterprise or VL for this nor are the machines domain members. The privacy policy changes violate our network…
That's fine. That's no different to an IP address or a DNS record or something that you'd put on an envelope. That is public information. The content of our communications is the matter under consideration i.e the…
No as that information is public. What we talk about isn't.
I was a QRP operator so that's actually quite funny.
This is incidentally why I run a hefty firewall for outgoing traffic and most endpoints can't access the internet at all.
I'm actually not free to not use it. I have to test our product on these systems and therefore I will need at least a virtual machine instance of it. I have no option not to use a Microsoft account because the majority…
Yes. It's as dumb as a 3310.
Actually in the UK it is covered by the Data Protection Act. Interesting times ahead. If you knowingly or unknowningly give personal information away without my consent this is illegal.
I'm using Nokia 106. Calls. Texts. Nothing else. I turn it off at 6pm and on at 9am. Doesn't have data, GPS, Bluetooth or WiFi so that's not a problem. The best it gives is rough triangulation data from cell towers but…
It's expensive to keep binary groups online (bandwidth) and the text groups are all SPAM these days. Edit: Forgot to say that the tech is fine; a member of my family operates a usenet server over in Switzerland for our…
I understand LINQ very well (right down to code generation and expression trees) but unfortunately I work with a lot of other people's code. Perhaps that is the problem? :-) More seriously, the thing has really leaky…
We do no LINQ near the database so some of those assumptions aren't valid here. We use NH criteria for that. The coalesce operator in C# 5 is welcome but then introduces another problem: var x =…
The problem is that it's a complex trade off whichever way you turn. Knowing which trade off to make is difficult for many people as it requires knowing all of the assumptions and conditions that are before and after…
Not a great fan of LINQ if I'm honest. Sure it's terse and powerful but with it comes great responsibility and a relatively large pile of tasty landmines. Three regular problems I see: FirstOrDefault being passed 2 rows…
Conversely it hosed my test machine (a clone of my main one). I would never risk a shotgun upgrade; I can't afford to lose a day fixing it. YMMV basically.
You're right, but "least shit" is not the best position to occupy.
My entire outlay is now a single laptop running CentOS 7, a desktop as a backup machine if I kill the laptop, some earphones, a dumbphone and a USB stick and USB mp3 player in the car. I rsync the USB stick for the car…
I'm right there now. I just simplified everything by going back and looking for the technological singularity where everything just worked. This is a really hard and uncomfortable thing after years of convenience along…
I've never had coffee come out of my nose before. Thank you for that experience :) I just sat through an hour of shit like that. My eyelids were so heavy they nearly became a singularity.
Look for smaller companies and individual recruiters first. If they get you an interview in under 48 hours for a non shonky outfit and are willing to discuss your terms rather than enforcing theirs then you're probably…
I think that's not true. They do not consider their privacy nor understand the consequences.
You're right on all the points there. I did find that you can play recruiters off against each other quite easily to negotiate a higher rate. Also when you sign, you sign with the company not the recruiter and have a…
Very true. Also the advice about marketing yourself is crap. Recruiters are the #1 way of landing contracts. They're finders and you're paying a finders fee for that service. They have the big guys with oodles of cash…
No one wanted this implementation. There are plenty of ways of solving exactly the problems without the amorphous concept of the cloud without introducing any burden on the user. I have a 3 desktops, 2 laptops, a NAS…
I spent a number of years working for nefarious defence contractors so the paranoia is somewhat justified. My paranoia is clearly required as I've been responsible for the security architecture at a number of financial…
I assure you this is not specious. We have to test against the lowest common denominator so we're not using Enterprise or VL for this nor are the machines domain members. The privacy policy changes violate our network…
That's fine. That's no different to an IP address or a DNS record or something that you'd put on an envelope. That is public information. The content of our communications is the matter under consideration i.e the…
No as that information is public. What we talk about isn't.
I was a QRP operator so that's actually quite funny.
This is incidentally why I run a hefty firewall for outgoing traffic and most endpoints can't access the internet at all.
I'm actually not free to not use it. I have to test our product on these systems and therefore I will need at least a virtual machine instance of it. I have no option not to use a Microsoft account because the majority…
Yes. It's as dumb as a 3310.
Actually in the UK it is covered by the Data Protection Act. Interesting times ahead. If you knowingly or unknowningly give personal information away without my consent this is illegal.
I'm using Nokia 106. Calls. Texts. Nothing else. I turn it off at 6pm and on at 9am. Doesn't have data, GPS, Bluetooth or WiFi so that's not a problem. The best it gives is rough triangulation data from cell towers but…