I’d more expect the revolt to be along the lines of calling Microsoft out for being a dick. More an intervention than a revolt.
The academic side is less bananas I will give you that. And your comment about 80m is spot on. The problem we have here in the UK, is that it's pretty easy to get a 2m HT and a license to use it. Huge swathes of…
Having met a lot of people I think the license gives some kind officialdom and status which they are otherwise lacking and desire. This is an attribute demanded by a large number of people with defective personalities.…
No one does this or cares. They care about delivery and keeping ROI high and costs down, not demanding platforms. I wouldn't draw any assumption that higher quality software is portable. I've seen monocultural genius…
Fintech here. Also large. We have no Macs. We will probably never have any. We have a lot of software which will most likely never work on them. None of our clients have them as well. Also another company we are related…
Windows doesn't matter to Microsoft now. The big sellers are Azure and Office 365 and they work on Macs. As for market share in the US, I very much doubt it's that high really. There are huge unimaginable swathes of…
I would really love ReactOS to replace windows. Genuinely would. But it's not there yet. I've tracked their development for years. As for VirtualBox and VMware, that means I have two operating systems instead of one :(
The ratio of cranks and weirdos to normal people is 9:1 with ham radio. It’s usually the other way round with other hobbies. The thing that gets me with ham radio is some see it as a social responsibility even here in…
Yep. I’m in the middle of switching from macOS back to windows because I need to do things I can’t do on macOS. I’ve had to build out a locked down windows 10 LTSC build to get anywhere near a sensible outcome for me. I…
Yes: memory ceiling is huge, WinRM is buggy and unreliable, performance is "variable", totally inconsistent handling of dates and times, being .Net it's UTF-16 internally so streams are painful to work with, escape…
Last month here in UK. After a package was stolen from my doorstep but the delivery driver said it was handed to receptionist. We don't have a receptionist, or a reception! I'm a "high hitter" customer. I have prime and…
I much prefer this approach as you only have to parse stuff once during the processing pipeline rather than at every step. Unfortunately after working with it for a few years I utterly despise PowerShell for many other…
Have you tried getting through to a human recently on Amazon retail support? It's quite difficult. First you have to negotiate with a bot with an IQ and service level of an angry wasp, then you get filtered through to…
We have 643 git repos. I'm not sure we could reconstruct all of those by going round 300 engineers' machines...
Knowing Amazon retail / services support, their data is gone and they'll be lucky if they raise anyone at all. If you pay $15k a month for AWS enterprise support, you will find someone who may or may not be able to help…
Smells like everyone in github I got told I was insane for backing up github. I clone all our github repos daily, zip them up and stuff them in S3
Not going to solve any problems by getting stressed at them. Have to approach them with a level head and detachment or you end up with emotional outcomes.
We have the same thing. We’re all just old though.
I’m not sure it does. I am almost completely stress free in my entire life. I drink a fair bit of coffee and red bull (both without sugar) and never have any sleep, stress or anxiety problems. The important thing with…
Sounds like when I worked for a large defence contractor. Except they didn’t have the competence to pull it off as well. I got to the end of this Twitter thread and basically shrugged. If you don’t like corporate…
This is not retail.
"It happens" is a bad defence.
In a court of law I am innocent until proven guilty. In technology circles I am guilty until proven innocent. That's the difference, the outcome of which is the technology provider can quite frankly fuck off.
65% of people who were asked with what question and what panel and what information provided? This whole idea is stupid. Another C program with and ability to run arbitrary code off the network written by idiots and…
HN is basically glued to CloudFlare from a business perspective so do we expect anything else?
I’d more expect the revolt to be along the lines of calling Microsoft out for being a dick. More an intervention than a revolt.
The academic side is less bananas I will give you that. And your comment about 80m is spot on. The problem we have here in the UK, is that it's pretty easy to get a 2m HT and a license to use it. Huge swathes of…
Having met a lot of people I think the license gives some kind officialdom and status which they are otherwise lacking and desire. This is an attribute demanded by a large number of people with defective personalities.…
No one does this or cares. They care about delivery and keeping ROI high and costs down, not demanding platforms. I wouldn't draw any assumption that higher quality software is portable. I've seen monocultural genius…
Fintech here. Also large. We have no Macs. We will probably never have any. We have a lot of software which will most likely never work on them. None of our clients have them as well. Also another company we are related…
Windows doesn't matter to Microsoft now. The big sellers are Azure and Office 365 and they work on Macs. As for market share in the US, I very much doubt it's that high really. There are huge unimaginable swathes of…
I would really love ReactOS to replace windows. Genuinely would. But it's not there yet. I've tracked their development for years. As for VirtualBox and VMware, that means I have two operating systems instead of one :(
The ratio of cranks and weirdos to normal people is 9:1 with ham radio. It’s usually the other way round with other hobbies. The thing that gets me with ham radio is some see it as a social responsibility even here in…
Yep. I’m in the middle of switching from macOS back to windows because I need to do things I can’t do on macOS. I’ve had to build out a locked down windows 10 LTSC build to get anywhere near a sensible outcome for me. I…
Yes: memory ceiling is huge, WinRM is buggy and unreliable, performance is "variable", totally inconsistent handling of dates and times, being .Net it's UTF-16 internally so streams are painful to work with, escape…
Last month here in UK. After a package was stolen from my doorstep but the delivery driver said it was handed to receptionist. We don't have a receptionist, or a reception! I'm a "high hitter" customer. I have prime and…
I much prefer this approach as you only have to parse stuff once during the processing pipeline rather than at every step. Unfortunately after working with it for a few years I utterly despise PowerShell for many other…
Have you tried getting through to a human recently on Amazon retail support? It's quite difficult. First you have to negotiate with a bot with an IQ and service level of an angry wasp, then you get filtered through to…
We have 643 git repos. I'm not sure we could reconstruct all of those by going round 300 engineers' machines...
Knowing Amazon retail / services support, their data is gone and they'll be lucky if they raise anyone at all. If you pay $15k a month for AWS enterprise support, you will find someone who may or may not be able to help…
Smells like everyone in github I got told I was insane for backing up github. I clone all our github repos daily, zip them up and stuff them in S3
Not going to solve any problems by getting stressed at them. Have to approach them with a level head and detachment or you end up with emotional outcomes.
We have the same thing. We’re all just old though.
I’m not sure it does. I am almost completely stress free in my entire life. I drink a fair bit of coffee and red bull (both without sugar) and never have any sleep, stress or anxiety problems. The important thing with…
Sounds like when I worked for a large defence contractor. Except they didn’t have the competence to pull it off as well. I got to the end of this Twitter thread and basically shrugged. If you don’t like corporate…
This is not retail.
"It happens" is a bad defence.
In a court of law I am innocent until proven guilty. In technology circles I am guilty until proven innocent. That's the difference, the outcome of which is the technology provider can quite frankly fuck off.
65% of people who were asked with what question and what panel and what information provided? This whole idea is stupid. Another C program with and ability to run arbitrary code off the network written by idiots and…
HN is basically glued to CloudFlare from a business perspective so do we expect anything else?