FourthProtocol

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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
My website started as html in 1995, vanilla html, not even css or Javascript. It has evolved to accommodate stats, and at some point (whenever it was that it was first released) I created an ASP template to manage headers, footers, contacts
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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
I'm somewhat surprised that strategy is only mentioned once (at time of writing). Strategy is vital for any leadership role. Sun Tsu is a classic, but can be difficult to assimilate. There are many resources on Wikipedia. Often overloo
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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
Linux is not an option for me. I think I've heard the "just move to Linix" thing more often than I've brushed my teeth. I'm staying with Windows both because I've been using Microsoft's tech since MS-Dos 2
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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
Admittedly I'm a greybeard. Wrote my first app in 1984. Moved through the ranks, from support to dev roles, application architecture, enterprise architecture and finially process optimisation. And so wow, those diagrams in the links -
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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
>> You’re not an expert in your field, otherwise you wouldn’t be publishing in a blog, but writing papers and giving interviews. >So there is no need for teachers and textbook authors, because they don't advance state of the a
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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
GDS did a great job building gov.uk, but everythig else they touched was an abject disaster. From the Diabetes project at the NHS, the fiasco that was the Office of the Public Guardian, the even bigger fiasco that happened at Border Force,
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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
Always had a thing for radio control, so eventually in 2015 or so I had a look online and discovered crawlers (1:10 scale replicas of 4x4/AWD/rock crawlers). There are quite a number available to purchase in ready to run form, and
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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
Thanks I didn't know that. Happily the only ASP.NET I work with is my website, which will stay with the stack I have until/unless my ISP demands an upgrade. Although being a literal greybeard I'll probably do the lazy thing a
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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
Thanks for the update. It's a timesaver.
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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
Top comment here is how many I interact with react when they discover my love of VB. net. Some food for thought, then: I wrote my first complete computer program in 1986. Since then I've programmed (or scripted) in Assembler, BASIC, C,
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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
Well, apparently the story was conceived by a German, in which case the social system would catch him, provide the health care he needs, and when recovered he'd be back on that beach...
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by FourthProtocol 3y ago
This started out as a password mangager. It evolved into a graph database coff after reading Linked - How Everything is Connected to Everything Else https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Interact/History.aspx Still
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
Disagree 50%. Before you write any code (Corp World) you need a few diagrams detailing what and how you're going to build a thing. These lead to discussions and are refined/evolve into something you can start coding up. Exanples -
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
I struggle understanding cloud-based storage on anything personally mine. I want my music where I am. Same for video, and ESPECIALLY documents. Still using Windows Media Player, too.
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
I've been doing architecture since 2003 and I've written down the things I do regularly as an architect - https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/work
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
I have a home-baked system like this, mostly just files in folders and in some cases HTML-based indexes. It's not perfect and nowhere near as usable as Recall looks, but it works for me nonetheless. I won't use Recall. It's j
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
Well put. He's my 2nd favourite composer, behind Dvorak. Also this excerpt from the article made me smile - " which makes one regret that Rachmaninoff neglected chamber music in his maturity. " Bet if he hadn't everyone&
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
I've done so much work in this space that I wrote up a patern that I modify as needed. The only data-specific issues you'll encounter are the underwriting rules - each insurer has their own secret sauce that they guard very closel
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
Indeed so. I've been following nuclear in Germany ever since those railroad protests when they tried to transport nuclear waste from somewhere to somewhere else which I thought was crazy (the protests). The part I felt had merit is tha
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
These are technical controls - are you sure they're the right ones for your organisation - - or even needed? Organisations that comply with the GDPR typically employ a data protection officer - the person responsible for creating or ov
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
I was in that self same queue and also made it through surprisingly quick, only for my flight to Frankfurt being cancelled. Back at LHR now for round two.
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
I note that many blog on their personal web site. I decided against that back in the early 2000's, when it got popular - I just didn't want to face not having a clue what to write about next. The site's always been hosted wit
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
I use Windows Explorer. Simple folder names like work, with subfolders for employers. Another folder for car, identity, one for medical, another for my son with subfolders for reports, pictures he drew, etc. I can find anything very quickly
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
They were ideas of the top of my head. And what if he/she DOES enjoy that aspect? I'm a snowboarder and love it. The point is to have an open mind. Like it? Great. If not, also great, no?
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
The caveat, I think, is that what he describes is quintessentially American. I'm pretty well travelled and have only seen such overt and absolute polarisation in the US. I'm sure there are others but I haven't seen it in Euro
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by FourthProtocol 4y ago
With things like (marathon) running, hiking, it is easy to meassure Objective progress and qutie hard to moneteize. Well, no. You can do sooo much here. Log your hike, provide coordinates of off-the-beaten-track routes and sites, provide
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Move as far away as possible is about all I can think of. Punta Arens, Cape Town (my first option), maybe Christchurch or Dunedin...
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Requirements are easy, people are not. It's great talking about user stories and use cases and rapid prototyping - but how do you know you have the RIGHT use cases and user stories...? What follows is one way to get requierments right
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
It's relevant because your GP asked specifically whether I was talking about network design.
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by FourthProtocol 5y ago
Messaging middleware such as queues is mostly redundant. Simplistically - Client -- If you cache a new submission (message) locally before submitting, you just keep re-submitting until the server returns an ACK for that submission; and you

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