batou

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by batou 11y ago
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 family. Works we
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by batou 11y ago
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 abstraction bounda
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by batou 11y ago
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 = myObject?.Property1?.Property2?.Pr
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by batou 11y ago
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 the call as well a
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by batou 11y ago
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 = non-dete
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by batou 11y ago
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.
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by batou 11y ago
Compare to the Fiat Doblo Owner's Manual, which happens to be "Doblo eLEARN technical manual" because the effing thing breaks every 2 minutes... I long for a simple vehicle again.
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by batou 11y ago
You're right, but "least shit" is not the best position to occupy.
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by batou 11y ago
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 periodically and that
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by batou 11y ago
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 the same lines o
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by batou 11y ago
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.
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by batou 11y ago
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 ok. The big ones
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by batou 11y ago
I think that's not true. They do not consider their privacy nor understand the consequences.
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by batou 11y ago
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 solid contract in
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by batou 11y ago
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 to get hold
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by batou 11y ago
Conversations (SMS backup), photos (onedrive), email (outlook/office365), calls (skype) etc etc.
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by batou 11y ago
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 and 2 servers and hav
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by batou 11y ago
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 companies and ha
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by batou 11y ago
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 AUP, security pol
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by batou 11y ago
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 content of
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by batou 11y ago
No as that information is public. What we talk about isn't.
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by batou 11y ago
I was a QRP operator so that's actually quite funny.
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by batou 11y ago
This is incidentally why I run a hefty firewall for outgoing traffic and most endpoints can't access the internet at all.
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by batou 11y ago
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 of the functiona
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by batou 11y ago
Yes. It's as dumb as a 3310.
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by batou 11y ago
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.
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by batou 11y ago
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 I can
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by batou 11y ago
I've done that. They revert to traditional methods like phone calls when they want or need something. Every time. Sucks to be you if your relationships, be they business or personal, are as fragile as a volatile technology.
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by batou 11y ago
Google are just as bad. I've moved to a dumbphone and an IMAP mailbox at an independent company. I tried Android but that was pretty much impossible to keep control of (Moto G 2, Android 5.0)
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by batou 11y ago
Absolutely no one wanted it. No one asked for it. We were spun a load of marketing disguised as listening and attention. This turned out to be exactly what Microsoft wanted which was another aggressive move against customers both business a

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