grahamm

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by grahamm 2y ago
To me this is a key change in a direct reports development. When they first start they need to be told what tasks to do; then they develop to asking for permission to do tasks that find or know need to be done; and finally they are telling
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by grahamm 2y ago
it is full of bugs. on my tablet on YouTube I can't leave comments until I have tapped 20 odd smiley faces and waited 20 seconds to 2 minutes.
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by grahamm 2y ago
Always have blue ink on the side of my hand where I have dragged my hand across the page and through my writing. Fountain pens were particularly messy.
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by grahamm 2y ago
I am so glad Titchmarsh's trousers are a threat to the North Korean regimes hold on it's people. What else can we throw at them, Angela Rippon's legs?
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by grahamm 2y ago
Not even comparable. The amount the water companies have been draining into rivers and the sea around the UK is embarrassing, especially when they still pay out dividends to share holders while claiming they need more money for investment i
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by grahamm 2y ago
In the southeast of England where would this storage reservoir be?
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by grahamm 3y ago
I filmed it on my phone so I can watch it roll over later...
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by grahamm 3y ago
Why am I not surprised.
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by grahamm 4y ago
Yes the days of SCOC were great but the days of SCOX were dark. I left just before the Caldera take over.
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by grahamm 4y ago
At last some sense. You also cannot build your way out of a housing crisis. Something the UK government and local councils haven't yet understood.
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by grahamm 4y ago
They (imho) ruined Spitalfields market when it was developed a decade or so ago. A similar large open space market that used to serve indoor independent food stalls; a market and indoor 5 a side football. Half of the market was lost to offi
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by grahamm 4y ago
Never really felt the need but I suppose there has always been an updated_when field, so for something that is deleted the updated_when provides the time stamp.
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by grahamm 4y ago
I agree, programming is still fun. Problem is my job has changed due to my age and experience and has migrated into something I don't want to do or can't do that well, managing others and the project as a whole. I get to do less o
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by grahamm 4y ago
'A'gile is broken and should be stopped. I am seriously considering doing something else than the job I love for the reasons in this post.
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by grahamm 4y ago
I think it is as much as where you consume it. Supermarket prices for alcohol have increased but no where nearly as much as in pubs and bars. So the drinking is happening somewhere else and not in pubs. The increase in prices can probably m
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by grahamm 4y ago
Probably get burnt for this but too many animated gifs.
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by grahamm 4y ago
Agreed, so many times I've raised paging with an internal API provider only to be told they can retrofit it later if needed. Then you start to use production data and bam the one call doesn't work.
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by grahamm 4y ago
Seems to be the same story over and over. I am also a senior dev who was was taken in as tech lead which on day one turned in to scrum master but told to keep it light and develop at the same time. Then the team grew and the role became tea
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by grahamm 5y ago
"Babbage had the habit of trying to upsell his investors into a more complex, more risky, more academically interesting device without completing the last one." Omg the oracle business model was born....
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by grahamm 5y ago
I would love to do that but unfortunately every organisation I've been in demands that I set them at the start of the year. Then at the end of the year I can reflect on all the goals that were no longer relevant because plans change an
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by grahamm 5y ago
PM person, any chance of having a word with those who decided to charge the free gsuite plan users? I think I gave you over 10 years of free testing. I know I've had it good for for many years but I run my family email on it and it is
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by grahamm 5y ago
And if your company wants to "flatten the structure" running into that person is more likely and you will run in to them. I also have a problem with ex-developers who work their way up the structure with time. Generally they drif
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by grahamm 5y ago
I think SCO (SCOC not SCOX) ported so much of their own and MS stuff from Xenix 2.3.2 to 2.3.4 over to SCO UNIX SysV 3.2v2.0 to keep MS Word working I can well imagine (and I think I recall) that MS got royalty kick for every SysV Release 3
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by grahamm 6y ago
At SCO in the mid-90s we were playing with very similar ideas to boost DB performance. The main motivation was the same then as it is now, don't block and avoid making system calls into the kernel once up and running. Don't recall
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by grahamm 6y ago
I think people forget what it was designed for. It was to reboot IT education which was (is) badly floundering. It's success was so good it started to be used in small commercial applications. The Foundation tried to help fill this gap
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by grahamm 6y ago
Slightly further up the coast is Mersea Island. One road out to the island the Strood is tidal ( https://www.visitmerseaisland.co.uk/blog/72-how-do-i-check-t... ). Catches out visitors once or twice a year with the odd s
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by grahamm 8y ago
On a weekend just have to avoid the road there. Yes it is busy but what makes it so awful is everyone slowing down to 20mph so they can gawk at it. Then there is the inevitable shunts as someone forgets to brake in a line of traffic. Person
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by grahamm 8y ago
It is a very sensitive area for conservationists and historians. Pretty well guarantee that if they started to dig a hole to build a new road they would find something of interest that would delay the build and make the cost sky rocket.
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by grahamm 8y ago
I use Lombok all the time. Yes it has some awful bits but generally it's positives outweigh it's negatives.
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by grahamm 8y ago
My only caveat on (2) is when you have coffee make time to stop and listen to your direct report and stop in a place they feel comfortable and can talk open and freely. I had a manager once that stomped his way around a mall. Spent the whol

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