mpalfrey

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by mpalfrey 1y ago
Decent talent pool. Decent tooling. Been around for long enough that a lot of the quirks of it are well known and documented. Basically it's a blue collar programming language without too many gotchas. Modern(ish) day Cobol. (I'm
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by mpalfrey 2y ago
I still am a bit of a 3dfx fanboy. Ended up emailing 3dfx at one stage and got sent a load of posters and case stickers (remember those?). I had a Voodoo Banshee which was a fairly decent card (not quite as good as a Voodoo 2, but better th
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by mpalfrey 2y ago
I always say if I can reproduce a bug, I can fix it. Hardest thing is reproducing a bug reliably.
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by mpalfrey 2y ago
I went on a stag do (bachelor party for non-Brits) last year. The groom had just returned from Chicago on a business trip the morning we went away. He brought back a bottle of Malört. I developed a taste for it that weekend - it's not
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by mpalfrey 2y ago
AEB at 62mph is likely to be pretty damn scary. I've experienced it slamming on at slow speeds and it's pretty aggressive.
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by mpalfrey 2y ago
Not too many even in London really.
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by mpalfrey 2y ago
+1 for formal methods in Z. I've still got the book at my dad's house. My first year of uni also had a pretty evil pure maths course which was worth a high percentage of the year. Not much fun.
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by mpalfrey 2y ago
I'm flying LHR -> MEL on Friday on Singapore Airlines (on a 777 actually for LHR -> SIN). I tend to keep my seat belt fairly loosly fastened throughout the flight. At least once I've experienced bad turbulence around where t
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by mpalfrey 3y ago
Have used this for number stations in the past. It's great - amazing what you can still find on shortwave.
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by mpalfrey 3y ago
I worked for NDS when they were acquired by Cisco. They've spat them back out a few years ago. Not entirely sure Cisco should have got into the video space. I enjoyed Cisco (great 4th July parties!) but it never felt like we were prope
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by mpalfrey 3y ago
This is well worth listening to. Great podcast.
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by mpalfrey 3y ago
Good map. As someone who grew up in Cardiff it doesn't surprise me to see this distribution. A lot of media roles are also billingual in Cardiff. I've got a GCSE in Welsh (having been one of the first years to have to do it mandat
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by mpalfrey 3y ago
I kind of agree with this. I used to work for a large enterprise software company and I often made the point that you'd have to jump through hoops to get approval to spend a couple of hundred EUR, but you could call a meeting with 30+
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by mpalfrey 3y ago
+1 for an awesome interview experience. I had an offer last year which I didn't end up accepting (for various reasons) but I walked away from the process having actually enjoyed it.
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by mpalfrey 3y ago
Exactly the same here. I had email hosted with TSOHost here a few years ago and had no end of problems with bounce backs. In the end I moved it all to GSuite for a few bucks a month. It's simply worth it to avoid the issues with sender
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
Likewise, my mum (as British) died at 65 of bowel (again, British, colon otherwise) cancer. Planning on starting to look at private screening from 40 here.
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
This is a bit (a lot) dodgy. I've had to provide background references for a number of jobs in the past. This could well come back and bite you - what if the person hiring knows people from the company you supposedly worked for? It&#x2
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
I wonder what is actually causing the error here. Looking at the 2 payloads diff on the site I can't spot anything. It's a weird one that's for sure.
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
Would it still do DDOS even without the WAF?
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
Microsoft Regional Director is effectively someone who is an advisor to Microsoft - https://rd.microsoft.com/en-us/about/ .
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
Runway length at LGW is OK for a 777. I'd guess they knew it was safe and it's easier to deal with a plane full of pax at your originating airport than diverting to STN (where there's no BA ops) or LGW (BA have ops here so co
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
Apparently there are some companies who are suppliers to these organisations who do pay better, but otherwise, yes. The salaries are pretty poor. I get that some people would want to work there for the kudos, but compared to tech companies
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
I'd guess you might be thinking of the darts game that Playjam had. This was on Sky Digital rather than analogue Sky, so more like 1998-1999. From memory the old analogue system didn't have any interactive features. I got addicted
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
O'Reilly. Pluralsight. Public speaking or presentation course can be good. I've been doing some certs lately. AWS Solutions Architect Associate was about that for a virtual course + exam voucher. Find a conference somewhere next y
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
Got to agree. I've hosted instances of PhpBB over the years. It was a good product (this would have been around 2000/2001). I still go on certain forums (e.g. Pistonheads.com) but the niche groups are all on Facebook these days.
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
This. Instead of a simple method call, you now have the joys of distributed systems to deal with instead. I'm a fan of right size architecture. Monoliths have their place. Microservices have their place. Neither are necessarily better
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
https://www.troyhunt.com/ Owner of https://haveibeenpwned.com/
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
Got to agree unfortunately. I'm a huge fan of Troy and HIBP in general. This was a tiny bit too much right now (I've got a 7 month old and my wife isn't working!).
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
I'm getting tempted. I said that if Apple brought out a G-Shock style Apple watch, I'd buy it instantly. I've had an Apple Watch SE for the last couple of years. It's been pretty good on the whole. Bought it after my Gar
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by mpalfrey 4y ago
Old T or X series Lenovo gets my vote. Good machines, although I'd question if they're the best bet right now as some are getting kind of old (e.g. I had a quick look at a T430, cheap but it's a 3rd gen CPU). Could a consumer

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