pjbster

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by pjbster 8mo ago
I always say that a job without an end date is a lifestyle.
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by pjbster 1y ago
"I had a guaranteed military sale with ED-209. Renovation programme. Spare parts for 25 years. Who cares if it worked or not?"
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by pjbster 1y ago
Probably a condition imposed by the US in order for the UK to avoid tariffs or to grease the wheels of other trade agreements.
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by pjbster 1y ago
Government IT spending doesn't follow the same fiscal rules as your basic household budget. It's not the case that the government has a finite pot of money to spend and when it's gone it's gone. Because, when the UK gove
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by pjbster 1y ago
Hard agree. (2) is all about building out the test suite; once you have this (3) becomes a cake walk. I've worked in a lot of places where end to end testing is performed manually by a SIT team who absolutely do not like to re-run a te
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by pjbster 2y ago
The UK is drowning in debt. The Office for National Statistics publishes several datasets charting the sorry story. Here's a good one: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe... You can see tw
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by pjbster 2y ago
You're not thinking like an economist :) Here's something I saw on Twitter (no source): The bicycle is the slow death of the planet. General Director of Euro Exim Bank Ltd. got economists thinking when he said: "A cyclist is
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by pjbster 2y ago
Back when he was still considered quotable, Dominic Cummings often mused about the UK's future post-Brexit. I seem to remember his blog mentioning data science and drug research as possible areas where UK could build a global advantage
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by pjbster 2y ago
Even if the organistion is fully signed up to the knowledge building philosphy, it can still be derailed if the staff aren't up to scratch. Around 12 years ago, my employer tasked me with building a quote engine for a new product they
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by pjbster 2y ago
I have 3 kids and have been to visit A&E countless times over the years. I always note the hand written checklists stuck up in the walls of Triage and wonder how many of these were derived through trial and error and which were introduc
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by pjbster 2y ago
I recommend the book Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson. It covers offshore tax havens and the central role played by the City in facilitating capital flight and tax avoidance. Chapter 12 is devoted entirely to the City of London Corporat
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by pjbster 2y ago
Mmm. Bluesky is the tits, for sure, but Trump has unfinished business. This is from 2020: https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/trump-and-section-230-what-know We can assume that Twitter was a vocal opponent to the repeal at th
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by pjbster 2y ago
> Write everything (generally, new features) twice has turned out to be really good strategy for me, but it doesn't sit well with bizdev or project managers and tends to be perceived as unnecessary slowness. Silo-isation compounds t
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by pjbster 2y ago
There was a detailed proposal to introduce encoding/json/v2 last year but I don't know how far it's progressed since then (which you probably already know about but mentioning it here for others): https://gith
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by pjbster 2y ago
This is tech debt, pure and simple. https://news.sky.com/story/down-the-drain-what-went-wrong-wi... The flaws in the sewerage system are fundamental and pervasive. It would be a national multi-generational effort to re
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by pjbster 3y ago
However lavish or detailed or faithful to the Gibson Vibe this adaptation turns out to be, it will live or die on its realisation of Molly Millions, the baddest badass take-no-shit progenitor of Lisbeth Salander, Lara Croft, and The Bride.
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by pjbster 3y ago
I think the failing test is meant to help with code review. The commit would be rebased out prior to merging into main.
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by pjbster 3y ago
It feels like there's a tiny bit of conflicting advice in this. There's the "not rocket science" rule which results in "no CI-failing commits on main" and then there's this: > Third, our review process
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by pjbster 3y ago
Whereas I am still livid that KDE missed an open goal by calling their calendar KOrganiser instead of KPassa.
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by pjbster 3y ago
Maybe we're coming at this from different ends? I've always adopted the position that the database is the source of truth, not the ORM data model. I've always maintained that mirroring the database schema in an ORM data model
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by pjbster 3y ago
The big draw of ORMs is (was?) the idea of database independence which is a fools errand unless you're a vendor pushing some kind of application which needs some kind of relational database. If working in-house or building something be
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by pjbster 3y ago
DRY also removes an easy opportunity to expose patterns which are things that people are incredibly good at recognising and internalising. I used to religiously apply DRY but now I prefer to leave repetition in unless the git log shows chan
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by pjbster 3y ago
To my mind, all discussions about code design boil down to the reduction of cognitive load (CL). “Cognitive load refers to the amount of effort that is exerted or required while reasoning and thinking. Any mental process, from memory to pe
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by pjbster 3y ago
Possibly. However, after further reflection, I am unable to come up with a scene with redeeming dialogue in any of the films. Obvs. my take is offbeat because the films were a massive commercial success and the Academy showered them with aw
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by pjbster 3y ago
I have two different major gripes. First, the power of the ring is not put into a proper context and, second, the film's exposition ruined the role of Gandalf and undermined the otherworldliness of Galadriel. Let's put the ring in
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by pjbster 3y ago
Hah! I feel exactly the same about Oracle Forms. Never heard of it? 'twas a client-server development IDE which was based on the idea of a "data block", a true-blue bona fide Active Record implementation out in the wild aroun
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by pjbster 3y ago
The British monarchy has a complicated and symbiotic relationship with the City of London as enshrined in the Statute of William and Mary [1] [1] https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/new-history-lond... Public s
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by pjbster 3y ago
An Absolute Classic scene but I also quite like this take on it: https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1162996543697252357?s=20
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by pjbster 4y ago
Great article. I think the key differentiator in all of these stories is the "stickiness" of their customers. Netscape's customers could switch at no cost (apart from migrating bookmarks, maybe?) and did. Basecamp's were
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by pjbster 4y ago
When I was growing up we had a BBC Micro and the sine qua non of text based adventure games were those made by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_9_Computing Good luck finding an emulator though.

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