yarper

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by yarper 7y ago
Who knows. Most carriers fly the same aircraft from the same bases on the same routes with the same regulations. It's not because I know what it is, it's just one of the few areas with any scope to be a differentiator.
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by yarper 7y ago
It's a slang term for paperwork, it means a mechanic with dirty hands had to sign something.
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by yarper 7y ago
That's great to hear, been a while since I've been in the sector. As for breaking into it via a SaaS, it makes sense that they would build it themselves. Seems like operators all do the same thing but differently.
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by yarper 7y ago
If you know aviation, literally anything that will decrease fuel usage. Also maintenance & repair operations (a whole lot of dirty fingerprints going on there).
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by yarper 8y ago
Both parties in the UK are broadly pro surveillance, and since it's FPTP you're damned if you do, or don't.
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by yarper 8y ago
Can anyone work out what platforms it works on? .net core?
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by yarper 8y ago
I think that's describing no leadership rather than a variety of it, but yeah most leaders suck, especially in software
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by yarper 8y ago
Software engineering can be reduced to math too, for example functional programming is a lambda calculus derivative. I think it's basically just that we're so close to programming that it's hard to see it for what it is, just
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by yarper 8y ago
I realise it might be shocking to hear but it's genuine and meant sincerely, I think you're probably making a mistake and because you are cto are not being picked up on it
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by yarper 8y ago
Does GDPR cover this?
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by yarper 8y ago
Why don't they know what's important and what's not?
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by yarper 8y ago
I think it's because it implies that their job is to report to you -like you're really the brains of the operation rather than just in a different role
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by yarper 8y ago
Giving up coding is what you do for your team, so they don't have to deal with the half finished B grade work you did inbetween doing the serious shit they can't do
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by yarper 8y ago
At what point do you start calling people direct reports? I find this turn of phrase really jarring
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by yarper 8y ago
That is not a weakness, that is life edit: this is a star trek reference
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by yarper 9y ago
It's time to leave your employer and do something that makes you happy
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by yarper 9y ago
Dental hygienists (98%), Occupational therapists (92%), nurses (~92%)[1]. [1] https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/occ_gender_share_em_1020_txt.ht...
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by yarper 9y ago
It's a pretty drastic oversimplification to say "women have better people skills" but there are definitely personality differences between men and women [1]. (I don't know why this comes as a surprise to anyone) [1] htt
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by yarper 9y ago
That view is hugely annoying, even when you group unread and read, both are paginated separately. Perhaps there's some configuration I need to set..
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by yarper 9y ago
In the Tony Martin case, since he shot them in the back it wasn't ruled self defence.
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by yarper 9y ago
Actually the right to a jury isn't absolute [0], you can also be compelled to divulge encryption keys using a two year jail sentence [1] (no right to silence there). Self defence is still as you say, completely legal. [0]: https:&#x2F
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by yarper 9y ago
It's unlikely we could have more strict laws on knives in the UK. It's illegal to carry them and illegal to own many types of them (e.g. flick-knives). Essentially if you have a knife on your person, and you've not got a damn
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by yarper 9y ago
This is the party that is also open about wanting to ban encryption.
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by yarper 9y ago
I think that's a totally legitimate view
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by yarper 9y ago
I miss IRC. All it needs is a few tweaks to bring it to 2017..
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by yarper 9y ago
the most popular passwords are love, secret, sex and god
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by yarper 9y ago
easier to just not write the debug statements - write tests not printfs
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by yarper 9y ago
Time to connect this up to twitter firehose, we can finally fax all the tweets
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by yarper 9y ago
Thank you for your service
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by yarper 9y ago
In fact it's a lot more complex than that even. The fact that Scotland has a devolved govt. where England does not means that Scottish MPs can vote on English only issues but English MPs cannot vote on devolved Scottish matters [1]. Th

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