Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: The children

Upon seeing the debug logs the programmer did recite the ancient incantation "O fer fecks sake" and was enlightened.

Re: The children

If today's children don't learn enough bad words in school how are they going to be able to produce the engineering workforce of the future?

In my day we had double effing-and-blinding on wednesday afternoons

Re: The UK has one of the most robust and transparent oversight regimes

It was an oversight that the overseers were allowed to see anything, or at least let the overseen know

Re: The UK has one of the most robust and transparent oversight regimes

>But transparent to whom?

Transparent to the public, you can't see the rules because they're transparent - simple

That must be changing though.

When all British spies were recruited by tutors who themselves worked for the KGB, are all Oxbridge tutors now recruiting for Al Qaeda ? Can you tell because they don't drink sherry?

Re: Always listening to our customers

The point isn't to identify specific risks in advance, it's to have dirt on everyone in case they become leader of the opposition or complain to the local councils about potholes

Re: What a shit show

A listed company, owned by banks, pension and hedge funds being sold to a hedge fund owned by banks , pension and sovereign wealth funds isn't necessarily anti-competitive.

If I'm a customer using ARM cores I don't care if it's listed on the FTSE or the NIKKEI - I do care if I can't buy the ARM cores anymore because it's now owned by a direct competitor

Re: Flim Flammery

It wasn't British owned before softbank - it was a public company. Its shares were owned by anybody who wanted to buy them

If we wanted it to remain British owned the time to do that was in 1990 when it was formed with money from 2 American companies.

Or perhaps the BBC Micro and subsequently ARM should have been an internal BBC program, then under the BBC management and with BBC investment it would be a world beating British colossus

Re: Poor sod..

A friend built a startup on this with Asterix.

You phoned into a central number before going onsite, it logged your phone# and if you didn't call back to clear the site within a certain time it would alert a pre-programmed contact.

It was just after that estate agent got murdered by someone she was showing a house to in the 90s

Re: Picture taken by the front obstacle avoidance camera

Hong-Kong martial arts movie fake landing ?

Re: "Phoenix is not on any prohibited party list and is not a sanctioned entity."

But what if they are a new black hat ransomware gang that aren't affiliated with the official league of supervillains?

Re: What are they insuring exactly?

>In which world do insurance companies pay thieves for the return of stolen property?

Ocean's Eight ?

Re: Should be illegal

Their an insurance company so presumably the gang demanded $80 M but they only paid half because the replacement value of the unique data was actually only what it would cost to buy a crappy Walmart version of the data

Re: Will it really?

>The Irish require documentation from CTA people flying into Dublin

Countries generally require documentation from people flying internally

The interesting question will be do immigration in Dublin have the right to exclude Brits with no reason other than "immigration officer doesn't like your face"?

How does this work if Ireland joined Schengen?

Re: Border hawk

I'm still holding out hope of Canada one day joining the Eu - and getting back European status that way

Re: Border hawk

In the new British-English dictionary "sovereignty" just means anything wholesome and good that the Daily Mail approves of. Not demanding ID from (melanin appropriate) Britons is good therefore is sovereignty.

N Korea is bad and therefore is not Sovereignty

Re: Border hawk

Because although everyone can see the necessity of tracking dangerous Australians, a free country generally doesn't track its own citizens leaving in peacetime. I believe it's something to do with sovereignty

Re: Will it really?

Under the NIP Irish people are now officially white so border controls don't apply.

Scots are also allowed in freely, so long as they are posh Scots with surnames as first names

Re: Border hawk

Are you even tracking who leaves?

Those of us who took one look at the Brexit shambles and abandoned ship don't get added to the debit column.

There weren't even any turnstiles. How are you going to keep people in? You can't even build a wall now that you don't let E Germans in.

Re: Be aware of those who don't share!

Had an interview with a now defunct Cambridge consultancy who deleted my PhD from my CV before the interview because they didn't think they had the budget for a salary offer

Like they thought a Cambridge physics PhD wouldn't come up in an interview for a technical consultancy in Cambridge, or that I would happily accept a lower graduate salary without noticing !

And runs an astroturfing campaign where 1000s of Colorado voters suddenly pop up on Facebook saying how they can't get a job anymore because of this crazy new law.

Re: First thing I have to always ask

>I never did understand the reluctance of applicants to bring this up

Because conventionally whoever says a number first loses.

The applicant asks for X, the manager sighs inwardly because they have a budget of X+20%.

The manager says, we only have x-20% in the budget and hopes the candidate is desperate. Worst case the manager promises to ask bi.g boss if they can stretch to X-5%

Double the margins if the applicant is a women or a minority

Re: I want to know the salary range

>The people screening CVs are low paid drones, the people doing the interviews are happy to handle a bit of extra bullshit for the money they'll save.

I would humbly beg your fscking pardon.

You have 4-5 engineers spend 30mins going over their CV and github/projects

Then at least 2 x hour long interviews/presentations to 4-5 engineers, longer with an on-site tour

Repeat for 3-4 pre-screened candidates.

Then a month later you find they turned down the job because somebody in a corporate HQ was trying to save $2K in salary or wouldn't agree to a certain start date or was limiting relocation expenses to $500

Re: They want you to ask for a salary

>That way if you ask for less than they were prepared to pay, they save money.

And in 6months when you discover you are being paid less than your workmates you leave.

They have just finished the costs of on-boarding (*sorry) and training you but before they have got much value and now they have to start the recruitment process all over again - but they did save 5% on your salary

Re: Ah, the good old days...

>If its higher than the cost to live where I live, then why should I be paid the same as you

Do you charge your customers different rates based on their state's cost of living?

re: Statistically, it's one of the most popular keywords for porn and adult content.

I thought that was "stepsister" "stuck" and "washing machine" ?