Posts by HmmmYes

Ah yes. Pair programming.

Bluddy hell. What a good idea Hmm, I was told. We need to organise development around pair programming.

OK, I said, you need to double the number of developers then. As it was a tthat time, the org were stretching 1 developer to 2-3 jobs.

Oh you missed the best bits.

From FTAV, reporting the statement:

'The 49-year-old, who drinks hot water as coffee makes her “too hyper”, will now step back from the City to pursue public service roles after Sir Charles Dunstone, TalkTalk founder, reasserted control. She says she has no interest in running another listed company.'

Where did this captain of industry come from?

' Ms Harding, who later became a Conservative peer adopting the name Baroness Harding of Winscombe, studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford university, where she was an contemporary of David Cameron, and later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is married to John Penrose, a Conservative MP.

She initially made her name in horseracing as the owner of Cool Dawn, which won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1998. That led to her joining the board of the Jockey Club and she attributes her career in business to the success of the “old horse”.'

Hmm, Id like to name a new species of human after the bloke who served me in a pub last week:

Homo BeardyCuntus.

To be honest, Apple's hardware engineering has always been pretty good.

Says someone who once took apart an Amstrad stereo.

Like other big spenders in the public sector, the money spent has gone up, sometimes more than doubled (NHS).

Yet the output/quality remains low or falling.

A quick look shows that money has all been spent on personnel.

Maybe the trick with public sepnding is not to vut budget but to cut heads?

Cant argue.

Hate Perl and Java equally.

Java was always going to be a design by committee fuck up, so you understand it to a certain level.

Perl's different. You have a BDFL - Larry Wall. In my background reading about Perl all I can say that 'having multiple ways of doing the same thing' is not a fucking good idea.

Needless to say, I have a large Perl codebase for some tools, written by many people,. who all wrote the the same thing differently.

More proof of my rule of thumb - no program written in a scripting language (shell, perl) should exceed 20 lines.

PHP is not language, more a lazy kids end of year project.

Ditto for Javascript, although its kept in a box (browser). Anyone doing server side javascript should be shot. Many times.

Oh good.

Looks like the org that inherit my long list of Rational tickets will also get my long list of Note tickets.

Im still waiting by the way.

And so it continues.

I warned people when MS were luring people into their 'ecosystem' with low, everyday prices ...

Look, I said, just decide what you need to run your server and base your decision on that.

My statement was more to avoid picking up loads of 'helpful' MS software that gave that special 'enhanced' MS experience - license daemon forgetting its licensed on a server locked away in a room in Fucknowherestan, security holes you could drive a column of the Red Army through.

Oh no. We dont want to be sued for using Linux.

Fast forward 15 years and that ~200 base cost is not 2,000.

Hmm.

Please, for fuck sake, do.

ZFS and Dtrace almost (almost mind) make up for Oracle releasing Java.

Its worh port the BSD lower file system layer into Linux just to have ZFS.

The only file system me, my kids, and their kids will ever need.

And no mail order brides were murdered during its development ....

Thought about this.

For what is essentially a database, metrics/limits on memory, CPU etc are incorrect.

The licesning should be around transactions.

Well Amazon dont pay (corporate) tax as they dont make a profit.

Amazon service's are brought to you by the munificence of their share holders.

Why not star of a slug brain and work your way up?

I remember the 80s and the fight between top-down and bottom-up AI.

Both promised humanlike intelligence in 2000-ish.

In all thing brain + neurony it might be better to have a bit more honesty, starting any claim with 'We are not sure but ...'

Hes a cunt. Even by pols standards.

A grubby, lying, spinning, moron cunt.

Ah yes. That license signed by someone years ago that noone's read.

Company changes - as they do - merger/grows/whatever.

That real good deal on 10 seats suddenly needs to be redone for 50, 100, different countries.

What do you mean you only do a minimum of 50 seats per site?

Ive 10 sites now, with only 10 people in.

My licenign has gone from ~5k/y to 200k!!!!!

Sometmes, you are bit by the price going up.

I had to ship a produce based on W2k + MS DB.

At the initial time, I ummed + ahhed - COuld we use Linux and this new fangled MySQL - its not aving to do a lot really.

Oh no, <x> knows MS and the MS cost per unit will only be ~300/unit.

This was the right decision back then.

Fast forward 10 years, W2K (100/uni) replaces by WS2008R (800/unit)

MS whatever (200/unit) replace by update @ 1000/core - but its a 16 core machine!

The MS unit licensing cost went from ~300 -> 5K

Hmm. Overthinking it a bit.

My one and only experience of a drunk at work goes back to my first job in the early 90s.

The 'drink because my wife and kids have left me because I moved the family from <somewhere nice> to Bracknell' rolled in at 3pm, fell asleep, then stood up and peed in his top desk drawer.

Sitewide no boozing at work policy the next week.

Ahh ... the great BBC Telly license comments ....

Lets go through the set, canned responses:

'BBC - best in the world'

No its not. It ws OK back in the 70s when noone, anywhere had much choice.

Netflix + Amazon are serving BBC its arse on a platter a the moment.

BBC dramas have been terrible.

ITV is beating the BBC down on drama.

BBC just puts out thin drivel, derived on whats been popular on ITV (some Downton Abbey ripoff), a comedy where they lifted the cast of CH4's Inbetweeners, GoT (some draongy historical thing that noone watched.

'no aderts/adverts all the time..'

Have yo watched the BBC? Every break has an ad for another BBC program or paying he TV license FFS.

'Only <50p> a day.'

Netflix and Amazon are cheaper.

Can I discount my netflix fee from the BBC license?

The hard truth is that the only people in my family who watch the BBC for anything more than 10 minutes a day are my parents, who get a free license.

My kids dont watch broad telly. Netflix or Youtube.

I watch ITV about 5h/week.

BBC - 0, zilch, nadder.

Being northern, I dont like soaps about cockenees.

I dont like dancing, so that come dancing thing not an appeal.

If I want to watch Dr Who Ill buy the DVD.

What the BBC does to be good as is keeping a load of drivelling, public school types in middle management jobs.

Oh, Id add that in a world of VMs, Java memory for its JIT and GCV ands an order of magnitude in slowness.

A stupid idea by stupid fucking idiots.

Im OK with read-only data being accessible via employees devices = calendars, new sites, over HTML.

Writable data ... well, you instantly run into HTML interop hell.

But the insane idea of having devlopers/content producers write stuff on their onw hard ...?!??!! Ok, so our software people leave, with all the companies source on their harddisk ... How do you get it back?