Posts by paddy carroll 1

Desperate

Desperately poor,

Real stories please not just pun magnets

that’s bulk imports gone

Blocked the copy command?

one of postgres most powerful and useful features

Paper resilience

Better than the pretend DR & failover tests I have witnessed in large enterprises.

Customers rep gets taken to dinner, smoke mirrors and creative reporting later a huge success is reported.

It was actually an abysmal failure

Its a sh1t place to park

Or try to charge your electric vehicle, bp charge master, polar, whatever they are called these days run that bit; rebranding - their favourite ruse can't cover up their gross incompetence and spectacularly bad customer service

Never

Hire someone based on certifications or qualifications.

I got a degree because It was the only way to get ahead when the company was promoting useless individuals based on paper qualifications. When I became a hiring manager I made sure that experienced journeymen made my team, not to the exclusion of promising college kids but the chances of landing a dud with paper qualifications and naught else are respectably high in my experience.

tldr

As an apple user

ORMs - cake and eat it

Anything that makes it easier for a developer to spin code is guilt free until you get the call at 4 in the morning after the dev has departed to wreak havoc anew elsewhere and the edge case reveals the ghastly mess in the trace logs, acres of machine generated bollocks SQL.....

Sick of Passwords

I'm at an age where remembering a million passwords really doesn't work, Lastpass is freaking out at me for repeating and reusing and those twat companies that believe they can create some "not invented here" dumbass rule - thats you lg.com. and just google "worst password rules"

Give me a token anyday, please no arsing about with eminently knickable certs...

rant over

This lot are the byword for really sh*t customer service IMHO, the more they say that your satisfaction is the most important thing the less you know that they actually give a stuff - especially if you happen to be a small customer.

They just don't give a shit

I tried to engage with the police over cyber crime, it turned out to be a data gathering excise - fill out this 9 page form then hey presto: nothing happens.

I've been to conferences where govt representatives have told us it's our problem.

I've identified cyber criminals spear fishing company employees - no-one is interested prosecution, you gotta do that yourself.

I've told google about criminally used gmail accounts, but it appears the criminals privacy is more important than the crime.

The uk police force was established in response to crime, when they going to go after the cyber miscreants robbing small businesses and individuals?

Meh

As long as they don't bring back the little hitlers that run the show all should be good......

Same here, on iPhone which was also 2 factor token via google app which initiated a ridiculous loop as the google app also tried to sign in...

Nothing new?

You could have fitted that on a piece of toilet roll.

Would have been more appropriate

Meh

They don't want one iPhone, they want to pwn them all, it's not like this guy's Dr Evil and they must have his iPhone, it doesn't stop there

Meh

Did I learn anything today?

I'm glad i didn't pay for this crap, I did have to watch some ads though.. where's the TV controller.

Lacking

Well it doesn't work on my Samsung nexus thing whatever. GPS does not work, can't answer the phone......