If you were currently looking at an apparently attractive job offer from Cloudflare and an apparently slightly less attractive one elsewhere, which would you take?
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Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for reasons HR could not explain
Infosys co-founder doubles down on call for 70-hour work weeks
WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused manager
Re: Errors that *should* never occur
"Gcc, and most C compilers I imagine, provide macros for the current file, line number and function name so a fairly useful error message is possible."
That's all information the average user will overlook. A different but memorable message in each place might be better. "Sky-hook failure" will be more likely to be reported and be distinct from "Beware open manhole cover".
How governments become addicted to suppliers like Fujitsu
Re: Corruption
"the separation is more on paper than it is in reality.!
I wish it was. Our local RM sorting office is round the back of the PO with a minute office at the side with its own door for "customer service". The sorting office hours are essentially those needed to get stuff out for delivery and not much more. If you're not in when a parcel's delivered you have to take your card down the sorting office during their opening hours rather than the more reasonable ones of the PO. It was not a split made with customer service in mind.
Re: Corruption
These days unless your browser isn't on their list you'll just be told to update it, even when it's up to date.
Reading the judgement on one of these cases it seems that they moved from specialist terminals to XP to W10. The problems were largely with the earlier system where they were, presumably, some sort of Fujitsu custom device.
Re: Corruption
"corruption as government has deliberately made it more difficult for other businesses to participate in tenders by enacting changes to IR35 that prevent smaller businesses from operating."
I'm as much against IR35 as you. But
1. it was a Labour government who introduced it. They would inherently be against what they saw as individual workers not being unionised. Ironically of course, it led to us forming a trade association.
2. The limit is, IIRC, a 20% share holding - a small business with 5 owners is outside.
3. A 5-person business is not going to be able to tender for anything of this scale. Even if it tried it wouldn't be able to get the finance to buy the kit.
Somewhere in the various threads someone posted a link to the technical appendix of one of the trials. It seems to have been written by the trial judge. It's worth a read, partly to get an idea of just how big the project was and also to see just how well a judge can get to understand the vast welter of technical evidence the case raised.
Re: Don't forget NPfIT
"the program nearly collapsed as the system very nearly couldn't be configured to run in two different ways at the same time."
Had that in spades. A shouting match in the general office between two directors, not about how two different teams should do things but how the same team should do the one thing. We offered to make everything they were arguing about configurable from the operator interface. That mollified them both so we implemented that.
Then we set up some reasonable-looking defaults for production which, ASFAIK were never touched thereafter.
Sometimes Just Working really is what's important.
Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster?
Lets remember that there's a sampling bias inherent in all news reporting. What goes well doesn't get reported,not even in the trade media. As a freelance sub-contractor to a sub-contractor to the main contractor (one of the usual suspects) I've been involved in several that didn't hit the headlines.
Re: Ignorance and lack of useful skills
"Most members of Government (and this one in particular)"
It certainly doesn't help by making it party political although if you must do so remember that CW exposed this back in 2009 - the time of the last Labour Govt.
The original contract goes back to the Major govt. Blair confirmed it should go ahead on the grounds that it was important for the PO, for Fujitsu as a major inward investor and for PFIs - that episode has Mandelson's fingerprints on it too.
It's a moot point as to whether the PO were really very persuasive and very good at covering things up or successive ministers & PMs were anxious not to know.
What must be clear is that every PO CEO must have been made aware on taking up the role, if not before, that this was going on and none of them had the courage or integrity to call a halt and try to clean up the mess as it then existed.
Re: Building software is hard...
It seems that in this case the S/W problems were known.
It was an extreme case of it being difficult for a man to understand something when his income depends on not understanding it combined with a Watergate effect - trying to cover up a problem and then escalating cover-ups of cover-ups.
BOFH: Nice air conditioning system. Would be a shame if anything happened to it
Re: Hilarious episode, once more!
Don't forget the several stories of basement before you get to the one with the robot. Even if you want to reduce the potential vertical movement you're not going to have your office on that floor. What's more there'll be the sewer vent to worry about. Nowhere's safe.
You're looking at it from only one angle. It has to be worth paying for from the potential customers' PoV. If it isn't then the whole thing will sink. Personally if I was the potential customer you'd need to convince me about how it's going to keep running when you pull a Google, shut down the servers and walk away because you can't be arsed running it/it's going to cost too much for the server farm refresh/you're moving on to something else. However convincing you sounded I'd still walk away.
Why we update... Data-thief malware exploits SmartScreen on unpatched Windows PCs
Re: Geolocation data ? On a PC ?
On further investigation Bing maps open at the same location on all browsers, about a mile away but not the same as Waterfox.
Perhaps Bing is able to obtain the location of the exchange (equivalent to the first 6 digits of the phone number)) and that Waterfox provides nothing more than that to Google, the two mappers then use their own versions of the centroid of its area. Falkon provides Google rather less, equivalent to the first 4 digits of the phone number. The other browsers, however, are able to provide more information, perhaps the ID of the DSLAM or at least part of the exchange's service area.
Neither service seems to be using SSID information unless they're hiding it from their mapping service.
Re: Geolocation data ? On a PC ?
"So what geolocation data does a PC normally have ?"
SSIDs, your own and neighbours, as sucked up by Streetview?
Google maps accessed through Falkon, the KDE browser based on Webkit, open centred about 8 miles away. On the saem laptop Firefox, Seamonkey, Palemoon and Konqueror (the older KDE browser that was the origin of Webkit) open centred within a few hundred metres of home, disturbingly close. Another Mozilla derivative, Waterfox, opens about a mile away. It rather looks as if it's at least partly browser based. Also several browsers are sharing or have independently acquired the same information but where did they acquire it from and where is it stored?
Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get faulty Windows 10 update installed
Re: When did Windows turn into Linux?
The root of the snark here is, in fact, the sub-head on TFA. It's patch-Tuesday week. Every patch-Tuesday week we'll have at least one article and possibly one or more follow-up articles on Microsoft's patches screwing up. It's so frequent it has to be regarded as SOP for Microsoft. So why pretend that it's something unusual and more typical of something else where it is, in fact unusual?
Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next
Re: Re-inventing communicable disease control?
I agree with a lot of what you say. However...
" 'Science' cannot provide reliable answers during the timescale of a 'flu-like pandemic."
AIUI one of the problems was that our preparatory thinking, such as it was, was based on influenza and Covid wasn't. There was a need to gain more understanding on the fly. In the circumstances the only answers that might have a chance of handling the situation would have to be those gained during the pandemic. In that respect find what treatments were effective and communicating that within the medical profession were effective. I'm thinking of the use of specific inflammatories on the one hand and the fact that readily available CPAP could be sufficiently effective in many cases and less invasive than standard ICU respirators when appropriate.
"The vaccine fiasco was appalling: prudent assessment procedures previously required for new vaccine roll-out were ignored, this particularly lamentable in the instance of introducing a hitherto untested production technology."
Again, the existing procedures were always going to be too slow for dealing with a rapidly developing pandemic caused by a novel pathogen. Taking a few years would not have been prudent either. (And, of course, Jenner whom yu mentioned didn't have them available.)
I don't think "the science" did too badly. Whether HMG would have recognised it if it had slapped them across the face with a wet fish is a different matter, of ocurse.
Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140K for sending 80M+ spams
It's uncertain where personal technology is heading, but judging from CES, it smells
Silicon Valley weirdo's quest to dodge death – yours for $333 a month
Drivers: We'll take that plain dumb car over a flashy data-spilling internet one, thanks
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