* Posts by HmmmYes

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Women beat men to jobs due to guys' bad social skills. Whoa – you mad, fellas? Maybe these eggheads have a point...

HmmmYes

Re: Gender roles are the problem

Well ......

Before Mrs Hmm popped two kids, we had the chat about whod do the kids - post boobs and all.

At he grand old age of 32 Mrs Hmm was fed up with her current job.

So, she had a 8 year break til littlest Hmm started school. Now shes back at work FT - both Hmms being old enough to come back home and not burn the house down.

However, she does know work with women who, even after their kids have reached 16 still insist on not returnign to work.

May the real question is why society thinks ts acceptable for women to avoid work even when their kids no longer need any parental care.

Oh, worse, why society has to fund single parents with benefits with kids older than 11?

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Hold on there. Its written by a bunch of Economists.

Really, stop taking them serious and put them in the group as astrologers and alternative medicine.

Ballmer once yelled: Developers, developers! Today it would be: Docs! Support! Certificates!

HmmmYes

Re: Programmer, not developer...

Software development is a big bad world now, software is in every nook and cranny (fanny if you allow for porn streaming ..) now.

Universal.

Pick a few areas and get good at them. Read 6-10h a week. Kindles are good for this - whitepapers an all.

My only comment/conclusion of my time in development is that, fundamentally, my job is managing state. Pick any tech that makes managing state easier - good languages, test tools.

I don bother with IDEs - if a language needs an IDE then its got its abstraction level wrong. cough Java cough.

I alwys give any new language tool or whatnot 10 years before learning it proper. This way you avoid junk like silverlight.

My prediction for the future? Itll be wrong so I wont embarass myself. Itll probably be written in mainly C though

GCHQ unit claims it has 'objectively' made the UK a less desirable target to cybercrims

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Are they funding TalkTalk?

Capita contract probed after thousands of clinical letters stuffed in a drawer somewhere

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Because the NHS is full of special people who can never be held accountable for anything.

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Re: "you'll be banning NHS consultants from seeing private patients? "

Indeed.

If I went to my previus employees and said OK, I work for 40h/w. However I want to go an work at a competitor the odd weekend or maybe evening, so Id like to get away from the office earlier...

Im pretty sure what the response would be.

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Re: How? Why!!!

Yeah.

Ive sat in meetings where very expensive managers talk to very exoensive lawyers and discuss escrow, main man risk, invasion by Nork, etc etc. And not one bither with detail of the product thats to be delivered.

Some times you just have to take the rusk, it never goes away.

Maybe comoanies need to be prototyping then, when thry are gphappy, contracting out for scale and performance?

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Re: How? Why!!!

I dont.

This smells more like idiots not being sacked in GPs and the NHS. Oh, and the people who wrote the Capita contract.

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Capita dont come out of this looking good.

But neither do the GPs and the NHS.

And we pay these peple - Capita + NHS/GPs.

Dell confirms: We're either going public – or VMware's gobbling us (or nothing will happen)

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Dear vmware shareholder and employee,

You may remember mine and PEs great idea of borrowing lods of money and, errr, paying ourselves lots of money whilst err we do really clever stuff that needs us to be paid lots of money.

Well.... due to unforseen circumstances from 2 years ago ... bond yields and IRs are rising - despite paying ourselves billions we never modelled that.

Oh and Trumps done some tweaks which our genius ideas are less genius.

So, considering all options - which dont include sacking Mikey and PE - weve decided to leach on vmwares cash flow.

Yours

Special mikey.

Just can't catch a break, can ya, Capita? Shares tumble 40% amid yet another profit warning

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Re: Speaking of McKinsey...

Really?

They have several million dollars in cash from you.

All hey had to do was send some high scoring s grads from Oxbridge, create some slides, use the dumb language - TaDah! Profit!

What were you expecting from a Management constancy FFS?

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Are they bust yet?

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Hmm, maybe, maybe not.

Capita should be reaping economies of scale.

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Capita's business is not too complex.

It just does not make any fucking sense. Or profit.

They;ve just go along bidding for business without any really core strength or ability. Just a vague assumption that whatever they do that they can cut staff and somehow find cheaper ones abroad.

Youd expect Capita to have standardised on a small number of platforms and technologies. Then, they could reap efficiencies by replicating the core across business .End of the day, modern businesses run on transactions on a database with some business logic bolted on - thats the reason ERP exists.

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Strange that.

All these management driven (c) McKinsey prob. - General Electric, IBM, HP and now Capita.

All falling to bits, blowing up, going bust.

Look at the number of MBAs and professional (no laughing at the back!) management the West has today. Lot at the total fuckup that are happening - Airbus, name any big company.

Things is, companies are about what they do to make a profit. Not about a fucking matrix.

Bunch of halfwitted, innumerate navel gazers.

Billionaire bros Bezos, Buffett become bonkers bio brokers: Swap W in AWS for H for healthcare

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Yeah youve got a point. What about those peoples with big bones...

Have you seen how much the NHS spends on type2 diabetes? Then when they lazy arse carries on, having to remove one or more leg?

The US is even worse - look at the MediCare spend on poor fatties.

The increase in premiums is to cover extra cost *AND* provide an incentive to lose wieght.

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Yeah, youve fallen for hte big bad drug makers story.

3/4 of healthcare cost is on salary.

The bulk of drugs used, day to day, are either cheap or their are generics available.

The only reason why a (merkin) Dr prescribes Get-WellO-Quix! pill is tha the sales rep is taking Dr out to golf at Vegas.

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I can reduce US - and UK's - heathcare in one simple sentence:

- Weigh people and adjust their premiums according to how fat they are.

Bang! That would knock a good 10% of the cost.

And, no, fat people dont die earlier, saving moving. They just stop moving, requiring more and more medical invention.

Cisco throws everything it has at containers, hybrid cloud

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Is Cisco sort of lost?

A Dell/VMware acqui-merge? Good luck landing that, big Mike

HmmmYes

Re: Tax hit too

Indeed.

Despite the laser like focus of all these accountants, lawyers and wankers, they fucked up.

What if ... Trump introduces a flat tax ... simplifies the US tax code.... OMFG!

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Funny this.

Despite all the BS and hype, Dell and their PE backers are looking at VMware to bail them out of highly indebted, piss poor margins that they find themselves in, just as the cost of US debt is starting to tick up rapidly.

Twilight of the idols: The only philosophy HPE and IBM do these days is with an axe

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Re: Hammer nail head

Well .... thats what they did. They grew shor term revenue.

However its profit that a company should be growing, not revenue - see GE.

And the only way to grow profit is to work hard, do complex things and invest in your workforce and technologies.

All that HP, IBM <whoever< did was chase revenue and not bother with the margins.

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Re: Add DXC to this burning pile of shite

You work for Bain and I claim my £5.

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Re: Marx

No.

Marx was wrong as he operated with a strict separation of capitalist and worker.

And assumed that capital trumps Labour. Dumb, unskilled Labour, yes. Skilled Labour - No.

Real life is more complex and nuanced than Marx could ever concieve or model. Ditto all the fucktard Pols since.

Stay out and just try and keep stuff fair and funded.

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Re: Workhouses and Sweatshops do not work

Until the long forgotten Pharaoh , Gordonush Cuntush Brownush, introduced higher taxes on the workers to pay for his pissing the the wealth on a load of layabouts.

HmmmYes

Re: Workhouses and Sweatshops do not work

Oh I dont know, the Pyramids are cool.

But, in 2000 years time, I dont think youll find many OAPs taking trips to look, awestruck, at some of Wipro's work.

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I not buy any long lived service from either HPE or IBM.

Ive software from both, which they dont maintain - they have a bug list thats been increasing for the last 5 years. Not a single one has been fixed.

All sales calls are dealt with quickly - fix my existing issues and then we'll talk. Otherwise dont bother.

The HPE and IBM general fuckwittery of the lat 10-15 shows how a company can burn though its goodwill. There really needs to be a better way of rewarding execs - share prices is too easily gamed in a short time - 5-10 - at *huge* expense to the company at a later date.

Just look at the fuckup at GE - Jack Welsch was basically using long insurance fraud to game short term earnings 20 odd years ago. Now the insurance liabilities are landing due and GE is fucked. *All* the smoothed, increasing earnings were a total fucking fraud.

As far a labour arbitrage goes. It doesnt work. Or, at best, it only works for a very short time.

The only example of labour arb I can think of in the last 50 eyars would be when the likes of Czechlands and Slovenia gained independence from the USSR in the 90s. There, after a 5-10 years of extreme adjustment, the middle classes/educated population that survived 50 years of Corbynism sorry, Communism, were able to dust themselves down ad continue, socially, where they were frozen in the 1920s.

Other labour arb - India, Vietnam, China - just have not worked.

Once you factor transport and fuckups in, a lot of manufacturing is a *lot* cheaper in the the UK than China. This was not true 20 years ago - China was dead cheap. Labour in the Pearl River delta is very expensive - about 40% than the UK + US.

India. No, never. Had to pickup he fuck up of both sw and business outsourcing. I could not even lie to make the work look good. Everything about it was dreadful - typically anything you outsource to India will come back in 3-5 years time and you'll have to do it yourself, at great expense. Thats a short bit of multy mullion - andI mean that - advice there. Dont. Ever. Do. It. Ever.

Equinix CEO bails after ‘poor judgment in employee matter’

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When's the busty female intern's baby due?

Or ....

When does the fraud case reach court?

Microsoft works weekends to kill Intel's shoddy Spectre patch

HmmmYes

If a friends whos ex MS is to believed, MS has been out competed for SW resources for about 10 years.

MS have limited SW capacity. Anything big, outside of already hollowed out plans is a struggle.

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"Never chalk up to malice that which can be adequately explained by Intel's silicon production,test and support"

Seriously. Worked there. They are shit.

AFAICT Intels product development methodology is throwing lots of products into the marketplace and seeing which ones work.

Sort of got away with it when it was individuals buying computers, and various MS bug covered the shit up.

Now, Intel has a small number of very large customers - Google, Amazon. They are going to get reamed.

I want life to be boring, says Linus Torvalds as Linux 4.15 debuts

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You might want to drop the UC 'W' from 'merge Window'...

Trebles all round! Intel celebrates record sales of insecure processors

HmmmYes

Nah.

Intel has a massive amount of slush fund cash hidden around.

When a lot of bad news hit - ARM doing well, CEO selling stock before huge fuckup, fuckup in silicon etc etc, they dip into this money and report it as profit.

Standard bit of Jack Welch GE playbook, which GE shareholders are just finding out about ~20 odd years down the line.

Intel, in its current form, is in trouble.

IT 'heroes' saved Maersk from NotPetya with ten-day reinstallation blitz

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Youd think, with companies with large PC deployment maybe, just maybe, a light bulb might come on a ping 'Maybe we need to put a bit more diversity into the client OS?'

I mean FFS. Its a company. Most of the applications can sit beyond a browser now.

Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018

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Re: Problem years in the making

No.

Dont teach excel or powerpoint. Both are shit.

HmmmYes

To be honest, Moores law died about 2005ish.

Youve not really seen much in the way of clock speeds beyond 2-3G.

What you have seen if massive lying about clock speed - sure, they cache intruction clock might run at x, but the rest runs a lot sloooower.

And the sped taken to flush and loads caches has increased.

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Android doesn't run JVM.

Last time an AT Mcrashed, it appeared to be runnign OS2/

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I, for one, welcome our new Erlang/OTP overlords.

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Nope.

Nothing cheap about Java and Indian outsourcers, trust me.

A couple worthy of each other.

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'The computer science behind microprocessor'

Urghh.

Computer science has at least one foot in discrete maths/logic.

Microprocessor, and the Spectre, is down to computer architecture, a branch of electronics.

Capita's UK military recruiting system has 'glitches' admits minister

HmmmYes

Re: Cuts?

Just take the Carrier cost out of Scotlands budget.

It was all a Brownian bit of pork, let the Scots bear the brunt.

Causes of software development woes

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Agile is not a methodology.

Its inexact way of trying to define what you're meant to be doing.

No problem with that, as long as it recognised that its a small team creating a prototype.

Might be differerent when you have 50+ people working on a release, to a deadline.

IBM kills Global Technology and Global Business Services: It's all ‘IBM Services’ now

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Re: IBM “has the most skilled, [..] IT and business consulting professionals in the world.”

Nope.

In the 80s/90s, the last time anyone really paid much attention to IBM, they had the most IT people. A lot of times, they had the *only* IT people.

IBM were expensive, clumping, process bound but they did have people and they did deliver products.

Its not the PC that killed IBM; its the competition.

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They cant deicer low margin services due to their overhead.

They also cannot deliver products high skilled, high paid individuals due to their bureaucracy and focus on management being top dogs.

Fucked.

But then so are a lot of orgs.

PowerShell comes to MacOS and Linux. Oh and Windows too

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Its a nuisance s you have to download stuff over the interw.b

Its fucking annoying when the computer is disconnected from the internet as its unpatched/out of support and only kept to verify an App wotks on an old Windows version - contract and all that,

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So many posters, so much bitching ..

But no-ones picked the most obvious bitch - its version 6.0 FFS!

Remind me what version is tcsh up to?

My bitch is that, over the years, Ive moved a few Windows boxes that are around he office to PowerShell - I can be arsed with GUIs and the original pitch on PS was/is a good one - script stuff!

However, I take my new script, which works on WS2088R2. Put it on an old box, which I do need, and it does not work - feature x not available.

My choice is to rewrite the script or down load several 100Mb of .net update, which will sometimes not work as something else is out of sync.

My big bitch about PS is that shell needs to be small, fast and useful.

PS is large, slow and useful, in places. But cannot decide whether its a shell or a progranming language.

HmmmYes

Does you PS scripts take a long time to run too?

Does your command completion spin air for ~3s seconds whilst PS does 'something'?

Worst-case Brexit could kill 92,000 science, tech jobs across UK – report

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Its macro economics. Its like astrology without the science.

Im surprised they didnt predict a loss of 92,505.5 jobs.

Macro economics is total fucking junk. Anyone - remsin or exit - who leans on a macro economics report is a fucking moron.

BlackBerry and Baidu buddy up on autonomous autos

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Re: QNX toolsets are the money

Yep. Ive been working with variants of the QNX for ~20 years, since QNX4.

I like Neutrino. Pretty good OS - have a look at the OS PDFs, worth the reads.

QT was an inspired choice. I did wonder if MS bought Nokia in an attempt to kill QT - both QT and HTML are still big threats to MS.

As far as Intel competing with vxWorks ..... as someone who has worked with vxWorks, on, and now thankly off, for 25 years. Its shit. Its dire. vvxWorks was OK in the mid 90s. Terrile choice now.

And frankly Id guess that Intel have either laid of the SW people. Or theyve walked. Not a great company to work for if you work outside of transistor fabrication.

Women reboot gender discrimination lawsuit against Google

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Re: The Pence Rule

Not just primary school, secondary too.

When I was at primary in the late 70s, ~50% of my teachers were male.

Secondary the divide was slightly more men.

My kids today - primary is 95% female. Secondary is about 70%.

There's a similar female bias in the NHS - and, no, I dont mean Nurses, most DRs and GPs are female.

Who do I sue?

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Re: The Pence Rule

Ahh theres 3 genders at play here - men, women and lawyers.