Posts by RichardB 328 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Nov 2006
One of the key benefits to this sort of government work is redistribution of wealth through job creation.
A secondary benefit is that by the government paying UK staff, they effectively get it done at a huge discount... Massive chunks of salary come straight back as taxation.
Not so good for either metric when offshoring.
The government should form its own commercial body shop of contractors/permies.
Would be nice to give a little credit at least to Sydney Dekker, especially since you mention one of his books "Just Culture".
The Field Guide to Human Error is also an excellent eye opener, and to really rub it in take a read of Dietrich Dorners book The Logic of Failure.
These have been around some time, and have a huge impact on how we can choose to operate IT systems safely.
Appmaker was treated just like all those other too good sci fi shows on TV when that had schedules.
Piddled around and hidden behind the sofa. Oh and you had to have the right subscription.
Not properly linked from the menus, had to spin up a 'default sql instance' on cloud in order to use _any_ sql.
As with so many things people make, it was almost good. Almost just enough to get people going. But no. They went and ****ed up just a few details to make it die an early and broadly ignored death. One can only speculate at the bullshit internal politics that must have driven those choices, and what agendas those competing teams must have, and how big a bunch of tits anyone who pushed it into their organisation must look right now.
Normally a big fan of the publishing here, but, is the Ed still on vacation?
Why would you trot out lines of stats about the types of injury and then move swiftly into the bold (and apparently unsupported by the stats you just quoted) assertion about head injuries?
Please, Reg, a little discipline would go a long way.
Seems easy to stop them republishing politicians lies. Just ban politicians from the platform.
But where do you stop then? Your mate Bob from school posting Meme's that have political slants?
Gill from work who posts something a little bit edgy about a new law?
Announcement from the government that inflation is 2.4%?
When my infra cocks up it knocks out a project or 3 for a while.
When GCP cocks up it knocks out many, many projects for a while.
Question is, for -me- are they more likely to cockitup, or me? I still think that for anything outside my core skillset and that of those around me, it's a fair bet that theirs will be significantly better, with the added advantage that when they _do_ mess up, it's pub time not panic stations.
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