Posts by EmilPer. 71 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Dec 2012
Twitter had very bad performance outside US and Europe.
If he fixes that there might be more 1 billion _extra_users that will have a look, at least for a while.
Did not use twitter much in the past because the default page is a den of sin and iniquity, but then I was told about the option to see only the people you actually follow, and that is much better.
The chips that the car industry and others can't find right now are old and very old generations, you don't need a 5nm chip to drive the door window motors or to run the windshield wipers or push gas into the cylinders.
Old generations of chips are used in computer motherboards too, and in most electronics.
... last time when I dealt with MS libraries I noticed my code was doing nothing, so I went into the debugger, and there is was: "ExceptionNotImplemented" or somehting like that was triggered when calling documented methods ... had to go to the old COM libraries to get screenshots of Office documents
I don't care about "from home" or "from office" as long as I work on the same code with more than one other person. Having insightful chats with other people around the watercooler did not happen unless we were already on the same team and had access to the same information, else there were NDA etc. and even when smoking outside in the rain/sleet each group found its own spot to shelter from the wind.
During the previous contract I had a long interval when I worked with people all over the world, most of them resentful that I stole a US job and it was not a good experience since there was no communication except the minimum to get the tickets progressed. Then I got a friendly trainee and basked in the certainty that there is a second pair of eyes looking at my code and telling me when I'm being stupid. Being in the office or not did not matter a bit.
... had to deal with $title, they were extensively documented, every minor version had its own page, every option named etc., but no story to tie them togeter, no clue about how to actually use in a real life scenario
got the paid help and got it working, turns out some concepts were called using two different terms, and some different concepts were called using the same term in different contexts
on top it off there was very little information about failures on the net, even on stackoverflow
opensource might not be perfect but at least I can read the source when I don't understand the docs
"limited to 500 pupils to guarantee he’d have time to provide sufficient support for everyone"
how about 25 if you want to have time to provide sufficient support for everyone, for a generous value of "sufficient"
I'd say 15 would be best, and that is based on my experience teaching evening classes, where I had in one group only 15 students and you actually could communicate with them, instead of talking _at them_ the way it happened with larger numbers.
"they demand a proof of your new address. This turns out to be closed loop."
was caught in this while livingin in London: can't rent officially without a bank account, can't get a bank account without an address, can't get paid without a bank account
I phoned HMRS and asked them to send my tax details to the new address which they did and this unlocked everything because I could use their letter as a proof of address, so I could make my contract official, get a bank account etc.
It would have worked as well if the employer had sent a letter to my address with the work contract but the HR person told me they wanted a proof of address too and they only sent it by email, which I printed then was treated like I was a potential criminal by the banks etc. until I got the HMRS letter.
all subjects are a must, unless you think you can sell anything without marketing and copywriters and graphic designers and talking heads that can actually talk and people who can explain how at least three generations in your prospective markets think and what not to say at informal gatherings if you want them to place orders etc.
The problem with education is not that it is under-financed, the problem is that on one hand it became so fractured and so abstract that most graduates can't see how to apply what they learned once they leave school, and on the other hand it stopped being about education or research and it became about publishing articles in "peer reviewed" journals and scoring points.
There was a time 20-30 years ago when even "gender studies" studied gender, as in look at what makes genders behave differently instead of preaching, and before 1900 one studied literature in order to be able to write well and be able to convey his point of view when he left school and went into business or into politics, and one studied math in order to know how to make things with that knowledge.
Why would Siemens use password protected Excel files written by a third party and how come that third party kept the copyright ? What were the terms under which they were using the files ? ... this story is very strange
that guy must be a future seeing genius if he wrote Excel files which survived from the early 2000s until now with only his logic bombs preventing them to work
were they right after an Office upgrade when the files stopped working ?
my guess is the guy had a check to see if the file was not copied, and the rest of the failures were due to upgrades of Excel, and they sued him to get the IP and be rid of him
most DRM software works like code bombs anyway, I guess when it comes to going to jail it matters more if you're Johnny Public or BigCorp Inc.
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