Posts by Doctor Syntax 40413 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
Split the bits either side of Cooper Bridge from each other. Historically they had very little to do with each other and it's very unlikely councillors from Dewsbury would know much about Huddersfield & vice versa. I'm not even sure councillors from Huddersfield know much about the valleys.
The monstrosity is actually named after a place that's not in it.
See my comments about paranoia and Dunning-Kruger. Stuff happens.
One of the most frightening was the gig where the actual command scripts for some of the overnight jobs where composed on the fly by permanent TCL/expect scripts running vi. They worked but no way was I going to touch any of those.
"As an end user of Mastodon I do find it a bit confusing that you have to select a particular server to join with"
I suppose the answer would be one well publicised server for onboarding new users until they find their way around. Call it omething like JoinMastadonHere.
We've been pushing information backwards and forwards between boxes for longer than the almost 40 years since I started in IT. FTP is one of the oldest tools I've used for the job. There have been some long standing, solid implementations since well before .Net was even thought of. Why anyone thought a reinvention of that wheel should be necessary is beyond my comprehension. And countless sysadmins have scripted ftp and the like into their processes for years without the need for some 3rd party overlay which I presume is to make it easier for businesses that aren't prepared to employ admins with scripting skills.
Adding that up it's a substantial increase of the attach surface most likely accompanied by a weakening of the guard. Is anyone surprised we have problems like this? And weren't we supposed to replace FTP with something that didn't sedn passwords in plain text years ago?
If I don't want adverts thrust in my face there are NO relevant adverts. Any which are shown to me are liable to bias me away from whatever product is being pushed should that product class subsequently become relevant.
The only time ads become relevant is when I'm explicitly searching for something. If I search for excavation report of Ballygobackwards horned cairn adverts for hotels wouldn't be relevant. If I search for hotels near Ballygobackwards they would. If I were to get an hotel ad in response to the first it would bias me away from that hotel on its appearance in response to the second.
It is, of course, not in the advertising industry's interests to understand this. It would be very much in the advertisers' interest to understand it, however, and to insist that the advertising industry take note; unfortunately narcissism is likely to imped this.
"i wholeheartedly concur with your point about the utility of talking with real users."
OTOH - S/W prints picking list. Users then enter the serial numbers of what's been picked. They should then print the despatch not, complete with serial numbers and "Despatch Note" printed across the top. No amount of talking with them would stop them writing the SNs on the picking list and sending it out as a despatch note.
It depends entirely on what you're using. Plain vi - maybe portrait is OK providing it doesn't sacrifice line length. IDE's I've seen tend to have various panels, toolboxes or whatever lined up side-by-side for which landscape is ideal, otherwise you might end up with a line length of about 30 chars for your code. But even it you're just using plain vi you may well want some sort of reference material in view so that's either a second monitor or two portrait windows side-by-side on a landscape display.
For almost anything I do landscape works out best to cope with several windows open at any one time.
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