Posts by cadders

Clutching at its Perl 6, developer community ponders language name with less baggage

Re: Why exactly is Perl any worse than Python?

"a Pro wrote it in C, you should probably hire a Pro to maintain it"

You might want to pass that concept on to the likes of Crapita, DXC & IBM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves to shut Parliament

Re: This will (?) end well

Indeed, the Major governemnt had a bit of form for parliamentary shenanigans, or even referenda for that matter. It's how we ended up in the EU in the first place when after losing the vote in the house Major called a confidence vote to force eurosceptics in his own party to back the government

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/28/john-major-cabinet-considered-eu-referendum-1994-national-archives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_vote_of_confidence_in_the_Major_ministry

Outsourcing giant Capita handed £145m for UK.gov's Personal Independence Payment extension

Re: Deja deja

(**) Really, the UK is one of the least corrupt countries in the world.

Not according to the Mafia of all people

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/roberto-saviano-britain-corrupt-mafia-hay-festival-a7054851.html"

It is clickbait from the Independant so large pich of salt required

Oracle swings axe on cloud infrastructure corps amid possible bloodbath at Big Red

No Change There Then

From the Article

"The cuts affect application developers, data scientists, business analysts, graphic designers, IT managers, market researchers, communications professionals, product managers, QA analysts, software developers, systems admins, web designers and others."

So oracle are getting rid of the few techies left who know what they're doing ( IT Managers being the obvious exception)

Sales, Marketing, HR and Licensing Nazis are all safe then

What a surprise.....

UK.gov's Verify has 'significantly' missed every target, groans spending watchdog

This has happened before, and will happen again

Last week the NAO were reporting on the massive waste of public money involved in asking Crapita to fsck up the army's recruitment

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/01/capita_mod_defence_recruiting_system_project_pac_report/

This week it's the unusable and shambolic Verify system. I wonder what it will be next week?

The NAO actually do a good job highlighting massive wastes of public money but seem to be powerless to do anything about it.

Until a civil servant or politician loses their job over this it'll just keep on happening

Asking the civil service or politicians to control their spending is just like asking Jimmy Saville to babysit for you

Millennials 'horrify' their neighbours with knob-shaped lights display

Apart from Which......

There are too many massive cocks in Reading already

Oracle and Microsoft have offices there

Here we go again... UK Prime Minister urges nerds to come up with magic crypto backdoors

Re: National key storage

Hold your horses with the downvotes here, misterinformed might actually be on to something

Let's take this, or a similar idea and run with it.......

First of all we set this up as a Government IT project.

Let's give the contract to oh I dunno, Crapita?

We give them a deadline of five years to deliver something.

That should buy us at least a decade before anything actually happens because of course, and even if they do come up with something it will be guarenteed not to work properly

Also by the time we start to see any results a few things will have happened

Technology will have moved on and may have rendered the whole project irrelevant

The current nutters in charge will have forgotten about it and will have moved on to the next hobby horse they think will grab them votes

There will have been a general election or two so the government of the day could easily gain popularity by scrapping the whole thing as being years late and massively over budget

Of course I'll happily volunteer to lead the project in return for substantial remuneration. I could do with the retirement cash

Surprised nobody else has thought of it........

NHS outages KO Welsh GP services and Manchester A&E

Re: Not as devastating as seems to have been made out

Can't speak for Wales but was at an outpatients clinic in Grater Manchester on Tuesday morning. Staff were complaining about computer systems being down then