* Posts by Nick.fox

12 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Sep 2020

Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home

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My tech team is made up of people from across the uk and europe. It would be almost impossible for us to be in a single office on a regular basis. We are composed like this because of the talent available remotely. If we were limited to a london office, our pool of talent would be equally limited.

Having an office in a specific city and only employing people within a commutable distance seems bizarre in 2025.

teams + slack = a remote workforce of top talent

Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate

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Understanding spend at scale in Aws is incredibly difficult. By design no doubt.

AWS unveils cloud security IR service for a mere $7K a month

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We spend a million a month in Aws. For enterprise customers this is not a high price tag. Shame they don't have lower tiers though

Another official four-day week pilot kicks off in the UK

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Re: Is it still 40 hours?

yes, thats exactly the idea.

32 hour working week with no loss of pay

https://www.4dayweek.co.uk/why-a-4-day-week

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once "4 day work week" becomes a search filter on job boards, like "fully remote" already is, HR depts will have to take notice. People who have jobs have the luxury of time finding a new job. Traditionally this was just "better position" and " more money" now it includes "remote" and "4-days"

It won't be a rapid exodus, it will be a slow drain of skilled workers to forward thinking companies.

iGulu F1 could be the hoppy ending to your home-brew horror show

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E-waste.

TR-069, a protocol that made broadband manageable, turns 20. What's coming next?

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Is this the home network snooping protocol? Will 369 be any more intrusive?

Citizen Coder? Happiness Concierge? Here come 2023's business cards

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Re: Had enough of all this?

Software Proctologist ?

AWS has been doing things that are 'just NOT OK since 2015,' says Elastic as firm yanks Apache 2.0 licence

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response from AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/

When is a remote-code-execution bug in Teams not an RCE? When Microsoft says it isn't, flaw finder discovers

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Or a chip-pan fire.

Net neutrality lives... in Europe, anyway: Top court supports open internet rules, snubs telcos and ISPs

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You mean the Cu?

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So does this mean that zero rated services in the UK like Three' Go Binge are... illegal?