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Re:Ask HN: What industries are underserved by software? on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:35PM (#22499093)
Who knows. Most carriers fly the same aircraft from the same bases on the same routes with the same regulations. It's not because I know what it is, it's just one of the few areas with any scope to be a differentiator.
Re:Ask HN: What industries are underserved by software? on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:33PM (#22499065)
It's a slang term for paperwork, it means a mechanic with dirty hands had to sign something.
Re:Ask HN: What industries are underserved by software? on Thursday March 05, 2020 @05:32PM (#22499052)
That's great to hear, been a while since I've been in the sector. As for breaking into it via a SaaS, it makes sense that they would build it themselves. Seems like operators all do the same thing but differently.
Re:Ask HN: What industries are underserved by software? on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:27PM (#22496425)
If you know aviation, literally anything that will decrease fuel usage. Also maintenance & repair operations (a whole lot of dirty fingerprints going on there).
Re:UK Surveillance Regime Violated Human Rights on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @06:09PM (#18070964)
Both parties in the UK are broadly pro surveillance, and since it's FPTP you're damned if you do, or don't.
Re:Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research on Saturday August 18, 2018 @05:57AM (#17787754)
Can anyone work out what platforms it works on? .net core?
Re:Software development requires servant leaders on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @06:48PM (#17770429)
I think that's describing no leadership rather than a variety of it, but yeah most leaders suck, especially in software
Re:Software development requires servant leaders on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @06:47PM (#17770414)
Software engineering can be reduced to math too, for example functional programming is a lambda calculus derivative. I think it's basically just that we're so close to programming that it's hard to see it for what it is, just a bunch of rules and equations.
I realise it might be shocking to hear but it's genuine and meant sincerely, I think you're probably making a mistake and because you are cto are not being picked up on it
Re:Former Equifax Manager Charged with Insider Trading on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:49PM (#17420771)
Does GDPR cover this?
Why don't they know what's important and what's not?
I think it's because it implies that their job is to report to you -like you're really the brains of the operation rather than just in a different role
Giving up coding is what you do for your team, so they don't have to deal with the half finished B grade work you did inbetween doing the serious shit they can't do
At what point do you start calling people direct reports? I find this turn of phrase really jarring
That is not a weakness, that is life

edit: this is a star trek reference

Re:Why Women Leave Engineering (2011) [pdf] on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @09:55AM (#14957788)
It's time to leave your employer and do something that makes you happy
Dental hygienists (98%), Occupational therapists (92%), nurses (~92%)[1].

[1] https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/occ_gender_share_em_1020_txt.ht...

It's a pretty drastic oversimplification to say "women have better people skills" but there are definitely personality differences between men and women [1]. (I don't know why this comes as a surprise to anyone)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/

That view is hugely annoying, even when you group unread and read, both are paginated separately. Perhaps there's some configuration I need to set..
In the Tony Martin case, since he shot them in the back it wasn't ruled self defence.
Actually the right to a jury isn't absolute [0], you can also be compelled to divulge encryption keys using a two year jail sentence [1] (no right to silence there).

Self defence is still as you say, completely legal.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juries_in_England_and_Wales#Tr...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...

It's unlikely we could have more strict laws on knives in the UK. It's illegal to carry them and illegal to own many types of them (e.g. flick-knives).

Essentially if you have a knife on your person, and you've not got a damn good reason (e.g. it's a breadknife and you're on your way to work at a bakery) you're committing a crime.

Cars are basically impossible to legislate against. What they did is already illegal.

So to answer your question - what's left when everything is already illegal?

This is the party that is also open about wanting to ban encryption.
Re:HipChat security notice on Monday April 24, 2017 @05:35PM (#14188545)
I think that's a totally legitimate view
Re:HipChat security notice on Monday April 24, 2017 @05:29PM (#14188483)
I miss IRC. All it needs is a few tweaks to bring it to 2017..
Re:HipChat security notice on Monday April 24, 2017 @05:25PM (#14188450)
the most popular passwords are love, secret, sex and god
easier to just not write the debug statements - write tests not printfs
Time to connect this up to twitter firehose, we can finally fax all the tweets
Thank you for your service
In fact it's a lot more complex than that even. The fact that Scotland has a devolved govt. where England does not means that Scottish MPs can vote on English only issues but English MPs cannot vote on devolved Scottish matters [1].

The lopsided nature is in part because Scotland has a population of less than London (alone) and other areas of England such as Yorkshire would probably qualify for devolution based on their population (pretty much the same as Scotland).

The whole issue is highly politicized by all sides.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lothian_question

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