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Quote: There is evidence that the Post Office’s legal department was aware that the software could produce inaccurate results
Heinous. The victims should go postal on these folks.
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From my experience, it's typical UK "we don't really give a damn" software. The miscarriage of justice based upon anything related to it is all but a given.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Yes, quite, especially in big taxpayer-funded projects. It only matters that there is something to show. It doesn't matter if it works correctly or well (or sends people to prison). The people are merely inconvenient annoyances.
It must have frustrated a great many stakeholders (the ones who actually count) to find that the project was seriously faulty and that people who were its victims weren't just going away quietly.
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Written words and other information can be encoded in synthetic molecules and then recovered by analysing the chemicals. Oh great - now we'll have great volumes of Jane Austen floating in our oceans and lakes
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The Northanger Abbey Pacific Gyre? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a researcher in possession of a sizeable grant, must be in want of a singularly useless research project.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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There is a pretty big controversy in the software development community about logging time. Excluding those developers where one is inside the other
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Quote: But it can be invaluable for making those important business decisions.
Let's see.
"Hi Marc, management has noticed this task took longer than we expected. Do you need a faster computer? Can we provide better requirements? Would it help if we purchased some tools? Would it help if we paid for a course on the third party technologies we are using? Can the work environment be improved? Are our tools up to date? Should we invest in some better internal documentation? Should management have listened better to your estimate rather than us making an unrealistic commitment to the customer? Are the other people on the project that you had to work with adequately trained and have the right experience? Or were you basically having to pull their weight too?"
Yup. Those important business decisions.
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Quote: What can a dev do if their manager only worries about Butt Time?
Explain why this makes no sense. If your manager doesn't get it, find another one to work for, because the one you have has mush for brains. If the place you're at is big enough, an internal transfer could do it. If not, start to actively look outside.
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As IT operations continue drifting into the cloud, it's important to ensure that organization personnel keep pace with the latest skills and practices. "It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall"
Ideally *before* they tell you to migrate everything to the cloud (so you can tell them if it's actually possible)
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Quote: Why IT leaders should make cloud training for them a top priority, to stop hyping and buzzwording bullsh1t
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It is actually possible - but it may be too expensive a transition to be viable.
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As people spend more time on their Windows PCs, working, learning, connecting and creating, we’re making it easier to access personalized content that is available at a glance and updated throughout the day. Oh good. Because finding news and weather information is hard today.
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WHAT THE ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing FVCK?
As if widgets in the desktop were not enough, they now are going to polute the task bar with that crap?
Have they nothing better to do? Like maybe fixing bugs intead of creating new ones including things noone has asked for and that bring close to nothing?
Seriously Microsoft decission makers... you should start looking at what the world is REALLY asking you and leave the drugs you those psychodelic drugs you are taking.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Even worse, the personalized content will be slanted towards what they want you to read.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: we’re making it easier to access personalized content that is for advertisers to reach their targeted markets with ads that are available at a glance and updated throughout the day.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Quantum machines are theoretically great at speeding up the traveling salesman problem, but the near-term opportunity is to bring early lessons back into the classical domain. They certainly seem to be good for people writing articles about how good quantum computers will be
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Yes, we are all bored with working from home -- but do we really want to get back to commuting? A new survey suggests that we do. "It's the only way to live, in cars"
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Basically it just proves how short term our memory is.
1. The traffic.
2. The 2 hours or more a day spent in the car.
3. The endless interruptions when someone walks up to your desk.
4. The toxic environment - noise, air quality, the boss stalking the hallways.
5. The toxic environment again - cubicles, florescent lights, synthetic materials everywhere.
6. The inability to regulate the temperature as fits your needs.
To mention a few things.
On the other hand:
0. None of the above.
1. Your fridge, not the community fridge, not the snack machine.
2. A nice cozy couch or bed to take a 15 minute cat nap.
3. Oh look, windows!
4. Oh look, I can open the windows!
5. What's that sound I hear? Oh wow, it's actually the sound of quiet.
And of course, the emails and conference calls and chat apps won't go away, because we're all used to doing things that way now, so dream on, that working in office will actually be less stressful.
We should consider ourselves lucky to even have the first world / career problem of "to commute or not to commute."
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Marc Clifton wrote:
We should consider ourselves lucky to even have the first world / career problem of "to commute or not to commute."
Yeah...
many people whine about things that are fvcking privileges if you compare it with other parts of the world (or even another parts of the own country).
Those "luxury moaners" should get their head out of their ass and look around before complaining that much about things that are far away from important.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The interesting thing, in my view, is that while many of us were frustrated at co-workers, or people in the building, or traffic, or that annoying person at the drive-thru for coffee - there's a growing sense that human contact, good or bad, is important.
While many of us prefer to be left alone, we're still designed to be social creatures.
(and you forgot: cold beer in that fridge. No liquor laws to worry about!)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: there's a growing sense that human contact, good or bad, is important.
Good human contact is good. I prefer to have a choice.
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Chris Maunder wrote: While many of us prefer to be left alone, we're still designed to be social creatures.
My cat and my wife are more than sufficient. Plus, I can take a break and be with the people I want instead of the same cow-orkers.
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I am missing something here. In the office I had both emails and the commute - now I have only emails.
The only explanation I have is that commuting is so painful that emails don't even bother us in comparison. Now that the commute is gone, we suddenly notice them.
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