Posts by Ye Gads

We need to remember that Github is just a tool

A bit like the US President...

So, to confirm:

Those people who have an account with Pipex can't get at their email

Those people who no longer have an account with Pipex can still access their email.

All sounds completely sensible, please carry on.

Never joke about poutine

In fact, never mention it. Ever...

For the Brits: poutine is a French Canadian dish of French fries covered in cheese curds and thick gravy. People react to it a bit like they react to Marmite.

And it's one of those things that should never be talked about. The Quebecer in me says "ferme ta gueule" (and the Canadian in me politely adds "si vous plait")

Oh, and great pun

Blind Leading The Blind?

Quick, someone find me a one-eyed person!

Whatever he's being paid

I suspect he asked for payment in Euros or USD. The British Pound doesn't seem to be holding its value these days...

Are they still doing this?

I remember being called at home repeatedly by these guys. What finally worked was playing clueless with a twist:

"I'm afraid I don't know very much about PCs. I work as a lumberjack. Let me tell you about my job".

They hung up halfway through the second verse, which is a pity as that's when you get to the really fun lyrics.

But there you go.

Indeed

Sadly, this may be an April fools, but it looks quite a bit like your standard job spec. "Developer wanted who has 10 years experience in the latest fad, can speak Swahili and is a professional yodeller."

When I first read GDPR

I thought they were talking about the German Democratic Peoples Republic. Or perhaps this is just a step in that direction?

we're experiencing high levels of customers trying to book

As Yoda wisely said: "Do or do not, there is not try"

But nobody asked

What I would do if I saw a line of Hare Krishna walking in a line...

Gouranga!

The obvious problem with this

Is that when a movie is released its content is then largely static. Nobody can suddenly insert a sex scene into Star Wars: The Phantom Menace dvd that my nephew owns. Web-sites change. Frequently. Do you have to submit the site for frequent re-classification?

And what do you do about user-content-driven sites? Twitter, Facebook, YouTube et al have all sorts of dubious content/views on them Do you rank them as 18 and over?

And do they really expect kids to self-certify? And do they really expect the majority of clueless parents to know how to block this stuff (and stop their kids from secretly unblocking it?)?

Nope. Wrong....

If we vote to leave the EU on the 23rd we're not immediately out of it, nor do our responsibilities for implementing/enforcing its rules end there.

How you leave the EU is stated in the Treaty of Lisbon (Article 50). When a state says it wants to leave it has 2 years in which to agree what our relationship with the EU is going to look like, the extent and type of access we have to the EU single market, etc. Until this happens we are still subject to EU treaties.

So, will there be an emergency budget? No. We are bound by EU treaties until June 23rd 2018 and cannot change any items (VAT on fuel, etc) if they are restricted by existing EU directives/treaties/blah. Not only that, we may not be able to change them as these items may be bound up in an agreement with the EU covering future relations with it.

Show me the money

I agree entirely.

I have 2 pieces of home automation: a smart themostat that turns off the heating when I'm not at home and a robot lawn mower (I kid you not).

the smart thermostat has reduced my heating by 1/3 and the lawnmower keeps the grass cut without me ever having to mow or rake the grass. I hate mowing the lawn.

Both pass the "wife-friendly" test, which is probably the best way of deciding if it's just a new piece of shiny or if it actually has some practical value.

If Only...

I could push

"There has never been a clearer space for a trusted value champion and our learnings from and experience since the cyber attack have helped to focus our plans for the year ahead"

through Google Translator ("marketing gibberish" to "English"). I suspect I'd get the following:

"People don't seem to care or understand about security and have short memories. We've given some people a bung to stay with us and now it's business as usual. I'm looking forward to my bonus."

And what the heck does "our learnings" mean, anyway?

And what do you get from W10 mobile?

Well, one my Lumia 1020 I got:

1. A slow phone

2. Here Maps and Drive vanish in June

3. A less good camera app than 8.1 (from a 1020 owners point of view)

4. A less good email client than we had in 8.1 (why can't I just link my folders and view multiple accounts in one folder - I loved that).

I could go on...

With heavy heart I moved to Android 3 weeks ago.

Yeah, right

So let me get this straight:

You want your project managers to manage outsourced teams and vendors, you want to have architects who design but never actually do and you want to keep your existing procurement.

Cost in time and money increases when you put organisational lines between people trying to develop systems. It's hard enough when internal teams collaborate; having inter-organisational teams is even worse.

And as for buying in talent from large consultancies... Really? I mean, come on. Really? Do they really still believe that?

I await even more government delivery fail.

How is it that everyone missed the fact

That it looks like Microsoft employees are now trying to arrange a piss up in a brewery. By making the brewery.

This won't go well...

You can just see how this will go

Anyone who is any good (lets call them "Bob") will tell them to get stuffed and get another job pretty quickly.

The remainder of people will fall back on one or more of the following:

1) I didn't work on that part of the system

2) Bob wrote that, I'm not sure how it works

3) That code was written after I left

4) That's not my code

5) I wrote that but it's since been updated by the outsourcers.

6) That's a feature.

7) Yes, I can look at the problem. I can give you a day in three weeks time

Someone should fire Microsofts Marketers

Whether you like the idea or not, should they really be calling the app "Pane"?

The scope for puns is enormous

The first thing that sprang to my mind was

What happens when people are doing 140 mph on the highway and there's a data-centre failure for the cloud service controlling your car?

I'm still trying to wrap my head around

"Our research shows 64 percent of millennials regularly communicate only using emojis."

Really?

So it sounds like

a job in fulfilment leaves the person doing it unfulfilled...

Oh, the irony

It's a mixed bag: the calendar app is much improved but email feels like it's taken a step backwards: you have one app for all your mailboxes but it shows each email account as a distinct entity. I rather liked the idea of linking email accounts so I could have one mailbox for my main account and have my secondary accounts in a linked mailbox.

Settings is somewhat more confusing with a series of submenus; it's harder to find what you're looking for sometimes.

I've also found that it sucks the battery dry pretty quickly.

Other than that I don't see a huge change on the overall user experience.

Meh...

I was more interested

In the "better search results than google" angle.

I wonder if we'll see more of these specialised search engines appearing.

I think this tells us something about these companies expectations on its female staff

It sends a huge signal that this is not a company where people with children are going to be happy. If you have a family or want to start a family, don't work here.

It's also signalling that it wants people who put career and job ahead of their personal life. This is a very strong "your job is your life if you work here" message. They're asking people to put off one of the most important decisions of their lives until it's convenient for the company.

And finally, it's a huge con. How many of these people are still going to be working at Apple and Facebook in 10 years, given how workers tend to job-hop. They're saying "don't have kids on our watch".

That's a low price for a smartphone..

Granted, they've pushed some of the storage cost back on the user by expecting them to buy an SD card, but that's still very, very reasonable.

I suspect it's the kind of phone I'd get for my kid when she's 11-12. Has apps, isn't something she'd get mugged for and won't break the bank if it gets lost or broken.