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Viva Nepal !!!

That's not what he means when he says multi-cloud.

He means his product supports multiple clouds, through terraforms providers, for example.

Doing the same infra, across multiple clouds, is a different thing, it's not a Hashi thing.

The brain is analog and chemical, AI will be digital and silicon. We have no idea how the map from one to the other.

I believe this is still taught in motorsport cabling courses

I have a Samsung S34J55x, and a DisplayPort 4 port KVM from Lindy. I have 3 laptops connected, all different makes (lenovo, dell, ms), and they generally take 1-2 sec to switch between machines. Maybe the key is the video interface eg HDMI vs DVI vs DP, be an interesting experiment.

That's not a problem caused by git, it's a problem caused by undisciplined developers.

Great article, but I was also struck how much the picture looks like a 2020 COVID office - drawn 4 years ago !!!

I couldn't disagree more. He wants privacy, I don't, at least as far as job opportunities.

I love videos, as long as the presenter is organised and speaks clearly

work out what your enemy considers an uncrossable boundary - then cross it - gets them every time.

source - Art of War, probably...

first useful programs were knitting mills and carpet machines around 1800 - there was no conditional logic, just a long loop of effectively what were just print statements. See jacquard looms on wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom#/media/File:Jacq...

first real program is often attributed to Countess Ada Lovelace, in describing operations of the Babbage machine in 1843. She even had a bug in her "code". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_pr...

Otherwise know as the "Day of the App-pocalypse"

fun fun function on youtube is a great resource - unless MPJ's style drives you nuts

Hopefully they never come across parents reaping children....

It might be the lack of coffee and food, (I read this before breakfast), but the mental image of a flower describing how it got watered kept popping into my head - the flower can't decide whats more impressive, the watering can containing the water, or the water itself. And in the middle of telling the story, every now and then, the flower says "But look how pretty I am !!"

You did what ?

"The performance tests were run on a MacBook Pro laptop with a 2.7GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 16GB of RAM running Windows 8.1."

maybe just print out "ls -alR /" and say "these are all my pre-existing inventions and and ideas, and supporting software"

You could engage a contract management agency to do your invoicing, and to deduct your tax, super etc commitments. Companies like Entity Solutions, ADAPS etc offer this service at either a flat or percentage rate, based on length of contract, rate of income etc. Some even bundle in an accountant at the end of the FY to do your tax for you. For a one-off gig it might be easier than setting up your own structure. The other consideration is Professional Indemnity/Public Liability insurance -(usually referred to as PI/PL) - you can get your own policy, or again there are agencies willing to bundle you under their cover for a flat or percentage rate. Do your research and don't work without insurance.

so we should all fork them ? I mean, they can't block us all can they ? Or am I missing something ?

You have violated the First Law of Computering

"Thou shall not start an editor war, for they are without end, lacking all rigour and decorum."

More like 2-3 hours, though another dis-similarity is you play the game by yourself, controllers generally work in pairs, or teams. In the tower there is usually 5 people.

1. senior tower controller. 2. approach/dep controller (sorry its been about 25 years since I did the job, I think its a diff title, but basically its his job to say 'clear to land/take off' and really mean it - it really is 'clear'). 3. coord - link man between everyone in the tower and most people on phone 4. ground controller - moves the planes from the apron to the runway. Does not control apron - sometimes that a separate controller (surface movement controller), who lives in the little tower you might see on the terminal itself. 5. flight data - transcribes all the incoming plans into manual 'flight strips' - dull job but essential, if radar etc go away, the accuracy of the flight strips is essential. Most junior operator sits here.

In the ACC (Area Control Centre) there could be 100 controllers, some on shift, some just finished, some on breaks, most in teams of at least 2, a dozen flight data operators, and 5-6 seniors - big boss is the SAC - senior area controller (in Australia). Next boss is the SADC - senior app/dep controller, in charge of the team that generally operates exclusively within 30 miles - could be 15 people doing that all up.

I used to be an ATC (in Australia, 7 years), and there is definitely stress there, but its like being in an insane asylum - you don't recognise that you, and everyone else, is mad. There is also significant peer pressure to excel at your job. Not just be good, but to competently handle everything that comes. The regulations state that the purpose of ATC is to provide for the "safe, orderly and expeditious operation of aircraft movements." They apply that religiously, and in that exact order. Mistakes in even the simplest procedure,or even phrasing of comms, are not tolerated. Mistakes are seen as evidence of failure to cope with the stress, and result in operators being swapped out ASAP.

I remember it took about 2-3 months, after I resigned, before I felt free of the stress. I consider knowing how to recognise stress growing within me to be the most valuable thing I took from that part of my career.

As an aside, it is possible there is a similiar mindset, or skillset amongst controllers. I remember very clearly the selection process was very focused on 2 things

- maths and logic

- multitasking

The hardest test in the selection process was a combined map course plotting task, where you had to accurately plot out a course of about 15-20 waypoints, but every 60 seconds the examiner would read out a logic problem "if Jane wears blue on Tuesdays and green on weekends, what would she wear on the day before Monday ?" - stuff like that. You had to focus on plotting, correctly, as many map points as possible, AND correctly answer the puzzles being read out. That was the most directly relevant skill to the actual job of being an ATC, awareness of the task in front of you, and the ability to understand and act on the 'buzz' going on around you. They select for people who can perform accurately for multiple inputs, with time and cognition pressure. JM2CW

Those who know this technique either discover it themselves, through "reading, learning, doing", or are shown,like this guy was. None of us was born knowing this. Clay has blogged about his experience of discovering this - that in itself is what makes this a great read for me. I wouldn't be surprised if every single tech book author, at some point after their book has been published, has learned something and thought "I wish I knew that when I wrote my book !!" By their very nature books document the authors understanding at a point in time. Would polymorphism have helped Clay's book ? Probably. Does not knowing it ruin the book ? Probably not. If we waited 'til we knew everything before we wrote a book about anything, nothing would ever get written.

When doing rails work, HTML => Haml When doing perl, HTML => HTML::Template

For both CSS => Sass

Crime solved - your laptop was stolen by Deuce Bigalow, male gigolo

Still being rung a couple of times a month. Handing work off to mates. So not too bad.