We can expect a replay of the Royal Bank of Scotland disaster. RBS got rid of 1500 staff who knew what they were doing, and replaced them with 750 outsourced amateurs. Result? A bollixed-up overnight batch, a fucked-up recovery, all banking services suspended for weeks, £56m fine, permanent loss of reputation.
Here's what happened at Royal Bank of Scotland in 2012. They "made redundant" (aka fired) 1500 experienced locals and replaced them with 750 foreign contract workers.
Within a few months, the inexperienced contract workers screwed an update to the batch scheduling software (RBS, like most banks including HSBC, is an IBM mainframe shop). Then the same inexperienced workers screwed the recovery. It took almost a month to repair.
Hahhahha, stop with the jokes already, you're killing me. The foreign body shop companies will send you recent graduates who have absolutely zero real-world experience.
Read about what happened at Royal Bank of Scotland when they sacked 1500 competent locals and hired 750 contract workers from a body shop.
He is assailed by rumours that he is an alcoholic. So he gives a lunchtime interview to an journalist. During the lunch he eats a salad, and drinks 4 glasses of champagne. Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
Newsreader: in the latest IT scandal, Standard Initrode Corp has admitted that its Autobanger sex toys have been remotely hijacked by a variant of the Stuxnet virus. The effect of the hijacking is to cause the device to repeatedly apply the user's favorite settings, until the user becomes unresponsive.
Last week's revelations by Federal investigators that a number of unexplained deaths among Congressmen and -women were caused by unexpected heart attacks may be related.
The outage lasted a LOT longer than 75 minutes. I tried repeatedly to get into BT webmail all morning - it was at least 3 hours after the outage before I succeeded. And during all that time, the BT DNS service was not working, so I couldn't do any other work.
#RANT# The BT-supplied router, the fornicating clunky useless and slow Home Hub 5, does not allow you to put in your own DNS servers. So while it is proof against subscriber morons, it is totally vulnerable to central morons#/RANT#
I have written to my MP about this. She isn't the best MP in Parliament (known locally as the Chocolate Teapot, as in "as useful as a..."). But she is a scientist, and what the NCA have done is blatant disregard for government policy. I believe she has the ear of some influential people. With any luck she can cause the NCA some pain.
I would encourage any and all Brits to use They Work For You http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ - an easy and quick way to write to your MP, and say what you think (even if you disagree).
Fresh graduate should not become a freelancer. Not enough solid experience of technology, business, weird companies, weird management, to be able to get work, complete contracts, withstand the psychological pressures. Much better to become a freelancer when made redundant later in career.
When advising users who want to leave Windows, I tell them to install T-bird, let it import all their emails and address book from , and copy the result to Linux, when T-bird picks it up and uses it in a "It Just Works" manner. I have never seen another migration that was so effortless.
You may understand that I don't want T-bird to disappear, or updating to stop, because there needs to be a painless way to get your stuff out of the hands of the Beast.
Yes, those things listed in TFA are important but they are not that difficult to handle. The worst thing about TFA is that it mostly does not offer the obvious solutions.
1. Getting to work remotely is straightforward. Don't ask for it till you have done an onsite contract first. Prove that you deliver. Then you can be trusted.
2. NDA. Yes, insist on the "standard exceptions" or walk away. There are plenty of other fish in the sea.
3. Yes, you have to educate people you work with. Also true when an employee.
4. Riding out storms. It's not hard to build up reserve money in your business - simply park some of the profit. I always had 6 months worth. You have to park quite a lot anyway, so that you have it ready when tax payment day comes.
5. Keeping up to date. Yes, that's tricky - but you do NOT need to chase the Flavour-of-the-Month like employees do. I only needed to change direction once in 20 years - plenty of earning opportunities always there
6. Reconcile agile and fixed-bid? That's ridiculous FUD. No freelancer is so stupid they do fixed-bid with open-ended requirements, surely? Leastways they only do it once. Every freelancer I have ever worked with was on time and materials.
7. Communications gaps. This is not a threat, this is an opportunity! This is where the freelancer can shine, by doing the internal communicating that the customer is themselves is incapable of. I have done this on every project, and got kudos for being helpful.
8. Time management. Ho hum. Everybody, freelancer or employee, has to manage their time.
Time needed for handling getting requirements and doing proposals? You call that non-billable? No, Dorothy, you roll that into your daily rate.
When you sign up with an ISP, they ship you a router that is usually a piece of cheap tat in hardware terms, has incompetently or maliciously built software, usually lacks useful features such as QoS, usually has some or all features missing or locked down (my ISP has just shipped me a VDSL router that has no telnet or SSH interface and where I can't change their utterly crappy DNS servers)
So yes, please, build some open source hardware that will run tomato and/or OpenWRT (absolutely not DDWRT). I would like to be able to support a computer club in my village hall with 30+ participants over wifi - not possible with any ISP-supplied or consumer router sold here. - they choke at 10 users.
I notice that most routers in the shops here cost around $60-80 USD. I would happily pay up to twice that for a really competent router. (a business grade router would be complete overkill and cost double again).
Over the years, I have had several goes at rewriting Ham(m)urabi, in an attempt to make it comprehensible. I just wanted to be able to tweak it, and it has defeated me (got bored and gave up) every time. The BASIC code is the most appalling spaghetti, and would make an excellent illustration for any CS student of How Not To Code.
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Yet another data point to underpin the motto "Never allow any data or access or service that you value to be controlled by Somebody Else's Computer"
Get back to us, Elon, when you can duplicate what Volvo were doing a year ago - 1600 km, 4 borders.
http://www.transportengineer.o...
We can expect a replay of the Royal Bank of Scotland disaster. RBS got rid of 1500 staff who knew what they were doing, and replaced them with 750 outsourced amateurs. Result? A bollixed-up overnight batch, a fucked-up recovery, all banking services suspended for weeks, £56m fine, permanent loss of reputation.
Description RBS Disaster
Forgot to add link https://www.scania.com/group/e...
8 months ago, Scania drove a platoon of autonomous trucks across Europe, 1600 km and 4 borders.
By the time Uber can do that, the truck manufacturers will have moved on, and Uber will be left behind again.
Forgot to put the link in. See this for a map https://www.eutruckplatooning....
This spring in the European Truck Platooning Challenge, Scania platooned their trucks 1600 km across 4 borders
You people in Ohio, do try to keep up with the rest of us. Don't come back until you can do something that even remotely demonstrates some skill.
Ooops! My bad.
Here's what happened at Royal Bank of Scotland in 2012. They "made redundant" (aka fired) 1500 experienced locals and replaced them with 750 foreign contract workers.
Within a few months, the inexperienced contract workers screwed an update to the batch scheduling software (RBS, like most banks including HSBC, is an IBM mainframe shop). Then the same inexperienced workers screwed the recovery. It took almost a month to repair.
Wikipedia account of what happened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
RBS bank's own account of what happened http://www.rbs.com/content/dam...
IMHO something similar will happen at HSBC. Get your money out NOW.
"The H1Bs have up to date skills"
Hahhahha, stop with the jokes already, you're killing me. The foreign body shop companies will send you recent graduates who have absolutely zero real-world experience.
Read about what happened at Royal Bank of Scotland when they sacked 1500 competent locals and hired 750 contract workers from a body shop.
http://www.rbs.com/content/dam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
TFA is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Not the first, not the biggest, not the most difficult.
Read this instead http://qz.com/656104/a-fleet-o...
A week of driving, trucks from several manufacturers, 2000 km Stockholm to Rotterdam across 4 borders.
Uber don't have a clue what they are up against. 120 miles? F**king amateurs.
"Haag said that her client Hurst -- of the law firm Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe -- should not be sanctioned because of "one arguable mistake... "
No, it's an open-and-shut case of contempt of court. Lawyers are supposed to, like, know the law.
Yet again, lawyers think they should be above the law, unlike the rest of us.
Go on, Alsup, jail her or expect this to be used as a precedent..
If JCJ is an arsehole, it's probably accidental, due to a total lack of empathy for other people.
He is assailed by rumours that he is an alcoholic. So he gives a lunchtime interview to an journalist. During the lunch he eats a salad, and drinks 4 glasses of champagne. Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
Not someone whose opinion is worth anything.
Newsreader: in the latest IT scandal, Standard Initrode Corp has admitted that its Autobanger sex toys have been remotely hijacked by a variant of the Stuxnet virus. The effect of the hijacking is to cause the device to repeatedly apply the user's favorite settings, until the user becomes unresponsive. Last week's revelations by Federal investigators that a number of unexplained deaths among Congressmen and -women were caused by unexpected heart attacks may be related.
The outage lasted a LOT longer than 75 minutes. I tried repeatedly to get into BT webmail all morning - it was at least 3 hours after the outage before I succeeded. And during all that time, the BT DNS service was not working, so I couldn't do any other work.
#RANT# The BT-supplied router, the fornicating clunky useless and slow Home Hub 5, does not allow you to put in your own DNS servers. So while it is proof against subscriber morons, it is totally vulnerable to central morons#/RANT#
What Greenpeace has released IS the current state of play - it's internal documents from the negotiators.
I have written to my MP about this. She isn't the best MP in Parliament (known locally as the Chocolate Teapot, as in "as useful as a..."). But she is a scientist, and what the NCA have done is blatant disregard for government policy. I believe she has the ear of some influential people. With any luck she can cause the NCA some pain.
I would encourage any and all Brits to use They Work For You http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ - an easy and quick way to write to your MP, and say what you think (even if you disagree).
Fresh graduate should not become a freelancer. Not enough solid experience of technology, business, weird companies, weird management, to be able to get work, complete contracts, withstand the psychological pressures. Much better to become a freelancer when made redundant later in career.
When advising users who want to leave Windows, I tell them to install T-bird, let it import all their emails and address book from , and copy the result to Linux, when T-bird picks it up and uses it in a "It Just Works" manner. I have never seen another migration that was so effortless. You may understand that I don't want T-bird to disappear, or updating to stop, because there needs to be a painless way to get your stuff out of the hands of the Beast.
or not, as the case may be...in other words, they can change the name, but they can't change the stink of decay that surrounds Flash
Yes, those things listed in TFA are important but they are not that difficult to handle. The worst thing about TFA is that it mostly does not offer the obvious solutions.
1. Getting to work remotely is straightforward. Don't ask for it till you have done an onsite contract first. Prove that you deliver. Then you can be trusted.
2. NDA. Yes, insist on the "standard exceptions" or walk away. There are plenty of other fish in the sea.
3. Yes, you have to educate people you work with. Also true when an employee.
4. Riding out storms. It's not hard to build up reserve money in your business - simply park some of the profit. I always had 6 months worth. You have to park quite a lot anyway, so that you have it ready when tax payment day comes.
5. Keeping up to date. Yes, that's tricky - but you do NOT need to chase the Flavour-of-the-Month like employees do. I only needed to change direction once in 20 years - plenty of earning opportunities always there
6. Reconcile agile and fixed-bid? That's ridiculous FUD. No freelancer is so stupid they do fixed-bid with open-ended requirements, surely? Leastways they only do it once. Every freelancer I have ever worked with was on time and materials.
7. Communications gaps. This is not a threat, this is an opportunity! This is where the freelancer can shine, by doing the internal communicating that the customer is themselves is incapable of. I have done this on every project, and got kudos for being helpful.
8. Time management. Ho hum. Everybody, freelancer or employee, has to manage their time.
Time needed for handling getting requirements and doing proposals? You call that non-billable? No, Dorothy, you roll that into your daily rate.
When you sign up with an ISP, they ship you a router that is usually a piece of cheap tat in hardware terms, has incompetently or maliciously built software, usually lacks useful features such as QoS, usually has some or all features missing or locked down (my ISP has just shipped me a VDSL router that has no telnet or SSH interface and where I can't change their utterly crappy DNS servers)
So yes, please, build some open source hardware that will run tomato and/or OpenWRT (absolutely not DDWRT). I would like to be able to support a computer club in my village hall with 30+ participants over wifi - not possible with any ISP-supplied or consumer router sold here. - they choke at 10 users.
I notice that most routers in the shops here cost around $60-80 USD. I would happily pay up to twice that for a really competent router. (a business grade router would be complete overkill and cost double again).
Over the years, I have had several goes at rewriting Ham(m)urabi, in an attempt to make it comprehensible. I just wanted to be able to tweak it, and it has defeated me (got bored and gave up) every time.
The BASIC code is the most appalling spaghetti, and would make an excellent illustration for any CS student of How Not To Code.
They "don't want to go through the process of learning another OS".
What do they think moving to Win 10 will be like?
Move them to Linux Mint Cinnamon, that's more like what they are used to than any of Win 7, Win 8, or Win 10.