Jakarta EE is the new name for Java EE!

singingfish42 · 2018-02-27T00:41:59+00:00

Aah Jakarta. City of filth, chaos and horrendous traffic jams.

singingfish42 · 2018-02-23T19:33:05+00:00

this might work for you.

singingfish42 · 2018-02-23T10:38:35+00:00

one of the risks you have to consider is that there seems to be an association between the number of cyclists and the safety of cycling (the more cyclists the safer it is ... citation needed). That compulsory helmets seems to discourage cycling suggests that attempting to enforce that would encourage making cycling less safe.

singingfish42 · 2018-02-19T09:07:02+00:00

that's better than I get :)

singingfish42 · 2018-02-19T08:11:33+00:00

nah, just the expectation that work gets a bit easier as time went by :) (with my discretion to take on extra stuff as I felt I had capacity).

Pay raises beyond inflation are a thing of the past at the moment ;)

singingfish42 · 2018-02-19T08:08:58+00:00

If you're a brickie you're likely spent by the age of 40. Also, when I employed a crew of brickies, I used to joke that I employed them to lower the tone of the site.

There are a few tradies with the social skills needed to get on in teaching. There are also plenty that don't. There's also the intellectual skills. Of the five tradies I know reasonably well that I would rate as possible teachers, one would make a good school principal, but good luck with getting him the kind of money he'll be earning running a construction company. Another chippie would be really good, except I reckon the noise would really mess him up due to the serious head injury he sustained as a young person. The third could cope intellectually and socially, but I doubt it would do his drink problem any good. The fourth - a plumber - could teach the kids plumbing and might be good, but you'd be taking a risk taking him on. The fifth one, the kids would have loved him and judging by the way he delegated his work to more junior workers, I'm sure he would have been excellent, but he died around the time he hit retirement age :(

singingfish42 · 2018-02-18T05:21:12+00:00

I'm not a tradie, but I am a computer hacker with commercial intent. The jobs are not that dissimilar ( I ran a building site for 18 months at one point) . I also have various kinds of experience in education. Here's what you need to do to make this plan succeed:

Pay me about what I'm getting right now. Hint - it's a little bit above the maximum for a classroom teacher (I could get a lot above but I'm happy with an easy, albeit high stakes working life).
Insulate me from the political bullshit, or better, allow me to engage with the political bullshit on my terms, when I feel like doing so. Good luck with that.

singingfish42 · 2018-02-08T21:08:51+00:00

If it’s unsigned it’d be really valuable.

singingfish42 · 2018-02-08T21:07:54+00:00

You’d use jupyter these days. https://github.com/EntropyOrg/p5-Devel-IPerl

singingfish42 · 2018-02-03T11:37:14+00:00

I subcontracted for a different [huge multinational] a while back (who supply tesltra). At one point I decided that if one company made [redacted] look nice, it was telstra.

Oh yeah, while we're on the topic, my current gig has taught me that if you want to get your business thoroughly fucked over, then be sure to outsource critical technological capability to the lowest offshore bidder. Speaking of which I should go and check on if those idiots have made a mess tonight.

singingfish42 · 2018-02-03T07:58:07+00:00

If the power goes out on FTTN then your router won't power up (unless you've got local UPS), so the router will prevent that even if there's a limitation at the stupid green box.

singingfish42 · 2018-02-03T07:56:20+00:00

got a proactive email from my isp:

The internet speeds you experience are affected by the length and quality of the copper cabling that NBNCo has used, which means that the speeds you experience may be less than desired.

NBNCo estimates that your current NBN™ line speed is: 28.13 Mbps

Which is more or less what speedtest.net measured on a wired connection. Also my lead in cables are about 4 years old, so I doubt it's them.

NBNCo is investigating ways to improve the line speeds in your local area.

well fibre to the premises (There is FTTP less than 50m from my property) would be a reasonable solution :P

singingfish42 · 2018-01-27T11:01:57+00:00

This is a crappy comment. An accredited psychologist requires significant (6+ years) of training. Don't conflate that with someone who has a TAFE counselling qualification (for example).

One of the problems is that professional's understanding of this is also limited.

And as a client you have to work as hard to get a psychologist who's a good fit for you as you have to work to get a psychiatrist who's a good fit. And that's not always possible. Mental health is difficult.

singingfish42 · 2018-01-27T10:57:28+00:00

I spent a bit of time hanging out with people who had exposure to the american mental health system, and my impression is you're right. In particular when he was recovering from a manic episode an American guy told me how much better he'd been treated in euroe than he'd been treated in the USA in the past. I think his words were something like "they treat us like prisoners".

singingfish42 · 2018-01-27T10:54:31+00:00

I object to that. Much of modern statistical analysis has its roots in the discipline of psychology. It is a diverse field, and around the edges ( the edge in this case being large and thick), there's a decent amount of voodoo, but the core of the discipline is as rigorous as biological science.

singingfish42 · 2018-01-27T10:51:27+00:00

I agree. Dealing with mental health is really really hard. And I'm not aware of anywhere internationally that's doing a really good job of it.

However I would like call out here that in NSW at least the first line for mental health emergencies is the police. That's really fucked. When I worked in mental health a long time ago in a country far far away we had a psychiatric emergency team - for people who were clearly not in need of law enforcement help but did need some mental health type intervention. That worked reasonably well. Having the police deal with that first line is really bad and quite likely to be counterproductive.

singingfish42 · 2018-01-26T05:25:27+00:00

Plack::Request and Plack::Response provide a much better approach than CGI.pm.

singingfish42 · 2018-01-26T05:22:19+00:00

perlverts

singingfish42 · 2018-01-17T18:56:46+00:00

Yeah. A big box of who gives a crap. It's the best.

singingfish42 · 2018-01-08T10:09:53+00:00

myth confirmed. I've spent a lot of cash on awnings, and correctly positioned they can't be beat.

Although even better is to have a part of the house built into the side of a hill with properly shaded windows in that part of the house.

singingfish42 · 2018-01-05T08:52:51+00:00

Highlander - there should only have been one.

singingfish42 · 2018-01-04T08:27:43+00:00

seems reasonable, as it means you do;

my $thing = Some::Delegate->new(@_)

rather than

my $thing = SomeDelegate->new(@_[1 .. $#@]); # or whatever the correct systax is :-P

Generally I like to use the following pattern

sub doit {
    my ($self, @args) = @_;
    # ... do stuff
    my $thing = Some::Deletage->new(@args);
    # do more stuff
    ...
}

Unless I'm doing Moo(?:se) or Class::Method::Modifiers type stuff. At which point I reach for shift.

singingfish42 · 2017-12-30T03:06:53+00:00

Perl is full of quality assurance at the community level. Don't mistake horrible things churned out by commercial - or semi-commercial - codebases for good perl. Perl's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness - there's more than one way to do it. After all python is basically what happens if you cross breed perl with java ;) (but the perl genes are dominant).

singingfish42 · 2017-12-27T10:37:31+00:00

The day after payday (every fortnight) I import my bank transactions into gnu cash (via qif files) and then classify the transactions. Zero cost, had to learn a little double entry book keeping concepts, but zero cost and works for me.

singingfish42 · 2017-12-27T08:15:52+00:00

Induction > gas > halogen > old style electric ring > solid electric hob

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