Posts by shah27

Re: s/Internet Explorer/Teams/g

You are right. All browsers on iOS are effectively Safari or a craper version of Safari. Safari is designed to take direct advantage of the hardware on iPhones. All other browsers must use API's which Apple controls and the core of all of the brwosers on iOS is still the same as Safari.

Re: It's official

Never thought there would be a word which is not worth the letters used to spell the word.

Re: Found some of the money

in HP vs Autonomy the owners made false claims on their books about their product. Here it is somewhat more complicated.

Elon made what could be considered a stupid decision (though I suspect his willingness to buy twitter and offering up to $1billion dollars was to stop Twitter exec board from using the poison pill method) but has the right to walk away from a company that is found to have broken the law. If however, these claims about Twitter are false then Musk will likely be compelled to pay the $1billion along with whatever additional fines there may be.

Re: Copper

So many people have no idea that their phones work when their electricity goes out. Suspect many will claim they have a mobile so why does it matter.

Re: What is wrong with people?

Having worked with several large NGO I can tell you that they are significantly worse than any for profit organisation when it comes to managing money. On the flip side they did pay for me to travel all around the world for two years.

Re: "six-eyes" policy

You'd think large values like this should ring a bell but it doesn't.

The whole reason why there was sign off was to avoid the whole bell going off. This is because there are transfers of millions happening on a single transaction.

What should have happened is the system should have been set up in advance where only specific accounts are allowed to get certain payments. But that requires more operational, system development and training costs. Why would you spend millions to create a system that does the job when the current one is cheaper and does the job. The human user should pick up on mistakes... right?

Re: My masters degree

Computer Science and Software development was never a branch of Mathematics. This has always been a myth and an assumption those that had no idea.

I was always pushed down the Computer Science and Software development route when I was in college simply because I was singularly gifted in Mathematics. (later came to realise I was gifted at mathematics because I was a logical thinker and was able not only follow but understand maths examples).

Computer Science is totally different. Yes it incorporates mathematics just like physics or geotechnics but it is not just mathematics. It all comes down to if someone is able to solve problems. Once you start looking at it from that perspective you realise that a lot of people in every field possible are all problem solvers.

Don't be silly, this is for Apple to demand all information that users give up to use app's must be shared with Apple for free.

Re: Education, education, education.

What existed before the existence of the of the universe?

Re: All aboard the Gitlab train

I agree, the place I work at places a lot of importance in data protection. We are not allowed to store any information on any form of external devices or use any cloud services.

JIRA and confluence are critical tools for our day to day work.

Oh god even thinking of trying to migrate everything to a different platform will be a complete nightmare.

Re: Beautiful

Oh my god this sounds beautiful.

Re: I bought one at that time!

Just get the $10 dollar and buy yourself a very very large coffee.

Re: Set-up...

Curry's offered a service which a lot of people never went for. It was meant to involve a member of staff spending a hour setting up the laptop, installing all relevant software's and showing the customers how to use the laptop (I know of one elderly couple who bought it).

But Curry's staff started lying and claiming stuff like "laptop won't turn on", "you have to buy the Operating System", "only experts will be able to set up the laptop" etc... in order to force people who didn't know better to buy this service.