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It's expensive to keep binary groups online (bandwidth) and the text groups are all SPAM these days. Edit: Forgot to say that the tech is fine; a member of my family operates a use…

I understand LINQ very well (right down to code generation and expression trees) but unfortunately I work with a lot of other people's code. Perhaps that is the problem? :-) More s…

We do no LINQ near the database so some of those assumptions aren't valid here. We use NH criteria for that. The coalesce operator in C# 5 is welcome but then introduces another pr…

The problem is that it's a complex trade off whichever way you turn. Knowing which trade off to make is difficult for many people as it requires knowing all of the assumptions and …

Not a great fan of LINQ if I'm honest. Sure it's terse and powerful but with it comes great responsibility and a relatively large pile of tasty landmines. Three regular problems I …

Conversely it hosed my test machine (a clone of my main one). I would never risk a shotgun upgrade; I can't afford to lose a day fixing it. YMMV basically.

Compare to the Fiat Doblo Owner's Manual, which happens to be "Doblo eLEARN technical manual" because the effing thing breaks every 2 minutes... I long for a simple vehicle again.

You're right, but "least shit" is not the best position to occupy.

My entire outlay is now a single laptop running CentOS 7, a desktop as a backup machine if I kill the laptop, some earphones, a dumbphone and a USB stick and USB mp3 player in the …

I'm right there now. I just simplified everything by going back and looking for the technological singularity where everything just worked. This is a really hard and uncomfortable …

I've never had coffee come out of my nose before. Thank you for that experience :) I just sat through an hour of shit like that. My eyelids were so heavy they nearly became a singu…

Look for smaller companies and individual recruiters first. If they get you an interview in under 48 hours for a non shonky outfit and are willing to discuss your terms rather than…

I think that's not true. They do not consider their privacy nor understand the consequences.

You're right on all the points there. I did find that you can play recruiters off against each other quite easily to negotiate a higher rate. Also when you sign, you sign with the …

Very true. Also the advice about marketing yourself is crap. Recruiters are the #1 way of landing contracts. They're finders and you're paying a finders fee for that service. They …

Conversations (SMS backup), photos (onedrive), email (outlook/office365), calls (skype) etc etc.

No one wanted this implementation. There are plenty of ways of solving exactly the problems without the amorphous concept of the cloud without introducing any burden on the user. I…

I spent a number of years working for nefarious defence contractors so the paranoia is somewhat justified. My paranoia is clearly required as I've been responsible for the security…

I assure you this is not specious. We have to test against the lowest common denominator so we're not using Enterprise or VL for this nor are the machines domain members. The priva…

That's fine. That's no different to an IP address or a DNS record or something that you'd put on an envelope. That is public information. The content of our communications is the m…

No as that information is public. What we talk about isn't.

I was a QRP operator so that's actually quite funny.

This is incidentally why I run a hefty firewall for outgoing traffic and most endpoints can't access the internet at all.

I'm actually not free to not use it. I have to test our product on these systems and therefore I will need at least a virtual machine instance of it. I have no option not to use a …

Yes. It's as dumb as a 3310.