I'm not even creating the spreadsheets...just having to read and validate them! Mind numbingly boring.

Also I think you are all working under the assumption I could actually get Clojure or any other tool I want through client firewalls! 😢

@agile_geek: but how are you sneaking slack through ?

Hola

@agile_geek: I'm not. I have client windows laptop on network and my Mac tethered to my phone.

morning

@agile_geek: 😢

@agile_geek: ah, yes - last time i was on a network like that i tethered my laptop to download useful stuff and switched back to the client network to upload to their servers - my laptop though

Can't put my laptop on their network and can't email stuff about

Most of my recent clients run two networks - one for “work” and one for “everything else”. I actually think this works pretty well, and solves a bunch of security issues around people installing crap on work machines. Though it annoys me when they still filter “social media” from the “everything else” network, and when they block me installing software tools on the “work” network

The installing s/w tools bit is what really annoys me. My boss is targeting getting the approval process for tools down from an average of about 12 months to 2 weeks which would be a start!

12 months ? lol - by the time you have approval the tool will be out of date !

@agile_geek: are there sensible reasons they are so conservative or is it just ass-covering ?

"The Bank is risk-averse" is the mantra...this from an org whose main internet banking offering has test coverage at a level so low I would definitely be breaking NDA's to even hint at whoops

well, increasing test coverage would find problems which would require solutions, which are changes and therefore risky ! it's the medical screening dilemma in binary form

Bank are very very risk averse... that is why they would never ever go bust.

honest guv'

averse to all risks apart from the ones so large that no-one can see them

:shhhhhhh:

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is bitcoin a solution or just a big scam

I keep researching and can't decide - can't quite figure it out or comprehend its checkered past

bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general seem reasonable, apart from that they tie the value of the currency to the consumption of an awful lot of power. this might be ok if you mine from solar power in space, but is perhaps less ok if you mine from gas-burning power stations on earth

plus there is a lot of scope for scamming at the interface to other currencies in an unestablished market with no history of trust mechanisms

It’s a scam in the sense that i bricked a 500 quid gpu mining dogecoin

good hash rate while it lasted though

@minimal: 😞

@thomas: is was ok, I was able to get a replacement as it was within a month of buying it.

so you were just doing a burn in test 😉

Hi, is anyone looking for a Clojurian in or around London ? Linkedin/Github in my profile.

@thomas yeah, just checking if it was in the wrong part of the bathtub curve