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New comment by C1sc0cat in "Indian developer jailed for making unauthorized train ticket booking app"

C1sc0cat — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:06:31 +0000

Just WOW! and I say that as some one who developed billing systems in Fortran.

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Indian developer jailed for making unauthorized train ticket booking app"

C1sc0cat — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:03:38 +0000

How do you mean "hog" all the tickets just make them non transferable if they are already not.

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security"

C1sc0cat — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:02:46 +0000

Amen - maybe for ecomerce webdev roles ask about use of canonical tags and hreflang and site structure.

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Improving on QBasic's Random Number Generator"

C1sc0cat — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:45:11 +0000

The original Microsoft BASICS as used on early PC's had a number of interesting aspects, that would shock a lot of todays programmers :-) (not that I want to go full four Yorkshire men )

Having to manually set the exit condition of a loop to avoid memory leaks

New comment by C1sc0cat in "On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years"

C1sc0cat — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:51:56 +0000

For non chess player what does a rating of 650 mean?

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)"

C1sc0cat — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:40:38 +0000

Interesting and detailed, I did notice the similarity's between RT-11 and CPM in my first Job.

And I do still vaguely recall RADIX 50

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates"

C1sc0cat — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:01:02 +0000

And Non Tarif Barrier's like the chicken tax

New comment by C1sc0cat in "How to Become a Shopify Developer – Resources to Become a Shopify Dev"

C1sc0cat — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:38:23 +0000

Chears I will have a look

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Google knows where we are, and so do advertisers"

C1sc0cat — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:38:22 +0000

Yes the fact that I can check my phone in the morning for my commute and get an accurate (ish) bus time including delays is great, I can avoid a long wait for a bus at and have another cup of coffee.

Though as I live next door to a pub in my village it used to keep checking me in - google probably thinks I have a drinking problem :-)

New comment by C1sc0cat in "How to Become a Shopify Developer – Resources to Become a Shopify Dev"

C1sc0cat — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:02:17 +0000

From experience with a major brands shopify sites

Might be better to work as a consultant on speeding up sites and implementing structured data properly - the day rate will be better.

A lot of shopify themes have terrible speed issues and some of the older ones just don't implement structured data properly.

Another area is Integration with Google analytics.

New comment by C1sc0cat in "The election of the doge"

C1sc0cat — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:23:02 +0000

We need fewer lawyers in politics in my opinion

New comment by C1sc0cat in "The election of the doge"

C1sc0cat — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:21:16 +0000

It would take the first two year term to learn how the system works.

New comment by C1sc0cat in "The election of the doge"

C1sc0cat — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:18:56 +0000

"hero point" :-)

New comment by C1sc0cat in "One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study"

C1sc0cat — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:55:33 +0000

Its interesting I have chronic kidney failure and I was asked to fill in a questionnaire about broadly mental issues it was a densely packed two page one.

The only one I had was feeling a bit upset about how it effected my skin some horrible looking scabs.

edited for spelling

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver"

C1sc0cat — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:38:17 +0000

Ah I see, interestingly some of the posh (expensive) areas in London campaigned against high speed roll out as the CABS where to big and unsightly.

I assume they worded the motion obscurely to avoid people voting against giving the "poors" access to faster BB

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver"

C1sc0cat — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:34:27 +0000

With that contention 30:1 that's less than my guaranteed 35-38 MBS on VDSL (Vodaphone business) and I could get 70Mbs for an extra tenner.

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?"

C1sc0cat — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 11:04:03 +0000

Il just leave this from Kipling

"A scrimmage in a Border Station- A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride, Shot like a rabbit in a ride! "

You'd just change "ten-rupee jezail" to a second hand AK

And plenty of "third" world civilians have guns

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?"

C1sc0cat — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:13:43 +0000

Um the English longbowmen where highly paid professional soldiers or mercenaries not peasants.

An English longbowman was paid more in real terms than a Squaddie is today

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?"

C1sc0cat — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:10:34 +0000

Lob a molatoff cocktail from above and hit the engine intakes and you can get a Mobility kill.

Armour in built up areas is very risky with out infantry support and the APC's would not be just driving around with out having dismounts supporting them.

New comment by C1sc0cat in "Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?"

C1sc0cat — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:59:09 +0000

There's more than one type of "Viking" warrior the Elite Huscarls where effectively professionals and are considered one of the best heavy shock infantry period - this is what they are referring to as Vikings.

Though this is prior to the switch to mounted knights