Its always been a careful balance between patriotism and remembering the human cost of war.

I have no interest in remembering the Brutish Empire and will never forgive their raping and looting of other nations and non-white people. And the history remembered is mostly a white history on the Empire side.

Here in Oz, last evening it was obvious the Internet was slowing down drastically, oh wait I'm on the NBN....

Unit and integration level tests are not enough by themselves as the gap between the systems these tests run on and the actually production system is too great, and with the complexity cloud deployments allow this gap is growing. Yes, you can run a set of smoke tests in production but that doesn't hide the fact that most of the testing is not performed in a realistic environment.

I've always felt that integrating and keeping up to date test automation processes as the greatest challange in the CI/CD space. As business cycles get shorter, creating and maintaining the required set of test automation processes that can give you confidence in the final production release can be an immense challange. This together with the increasing complexity of cloud based systems has made the testing challange a really hard nut to crack.

Wrong! I'm an engineer with 20+ years of experience.

Recently for the first time I had experienced working with software developers from India. They were all recent migrants working with a consulting company. In my project team we had about 20 of these engineers that I had to manage and for the most part they were pretty good. On the plus side, they were hard working and keen to learn and best of all they were able to LISTEN and take responsibility on what was sometimes quite a stressful project. The negative side would be perhaps having the courage to take initiative and move the team in a new and better direction, but maybe that will come as experience grows.

Overall a pretty good experience. I would definitely work with some of them again.

No. The Chinese alone are not responsible for exorbitant Australian property prices. They are just one of many factors. Larger factors include generous tax concessions (negative gearing and capital gains discounts) and the role of property investors (mostly mum's and dad's) buying their second (or more) property. Possibly the biggest factor is that everyone want's to buy in the inner-city areas of Melbourne and Sydney due to poor infrastructure and jobs growth outside these areas. House prices in other Australian capital cities are much lower in general and rarely in boom conditions.

Look at this article from the Murdoch press (aka. right side of politics) chinese property investment in Australia its a more balanced view of the effect of Chinese property investments.

Oh you funny people are yet to mention Blake's 7. Which if nothing else had the depressing (very British in fact) yet utterly redeeming feature to kill off all the good guys after a few seasons. Unlike Star Wars/Trek in which the goodies survive to make it into even worse story lines and ruin our memories of when the show was good.

Plus no good guy ever did being a bastard quite like Avon.

Oh fuck. America land of the big white racist cunts.

I think the comparison is more with OSX. Remember AmigaOS was a fully preemptive multitasking system in 1985.

"it will still be death by spaghettification, not by incineration!"

Thats a relief.

This is the budget version.

"Indian Mars probe successfully completes mission as slashdot twits eat large quantities of Humble Pie!!"

This project is life changing for a billion people. By the end of the decade and into the next decade its effect on Indian society and the economy will become clearly visible. Such projects have great challanges to overcome and there will be some cases of fraud but it will be on a substantially smaller scale than currently happens.