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Ted Dziuba Says, "I Don't Code In My Free Time" 619

theodp writes "When he gets some free time away from his gigs at startup Milo and The Register, you won't catch Ted Dziuba doing any recreational programming. And he wouldn't want to work for a company that doesn't hire those who don't code in their spare time. 'You know what's more awesome than spending my Saturday afternoon learning Haskell by hacking away at a few Project Euler problems?' asks Dziuba. 'F***, ANYTHING.'"

Comment It was a network issue... (Score 1) 438

I love MS bashing as much as the rest of you, however the way I heard it was that it was a network issue. I work closely with the JSE, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, who happen to run on LSE's infrastructure. I heard that the root cause had to do with badly handled UDP packets in a cisco router, that had been patched the previous week-end.

Comment It's workable, but not yet in Johannesburg (Score 1) 75

Here in Johannesburg South Africa municipality tried the same thing. When half a dozen subirbs started complaining about a water outage, they were told that it was advertised on the municipal web-page. I for one certainly will not be spending a day a week looking for notices from each and every new governmental / municipal / departmental website. There could easily be a designated central point into which notices could be posted, as a poster above hinted at. But for now, I'm more than likely going to assume the position of "Just because you can see it on your intranet, doesn't mean that it is publicised."

Comment Re:Some, not all... (Score 1) 731

OK, I've done that too on a mainframe not the whole mainframe but a shared CICS region.
I was debugging a CICS/DB2 program using CEDF, and I knew that the problem was that a DB2 insert statement was returning -803 (Duplicate), so I wanted to overwrite the SQLCode with 0 (OK), after carefully stepping thru and getting to the right point in the program, I go to overwrite the SQLCode storage location with zeroes and *BAM* the CICS region goes down.
Damn now the whole team and I have to wait for the system programmers to start the CICS region up again.
CICS is up and I start my debug session again and a little while later at the crucial point *BAM* the CICS goes down again.
This time my phone rings ... its the sysprog ... I felt like a complete twat.

Comment Re:Some, not all... (Score 1) 731

Listen i've been doing serious spreadsheet programming back since lotus 123, and I know that learning to sort is not that difficult, even if you haven't learnt it before. All you have to do is switch on the record macro function, and then click on the column that you want to sort, and then click on the sort button, and choose from ascending or descending.
See that was easy, 'Knuth said ;)

Comment Re: Don't recycle them in Africa (Score 1) 546

As a South African, I would appreciate you not sending them here, I have enough of the crap / slow / broken-from-being-used-as-a-teething-ring things already. Some of them have devolved from USB/Keyring to Keyring-that-I-can't-remember-whats-on-them. Finally, I would not recommend the SATA drives as keyrings ... especially if you're in the habit of throwing your keys on the glass side table immediately inside the front door.

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