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Comment Re: a-BUH-buh, buh-buh (Score 1) 116

It is absolutely wrong to have your grade depend on somebody else's presence or performance.
There is the debate between (a) the grade showing your mastering of the curriculum and (b) the grade showing relative ranking.
I am for option (a) and any ranking should be a side effect of grading (those who get C rank lower than those who get A) and not the primary purpose of grading.

Comment Re:Good luck with that (Score 1) 432

I've been explaining in three different meetings that the root cause is "firewall blocks connections", only to have a developer lead (who doesn't understand much beyond RPG programming) dismiss me with "I'm not convinced, we need to assemble a committee to further analyse this". At this point, I yielded, because I had nothing to lose and it was his deadline to be missed, not mine.

Comment Re:ReadWHATFM (Score 1) 41

I entered (in Wolfram Alpha) "coffe contents in pepsi", pressed Enter, opened a new tab, typed the same thing, hit Enter, read Google's accurate answer, returned to the Wolfram Alpha, waited 2 more seconds, then the very long, detailed and totally missing the caffeine content answer appeared.

Comment Re:The problem is those who DO know best. Thanks M (Score 1) 217

Having the courage/confidence to speak after being rebutted (nicely or not) by an authority in your field is personal quality and there is only so much a manager can do to instil confidence in weak people.

On the other hand, I've been blessed with senior directors to whom I can say in private things like "why on earth would somebody use this solution?", "bad shit will happen" and "I wouldn't do this, X is better". Not all management is like that.

Comment Re:What Defence to Use? (Score 1) 197

3) Let's say that a judge buys the "IP" argument, so now the industry bod is showing how at the same time a movie was being downloaded, it was also being uploaded as well. So... how did you come via that data? To obtain such data you would have required access to data from my computer, and permission to access that has never been granted by me. That would mean an offence has been committed in collecting the "evidence", and thus it would be dismissed from the case.

Actually, #3 can be obtained from the torrent tracker, not from your computer.
By the way, there is a way to see what an IP address downloaded in the last few days: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.c...

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