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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Well done! I wonder if Dave happened to be listening to Radio4 this morning? 
Andy B
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As I drove in there was an interesting piece on the Home Service about the excess of Acorns!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Nice word.
I have been gone a while and thought I'd see if the CCC was still running.
I'm glad some institutions endure.
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It could be a repost, but has someone already given a try to candy box http://candies.aniwey.net/[^] ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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I will never get those 10 seconds of my life back. Thanks a lot.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Look at the FAQ : "Be patient".
If you get enough candies, the game becomes more interesting.
I spent 5 hours on finishing it, and I cheated.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Some people have all the bad luck with hard disks ... I have had my turn of bad luck which taught me to be redundant. always.
A humble question as to where to go?
multiple hdd?
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tumbledDown2earth wrote: I have had my turn of bad luck which taught me to be redundant. always.
You got fired and you liked it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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tumbledDown2earth wrote: multiple hdd?
This is indeed my solution. To the extreme, make a RAID [^]setup.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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I've no patience for RAID 5, so always go 10. (Last time we 5ed, it took an entire day to rebuild a bad disk...)
Of course, once you go RAID, you start worrying about the RAID card going bad, and the new card which shows up in the mail 3 days later won't recognize or mount your array.
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I have a RAID5 NAS with 4 1TB HDDs (from different manufacturers and / or batches) and an automated hourly backup system which maintains multiple copies of important stuff. (In addition I also archive the important stuff to the net, so I have seriously off-site backups - can't get much more offsite than a different continent)
HDD's fail. They all do, it's just a case of when. If you can plan for failure, you can limit or remove any damage caused by the fault.
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tumbledDown2earth wrote: A humble question as to where to go?
That really all depends on how quickly you need to be back up and working when a disk crashes.
Raid is the way to go for if you cannot afford to have any downtime(I cannot advise you on which flavour though).
I have an SSD C drive on which I pretty much only have the OS.
I then have two disks with various partitions on those disks.
I have a regular schedule of imaging the C drive and other partitions - the advantage of using partitions is that some partitions change very little and consequently the incremental image size is very small.
I have had two disk crashes in my computer owning life and both times I was able to get everything back up and working within 2 hours - make sure you have a spare disk if you need to restore in a rush.
This strategy has worked very well for me.
I use Acronis for disk imaging.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Even in recent times, we hit people who behave as if internet was never invented. They continue to use heavy and stupid corporate policies like working hours, NO work from home and Dress Code.
Just wanted views, about do these things actually apply to the process of software development?
or its just an HR/Management ego that they want to boost but enforcing such historical mode of office going?
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I keep telling everyone that I don't actually need to be at the office, and showing them pictures of Barbados, but no-one listens.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's difficult - you never know what past experiences they have had, or heard of.
There are always people who will take advantage - heck you know who they are in your office, goofing off, leave early, arrive late - and it's very difficult to monitor that if you let them work from home. Despite it (generally) improving productivity, it's hard to manage and monitor, so many people just go for the "no way Jose" approach and ban it. There are also difficulties in terms of billing for electricty usage, ensuring the security of company data, and so forth.
Plus, there was this guy[^] 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Plus, there was this guy[^]
Sorry, but this is pure genius. 
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It would have been genius - if he hadn't been caught...now the company knows that he and his other employees can be outsourced to China. 
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If all works out well I should soon be working from home.
ie getting up about 10.00am, wandering semi-naked around the house, drinking tea and watching daytime telly as I make the odd phone call or juggle some emails.
Maybe have a short siesta after lunch and then prepare for an evening relaxing in front of the telly with my wife (Who will have struggled home from a stressful day via some heavy traffic and rain and who will be able to see what a calm helpful person I am as I order a takeaway and neck the last of the Pinot Noir).
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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I've suggested working from home but hasn't happened yet.
Personally, I like coming to the office as I get to see friends that way. It also forces me to part from distcractions and put my mind into work mode properly.
But there are times when I think the option to work from home from time to time would be useful. Say, the workman fixing the roof isn't sure when he's arriving, then rather than taking a paid day's leave, I can choose to work at home and save the holiday for something more exciting.
As for dress code, we have extreme dress code called a uniform! It's not as bad as it sounds. It's made of durable material so you can crawl all over the lab to put down cables and never worry about wearing out the knees. The kit is formally "on loan" from the company so you can trade it in for new ones if the current one gets too worn out. And because we use uniforms at work, we are free to travel to and from work in whatever gear we want.
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
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I wear smart cas.
Often in Trainers, usually cords, often jeans, occasionally my golf trousers (for a smart getaway after work), always a shirt (except in extreme heat when it is a T).
NEVER a tie.
I am paid for my brain not my modelling ability.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Dalek Dave wrote: I am paid for my brain not my modelling ability.
If it was the other way, you'd be destitute. 
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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My company supports working from home. However I try to balance the work such that I spend some time in the office and some at home. I'm most functional with both in my life.
In general, a company gets what they measure. If they want someone who works 8-5 then they don't care about results, they care about attendance.
I move on when a company gets that way around me; based on the theory that anyone could therefore be doing my job. If they think it is important then they have lost their way.
And its a pretty good indicator that they don't actually have any idea what people are or are not producing if they push a rule about presence in the office or attendance in general. It seems to mean that as long as you are present your level of work could be any kind of garbage and they won't mind.
That's my take. I have seen bosses freak out over the cost of running an office that no one happens to be using because people are working from home a lot. I think they get very narrow vision sometimes and this is one of the ways it expresses itself.
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A detective inducts the truth.
A journalist abducts the truth.
Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
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In an ideal world, people could be trusted to put in the same or more productive hours at home as they do at work. The reality, of course, is that we don't live in an ideal world, so people take advantage and abuse the system (take a look at why Yahoo recently removed this privilege for almost all it's teleworkers). As for dress code - it really depends. If you may have clients coming into your area, or you work among people in other departments that have to follow a corporate dress code, then the dress code probably should apply to you.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: In an ideal world, people could be trusted to put in the same or more productive hours at home as they do at work. The reality, of course, is that we don't live in an ideal world, so people take advantage and abuse the system...
To be fair though in a ideal world corporations wouldn't treat people like nothing but cogs in a machine and do things like lay off 5% of the work force and the very next week announce a 7% net income growth from the previous year.
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