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ivix··on Trunk Road Gritter Tracker
Here is a list of primary destinations.

They are separated by region. So for example if you are in Cambridge (EAST region) you follow signs for EAST MIDLANDS. Once you are in that region, you will start seeing signs for the primary destinations in the region.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

ivix··on Trunk Road Gritter Tracker
It's really just standard manual map based navigation. A dying art these days. I haven't seen many shrubbery related problems, we still have the best signage in the world (that I've seen) and it's perfectly possible to use sign based navigation without any GPS. You however may need to ask directions for the last couple of miles in rural areas.
ivix··on Ask HN: What job can a “jack of all trades” look for?
Surprised that no one has mentioned solutions architect. Sounds like a good fit to me.
ivix··on Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell
I think you're saying that "creating home made tooling is a waste of time, and you should just use professional tools"?

In which case I agree, for almost all cases. A carpenter trying to build their own saw or chisel would be laughed out of the workshop, and rightly so.

However, the mark of a master craftsman is one who can identify when custom tooling are necessary and knows something about how to build them.

ivix··on Event-Driven Architecture
In general I tend to agree. However really the issue is one of correctly defining the granularity of events that the system should be aware of.

After all, even a completely synchronous webapp is event driven, it just so happens to only care about a single event, a request.

The problems come about when code which can all be synchronous becomes unnecessarily complicated and spread across multiple microservices.

Microservices are generally a solution to people scaling issues, not technical ones. If you have significantly more services than teams, you are probably doing something wrong.

ivix··on How to grip a pen?
Wow. You may want to take the opportunity to look at every aspect of your life and look for where you should be questioning how things are done. NM
ivix··on Airliner Repair, 24/7 (2008)
Discounting the fact that a 'successful test flight' probably isn't useful data, the equipment would of course only be packed away after the repairs have been tested and signed off.
ivix··on Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
Samsung Knox for example. Defence in depth.
ivix··on Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations
>I don't think it provides the most consistent UI or helpful help, though.

Understatement! Git is one of the most user-hostile tools I've ever seen. And I've used Sendmail.

ivix··on Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created
It's quite eye opening the way that this article paints Facebook as a clueless giant, unknowingly enabling revolutions, swinging elections and upending societies.

I don't think there's any precedent for this.

ivix··on Iceland's attempts to replant its forests
I had that speed in 2005 and it was slow then, too.
ivix··on “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason”
Well, you know, they're aliens. The books never describe what they actually look like but you can well imagine that they are some kind of insect like creatures which would be horrifying to us.

For many life forms even on Earth, going into stasis during difficult times is a completely normal occurence.

ivix··on “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason”
I saw it as a uniquely Chinese perspective on humanity. As the series helpfully reminds you, barely 40 years ago, China was in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, a collective self-inflicted madness which we would find difficult to imagine.

With that as your history and living memory, it's not surprising if your opinion of humanity's emotional maturity isn't as high as it could be.

ivix··on U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscopes aboard submarines
I can easily believe that.

Next time you're sat in a meeting with 5 other highly paid software developers, discussing a two line bugfix, think about how much that bugfix will have cost.

ivix··on Smarter speed bump using non-Newtonian liquid
She looks kind of average really. Yes she is wearing makeup. Is that a problem?

Would you like to perhaps list the types of appearance that you deem permissible?

ivix··on What the death of the CRT display technology means for classic arcade machines
It's interesting how we have traded off some aspects of display quality in favour of overall unit size and practicality.
ivix··on The new Nokia phones are here: Nokia 6, 5, 3 & 3310
I was hugely disappointed when it turned out that it's not remotely similar to the 3310.

They've basically created a generic featurephone and piggybacked on the glory of the 3310, which was anything but generic.

I highly doubt the new 3310 will be even slightly as durable as the old one.

ivix··on IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances in Virtual Private Clouds
For those working with the IoT, this is VERY much of interest.
ivix··on Panic Status Board is being discontinued
Well, the company is an iOS app company. Therefore there was only one possible choice for them, even if it was the wrong one.
ivix··on Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him
This is genius really.

This act will cause /r/The_Donald to leave reddit, saying they don't trust them anymore.

Those opposed to their antics will forgive /u/spez and stay.

The result is that reddit expels it's undesirable members without anything so controversial as banning them.

ivix··on Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies
I simply expose ports (or do --net=host) and communicate between hosts in the normal fashion. Unless you don't trust your host I don't see the problem with that.
ivix··on The Business Guy vs. the Programmer
There's a good insight here that bears repeating:

Sales guy is paid to talk on the phone.

Programmer is paid to program.

So you can treat talking on the phone as a reward/incentive for good behaviour by sales guy. "I'll be happy to talk with you on the phone if you can first summarise your proposal".

ivix··on What happens when the U.S. President uses your startup for a conference call
Ask fewer questions. The number you have asked is bordering on hostile.
ivix··on Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births
That supposes experts know that they have a problem, and can express it in a way disentangled from their other problems.
ivix··on Fake femme fatale dupes IT guys at US government agency
If you find this topic beneath you, why did you read it? The article is precisely about a specific type of social engineering, which is a worthy topic of interest even if you find it insufficiently cerebral.
ivix··on LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity
marketo for example.
ivix··on New Relic now supports Node.js
I really wanted to like new relic, but sadly their aggressive and pestering sales/account managers put me off. This was after we signed up!
ivix··on LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
Nerd outrage hyperbole much? This is an OPT IN service. You know, only for people who WANT to use it? If it causes you this degree of apoplexy, you are in luck: you don't have to use it.
ivix··on How to Tango with Django: A Python Django Tutorial
Don't you feel you wasted your time learning flask and django, when you could have just learned django?
ivix··on Have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
That's not racism, that's politics. Would you say British anti German morale posters are racist?
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