Interesting Links for 05-01-2012
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andrewducker- Why "vi" works the way it does.
- How To Be More Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps)
- Loch Ness is a giant spirit level that shows Scotland bending with the tides
- You can't run people at 100% efficiency 100% of the time.
- Childhood in the UK - better than every before.
- A Man. A Van. A Surprising Business Plan.
- Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet
- Not everyone is happy to see cenobites
- This is pretty much how I feel about Tom Cruise
- The People's Front of Scientology are not happy with the Scientologist People's Front.
- If you asked Calvin's Dad about periods...
- The Name of My Next Band
- Social Care Services to be merged into the NHS
- How to graduate from MIT (or get through pretty-much any challenging situation)
- Prozac increases neuroplasticity - which is why it increases the effect of counselling
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Date: 2012-01-05 11:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 07:02 pm (UTC)http://lil-shepherd.livejournal.com/294861.html
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Date: 2012-01-05 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 11:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 11:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 10:58 pm (UTC)(It's always nice when my company sets a solid lower limit on the value of my time to them.)
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Date: 2012-01-05 11:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 11:18 am (UTC)Music and sport are other obvious examples of where this all holds true.
(MUST DO PROPER SINGING PRACTICE TODAY)
(MUST PICK UP GUITAR)
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Date: 2012-01-05 11:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 01:10 pm (UTC)Happiness/satisfaction in life is *the* most important thing in life - and that is in no way given enough attention in advice/help. We are not brought up to value it anywhere near enough...
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Date: 2012-01-05 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 12:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 03:32 pm (UTC)It's the thought of thing that trips a klaxon in my head that says "if I were doing this, I'd probably want to get some expert advice (or, ironically, at least some unofficial expert advice) to make sure it's ok, not because I know what the potential problems are, but because I DON'T know what the potential problems are -- likely there's nothing, but you should check becasue it may be a landmine if there's some restruction you're unaware you may be close to crossing". But fortunately, I'm not doing it, I'm just reading a news article about it, so it doesn't matter. Likely these guys DO know what they're doing, I just thought it was interesting.
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Date: 2012-01-05 07:08 pm (UTC)Actually, I think you might be able to. Certainly anyone can set themselves up in business as an 'accountant'.
Ironically, I couldn't. Although I'm a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, because I don't have a practising certificate, I can only work on behalf of someone who does.
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Date: 2012-01-05 07:20 pm (UTC)And why would I be able to do it, but you not? Does your fellowship prevent you?
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Date: 2012-01-05 07:57 pm (UTC)Generally speaking, the regulators for accountants are the Institutes (ICAS, ICAEW, ACCA etc) and the various pieces of the Financial Reporting Council.
I have to abide by the rules of the ICAEW as a member (well actually a fellow, but that's because I'm old) and one of those rules is that I cannot practise without a practising certificate. I have to abide by the rules of JOLF as an employee which means that even if I did have a practising certificate (and some senior managers in the firm do have them) I could still only work in that capacity for JOLF.
You are neither a member of an accounting institute or an employee of an accountancy firm, so if you want to set yourself up in business as an 'accountant' and prepare accounts and tax returns for clients, there is nothing to stop you. You can't call yourself a 'chartered accountant' because that would imply that you were a member of one of the relevant institutes. And there are some services that you wouldn't be able to provide to clients (statutory audits for example).
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Date: 2012-01-05 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-06 01:31 pm (UTC)I still assumed there's still some small number of excepions (legal? medical?) you can't do at all without a license[1], but I don't know if that covers only advice, and, well, I was wrong to be suspicious before (it looks like), so I'm probably still wrong now :)
[1] Even though I assume the "can't claim to be a chartered so-and-so but can give other advice" is more common, and "be able to sell anything you like as long as it's not fraudulent" to still be the usual case.
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Date: 2012-01-06 04:46 pm (UTC)Solicitor
Dentist
Art therapist
Social worker
Architect
Accountant
Engineering technician
Biomedical scientist
Radiographer
All of those job titles are recognised in law in the UK and given legal protection - except 'accountant'.
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Date: 2012-01-05 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 02:39 pm (UTC)Yes, and that's why people should STOP THE FUCK USING vi.
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Date: 2012-01-05 02:40 pm (UTC)They've all moved on to vim.
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Date: 2012-01-05 03:35 pm (UTC)I mean, there's a strong argument that remote management for unix is complete rubbish because your tools are ssh and vi. On the other hand, all you need to remote-manage a unix box is ssh and vi, and once you've the muscle-memory you can hack on any unix machine on the planet.
#tiresomelyliteralmindedanswerstorhetoricalquestions #wrongsocialnetworkforhashtags
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Date: 2012-01-05 04:16 pm (UTC)At least it has a UI that looks vaguely like something conceived of in the last 20 years.
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Date: 2012-01-05 04:30 pm (UTC)I suspect I'm being somewhat gatekeeper-y here[1], because unadorned SysV installs that come without a compiler should damn well be in the museum by now and handy things like ':%s/^v^m//' mere curiosities to be argued about by people with beards.
[1] If there's another word that encapsulates 'Youth of today divvent knaa nowt, mind. Uphill both ways to school with a sack of burning coal. I 'ad it 'ard and I don't see why anyone else should have it easy.' then I would like to know it.
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Date: 2012-01-05 06:07 pm (UTC)But yeah, most boxes I ssh into are linux, and if they don't have nano it's just a matter of nudging tech support / sysadmin / installing it myself.
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Date: 2012-01-05 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 06:22 pm (UTC)Unless you have downtime and bandwidth in the engineering group you can't get bids done properly, which soon moves you from 100% utilization to zero.
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Date: 2012-01-05 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 06:53 pm (UTC)It's because of the Lear Siegler ADM-3A.
(Joy alludes to these a bit in the "we finally got lower case" bit; they shipped UC-only and there was a replacement ROM, but I've heard stories of places that ordered "ADM-3A lower case kits" and got shipped the lower half of the terminal casing.)
I've even used one; my dorm was "connected" by having an ADM-3A in the basement attached to a 1200bps modem. I only used it when I couldn't use the phone in my room, since my Mac and its 1200bps modem worked better as a terminal.
(I also remap Caps Lock to Ctrl, but that habit comes from VT-220s and not from the ADM-3A.)
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Date: 2012-01-05 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-06 01:36 am (UTC)this, from a Scottish perspective, is a little puzzling, as the two are already very closely interwoven in Scotland. It is, in fact, damned near impossible to run social care without NHS staff.
which makes me wonder what England has been doing all this time.
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Date: 2012-01-06 01:47 am (UTC)Happy kiddies
Date: 2012-01-06 01:47 am (UTC)It's good to highlight the positive, but talking about 'this negative myth-making' like this seems... well, a little dismissive of what seem to be actually quite good reasons to think that British kids have been doing unusually badly in terms of subjective and material well-being. It's very nice that they're doing better in various ways now, but I'm always wary of people lauding the fact that things are now in some ways better-than-awful.
Re: Happy kiddies
Date: 2012-01-06 10:25 am (UTC)For the country, policy agendas are constantly distorted by half-truths and downright misinterpretations of reality. The worst example was in 2007, when Unicef published a report suggesting that the UK was at the bottom of a league table of developed countries for childhood wellbeing.
The report created a huge storm of outrage. Politicians of every stripe scrambled to respond.
But if you flick to the technical blurb at the back of the document, the researchers themselves admit that the data was partial, used research conducted differently in different countries, and was quite old. In fact the UK data was so old that it pre-dated many of the policies introduced to improve the situation.
Yet despite its many flaws, the report pointed the policy agenda towards a range of issues that probably do not need tackling. In the process, it deflected attention from the children who really do have difficult lives and badly need help.
Re: Happy kiddies
Date: 2012-01-06 11:24 am (UTC)Re: Happy kiddies
Date: 2012-01-06 11:32 am (UTC)