Frank Eiking
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Dutch, living on Bonaire, Caribisch Nederland since 2007. Previously occupied in IT, now (retired, but still freelancing) dive instructor and supervisor for the local hyperbaric chamber.
@wdlindsy we really need the Blues Brothers to step in…
@Geri unless he gets a one way ticket to The Hague.
@danlyke reminds me of a Y2K project I did in 1999 in the Netherlands. A big US based company decided to have their COBOL sources made Y2K compliant ‘off shore’ to save money. Because the coders there had no clue of what the programs were supposed to do, all testing and debugging was done in the Netherlands. In the end it cost the company more (time and money) than if the project had been done in-house by its own programmers.
@breadandcircuses and it gets even worse: on the reefs around Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean, like on many other Caribbean reefs, 30% of the hard corals like brain corals have died due to the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease. In just 3 years time! Maybe no coincidence that the infection started right where cruise ships are docking…
@petrillic and that doesn’t even include testing. Testing?
@davidho just ask any IT professional in the 90’s about their Y2K projects….
LaffyVia Ron Filipkowski:
The American public must now understand, in the wake of today’s decision, that #Trump would now enter office knowing for certain exactly how he can abuse power and commit crimes using the power of the federal government, something he did not know last time. A frightening prospect.
Miriam BooshOn September 11, 1973, Chile was robbed of its democracy in a CIA-backed coup
Renata AvilaThere was outrage and a criminalisation push when students in poor countries were photocopying books. But now, when big, fat AI companies use every piece of knowledge generated by others to profit and create power silos, the narrative and reaction are so soft.