HMCTS / Ministry of Justice | UK (Remote, UK-only) | CONTRACT (Inside IR35 £Day rate) | Security: Willing to undergo clearance | Principal Engineer

We’re evolving the architecture of a mission-critical justice platform and looking for a hands-on Principal Engineer.

We are looking for a track record of reducing complexity and an appreciation for databases as foundational pillars of correct applications.

We value engineering judgement over specific frameworks—if you’re a great engineer who can ramp up quickly we want to talk.

Apply: https://careers.publicsectorresourcing.co.uk/en_GB/careersma...

+1 here on an ongoing UK government project.

It's like a nightmare where you can't move and nobody can hear you scream. You can only watch the inevitable disaster unfold.

You left out your best example; at GC you received hundreds of hours of schooling at pool with no discernible improvement.

I'm working on a project that is almost literally your example of reducing a relational database to a key value store, despite client applications having complex problem domains to model.

The consequence has been catastrophic data consistency problems and the whole programme rapidly grinding to a halt.

I think the problem is the overly broad definition of 'business logic' that encompasses everything from data integrity to presentation logic.

Delighted to hear such an accurate description of my own career. I'm not alone.

Agree, this is a fantastic comment.

Or put another way, approximately enough to power 110 of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, the Sunway TaihuLight, that would give a combined performance of 10 exaFLOPS.

https://www.top500.org/list/2017/11/?page=1

Given bitcoin's current throughput that's about 1 exaFLOP equivalent per bitcoin transaction.

There is no wealth being created here, merely a lot of wealth being rapidly redistributed with a great proportion of that literally turned into heat.

This will not end well.

Although I'm a bit of a biased (dumped btc) hypocrite (made good money from it), bitcoin kinda needs to die. There are vastly superior alternatives that improve on btc in pretty much every way. Bitcoin has got the name though, so people keep buying it.

> Given bitcoin's current throughput that's about 1 exaFLOP equivalent per bitcoin transaction.

A block adds an extra confirmation to all transactions in the chain, not just those in the given block. The goal is to make the entire chain as difficult to alter as possible, and each added block increases that difficulty.

Bitcoin replaces one tyranny with one that is far worse.

If it succeeded in displacing existing currencies as you attest, it would amount to an unprecedented and catastrophic redistribution and concentration of wealth.

80% of all bitcoins that can ever exist have been mined and are already owned; this is a monstrous design decision far more unjust than the inflation bitcoin sought to prevent.

Our current corrupt and stinking financial system is far preferable to the neo-feudal world of bitcoin where all spending power is concentrated in the hands of a tiny number of tech overlords who had the sheer good fortune to literally own all the money.

I think you're right in a lot of ways, but that doesn't change what is happening and the best option doesn't always win.

I also want to know the answer to this.

Should we expect weather forecasters to ditch all their existing infrastructure and move to improbable?

Something doesn't add up; simulations are not MMOs.

Can anyone from improbable explain why your technology is suitable for simulations?

I'm talking about the non real time simulations of cities, traffic etc in your promotional material.

If a simulation does not have a real time requirement then what's the advantage of improbable?