DoubleGlazing

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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
She barely takes home minimum wage and she is self-employed. Most of her peers are in a similar position. It is not a vocation you get in to for the money. Edit: A common problem in her sector, and other therapy sectors, is that all the rec
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
Good. My wife is a speech therapist and uses a system that is designed to help people who have had strokes regain their voice. It comprises a piece of software that comes with a "specially calibrated USB microphone". The microphon
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
Cycling to work one day and while stopped at some lights at a major Dublin intersection I noticed a crow drop a half eaten apple just ahead of the stop line. Looking back after the lights turned green I could see the apple had been crushed
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego on the Amiga came with a pocket encyclopedia which was both part of the game and a copy protection mechanism.
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
Wasn't there one where you were given a plastic prism and you had to look at the screen through that prism to see a number which you typed in? Without the prism it just looked like random dots. I might be imagining this.
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
I worked for Kodak UK for a few months in 2002. I was a contractor working on their ERP systems, specifically reporting and BI tools. I wasn't privy to anything strategic but I could see some odd things. The oddest thing was that they
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
I know a John Deere dealer in Northern Ireland who is considering moving to another brand because of this. As he puts it the people he deals with "would burn him alive" if they couldn't fiddle around with their own equipment.
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
Growth non-existent? Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but this would suggest otherwise... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union#...
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
I have to agree with this. There is just so much unnecessary stuff going on in modern webpages. All too often I see relatively simple webpages with jQuery/Angular/React/Bootstrap/Telerik and numerous other libraries refe
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
Angular and React are two different things. How could anyone make a meaningful comparison between them?
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
We have loads of ScanSnap N1800s all over the office. We are a FinTech company we always get loads of financial docs from clients so we scan and archive them securely and shred the originals. They are expensive, but they just work.
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
I think Amazon is slowly transitioning in to a IT services company that also happens to sell stuff. As opposed to what it used to be... a company that sold stuff and who also happened to provide some IT services.
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
Farage is smart, very smart and he knows exactly what he is doing. He has spent the last 20-odd years screaming about how bad the EU is saying it is undemocratic, wasteful, an affront to national sovereignty, promotes uncontrolled immigrati
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
> 3) Be very wary of telling your former employer of where you are going to work. There just is no real upside to it. This! I live in Ireland where non-competes are illegal under EU law, but that doesn't stop some employers trying t
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
The author fails to take in to account the short term issues associated with the Brexit. For the next ten years, and probably more, Britain's economy is going to be all over the place. It will be hard to keep things stable whilst new t
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
Aldi in Ireland (and I'm assuming the rest of Europe too) has a new system in place. If sensors above the checkouts detect the lines are too long an automated voice will announce "Checkout 2 will open soon, please start unloading
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
It is possible all you references were good, but some were "form" or not expressive enough. One of my old employers had a very strict policy of only issuing a standard reference which was basically to confirm I worked there, my jo
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by DoubleGlazing 10y ago
But what this company is doing is inherently dangerous for itself. The UK Data Protection Act is pretty darn strict about personal data and the Information Commissioner can and frequently does levy hefty fines for mistakes and breaches. So
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For my current job (banking software development) I had to undergo a background check. In addition to the usual work and address history stuff I was also asked for all my social media account details, to which I answered "N/A&quot