DoubleGlazing

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by DoubleGlazing 4y ago
I know a few people who make stuff to do with hobbies. For example I know one person who makes fishing lures and another who makes ham radio antennas. Oh, and another friend who make rubber melee weapons for LARPing. What they do is fairly
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by DoubleGlazing 4y ago
Every review I have posted on Glassdoor has been with a disposable email address, using my own device and using a public WiFi hotspot. I once had an employer try to get legal on me because I went to work for a rival after they laid me off -
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by DoubleGlazing 4y ago
It depends on the subject matter I think. For more popular subjects I definitely think that an obsession with monetization is having a negative effect. For more niche subjects, it's still very much like early YouTube - lots of organic
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by DoubleGlazing 4y ago
I know Firefox has a small market share, but this is the sort of feature other browsers may adopt. Maybe not the big boys like Chrome or Edge, but I could see all the niche privacy focused browsers implementing it and maybe even Safari give
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by DoubleGlazing 4y ago
Validating the identity of each reviewer. If they post something slanderous then the business owner should then be able to get a warrant/court order etc to force the site to reveal the reviewers identity. So long as anonymous posting i
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
I stopped buying Samsung stuff years ago. I have never encountered a brand who products have consistently given me problems like theirs do. It's not just phones. I've had their TVs (old CRT and flat panels) fail within a year of p
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
There is a high likelihood that that those scatter-gun recruiters aren't placing people into appropriate jobs. Most recruiters have one goal, get candidates into a job - any job. Then they get their fee. They do not have an obligation
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
Pretty much. I have always found that it is better to send out fewer customised job applications, rather than send out loads that are all the same. I wish recruiters would do the same. If I engage with recruiters that use the scatter gun ap
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
A really common one I get is emails about Java jobs where the recruiter praises me for all my Java skills and experience and talks about how I would be the perfect candidate for the job they have. The thing is nowhere in my profile does it
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
It's interesting what happens when certain recruiters send a follow up message when I don't answer first time. When that happens I tell them to read my profile carefully. Some then get it and send me a colour and a few have got a
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
I have never got a job through LinkedIn, even though I get loads of contacts from recruiters - as many as 10 per week. The problem is that those contacts are poor quality. They are spammy as heck, basically mass emailing anyone who has a sp
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
That was an abomination of a ruling. I find it amazing that the Data Protection Commissioner basically went against the constitution which clearly states that Irish is the first language of Ireland.
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
We have a friend who owns a single bungalow in a row of five in the Liberties area of Dublin. That's where Guinness is and a load of new distilleries, it's becoming a "cool" area. The other four bungalows are owned by a
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
I was part of a team that the developed a workflow management system for managing telecom's infrastructure. We were really quite proud of it, it pushed our boundaries during development and we learned a lot of new skills. It was implem
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
I've had issues in the past with employers wanting me to add work email and work apps to my own phone. I always refused. My attitude was, like you said, if you want me to carry around a device connected to my work, then you need to pay
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
Donald Where's Your Trousers?
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
Probably not a lot. It could be argued that the taxi driver needs a customer's phone number if there is a problem, so therefore it wouldn't be an issue under the GDPR. The app developers probably only mask numbers as a courtesy,
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
I'd say because Amazon doesn't care. If a seller pushes the boundaries a bit too much and Amazon is forced the ban them, they really don't care if they sign up again using a different name. If the seller has a strategy worked
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
So Amazon is basically a type of eBay in India? You're right about the whole phone number masking thing. It's pretty simple to implement these days, so any platform that doesn't do it is probably not all that concerned about
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
They were chucked off the platform only to return and start from scratch again. I feel they may have been one of the few settlers who pushed Amazon a bit too far with their behaviour. If Amazon was on the ball they would use all that fancy
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
I've stopped buying 3rd party seller items because of this. Now, I'll only buy items sold directly by amazon. For example, I bought a little portable projector last Christmas. In the box was a big bar of Swiss chocolate and leafle
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
The author is right the, most current home automation products suck. The stuff from big brand names is poorly supported, pricey and designed to suck your money away from you. The cheaper Chinese stuff requires the use of a cloud server loca
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
That's why I said sensible.
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
I have an unusual, hard to spell surname. One time when I lived in the UK I found it hard to open a new bank account. After a bit of investigating I found out that I had been placed on the Credit Industry Fraud Avoidance System because diff
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
In a sensible world there would be a law that allows you to pick and choose which non-essential apps and services can run on the hardware you own.
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
I know a few people involved in drone delivery projects. Their employers are always just about to launch commercial services, and it has been that way for several years. There was to be a big trial of food deliveries within a university cam
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
I've been told by at least one manager that he disliked older devs because they are much more likely to push back against against poor management and refuse to put in overtime.
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
I refuse to engage in long interview processes or technical/programming tests. My CV goes back 20 years and it is quite clear about what my technical skills are. For me the most I will do is one phone interview, one HR interview and on
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
"Remember, good marketing usually doesn’t feel like marketing at all!" Yeah, that's my problem. Marketing is essentially all about manipulating my thoughts to benefit someone else. If you are deliberately trying to manipulate
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by DoubleGlazing 5y ago
> I don't think we take software reliability seriously enough, most of our focus is on speed of release, ever quicker cycles and it being OK to break things. This drives me up the walls. At my last job (food ordering startup the CEO

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