Popcorn3865

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by Popcorn3865 3y ago
Although if "cost of living" continues to rise, cancelling mobile contracts may be next. Many less well off folk have annual or multiyear deals (which include handsets) so the cancellations would come at end of term for most. I su
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by Popcorn3865 3y ago
Spoke to Gitlab rep today about our renewal price (prices going up by 50%+, 25% with "existing customer discount) and the rep used reliability as a key differentiator against GitHub. I quickly pointed about a major outage affecting Git
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by Popcorn3865 3y ago
Fair? No. Termination on grounds of things that _might_ happen is not fair at all. I suspect there's something else going on, as this reasoning seems spurious. Whatever the reasoning, this type of behaviour by an employer is a red flag
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by Popcorn3865 4y ago
> I feel that they do need some freedom in tech land to follow their curiosities I wish that was how it was used, however my own experience (and that of parents I speak to) is that the firehose is determined by the algorithm, not the ind
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by Popcorn3865 4y ago
With a book at least a parent knows what their child is consuming. I wouldn't mind if my child was consuming books (as long he stayed healthy with activity and social connection). With the firehose of social media its whatever the pro
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by Popcorn3865 4y ago
Ha. I joined the workforce the year after final salary pensions were shutdown. My slightly older peers are all on track for early retirement. I will never be able to retire. I considered contracting just as IR35 was introduced. My slightl
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by Popcorn3865 4y ago
> FWIW, macs are high quality and last a long time. My own experience (4 MacBooks Pros) and that of providing MacBook Air and Pros to a dozen or so staff (with 50 or so on non-Mac kit) leads me to conclude this statement is not true. The
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by Popcorn3865 4y ago
Thank you for this comment. I moved into the 100k bracket 3 years ago, and have just hit 125k this Jan. I am the sole earner in our house, wife can't work and have a 12 year old boy. And I've been trying (and failing) to work out