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by balpha 13y ago
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/228777/115866
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by balpha 13y ago
We can't, and that's why: http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du... . And did you really think the ads on the site and the http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ job listings
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by balpha 13y ago
Once you've earned the 2000 reputation to edit without peer-review, you can edit as little as you like. But until then, your edits are reviewed by other users before they're applied, and there has to be a certain threshold so thes
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by balpha 14y ago
> Just working alone and from time to time a face2face meeting won't establish a relationship I disagree with that. We had the first real in-person meetup about half a year after I joined the company. Up to that point, I knew everyone e
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by balpha 14y ago
I'm a regular employee (of the UK presence; it's all EU, so I assume that makes things a bit easier). There's a German tax office that does the wage accounting to make sure that it follows all the rules. The only difference to a standard Ge
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by balpha 14y ago
I work for Stack Exchange in Germany (where they have no presence except for me), and I'm a regular employee with all German taxes, social security etc. that entails. These things can be made to work.
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by balpha 14y ago
In particular this means that this is anything but open source (at least if you go by the OSI definition, which I do).
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JavaScript concurrency and locking the HTML5 localStorage(balpha.de)
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by balpha 15y ago
"outside the USA" != "in Europe" I assume that WW would have used a much stronger phrasing, had the "Google spokesperson" actually said that. And a Google spokesperson is obviously careful when talking to the press. Yes, it's not unlikely t
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by balpha 15y ago
> According to German-language magazine WirtschaftsWoche, a Google spokesperson confirmed that the company has complied with requests from US intelligence agencies for data stored in its European data centers. This isn't true; the Wirts