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by bambataa 7y ago
I must admit I’ve never really understood this argument against IR35. Contractors don’t get tax breaks to compensate for the lack of employee benefits. They get higher day rates to compensate for that. How the tax is handled isn’t part of t
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by bambataa 7y ago
This has been my experience as a contractor. My contract got ended early and some early leads ended with the client putting all contractors on hold. OP, if you can get something on the side then go for it but it seems very risky to go full-
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by bambataa 7y ago
Who does that approach ultimately favour? Isn't it a good thing that people can speak out about things they think their company is doing wrong and try to improve it? I have some sympathy with your view but doesn't that end up marg
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by bambataa 7y ago
Apropos of castles, I've been on a look out for a hypothetical game I describe as "the thinking player's Stronghold". You would have control over a region and would need to choose the best place to site the castle, ensur
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by bambataa 7y ago
Wow, giving you hate for a decision they made. A couple founder team is a red flag for me.
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by bambataa 7y ago
Slightly tangential, but why is the major so important in the US for hiring? If I want to join some generic grad scheme (e.g. Proctor and Gamble, an accountancy firm) do I need to have done a business or economics major? In the UK the requi
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by bambataa 7y ago
I think there’s also a third category, which is “I’m interested in Elm / have dabbled in it but all this puts me off ever using it for anything serious”. If the comments in this thread aren’t ringing red alarm bells for the Elm leaders
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by bambataa 7y ago
Make a list of things you want to do but don’t start it. Remove them when you lose interest. If anything stays it might be a goer. You will never have time to do everything. Also, think about what you really want to achieve. When you think
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by bambataa 7y ago
Don’t need to catch bugs if you just don’t write them! taps head . It is still worthwhile imo to have something that catches mistakes even great people make.
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by bambataa 7y ago
They might have many tools but they probably make them themselves or know by name the person who makes them. Out of close to raw material. (I’m assuming the Amish don’t mine and smelt their own metals). One modern power tool could replace m
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by bambataa 7y ago
More importantly, why does Liz Truss have a flagpole in her house?
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by bambataa 7y ago
Which makes me wonder when people figured out that refrigeration was a good idea. Presumably they noticed that food out in the sun went bad sooner and took it from there.
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by bambataa 7y ago
It's probably based on some other meme I'm not familiar with but I really love how this borders on the absurd.
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by bambataa 7y ago
Just a suggestion but every time I look at Revolut's job page I'm completely bamboozled by the number of jobs available. Have you ever considered doing it by location and rough tech stack so that people can e.g. apply to London as
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by bambataa 7y ago
I see it more of a restatement of the status quo. For all the talk in the UK of an EU superstate etc, each member state remains a sovereign country and can unilaterally shut its borders if it wants to. Yes it’s probably clipped the wings of
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by bambataa 7y ago
Yes, technically, but I was replacing a (superior) older MBP that got water damage and that was what they had available. I was abroad, needed a replacement for some contract work and didn't have time to dick around setting up a new Lin
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by bambataa 7y ago
I have a non-touchbar MBP with just two USB-C ports and nothing else. Two, on the same side, and one is always used for charging. So one free port on a pro laptop. I still can’t understand how they ever thought it was acceptable. Why bother
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by bambataa 7y ago
The situation you describe and the terminology you use to describe it make your society sound broken.
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by bambataa 7y ago
When I worked in government I noticed something similar. Every department had about five senior leaders. There would be one female and she would always be the hard as nails, gruff, no nonsense type. It took me an embarrassingly long time to
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by bambataa 7y ago
I know some men have this attitude but I still find it astounding. Are you really so unable to determine appropriate behaviours that you think women are making extreme overreactions to normal “banter”? Or that the risk of a false/infla
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by bambataa 7y ago
Were they fired because they weren’t good enough at Clojure? Perhaps all Clojure did was filter out less capable performers. The small team of skilled developers might have been just as fast in Java if they weren’t encumbered by the mediocr
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by bambataa 7y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to read a quarter/fifth of a book and decide that you don't like the style, premise or whatever. Sometimes I persevere and enjoy the book after all but perhaps that's just acclimatisation. Peopl
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by bambataa 7y ago
Yes, which is why the companies promote passing the buck on to consumers rather than backing effective regulation. I'm reminded of cafe chains that give you 5p off a coffee if you use a reusable cup because they just love the environ
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by bambataa 7y ago
In principle I agree with this. But as a relative beginner to Haskell operators and their precedence levels are a barrier. Operators/functions like `+` have well-understood semantics but I don't see how anyone could have an intuit
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by bambataa 7y ago
That's a good point. How much tracing back can be done if, say, I stuck the drive in my workstation and it proliferated over the DG's intranet? Assuming it's at least vaguely sophisticated wouldn't it obfuscate things li
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by bambataa 7y ago
I once worked in the Commission, briefly. Technical security seemed to be non-existent as far as I could tell (in an admittedly very junior role). Once all of the interns got invited to the U.S. embassy to meet the Ambassador (some guy who
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by bambataa 7y ago
I started playing realMyst recently (for the first time). Must admit I found it a bit unfun. Perhaps I just didn’t get into it enough but I found the puzzles sometimes quite unintuitive. I’ve also started The Witness and enjoying it more.
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by bambataa 7y ago
Because companies often ask for it! They ask for a link to your Github profile or portfolio, making people feel their GH needs to give the best version of them, and then completely disregard it. if you’re lucky it makes you pass some CV fil
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by bambataa 7y ago
How do you detect when they are trying this?
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by bambataa 7y ago
If you’re so confident about your challenge app why do you first make everyone do a 2hr online test? How many hours do you spend assessing each candidate and how does that compare to how many hours you make them spend jumping through your h

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