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by beilabs 8y ago
Am I the only one thinking it was a perfect time to negotiate a better salary seeing as they'd dismissed his contract leaving room open for a new one?
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by beilabs 8y ago
Website is blocked for pretty much everyone but the US? Just accessed from Nepal, blocked.....oh dear... Edit: apparently not blocked, but still can't connect apart from via VPN.
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by beilabs 8y ago
Installed a chrome plugin that restricts my access to all social media, Reddit and some news sites between 8am-6pm only allowing a total of ten minutes access through out the day. Massive time sink. Also, got a whiteboard which I mark out
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by beilabs 9y ago
Had a wake for my father some years ago. While there was a lot of alcohol there was great comfort in the many stories that everyone had of him and had no issue in laughing over. My family always has held wakes and probably always will.
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by beilabs 9y ago
Afraid you have nothing on Australians affair with Avocado. https://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2016/10/17/i-stopped-e... It's a staple of the Australian diet, fairly certain it's one of
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by beilabs 9y ago
Single serve items like shampoo, candy, soap are readily available in developing countries like Nepal, they cost much more than the normal sizes we receive in the developed world when you adjust for the quantities. Much worse for the envir
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by beilabs 9y ago
While I hold the title of CTO for a funded startup I feel I have taken much more of an engineering manager role. Ticket review, deployment, product development and general firefighting seem to be the order of the day; We have a team of 12
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21 Questions from Aussie Startups: Highs, Lows and Lessons Learned (Canva)(medium.com)
1 points by beilabs 9y ago|0 comments
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by beilabs 9y ago
You just described Kathmandu perfectly. Very few traffic lights were ever installed, they never really worked due to load shedding. Now with the load shedding in the city removed these lights only flash orange (sometimes). Recently there
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by beilabs 9y ago
Nothing to do with increased security for the 19th Congress. Nothing to do with being a journalist. Everything to do with not presenting yourself at the Chinese police station. Source: Lived in China for years, was forced to write an apolog
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by beilabs 9y ago
This could be the perfect thing to announce a failing code build.....begone old traffic light systems, Jenkins + Furby could be a thing of beauty.
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by beilabs 9y ago
Interviewed for a large tech company a few months ago just for the sake of it. (VP of engineering role), corporate headhunter persuaded me to take the call even though I'm happy where I am. 5 minutes into the job interview the guy see
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Bitcoin declared illegal in Nepal, 7 arrested(kathmandupost.ekantipur.com)
5 points by beilabs 9y ago|1 comments
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by beilabs 9y ago
Was that not a patent grab? I always thought that was the main premise.
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by beilabs 9y ago
I'm curious how your students in Europe will agree to return the % of salary back to you. I would imagine there would be more restrictions in that regard than with the IRS. In Ireland even a degree in CS from the worst school guarante
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by beilabs 9y ago
I'm going to play devils advocate here. I don't think I'd be in your target market primarily because I feel for 15k a year I can achieve a decent education just by online resources alone. It would be just as well recognized;
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by beilabs 9y ago
Yeah; I need to really put some processes in to make it more sustainable. We're quite strict with who can come on board as we're really only looking for non-profits or co-operatives.
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by beilabs 9y ago
Late arrival to this thread. One of my projects involve working with local female co-operatives in Nepal and help them sell their hand made products around the world. Paypal doesn't operate here, merchant services for international c
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by beilabs 9y ago
"One of the first pieces of legislation passed in the new Federal Parliament was the Immigration Restriction Act. Now known as the infamous White Australia Policy it made it very difficult for Asians and Pacific Islanders to migrate to
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by beilabs 9y ago
> I stock up on the old products on clearance because they don't make them anymore. I often think about this when a company goes under, especially hardware focused ones. I assume it's only a matter of time that their servers w
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by beilabs 9y ago
Yeah; I was to start work at 8.30am; checked in with a swipe card; even if I had to stay till 3am(working US hours) I still had to be back at work by 8.30am. Suffered complete burn out by the time I turned 25.
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by beilabs 9y ago
I took advantage of eating out in the local eateries and avoided the canteen food; it was rare enough that I was back 15 minutes before I was meant to. :D
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by beilabs 9y ago
When I worked in China (5000 engineer company) we'd have our lunch in the canteen, I found that many returned to their desk for the last 15 minutes of their lunch break. Out came the pillows, all lights were dimmed and calming music pl
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by beilabs 9y ago
My father used to say; first sign of madness was talking to yourself, second sign of madness was replying to your conversation and the third sign....hairy palms. I talk to myself all the time, it's about more structuring my thoughts.
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by beilabs 9y ago
I will never begrudge anyone trying to seek a better life. If was in their position I could probably be at fault for doing the same. I wouldn't want any of my technology preventing people from improving their situation. So yes, in th
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by beilabs 9y ago
As an engineer there are certain things I refuse to work on. Anything to do with weapons, immigration, gambling. The list is ever evolving... We can chose to work in these fields, we can choose not to. There will be engineers who have to
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by beilabs 9y ago
Agreed. I have heard of many cases of evacs from Base camp. There are often deals worked out with chopper companies that allow them to claim off your insurance and you get a cheaper trip down the mountain (unnecessary evacuations, fast ri
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by beilabs 9y ago
You'd be surprised how many try it....and even more how many get away with it. Many do it for PR for their own brand / company.
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by beilabs 9y ago
A most excellent article. I was based in the Kathmandu AP office for over two years. Every week during climbing season I heard of the fatalities on the mountain. I understand why people attempt it, the varying reasons are immense from per
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by beilabs 9y ago
I wonder if the UK taxpayer will be asking some questions about the justifications of policing the embassy? A pretty abysmal ROI. So, will the police presence now simply disappear?

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