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by comstock 9y ago
To use 2fa on github you need a mobile phone. Do you give every enployee a mobile phone, or do you ask your employees to use their own personal phones? Asking them to use their personal phones seems like a very bad solution. Many software c
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by comstock 9y ago
As a freelancer, this also just doesn’t fit with my personal experience. When a client wants an NDA, they send one. I rarely/never care. I’ll check over the language, but they don’t want to use my NDA in general. Invoicing, time tracki
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by comstock 9y ago
I’m not sure if it’s what you’re asking, but one photon can give rise to two, lower frequency photons under certain circumstances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_parametric_down-...
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by comstock 9y ago
Often it’s tranfering from another platform. If you take the same route regularly you get to know which carriage is best to board on the first train so that when you depart and cross the platform you’ll be on able to board the carriage near
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by comstock 9y ago
I knew a company a bit like this once. The CEO would hire people very quickly. In most cases they didn’t have the appropriate skill set, and had personality issues. They’d have a massive negative impact on the culture of this early stage st
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by comstock 9y ago
Many things are true on the level of groups, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea to apply them as general rules on an individual level. Women maybe weaker than men in general. There are however many women stronger than many men. Where
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by comstock 9y ago
I think it’s absolutely conceivable that a male manager might fire a male employee for making a lewd joke. The other things? From both men and women I would guess the appropriate response is to inform the commenter that their remark is no o
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by comstock 9y ago
Those sound like somewhat mild examples of the sort of sexual harassment many women suffer. But the behavior you describe, I would not consider acceptable. I personally would not want to work somewhere that was considered “ok” and would pro
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by comstock 9y ago
Yes, it happens. In my view what your describing is also unacceptable behavior. In the past I would have overlooked it, at this point I wouldn’t accept it and I’d ask her to stop and mention it to her manager/ my manager (or HR). I hav
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by comstock 9y ago
I don’t consider these things just plain fine. I’d consider many of them somewhat offensive even if they came from a friend, regardless of gender: * Telling someone a very funny, yet lewd joke that you just thought up * Telling someone they
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by comstock 9y ago
In many (most?) cases shares are not transferable in this way. If they are, there is often some kind of private market and the shares have an actual real value. This makes it much more sensible to value them near zero.
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by comstock 9y ago
Why do you think you can’t? Have you tried? If you have a business that looks somewhat like Apple’s does (producing goods in China and selling internationally). I don’t think it would be very hard to keep revenue out of the US tax system. I
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by comstock 9y ago
Personally I think interviewees should be financially compensated for interviews. The typical view is that they’re being compensated with a “chance for a job”.
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by comstock 9y ago
Many people seem comfortable allowing their companies to treat them as low value commodities and will do anything asked of them. In general I don’t exactly think like this. I do the work within the scope of what I’ve been hired to do. I’m l
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by comstock 9y ago
Maybe in general that’s true. In my case even if I feel it’s a nice place to work, I wouldn’t like being on of the spot in front of my boss/coworkers. In a one-to-one interview it would be fine. Which was perhaps more the context of yo
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by comstock 9y ago
It’s a fair question, but if you asked me that in front of my boss or coworkers I would likely immediately take a disliking to you because you put me in an awkward situation where there are few easy ways to answer honestly.
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by comstock 9y ago
> If you want to make a change to your interview process, give it to some of your current employees I don’t think I would respond well to this as an employee.
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by comstock 9y ago
This didn’t explain to me what ICOs are. It basically stated “buy cryptocurrency, it’s a risk but why not try it anyway”. I would be genuinely interested in understanding what an ICO is. In particular in contrast to more traditional forms o
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by comstock 9y ago
For some reason they seem to be very interested in the peak current. I guess the higher the current the better you vaporize the material?
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by comstock 9y ago
Yes, it would be interesting to see a graph of states versus actual capacity for the eBay batteries. I’d guess there would be an inverse correlation between stated and actual capacity.
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by comstock 9y ago
I agree in general, if the product was going to be made anyway. But one situation where crowd funding might be appropriate is where a product manager or developers can’t get budget to fund development. So unless a crowdfunding project is su
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by comstock 9y ago
I agree and would hope I’m the same way. The problem of course is that statistically these “tricks” still work on the population as a whole. I wonder if it’s possible to make “honest” companies the default expectation and for consumers to p
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by comstock 9y ago
Right, me too, or rather it’s mostly not of much consequence to me. But is a large part of the population different in this regard?
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by comstock 9y ago
Hmm I’d never thought about swearing as a social signifier of freedom. That it shows dominance and that you are “free to do as you like”. What I’d be interested in knowing is if people really respond to this psychologically? Is Putin or Tru
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by comstock 9y ago
Thanks, the 104% profit number doesn’t make sense to me and I couldn’t see it explained the the article. How do you get >100% of the profits available in a given industry?
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by comstock 9y ago
It’s possible that this might help security researchers find/fix bugs. It may help other developers understand how iOS works. Overall, I think it’s unlikely to be hugely useful, in terms of actuallly using it for anything.
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by comstock 9y ago
No, they don’t want to. But I think it would be advantageous to them to not have Android around. Potentially they could convert many Android users to open source iOS. It wouldn’t come with the branding, I think it could be to their advantag
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by comstock 9y ago
> Nothing beats great attitude. Period. >This especially impacts the work environment. In startups, you have to sometimes work 16 hours a day, seven days a week. You just sound like an exploitative employer (possible also illegal in m
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by comstock 9y ago
eBay, there are a bunch of sale. A while back one seller was selling packs for 3 or 4 without HDDs/batteries for around 50USD each.
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by comstock 9y ago
If your backend dev, maybe the laptops I use (IBM x220s) would work for you? I find they fly with Linux/an SSD. They're also pretty cheap (50 to 100USD). So I buy a few at a time so I can leave one at the office etc.

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