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by dhughes 15y ago
That seems bizarre, any job I've ever had or anyone I know get two weeks vacation. Anyone you ask wouldn't get any more than two weeks and self-employed seasonal workers such as farmers and fishermen may not get any vacation.
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by dhughes 15y ago
I'm curious if atmospheric conditions were taken into account such as oxygen content, solar energy, saline content and whatever else would have affected the weather.
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by dhughes 15y ago
It's no better in Canada the usual vacation time is two weeks with that increasing to three after maybe five years then after ten years it may go to four weeks but that's it it's extremely rare to see more than five weeks. The years of ser
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by dhughes 15y ago
I'd say "people in Europe" is way too general, I'm sure there are regions such as the UK where obesity is as bad as the US. I've dealt with vendors from southern France and Western Italy and when they come here they are shocked at portion
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by dhughes 15y ago
Plan B is a vacuum in a lightweight super strong carbon fibre shell.
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by dhughes 15y ago
That's unreal! I'm an F1 fan but even that surprised me.
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by dhughes 15y ago
To me a flying car is something which you could just decide to go up when driving along on the freeway not spend half an hour assembling it before you could fly. I've always thought a lifting-body blimp/dirigible vehicle such as the size o
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by dhughes 15y ago
I remember reading about an (now ex) RCMP officer from BC, Canada created an application that took all sorts of data from crimes and combined it to create kind of a heat map/"elevation" of predictions where the criminal may be based. That'
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by dhughes 15y ago
Some people seem to be born troubleshooters they seem to be able to just know how to fix any problem especially obscure problems. For example your car is acting up and the troubleshooter knows it's the fifth contact on a relay since it's t
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by dhughes 15y ago
In my province using a phone while driving gets you a $300 fine plus three demerit points (out of 12).
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by dhughes 15y ago
Apple doesn't make it very easy for the average Joe to compare Apple versus other manufacturers battery life, choosing the non-standard Watt-hour instead of mAh.
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by dhughes 15y ago
If an ISP throttles they should be required to say they are doing so to you the customer and indicate it to you in real-time. You're paying for a service and if the company you're paying considers your use in violation of the terms agreed
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by dhughes 15y ago
All the programs I typed in from Family Computing magazine but never finished, I could put them all one one disk!
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by dhughes 16y ago
> What happens to your data? Is it stored on the device, or is the backend hosted somewhere? That would be good to know since the data on the hard drives of POS systems are a target for thieves to the point of ignoring the cash and just
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by dhughes 16y ago
The biggest thing with a POS system is support. Where I work (not my dept.) we were locked in a five year contract with a company based 5 times zones and 5,000km away. Adding new printers, configuring printers, connected by cheap off-the-s
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by dhughes 16y ago
That's quite interesting, a bit horrifying to anyone learning a new language which I guess shows knowing a language doesn't mean knowing the culture. I'm always worried about hand gestures now I have to make sure I know the code of the cul
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by dhughes 16y ago
I once heard someone say something along the lines of "not accepting praise for being skilled isn't humility it's arrogance". Know when you're good and accept a compliment don't feign being stupid.
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by dhughes 16y ago
I figured that is part of how it works anyway not just upvotes.
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by dhughes 16y ago
When I want to watch a movie, the first place I go to is Netflix Canada, half of what I want is unavailable and it doesn't update very often (at least not this month) so the second place I go to not too hard to figure out.
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by dhughes 16y ago
Netflix.ca is pretty dismal, half the stuff is unavailable or doesn't even exist on the Canadian version I may try Zip.ca The Netflix.ca free trial was OK but only two weeks in and I watched everything that was interesting, now what. And N
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by dhughes 16y ago
How much do organizations such as Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Hacker News etc. plan ahead for holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, or the last day of school, first day of University? It seems most outages could at
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by dhughes 16y ago
It's amazing that all of that could be destroyed by a little mercury which corrodes aluminum, it's fascinating. I've often wondered why cold war spies didn't use mercury more often (there was one incident?) or at all to sabotage entire squ
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by dhughes 16y ago
There is no Internet it's just a couple of dozen guys.
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by dhughes 16y ago
Yes.
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by dhughes 16y ago
Hunh? This post by splattne links to Superuser.com where the question is asked by Superuser member bronzebeard and it shows the question edited by Superuser member splattne and member Ivo Flipse comments mentions this subject was already d
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by dhughes 16y ago
Actually the company I (a minion stuck in the cogs) work for is a government run lottery that set up a division called Digital Interactive Gaming just to design and build online a gambling website.
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by dhughes 16y ago
Definitely reading any book is in a way like meditation, you get more out of it than googling some facts on some random website.
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by dhughes 16y ago
What about for Android? Green tea requires cooler water than black is that something a person new to tea will be shown or is all data the user enters via trial and error? If it's pre-determined what about mixing different teas which is a c
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by dhughes 16y ago
Hello World! ..oh, it's not this part.
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by dhughes 16y ago
It seems to happen to Reddit everyday.

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