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by donkeyd 7y ago
> drinking lots and lots of water, water you should probably be drinking anyway, will mask them more easily than one would expect. I've recently started intermittent fasting (22:00 - 12:00, still cheat too often, but it's a sta
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by donkeyd 7y ago
> everyone is pretty much making life up as they go along :-) This has also been my observation at 30. I've worked with people all ages and people of all statures and most people are just doing what they think is right and not much
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by donkeyd 7y ago
Thanks, that is exactly what concerns me.
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by donkeyd 7y ago
Maybe, I'm just making an observation. My biggest issue is that lack of control over outsourced workers over internal workers. In my situation it was very clear that breaching the agreements would not just lead to direct end of contrac
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by donkeyd 7y ago
I mostly agree, however, there are some issues I'm foreseeing. I've done some NLP work myself and have had access to very private information because of it. The team we were working with were all highly educated and well paid. Bec
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by donkeyd 7y ago
I'm also European and I know, within my own country, one group of people who would fin it completely normal to buy TVs and furniture on credit and another group that wouldn't. The former is low income and the latter is high income
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by donkeyd 7y ago
No, people don't have common sense. People should not post publicly on behalf of their employer without running it by a manager. This is lesson one at every major corporate introduction and I now understand why, because people don&#x27
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by donkeyd 7y ago
Yes, really. Regulations in the Netherlands are much stricter than in Belgium. In Belgium you van have a row with 5 completely different houses, sometimes you have a free standing rowhouse (yes, really) next to bungalow. In the Netherlands
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by donkeyd 7y ago
It's really obvious when you cross the NL/BE or NL/DE borders though, signage becomes different, houses look different. So unless you cross the border in a wooded area, you will definitely know.
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by donkeyd 7y ago
Chrome literally says this when you open incognito mode: > Your activity might still be visible to: > - Websites you visit > - Your employer or school > - Your internet service provider
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by donkeyd 7y ago
At both places I work at right now, this scenario could easily happen. The lobbies are open and only the elevators and stairs have access cards. Actually, most places I've worked at were like this. However, I can't imagine setting
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by donkeyd 7y ago
In the Netherlands, two similar cases went to court and judges have ruled that the selling party does not have to deliver in such a case. Dutch sources here: https://www.rechtspraak.nl/Organisatie-en-contact/Organisati.
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by donkeyd 7y ago
> You can't even go 400km/h on the Autobahn Yes, you can actually: https://www.motor1.com/news/264061/bugatti-veyron-speed-reco...
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by donkeyd 7y ago
I thought you were joking, but it seems like they really are. That's incredible! https://werken.belastingdienst.nl/bd-update/ict-summercourse...
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by donkeyd 7y ago
You are completely correct. There are so many levels of management that I never really fully grasped it and most managers are focused on their own personal growth, in stead of the performance of their units. I have another example of their
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by donkeyd 7y ago
I've been in projects like this, where I asked 'shouldn't we show this in human readable text?" The response would be that everyone knows the codes, so no. In those cases it was the client deciding a less than optimal so
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by donkeyd 7y ago
I've done quite a bit of work in Dutch government IT and would like to add that the failure of these projects is often because of politics and constantly changing requirements. IT is often working really hard and doing the best they ca
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by donkeyd 7y ago
Yup, I told someone who worked there this and they agreed, but explained that their management doesn't seem to plan that far ahead. I'm not even sure they're really aware that this is coming.
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by donkeyd 7y ago
I had an assignment at the Dutch Tax Service and was surprised to learn that they were still actively developing new software in COBOL. The reason, I was told, was that they had many COBOL developers and not as many that were experienced in
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by donkeyd 7y ago
Being a Tesla fan doesn't change facts or my perception. Also, my previous car, an Opel, did the same thing because of a specific type of line marking messing with the emergency braking system. That was reproducible, but the car doesn&
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by donkeyd 7y ago
> Why do you think so? There will be often enough stopped cars on the road to cause issues, or cement barriers, construction sites. Yes, but it's one big thing. Fixing one big thing, usually, is much easier than fixing thousands of
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by donkeyd 7y ago
So I've recently started driving a Model 3 and am a Tesla and Musk fanboy. That being said, I can still acknowledge things that are wrong. The major issue is people depending too much on the system. I think it's great that the &#x
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by donkeyd 7y ago
That's pretty awesome. And great that your boss thought this was a good idea too.
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by donkeyd 7y ago
Definitely true. I ended up quitting and moving to another job because of unreasonable demands like this. I do imagine though, that in SV, where data is considered the new gold, it must be a lot harder to find jobs at ethical companies.
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by donkeyd 7y ago
Are you not afraid to damage the logo with the knife?
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by donkeyd 7y ago
Off topic, but I also went to Junction! What year were you there? I'm guessing you're with MLH?
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by donkeyd 7y ago
Yeah, I fully agree. This was in the back of my mind while writing the previous comment too. It's also why think it's important to acknowledge it, since that might help people become aware that we're not doing things right. O
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by donkeyd 7y ago
I have to say, I think it's great that Apple doesn't try to do damage control on their reputation, but instead does damage control toward the customer. They could've kept the service working, created a fix and silently pushed
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by donkeyd 7y ago
The first time I experienced this in nature was last year in Yosemite. So many people were climbing over barriers and walking in places where they shouldn't, it was horrible. I've experienced this a lot in Amsterdam too, however.
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by donkeyd 7y ago
Much of the stuff you mentioned is either automated or has physical controls in a Tesla. Also, by law, emergency blinkers need to be a physical button. I do think that there's a lot of stuff wrong with touch screen for everything, but

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