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by dvtv75 8y ago
I know a guy who moved to New Zealand from Hungary, with several years experience in broadcast TV. He thought New Zealand was going to be a new start, and got a job at a regional TV station working with a friend of mine. After about a year
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by dvtv75 8y ago
I have a Bachelor's degree in CS. Nobody will hire me because I don't have experience. Funny thing is, before I got my degree, they were happy enough with my experience but wouldn't hire me because I didn't have a degre
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by dvtv75 8y ago
> Shit salaries, overpriced housing, and everything is expensive You're not kidding. A decade ago I looked at buying Autodesk Maya. It was $US3999 if I were in the US, so how much was it from the local reseller in NZ? $NZ13,000,
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by dvtv75 8y ago
My partner has, for 20 years, hated Babylon 5. An ex-boyfriend apparently forced her to watch an episode, which generated a lot of hate for the show. I re-watched it a few years ago, and she incidentally watched this scene: https:/&
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by dvtv75 8y ago
> Plenty of studies around long term intelligence of children learning second languages early on.... This in itself may be a myth: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debate-rages-over...
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by dvtv75 8y ago
Many years ago, I traveled to another city to see a Joe Satriani concert. I was really hyped to finally see him in concert, and hoped that I'd run into him and get a CD autographed. So when I did run into him in the local community sp
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by dvtv75 8y ago
I think that's actually meant to be an orbital nuclear launcher, making the comparison even more appropriate.
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by dvtv75 8y ago
A few days back, to allow me to download the software I had just bought, the site kept putting up those damned pictures for me to click on. Street signs were the first three, I apparently got all of those wrong (even though I got them righ
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by dvtv75 8y ago
It's not just a problem in the US, either. I recently learned of a New Zealand concrete company who deliberately don't bother with environmental compliance and instead just cop a fine and pay it. They budget for the fine every y
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by dvtv75 8y ago
Back in 1999, I was standing outside gazing at the stars, when I heard this "tick tick tick" sound behind me. Turned around to find this tiny little weta, maybe three centimeters long, jumping around while appearing to look at me
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by dvtv75 8y ago
> By the way, my tonsils disappeared by themselves! You're not alone there: my partner's tonsils "dissolved" when she was younger. I've never heard of this anywhere else until now.
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by dvtv75 8y ago
This can be true, but it's not necessarily always so. Many years back, my partner was sexually assaulted, so I attended a few of her counseling sessions with the local Rape Crisis center as a support person. The female counselor comme
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by dvtv75 8y ago
A friend of mine is a camera operator for a small production firm. They have some really old equipment, including tripods that aren't safe to use for their cameras, but they still cheap out on them anyway. He gets paid about $16/
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by dvtv75 8y ago
My job is one of those. I do about 35 minutes a day, I'm paid SFA (legal minimum) for turning up to stand around for a few hours. I can't swear enough to underscore how much I hate it and I would leave in a cold second. The wors
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by dvtv75 8y ago
My workplace just went through that very thing. We had a company-wide review of employees attitudes, remuneration, equipment, the works. They released a letter telling us they were going to begin a few months later, starting with pay rais
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by dvtv75 8y ago
I have the same hardware, and I'm sitting here just looking for excuses to upgrade (of all reasons, for a new heatsink I was given) and I just can't bring myself to place the order because I just don't need it. As you say, th
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by dvtv75 8y ago
For me, my present manager is my main referee, and the longest I've held a position in years. I don't have many other referees, most have left the country or just disappeared. There's also the bad reputation that can be spre
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by dvtv75 8y ago
One important thing I've learned is that you can't change a bad business. It doesn't matter how hard you try, or what you do, they will remain the same.
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by dvtv75 8y ago
I had a similar reaction, I was wondering if I should update the Tomato on my WRT54G, but no matter, it's still running nicely. If it ain't broke...
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by dvtv75 8y ago
This is extremely important. A qualified trainer (I'm one, but hate the work, too many people watched a program on a body builder and know all about it) will assess your strength and fitness, determine your goals, and then create a pr
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by dvtv75 8y ago
If you do a search, you'll get a number of links (the farthest back I found was 2010) on feather color. I found one popsci article that describes how it was determined: https://www.popsci.com/discover-color-dinosaur
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by dvtv75 8y ago
I had an argument with one guy who would fire you for "lying in an interview" if you didn't tell him you had a degree, or list it on your resume. His position was that people with degrees would work for him until a better jo
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by dvtv75 8y ago
Before I earned my degree, I had countless interviewers tell me that they wouldn't consider me until I had one, in spite of my "not insignificant" experience and interest in the field. (It was sysadmin at the time.) So I got
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by dvtv75 8y ago
Well, it was almost 20 years ago and I only heard about it long after I'd forgotten his name. Without an actual conviction, I don't think my word would carry much weight and could just cause me a lot of trouble. Hopefully he'
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by dvtv75 8y ago
I had one of those, I think it may have overclocked to 550MHz, I can't remember for sure. The cooling fan was audible outside of my house!
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by dvtv75 8y ago
I worked in a film processing store (before the turn of the century), and one of my workmates there told me how he'd set up a friend to pretend to be a former boss for him. Said friend forgot, my workmate was called in to the business
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by dvtv75 8y ago
One of my colleagues used to be required to clock out for a toilet break, and I recall that there was a minimum time he would be docked pay for, even if his break was less than that. He worked for a supermarket. My partner used to work for
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by dvtv75 8y ago
I have seen just this happen. I don't know how someone as basically incompetent as my former boss could do it, but he was made an IT manager for a huge government department, in spite of the IT department at my workplace having the wo
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by dvtv75 8y ago
> I hear so many comedians and read articles where people make fun of "vaping" as super lame and uncool This comes as a surprise to me, as the majority of people vaping are hipsters, where I am. I do know someone who tried to u
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by dvtv75 8y ago
I once heard someone say that the best puns cause physical pain, either with the listener groaning or the listener punching, but either way the pain is the proof of success.

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