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by eroded 14y ago
Right, so he made a bad decision by taking the job. It's still much better to realise you made a bad decision and cut your losses (by quitting), than blindly sticking with it. Given he was about to quit anyway if he wasn't offered a raise,
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by eroded 14y ago
I didn't know 747s could go faster than the speed of sound ;-)
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by eroded 14y ago
20:00 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
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by eroded 14y ago
Indeed. I'm always surprised how many people believe they should be paid proportional to the amount of time and money that went into their product, regardless of demand. Their work is worth whatever the market will bear.
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by eroded 15y ago
Honest Question - if you learn to be happy and content with what you have, what incentive is there to improve, to learn, to grow? It appears to me that everything worthwhile is done with the aim of improving our lives, and so if we're happy
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by eroded 15y ago
This isn't wrong - /any/ time zone has a constant 24 hour delta before those two points in time. What is changing is your time zone from, say, GMT to BST.
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Joel Spolsky speaking at the next Hacker News London Meetup(meetup.com)
2 points by eroded 15y ago|0 comments
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by eroded 15y ago
Household income is a poor measure in my opinion. If I happen to live with a roommate who also earns the same as me, am I suddendly twice as wealthy? Of course not. As the majority of households have two main income earners, and I live on m
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by eroded 15y ago
Sorry, but what is the relevance of this to Hacker News? Please don't let this turn into Reddit.
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by eroded 15y ago
If it's totally free, how will you make money? Where's the business?
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Dr Michio Kaku: "There would be no Silicon Valley without the H1B"(wimp.com)
5 points by eroded 15y ago|2 comments
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How to meet new people in the Valley?
1 points by eroded 15y ago|1 comments
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by eroded 15y ago
UK fees, even at the new £9k (~$14k) rate, are still heavily subsidised by the state. To study my course (Imperial, CS) as an overseas student is £22.5k (~$36.5k).
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Why (UK) train departure information is not open data.(placr.co.uk)
95 points by eroded 15y ago|55 comments
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by eroded 15y ago
You might wanna add some carriage returns to that post.
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Seven reasons why I'm not buying a Chromebook.(dmurray.org)
3 points by eroded 15y ago|3 comments
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by eroded 15y ago
Paying £25k (~$40k USD) for grad devs in London is a bit cheeky, when you consider the living costs are higher than in Silicon Valley ( http://tinyurl.com/6e8d3th ). Clearly, UK students enjoy selling their soul to live in bedsits eating no
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by eroded 15y ago
>> you end up spending a lot more as well How come? Is it a case of "Keeping up with the Joneses"?
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Apple economics: a free laptop every year.(dmurray.org)
56 points by eroded 15y ago|68 comments
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by eroded 15y ago
> failing to say one sentence when you're 22 costs you almost a hundred thousand dollars by the time you are thirty. Wow. As a CS-grad about to take a full-time job offer, I'd surprisingly never thought of this at all. But how easy is i