ewar-woowar

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by ewar-woowar 8y ago
First time I asked question on SO I got a very curt response "this isn't a code writing service" and pretty much told to gtfo, but my question was very much asking for advice about _how to proceed as a beginner_ and I was cle
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by ewar-woowar 8y ago
It's hard to ignore when it also goes to your phone. Also when the company _expect_ a reply. I have had HR routinely email me between 9 and 11 pm on Sunday nights as a deliberate strategy to make me stressed/uncomfortable with the
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by ewar-woowar 10y ago
I think your missing the subtleties of British English, "can't really blame them" means that you hold them responsible but that you also see their side of things.
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by ewar-woowar 10y ago
eBay can't check the source of a 2nd hand item to discern if it is stolen. Surely if there were landlords renting out entire apartment buildings then the sequential addresses would show up in AirBnB's data as mystreet 1a, mystreet
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by ewar-woowar 10y ago
Shipping and not being able to preview any of the series makes buying everything a very expensive lottery. Who buys random series of TV shows they have never seen even a single episode of?
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by ewar-woowar 10y ago
Or "plays golf/football, comes from a similar background to us", where gender doesn't play a role, not even in the much-reported IT industry where there is a paucity of women . As a Brit in central Europe I have come up
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by ewar-woowar 10y ago
One of my favourite Twitter people to follow is Remy Sharp, he tweets all the dumb stuff he does (he's a developer btw). All the mistakes he makes are there alongside the great things he achieves from day-to-day. It's inspiring to
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by ewar-woowar 10y ago
The main difference being hat before social media you probably had direct contact with those people on your friends list, because you either worked with them or hung out with them. That direct contact allows people to filter the bragging fr