helveticar

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by helveticar 2y ago
Yes, exactly this. A second chance is a safety net, available mostly to those with the circumstances or resources to deploy it. One helpful circumstance being youth (plenty of time), while an obvious resource is personal or, more likely for
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by helveticar 3y ago
There is an incorrect anecdote about Willie Sutton who was allegedly asked why he robbed banks. "That's where the money is" he is supposed to have replied. Be where your prospective SOs are likely to be and do what they'
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by helveticar 3y ago
For a British kid from an impoverished background this was (early 70s) my Internet, vast range of content, intelligently selected and with capsule reviews/extracts of everything which was included. When, 20 years later, I first saw the
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by helveticar 3y ago
Raising prices is difficult, charging when people are used to free is near impossible. Most of your free users were never going to pay anyway so there is no point in having them use your product at all. Trial periods still seem good to me (
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by helveticar 3y ago
I wonder where the "If they have nothing to fear what are they worried about?" brigade are. People like accountability until it is applied to themselves.
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by helveticar 3y ago
I've read the first 2 Slow Horses books. A wonderful antidote to the hyper efficient slick characters featured in e.g. Bond films. Even screw-up spies have their moments. Perhaps too British to appeal to non-Brits.
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by helveticar 3y ago
UK tourist towns were highly seasonal. No one wants to go to Blackpool in December. Providing accommodation for asylum seekers or whoever was year-round money with cost savings as those people's complaints could easily be ignored.
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by helveticar 3y ago
Brit Boomer. I grew up in a single parent family near the bottom of the heap in England. What kept us going and saved me from early death or a life of crime or drug dependency was the welfare state. The NHS, free school meals and host of ot
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by helveticar 3y ago
It seems you have a perfect excuse for the short period. "Relocated, family were unhappy, have made a difficult decision for my family's sake."
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by helveticar 3y ago
There is a difference between academic learning and vocational training. The UK used to have higher education institutions called Polytechnics, I went to one. These taught degree courses qualifying you for working life. Architects, chemists
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by helveticar 3y ago
Here in the UK the educational system is equally stratified. Now, it is true that excluding the very few admitted for sporting prowess (rowing at Oxbridge) the typical student at an elite University is of a higher calibre than the typical s
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by helveticar 3y ago
Perhaps subscribers get to call it XX, or even XXX? Rebranding requires careful thought and planning and even then is often unsuccessful. This name change hasn't even been given a second's thought.
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by helveticar 3y ago
The morons were doing the electing.
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by helveticar 3y ago
I'm kind of old and kind of appalled. As ThomFox said perhaps it is a way to look at your other stuff or perhaps as I suspect it is a way to screen out older people? How old was the hiring manager?
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by helveticar 3y ago
Nothing to do with productivity, confuses quality of work with quantity of reported work hours. If results are the same or better who cares how many 'hours' of work are recorded?
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by helveticar 3y ago
Title is very misleading. The dates appear to be from the copyright at the bottom of the page. Work on Visicalc started in '79, by '99 it was long gone.