honest_george

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   by honest_george 3y ago

   > Adults don't want to behave like they used to behave as kids. > They don't want to spontaneously talk randomly about something to an unknown person, because that comes with risks like rejection, looking like a fool, being
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   by honest_george 7y ago

   Something's seriously wrong with your browser/encoding. It seems all apostrophes in your message are replaced by ’ (a with hat, euro symbol, TM symbol).
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   by honest_george 8y ago

   While I can't speak for US law, most of the time it's the delivery address that matters - if the location you're at when purchasing matters, you could do all of your expensive on-line shopping when on holiday in some place wi
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   by honest_george 9y ago

   Note that this only works if you're working with small amounts of data. CSV with 5 million lines are no issue at all, just don't try this in Excel.
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   by honest_george 9y ago

   I couldn't even read the article, it may as well be written in a different language.
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   by honest_george 9y ago

   It's the best thing you can do at the time, but some managers take this badly. It makes it more difficult for them to throw you to the wolves.
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   by honest_george 9y ago

   This also means that if you're working for small company, you should charge small amounts of money. Or just reject the project entirely. Because anyone claiming he can bring 500k a year in value for a local small butchershop is either
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   by honest_george 9y ago

   Waze's routes are a little more aggressive. Which, if you spend a lot of time in a car, can add up.
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   by honest_george 9y ago

   How much heat would you lose by submerging your head and neck, versus how much would you gain by keeping the fetal position? I'm not sure if that's a positive tradeoff.
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    by honest_george 9y ago

    Same here, in Gmail.
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    by honest_george 9y ago

    And then Windows decides you've had enough time to reboot. And you have to click "Ask me again for reboot in 4 hours", because 4 hours is the maximum time the system will allow. And repeat this every 4 hours. In Windows 10 it
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    by honest_george 10y ago

    For more context, consider (1). It shows the expected pay for someone with a masters in comp sci, working as an engineer in Belgium. It tops out at just over 5k (gross) a month, so just about 65k a year. Less than one third of 200k. (1): h
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    by honest_george 11y ago

    That link seems to be geolocation-specific. For me it returns salaries from 23 to 31k [1] [1] https://imgur.com/cCq85nI
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    by honest_george 12y ago

    You can always sue of course (there is no union in the company). But what would you gain by doing so? They might be forced to hire you again, in which case you can be assured you will never receive a raise and will generally not enjoy worki
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    by honest_george 12y ago

    I've had very different experiences working in the EU (Belgium). On my first day of work, I received a document containing company rules and guidelines. Overtime is never paid and it is considered "an engineer's pride" t