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541.
by ido 4y ago
And what would you do to force SF to replace the private contractor they use for their airport if you end up not liking it? Your avenue is exactly the same as protesting against a public service.
542.
by ido 4y ago
But both restricting emissions and improving fuel mileage are good things, right?
543.
by ido 4y ago
I don’t understand though, why upon learning the government does something poorly the first reaction would be to replace it with private contractors rather than demand your government does better? Some things are public services and shouldn
544.
by ido 4y ago
I don’t know where your faith that deregulating and privatizing would help the experience comes from. Here in Europe once they privatized parts of rail travel the experience got markedly worse. I moved to Europe about 20 years ago and it us
545.
by ido 4y ago
I believe the common explanation is corruption rather than a mistake.
546.
by ido 4y ago
It's unreasonable for the company to want you to stick around for 3 months before you switch jobs, but it's not unreasonable to ask a company to let an employee who has been with them for years 3 months' (notice or severance)
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by ido 4y ago
I think this is more for "traditional" companies, I've never seen a startup here (Berlin) do that in the 10 years I've been living here.
548.
by ido 4y ago
Don't know what the law is like in most states in the US but in the EU if the employee has been with the company for longer than 6 months it wouldn't even be legal to fire with 0 notice & no severance - generally companies wan
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by ido 4y ago
Interesting choice for a cover image, in that no Apple II actually looks like that (is that supposed to be an Apple Lisa?)
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by ido 4y ago
Because the retailers and the manufacturers aren't the same companies - the retailers are looking for the cheapest goods to buy and have a lot of other expenses as well (rent, wages for shop staff, capital for maintaining inventory, et
551.
by ido 4y ago
My family had a textile factory in Israel from the 1970s until the mid 90s - it used to be very, very profitable until the market opened up to imports from China/India in the 90s. Within a few short years my parents had to shut down
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by ido 4y ago
I recommend visiting Delhi, or other cities with more than a couple million people. There are lots of homeless in the big cities, not just in Mumbai.
553.
by ido 4y ago
Surely better than living on the streets? It was a long time since I visited India (almost 20 years ago now), but when I went there were so many homeless people that on the way between the airport and Delhi city-center at night entire sidew
554.
by ido 4y ago
I'm not OP but it's incredibly hard to immigrate and as older people are less mobile/flexible it may mean leaving your elderly parents/grandparents behind, as well as your native culture and language and everyone/ev
555.
by ido 4y ago
Even in developed countries I've noticed a marked difference (albeit nowhere near reported SA or India levels) when moving from Israel to Austria and then to Germany. When I was growing up in Israel (1983-2005) power outages were commo
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by ido 4y ago
I have many friends in Brandenburg (the state, not the city) and internet speeds tend to actually be great out there from what Ive heard (still in the towns/cities not literally in the middle of nowhere, but there are loads of small to
557.
by ido 4y ago
We've been living in Berlin for the last 10 year and the prices are making me consider looking outside the city (no other big cities that near Berlin, so there isn't that challenge you speak of). My main issue would be being more
558.
by ido 4y ago
And Sun sued Microsoft when they tried to EEE Java shortly thereafter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B#Sun's_litigatio...
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by ido 4y ago
The answer to the question at the end is that you fire them. It sucks but someone who can't get their job done is also demoralizing for the rest of the team who have to pick up their slack.
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by ido 4y ago
It sound like the person we're replying too implied they were also not very effective at their jobs.
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by ido 4y ago
I thought the same (and I was around at the time & in the 90s thought the 3dfx version was amazing)! Today the SVGA version looks like a cool retro style where as the blurry/smooth 3dfx version just looks cheap rather than a stylis
562.
by ido 4y ago
Is this not visible to the people with authority to fire them/not hire more such people? Or do they think differently than you?
563.
by ido 4y ago
What are you freelancing as? If as a programmer in England your rates are still very low. When I was last freelancing for an English company my rates were more than double what you wrote and I know for certain my rates were not particularly
564.
by ido 4y ago
I have a big ol' google doc idea pad i toss ideas to whenever i get one. At least once this helped me to get an idea quick when an opportunity arose that required one quickly!
565.
by ido 4y ago
I meant "The biggest change since PARC has been touch screens" -> hasn't the Web been a bigger change than touch screens?
566.
by ido 4y ago
I wonder where you live where the bike infrastructure goes unused and why? Is it because of the climate? I live in Berlin which isn't that mild (it's not in-land Canada/Russia but it's not coastal California either) an
567.
by ido 4y ago
How about the Web?
568.
by ido 4y ago
Thanks for linking this article, what an incredible read.
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by ido 4y ago
+1 anecdata, I've tried to get colleagues off of adobe suite for years to little success.
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by ido 4y ago
> If Figma wrangles $2-3B cash out of this, they could probably take down the entire adobe ecosystem. I think you highly underestimates how much lock-in adobe has (and intentionally pushed, e.g. by doing what they can to prevent other pr

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