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jamaicahest
7y ago
Because Teams actually has a decent privacy policy: "As a customer of Office 365, you own and control your data. Microsoft does not use your data for anything other than providing you with the service that you have subscribed to. As a
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jamaicahest
7y ago
Indeed. Please do not do this to your cat. It will frustrate him/her, if you don't believe me, ask your vet.
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7y ago
To any business, $10 / month is literally nothing. If you pay $10 / month as a person, then I can see why it matters, but to a business that amount is nothing.
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jamaicahest
7y ago
Or just skip the GIF and create an MP4 file? No need to try and shoehorn GIF into what MP4 can do perfectly well.
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8y ago
The difference is that for a lot of people, a job is just a way to pay the bills and for them, it matters very little what a potential employer's future plans are, beyond knowing that they will still have a job in a year.
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8y ago
"Read contract yourself then get back to company and request to either remove all one-sided clauses or make them equally two-sided." I did that not too long ago, to a potential client. The client's response was "Well we
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8y ago
Sure you could probably win a lawsuit. However what about the lost business you will incur until the lawsuit is done and Google decides to follow the court order?
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8y ago
There is a big difference in letting these companies control your mental well being, as in the letter, and letting them know intimate details about you. The first is well within your control:. don't use Facebook/Instagram/etc
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8y ago
What do you mean if: https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces...
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8y ago
> Actually, Microsoft's insistence that IE or Edge only run on Windows has been the main reason why I don't test either. I'm sorry, are you developing for your own personal pleasure or for a business? If it is the latter,
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8y ago
Indeed, real love is a choice you make, not a magical feeling that persists throughout life without any effort on your part. Even though that is how it is portrayed in all movies.
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jamaicahest
8y ago
Did you read the article? Author says he searched using DuckDuckgo.
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8y ago
>As you said, the issue is that founders will usually get a moderate payout (a couple Million$), while even early employees will get almost nothing. How is that an issue? To quote Robert T. Kiyosaki's book "Rich Dad's Cash
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8y ago
Here in Denmark, the market rate is about 80-120 EUR/hour, so the same as Finland. I would speculate that across Scandinavia the rates are fairly similar.
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8y ago
Minimum wage here is on average $17 / hour, across all industries. I say average because there is no law about minimum wage here in Denmark, but unions are very strong and almost all employees are covered by a collective agreement, whi
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8y ago
>there are lots of alternatives. assign rooms to projects and have the principals mostly hang out there. couch areas and pub areas and cubby areas...rooms where you really aren't supposed to talk or hum or do anything out loud. Havi
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8y ago
That's a nice sentiment, however a lot of people have notifications turned on in both their email client and in Slack, so you end up interrupting them anyway. There was a study done on the interruption effect of e-mail https:/&#x
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jamaicahest
8y ago
I'm grateful they were rescued, but how is this Hacker News material? I can go to Reddit if I want generic news articles.
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8y ago
Here's a version without the paywall http://archive.is/osFHm
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8y ago
If you can solve a very specific issue for any enterprise, there is usually money to be made. Enterprises have very specific problems, often problems that only exist in that that enterprise, and they have huge amounts of cash to throw at so
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8y ago
>It boggles my mind that two of the richest companies on the planet can't fix this stuff. You're suggesting that they want to fix it at all, rather than build new, shiny things.
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8y ago
For some software engineers, a management position is considered a promotion.
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8y ago
In this day and age, with trustworthy online review sites like Consumer Reports, I find it is fairly easy to find quality products at a price somewhere in the middle.
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8y ago
I could say you're wrong, but then it would simply be my opinion vs your opinion, and the discussion would end there.
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9y ago
>While I know I made many mistakes, I believe I was not the only one who did... but I was the one on probation... so... so long and thanks for all the fish. Author seems somewhat arrogant, one of the worst personality traits in my opinio
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9y ago
Reminds we of https://www.npr.org/2012/02/27/147296743/how-you-can-harness...
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9y ago
Obviously Apple would have to comply with local legislations, just like any other company has to comply with local legislations. So no, Apple SIM would not provide anonymous mobile access.
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9y ago
Not sure if relevant, as I'm in Denmark and I don't know where you are located. But I charge $100/hour plus VAT and that is pretty much the standard rate here in Denmark for freelance work. I'm a .NET developer doing onl
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9y ago
>It's more important to be authentic and true, even if that means having less friends, than a phony with a lot of fake friends. All this has the result of making it more difficult to randomly find real friends. And this is where Fac
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9y ago
Another company asked me to create a web application based on a short specification. I liked that I was able to pick any language and framework I wanted to. Furthermore, the project was related to the company's business and was descri
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