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by jib 13y ago
In long-term employment, once you're in a spot where you're doing clock watching, both the employee and the employer are much worse off. I probably work on average an hour or two a week above my contracted hours (depends how you c
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by jib 13y ago
What kind of weird thinking is that? "(ie outside of vacations, holidays and RTT days)." RTT days are specifically extra days off to get you down to 35hours/week. Hours/year would be a useful metric - hours / week,
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by jib 13y ago
I would be worried if someone felt that "being intelligent" was a primary ability of yours - not because others think it reflects badly on your other abilities, but rather because it isn't an important ability in itself and I
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by jib 13y ago
I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but it sounds like a small outsourcing company like any other outsourcing company?
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by jib 14y ago
Lower fraud risk. Extending the time from credit card charge to goods being delivered lowers the risk of chargebacks. Store value without storing money for small transactions. Some countries are finicky about storing money, and its a tight
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by jib 14y ago
Being offended is a good tool. It is much better tool when used logically and by choice. Don't think of it as acting in a performer sense, think of it as acting in a sense of taking actions. There doesn't need to be any disingenuity there,
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by jib 14y ago
Do you guys feel like live chat is a bad support medium? Or just that it is easier to outsource badly? I hate phone support, so I'm curious. Phone support is expensive (to run), costs more time for the customer, and often forces you into a
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by jib 14y ago
Does it matter that much if it is correct or not? Some amount of people are eating healthier because of it. That's a good thing, right? Whether that is due to a link to history or coincidence it seems like a good thing. To me "is it doing s
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by jib 14y ago
400 euro/month around 5-10 years ago.
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by jib 14y ago
I lived in a 9 m^2 apartment (with some extra storage) for 3 years (cheap rent in Paris was nice). It was mostly fine, except you end up hearing neighbors. If not for that, it was pretty good. It had tradeoffs tho, apartment was next to cas
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by jib 14y ago
Infrastructure first is a constraint, not a feature. If we could build buildings where we didn't need to plan out the structure first, we would. But rebuild is horribly expensive when dealing with brick and mortar or airplane sized chunks o
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by jib 14y ago
What I find interesting is how much benefit you get from being one of the guys who get asked for help with this kind of thing ("I can't figure it out"-problems). It was the main way I studied in university. People would come with some "diff
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by jib 14y ago
If you played just one hand that would be true. Poker strategy is based on large sample sizes - you're not trying to figure out the optimal strategy for a single hand, you're trying to figure out an overall strategy for groups of hands agai
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by jib 14y ago
Proactively communicating incidents and outages on Twitter is an excellent use of the service. Handling individual contacts is a practice only marketing guys like I think. You can create temporary appearance of good service that way (if you
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by jib 14y ago
Funny, I was thinking about this last night. I had much the same experience, played as a smith 90% of the time. My reflection was on how much trust you can build through a game. Even 10+ years later and not having talked to them since I wou
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by jib 14y ago
This is how goal line cameras work - there's one at every race course and sporting event around the world. I had a weekend job running one at a race course growing up. Nowadays they are digital I guess, but the technology is the same - you
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by jib 14y ago
Yeah I think this one is just semantics/being at least a bit politically aware. "There is no solution" is for most shorthand for "I can give you 20 solutions, but I don't think any of them are good enough to be effective for this case. Woul
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by jib 14y ago
Square? If it's not something you know it needs to be something you own. Cc's seem like a possible thing a lot of people own. Square-like thing for authing by swiping seems like it could be done. Or maybe mobile as a remote would be enough
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by jib 14y ago
Wear the right clothes and bring a set of clothes to change into. :) I bike to work in Ireland (150+ rain days a year - yay). Rain clothes takes care of that - just make sure they aren't too heavy. When I was younger I worked as a mailman i
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by jib 14y ago
If you are using direct debits you have no way of pulling the money directly from the account - you will always have some serious lag (day or two at least, often more). In that time you don't have a hold or similar on the funds, so either y
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by jib 14y ago
Yeah they for sure can. They just don't tend to bother I think. Hijacking an account and the payment method used to pay on that account to go with it is a lot of work to do something you can do with less work. May be business dependent tho.
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by jib 14y ago
Loved the write-up. If you expand outside paypal/ccs into other methods like direct debits (common for Germany) I would be curious to hear similar stories. Accidental chargeback rates are way up on direct debits so any stories for dealing w
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by jib 14y ago
It will be an estimate. You want to do some voluntary offers over picking each guy if you can (because it is also an opportunity to get rid of demotivated/already checked out staff who you aren't aware of). Some big decisions (close area/te
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by jib 14y ago
uservoice does this well