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by kamjam 13y ago
That article is just a big bitch fest, or maybe it is just his toen I do not like. You could have summed what he says into 2 sentences. As you say, it would have been much more mature to have compared the 2 products, show why their produc
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by kamjam 13y ago
Plus a portable battery charges more than just your phone. And with USB being so standard and available pretty much everywhere, it almost seems like a non-issue. It's not like back in the day when you had to have separate car chargers
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by kamjam 13y ago
There was a whole discussion about this the other day when it got posted on HN and since then, I have to say the name just seems more and more underground, and not in a good way. Something like Secure Mail Alliance would have been a much be
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by kamjam 13y ago
Gah, FML and damn you Monday morning. I meant to say it IS IN #1. Corrected my comment.
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by kamjam 13y ago
Cool, wanted to find out if it was possible to track anything, specifically I wanted to know if the C-bomb was more common in UK and Australia :) If would be nice if it was possible to change the tracked word directly from the interface (or
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by kamjam 13y ago
And that article is in #1 spot in HN and of course, OP article itself is linked in article!
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by kamjam 13y ago
I removed the widget from my homescreen. But I'm running Android ICS still. Maybe it can't be removed in the later versions?
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Edward Snowden letter to German government in full(theguardian.com)
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by kamjam 13y ago
Fair enough, and thanks for all the info. I've never directly recruited, but I've heard the 15% touted by my ex-employers. Certainly for headhunters 30% is more normal. To me as a employee though I don't care what the rate is
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by kamjam 13y ago
Just buy a tool to cut your SIM down to the correct size, should be available on ebay. The actual SIM part of the cards are the same - although I think you have need a LTE SIM for full speed, may depend on provider...
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by kamjam 13y ago
Just saw this, just tried and nothing available in Canada, not even on pre-order :(
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by kamjam 13y ago
I've only worked for fairly large companies, that recruit 10s if not 100s of people each year. I guess they get an "economies of scale" discount, and we've always had good candidates. If a recruiter was not to offer a go
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by kamjam 13y ago
Everywhere I've worked for in London it has been 15% for devs. If you're paying more then you need to negotiate better. The rates may of course differ for bigger companies, where recruiters are more likely to place more candidates
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by kamjam 13y ago
Step 3: PROFIT!!!
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by kamjam 13y ago
It's the UK, 15% is standard finders fee there.
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by kamjam 13y ago
This is fairly standard practice, esp in the UK. Sometimes a candidate might be asking more than you are offering, but if the candidate is good enough you may increase your budget. It happens.
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by kamjam 13y ago
Yes, absolutely, I agree with you. But just because you were ex-NSA does that mean you can no longer work in related work? What if you built their data centres, and you took a job at Google and tasked with building their new data centres. D
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by kamjam 13y ago
It wasn't too long ago that Obama himself said Ed Snowden was not a patriot. Said it then, will say it again. The hypocrisy just reeks.
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by kamjam 13y ago
Agree. But it happens all the time. Why else do you think they have those long periods of gardening leave when you leave one employer for another, or those clauses in contracts saying you will not work for a competitor in the same field for
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by kamjam 13y ago
I don't trust Google more than anyone else out there. They are in the business of making money and don't much of a damn about their users. The only reason the NSA spying is a problem for them (imo) is that it may affect their bott
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by kamjam 13y ago
On the flip side of that, maybe you do want ex-NSA staff with the inside knowledge so you can protect yourself against their tactics. Isn't that the same reasoning for hiring ex-black hat hackers?
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by kamjam 13y ago
For those of you in the UK then you can sign up for free (full) credit reports with https://www.noddle.co.uk/ The site is only accessible within UK though. It's from the same people as http://www.callcredit.
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by kamjam 13y ago
Liberals tend to believe that other countries cooperate with the United States because American ideals are attractive and the U.S.-led international system is fair. I just watched The Four Horsemen on Youtube. It's pretty interesting
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by kamjam 13y ago
But that's so much hassle, I have to click on the link and then navigate a whole bunch of folders, and possibly know what version and language I need! </sarc> Users of VMs are more than likely power users at the very least,
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by kamjam 13y ago
This. The great thing about JS, and time has proved this, is just how powerful a concept it was from the start and just how misunderstood it was. Just because people misused the flexibility of the language does not make it a bad one. http:
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by kamjam 13y ago
The problem with direct democracy, as I see it, is that it can be gamed just as easily for short term gain. Given how politics works in the US, as well as all the lobbyists and advertising budgets that go along with both of these I'd s
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by kamjam 13y ago
I recently went abroad and due to a couple of issues I had to reinstall the OS on my phone (I did this during the flight). Since my Facebook app was not authorized on this phone I had to go through "extended verification" because
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by kamjam 13y ago
I switched to paperless with HSBC and their statements go back 6 years, it was one of the "features" of going paperless. Switching back to paper the 6 years were still there :) I've switched back and forth between both method
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by kamjam 13y ago
That's how you get your 11% performance gains!
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by kamjam 13y ago
Microsoft's desktop supremacy hasn't been down to "it's got a nice, easy to use interface" for at least 20 years. Whilst I generally agree with your statement, I don't think it's due to MS having a good

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