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by liedra 16y ago
As a non-Dutch speaker living in Belgium, I find Flemish much nicer to listen to than "real" Dutch too. :-)
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by liedra 16y ago
On my keyboard (Belgian French) that makes daverecruit.sc2gmail.com ;)
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by liedra 16y ago
I wrote my PhD on this, actually, but focussed more on EULAs as a case study (though they're much the same thing), looking at whether the consent given is actually "informed consent" from an ethical point of view. Unsurprisingly, it's not.
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by liedra 16y ago
Yeah. I was promised days in lieu, but these were conveniently forgotten or "unable to be taken" due to other, new deadlines. I'm actually surprised I got any holidays at all, apart from the fact that HR got involved. My boss certainly woul
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by liedra 16y ago
A lot of good programmers are not good graphics designers or good artists or marketers but want to get into the games industry because they like the idea of working on games. There are (in Australia at least) even entire bachelors degree st
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by liedra 16y ago
Ah okay, I saw that but in my half-asleep state only concentrated on the link to the watchdog site which now seems to be just a forum to talk about game companies. I've now read the FAQ and all of that too! Cheers.
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by liedra 16y ago
Ahh, thanks! That's good to hear. I hope it changed a few things there!
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by liedra 16y ago
You'd be surprised what people will put up with due to subtle manipulations of people in charge, peer pressure (of others working similarly, especially if your boss works harder than you do) and the promise of future reward for slog now. It
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by liedra 16y ago
I want to know what happened! Did they stay? Has EA's approach changed? I'm hoping no, and yes, in that order. Anyone have any more recent experience in EA's "sweatshops"?
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by liedra 16y ago
Your body doesn't need cleansing. What it needs is a healthy diet to start with. Eat healthily, get exercise and fresh air, and you won't need to go on extreme diets that will only cause you to put all the weight back on later.
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by liedra 16y ago
A bit like this? (seen in Paris) http://liedra.net/photos/d/2306-2/2306
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by liedra 16y ago
See I think that these sorts of tests are looking at the wrong sorts of things. What they should be looking for is relative improvement rather than reaching a particular level. Especially in underprivileged areas, where the kids might be do
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by liedra 16y ago
1) Read a lot in an area you're really interested in. 2) Learn something interesting 3) Teach it to someone else (write something about what you've learned, sit a friend down, ring up your mum) Repeat. My problem is that now that I work in
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by liedra 16y ago
I used to play a MMO (not WoW, but close) and was fairly well addicted to it. It got to me at a vulnerable time (I'd just moved away from friends and family to start a PhD, and so I had flexible time and no RL friends nearby, so it was a pe
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by liedra 16y ago
A friend of mine who works for Apple told me (a year or so ago) that the reason for this is because ATT (and similar companies in other countries) wants to discourage tethering due to the fact that they don't have the infrastructure to acco
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by liedra 16y ago
Us Aussies neither, it seems :)
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by liedra 16y ago
I never drink alcohol (or caffeine) on long haul plane flights -- dehydration is really really awful, and you dehydrate so quickly on planes with the air conditioning going all the time. But then again my "long haul" flights are 20hrs+, not
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by liedra 16y ago
The no meals thing/only sleep thing works for 10 hour flights but not for 20+ (Europe/US - Australia). For really long haul flights, do all of what he said, but only at "night time", i.e., when they dim the lights for you to sleep. Eat and
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by liedra 16y ago
Yeah, but you missed the second half of my sentence :) It's not the only thing they do, and it's certainly not the whole of a good governance mechanism. I do agree with you about the PP, but it's a move in the right direction, at least they
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by liedra 16y ago
In Australia (well, NSW and the ACT at least) you're not allowed to U-turn at a traffic light unless a sign specifically allows it. You can, however, make U-turns (or U-eys, as we call 'em :) outside of traffic light areas. A lot of people
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by liedra 16y ago
This is one of the reasons why you have to start talking about governance in these situations. Businesses should have governance strategies. They probably mostly do for finance, or safety, or similar, but they should also have governance st
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by liedra 16y ago
I actually had to have a test for it as part of my working visa application to Belgium. I thought it was really weird, and so did my doctor!
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by liedra 16y ago
There are a whole boatload of awesome podcasts available at the Australian ABC Radio National. They're all extremely accessible and quite thought provoking. I particularly recommend: The Philosopher's Zone: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philoso
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by liedra 16y ago
Maybe it's because I'm not American but I don't understand what "the woo" is exactly here. The closest thing I can think of is the verb "to woo" which ... doesn't really make sense here. Could you possibly explain it?
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by liedra 16y ago
I think you're quite right, but I'm wondering if it reflects that because a lot of those guilty of this sort of behaviour in science are still stuck in the mindset of 10-15 years ago? Mind you this shouldn't affect the way he argues about
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by liedra 16y ago
Thanks, it's these sorts of comments that help drive the will to actually go and do something -- I am scared of weights, and for precisely the reasons you and the article said. Especially since in some gyms the weights areas are overrun w
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by liedra 16y ago
Oh, that's a great idea. I could possibly even do those inside if it's raining out! I'll look these up. Thanks very much!
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by liedra 16y ago
Thanks! I've done some yoga in the past, and it can be quite tricky to do, but apart from the breathing and stretching it did I was never quite sure whether it was as good for me as, say, a run/cycle. Since I don't have access to a gym with
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by liedra 16y ago
This is a great article, makes me want to get off my bum and do some exercise :) One thing I'd like to know is, for women, yoga and pilates and all that seems to be quite fashionable these days, but they don't tend to be either cardio or we
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by liedra 16y ago
I think a lot of things are self-taught by nine-year-olds: the basics of engineering (I know a nine year old who built a potato gun!), sports, arts and crafts, networking, animal care, and these are just the things off the top of my head :)

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