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by manarth 10y ago
> if you're a CTO with a startup with 10+ server-side developers and plan to hire at least as much in near future, suddenly all these dockers and microservices actually make sense As a consultant, I often get asked those kinds of
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by manarth 10y ago
I'm curious where these layoffs will take place: if it's evenly spread worldwide, or focused on a particular location/country. Although a third of their workforce work out of San Jose, so it'd be surprising if that was
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by manarth 10y ago
According to this 2009 document[1], they're 30% engineering, 27% sales, 43% business support functions. [1] http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/ac227/csr2009/pdfs/CS...
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by manarth 10y ago
Technically, the requirements are a little stricter: "You must register with Ofsted or a childminder agency if you want to be paid to look after children under 8 for more than 2 hours a day in England" [1] In the example of leavi
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by manarth 10y ago
In the UK, student loan payments (at least, those issued by and owed to the Student Loans Company - an official government-owned body for student loans) are not reported or recorded to any credit rating agencies. UK student loans are effect
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by manarth 10y ago
There are also articles describing the risk of churning, and that hardcore churners may be damaging their credit reputation by being seen as unprofitable.
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by manarth 10y ago
In the UK, there's all sorts of consumer protection when you use a credit-card - essentially, the credit-card company takes on liability for suppliers' failings. E.g. If you book a holiday on your credit card, and the travel compa
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by manarth 10y ago
> "If they don't like the final product they'll rip it apart and do it again" Sometimes twice! http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/05/21/how-pixars-toy-story-...
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> TV can just flow naturally until it's done If only it stopped when it really was done: Firefly, The 4400, Terra Nova, SGU…
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From the original Fusion article[1], it sounds like the local LE know exactly what's going on, but need to intervene with people who aren't local - FBI agents, federal marshals, IRS collectors, ambulances, police officers, etc:
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by manarth 10y ago
There are a lot of comments saying that given a fixed area (e.g. "Somewhere in the USA), that it's common to return the centroid of a polygon. There's an interesting note in the Fusion article[1], where it mentions "[th
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by manarth 10y ago
> it is a regime, and really, a nation, that is entirely predicated on petro-dollars There was a HN article[1] a few months ago, on the efforts to move Saudi Arabia away from reliance on oil income. Although who can say how successful
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by manarth 10y ago
> in a climate-change-drought-crippled land that has become populated well above its agricultural carrying capacity There was a recent HN article about Israel's progress with desalination[1]. Obvious funding issues aside, I wonder
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by manarth 10y ago
Oh, I wasn't aware of that, thank you.
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by manarth 10y ago
> I hate those laptops that default to Fn instead of F and provide no toggle between them. Agreed…Apple don't provide a simple toggle, thankfully there's a free third-party widget for this (called "FunctionFlip").
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by manarth 10y ago
Like most of the replies, yes to the volume/media/brightness controls. I also still use the old "Dashboard" overlay (using the FunctionFlip widget to remap the F4 key to how it used to behave prior to Yosemite), and Expo
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It depends on the frame of reference, which can be somewhat arbitrary. A ship can sail a straight line from Falmouth to Boston, but that motion can be described as an arc because of the curvature of the Earth. Add in the motion of Earth&#x2
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by manarth 10y ago
Only 3 years between conclusive evidence for the Higgs Boson - a Nobel Prize-winning discovery, and the culmination of a 40 year search - and the nightmare scenario that all they've discovered is the Higgs Boson . Oh well, perhaps the
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by manarth 10y ago
As long as we've got Gordon Freeman and a crowbar, we're all good.
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And pertinently, if there were, is the timescale fixed, or are there externals events that might speed it up? The Sun's dying and will become a red giant (about 5 billion years to go), but it's luminosity is currently increasing,
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by manarth 10y ago
€30k for 6 months is a low contracting rate . Normalise that to €60k per year. Full-time work in Germany is 231 days (52 * 5, less 29 days legally-mandated holiday). €60k / 231 = €259.74 per day. So around €260/$290/£220 per
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by manarth 10y ago
> no moonshot by a big corp has paid off Does SpaceX count as a moonshot?
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On the other hand, if research for a particular moonshot ends up creating something that the other products can use (and become more profitable/successful as a result) - such as Google Brain - the moonshot itself doesn't need to s
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by manarth 10y ago
Not just legal, but recommended. You can fail your motorcycle test for not filtering when appropriate.
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I tried Recon's skiing goggles and found their HUD awful. A true HUD doesn't need you to look away, or refocus your eyes. The Recon screen's position (near the bottom of the goggles) means you have to almost go cross-eyed to
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Conspicuous consumption has a legit role in a company's marketing - whether it's a status-symbol impressive office building, helicopter transfers for execs, or luxury cars for senior staff, it's about sending the message &quo
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Abbreviations on the web can be expanded using the abbr tag: <abbr title="Fat Finger Syndrome">FFS</abbr> This also helps reduce ambiguity about the meaning of an acronym, improving the communication of semantic i
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by manarth 10y ago
The Economist recommends "eg" (no full-stops) in its style-guide[1]. As does the Guardian/Observer[2], and the University of Cambridge[3]. There are counter-examples, such as AP and NYT, but this usage - without full-stops -
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Imagine if you were deaf: "I've been able to get rather similar perceptions just through regular living…walking on the street and feeling a subway train below the ground. I've felt the vibration of the grinding tracks…seen sp
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This is being widely reported: "The higher the level of education, the higher the EU support". > "According the polls, university graduates were the most likely people to want to remain in the EU - while those with a GCSE

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