mr_gibbins

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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Agreed, if and only if the overemployment results in a detrimental service from the employee to the employer - as you say, if someone isn't pulling their weight and the reason for that is they're doing something else for someone e
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
To take the Machiavellian view, if you want to be nice, be nice to your wife and your kids. But not at work. Companies always look out for themselves. I have sympathy here for the OE who is simply looking out for themselves. IANAL - most
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I just want to add that this wouldn't preclude conferences and journals either - these can continue to exist under this model, but their research output gets added to the central link library and the torrent added to P2P. Attendees to
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I favour a centralised approach for record-keeping, but a decentralised approach for paper storage, if that makes any sense. E.g. if I were Emperor and could tear it all down and start again, we'd have either some kind of peer-to-peer
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Sorry, should have been clearer - butter robot from Rick and Morty. An entity who has one menial job to do and that is the reason for their existence. In this sense it was meant that the technological solution - auto documenter tools, etc
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
In the UK at least I can correct your timeframe to days and weeks, not weeks and months. The quickest I have found a contract position from a cold start is 45 minutes. Market's teeming and has been for years, aside from the obvious Cov
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I'm sure these are great technological answers but this problem can be solved simply and quickly by a human. Not every issue needs to be solved by a butter robot. Why not employ a technical writer/documenter/whatever job titl
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Perhaps you feel like you're chained in when you're working for an employer - I feel like it's a gilded cage. Yes, there's healthcare benefits, dental cover, bonus if I'm lucky, that kind of thing but at the end of
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I have tried, and failed, and tried, and failed, to maintain interest in full time office-based positions. I just can't. I've never held a FTE position longer than 3 years. I'm nearing 40, by the way. I use my skills, such
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I think there's a degree of civility brought about by IM, SMS in particular as you normally know the person, or have interacted with them long enough so that you consider them (and they consider you) part of your 'circle'. IR
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Scope of his work didn't go that far, he looked at several devices and Alexa was notably chatty. He was measuring for abnormal data bursts from IoT home devices - included things like smart bulbs etc.
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Unpublished. It's still going through board approval. As/when it's put on my institution's open repository I'll post a link. Might be a few weeks though.
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I use Github. Am I the only one? I'm sure it's not Github's ideal use case, but if they bin off my account, at least I have the files locally, and I take periodic backups to a physical drive that I store. Can't say it&
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
This is not strictly true. I examined a master's degree thesis last semester where the student proved conclusively that Alexa devices are periodically spamming bursts of data back to Amazon HQ even when not woken. Beyond a heartbeat,
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
The biggest issue contributing to aggression, passive-aggression, hostility etc. on microblogging sites like Twitter IMHO is the short-form. 200-odd characters is simply not enough to fully articulate some thoughts and is contrary to how pe
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
All connections are made using one of two IP addresses: 18.171.7.246 35.177.10.231 Block these IPs.
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Ask HN: Is there a site or service for finding academic collaborators?
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
University course fees :)
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Leave. Honestly. I had a gig in a tiny company where the ritual was always to have a cup of tea/coffee at hand. People took it in turns to brew up. Which meant, with 3-4 people in the office, an enforced tea round every 45-60 minute
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Snap. Whenever I sat down to cast about for ideas on how to develop the initial form of my PhD, nada, zip. Deliberate concentration on one thing was a shortcut to procrastination. The 'big idea' came when I was on campus, standin
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I spent a fruitless few minutes trying to find out about the company 'Ye' before realising this is a person. I feel old and confused.
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Luckily, this mess is due to be repealed, it was one of the lesser-known Trussonomic decisions made in the last few weeks. Assuming, of course, that Truss does not repeal the repeal. It's not like she is known for doing screeching U-t
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Prepare your CV, spam it out to LinkedIn, CV library, totaljobs.com, etc. Then connect with as many recruiters as you can find on LI, add yourself to the groups, etc. Then look (using, again e.g. LI) for job openings, remote only that suit
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Unfortunately, businesses have to go to where the customers are. Many customers now are 100% Facebook-era, particularly true of the young and those older folk late to computing, and it might not occur to them to check https://ww
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
As an aside, this is why I love HN (no /s). I have absolutely no idea what a posit is, and here is a community of experts nitpicking it, discussing it at length and in detail on this thread. No matter what the subject, SMEs always po
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I taught enterprise systems for a while and SAP's ethos is very much 'change your business processes to fit SAP, because if they don't fit SAP, they're probably wrong'. This is actual advice (in slightly different
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Agreed. This sounds like the kind of thing I'd like to fill my Tuesday evening with, but had to refer to the instructions from the kind commenter below to install packages to build the LaTeX file since my Texmaker refused point-blank
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Picked one at random, the Zero5 assessment, technologies: SQL. The first question was a scenario where I would build a backend endpoint using an API/Lambda and a web frontend. Nothing to do with SQL except for the 'database&#x27
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I'm curious - why? Is it the potentially longer hours on the 4 days you're in, or something else? The extra day could be used for hobbies, working out/going outdoors, spending family time, etc...?
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by mr_gibbins 4y ago
Indeed, it had the smell of a hit piece but in my defence the title I used is the same title as the original article :)

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