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by mtrimpe 12y ago
You mean a mood-board; which is used to communicate a visual style. A lookbook is usually to give an overview of a single brand's season. It is used extensively in all visual creative industries, like interior decoration, architecture
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Also; not really. Small changes on the fringes and generally lowering welfare payouts but nothing too massive, luckily. Firing was made a lot easier in the private sector though; reducing it to essentially at will employment with a force
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Ah yes; you know exactly how you would react if everything you've worked for for several years vanishes into thin air just because your CEO's wife has boundary issues and your company doesn't know how to deal with shit like
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Would you expect GitHub's legal counsel not to have signed off on these statements? I honestly didn't even consider that a possibility. Edit: In case you're wondering with the (rather unexpected) downvotes and all; I'm s
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
You can bet your ass that Tom and Theresa negotiated the right to share these posts and that they were reviewed by all lawyers involved. The right to make public statements (or not) is always a heavily contested point as I personally both c
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Let's not go there. Incorporating random anonymous posts will only make things worse. For all we know Julie-Ann started dating someone close to Theresa Preston-Werner who shared that he, and several others, slept with her and could eve
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
If this were actually the 'truth' then you could be pretty sure some statements would have been made to implicitly discredit Julie-Ann. It's also fairly meaningless since if you interpret this story as 'Julie-Ann started
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
For that one line, which other explanation do you have that better fits Occam's razor? I would have a lot of trouble finding any other interpretation than him attempting to stop certain people from saying certain things and thus supp
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
True. Chances are also that our collective estimate of how great a place it is to work at are now more accurate. That probably says more about the mythological status they had before than about the reality now, but it of course will have an
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
It's probably aimed more at reminding GitHub employees of the possible legal ramifications of publicly supporting the allegations and dampening further discussion in general. I don't see how that's less dramatic though, espec
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
In my mind this is the key sentence in her response: "I was the wife of the CEO, but that never entered my mind when I hung out with any GitHubbers." That is just not acceptable; it's the equivalent of walking around with a m
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Yup. Just like South Africa had the moral upper hand because they maintained official segregation laws when in the US it was illegal by law but still a de-facto practice through social bias.
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We're moving from investing ~20 years into children into investing ~30 years into children. Makes perfect sense given how the world had been changing...
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I always like the crazily simplified explanation: to truly undo something you need to undo your memory of it as well.
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What I learned in My First Year as a Female Startup CEO(medium.com)
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Totally. If you'd have asked me five months ago which super power was most likely to start the next world war I would've said the US. It seems we overlooked and misjudged a player we thought was fairly harmless though.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
> Actually, I have a very European way of thinking, rather than Russian. Luckily most people who want to move to Europe do ;) As for the rest.. I can answer for the Netherlands, since we're quite unique in how easy we make it for
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And as Kasparov likes to say: You don't need smart people to run a petrol state. Brain-drain is bad for Russia but good for Putin.
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It's actually based on a real life example that happened to me personally which cost myself and several other people their jobs. In my experience there are some Russians who come here expecting to be able to be openly homophobic whic
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
> Information which is a crime by itself. Which includes gay propaganda, i.e. anything that mentions homosexuality in a positive or accepting context.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Very true; although they did ramp it up significantly after the Ukraine conflict. I agree though that you could also turn it around and say that it was only temporarily toned down a bit for the Olympics.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
The Netherlands is very welcoming to knowledge migrants and offers lucrative tax benefits on top, so just apply to one of the companies that are subscribed to the ruling and you should do just fine. You can find all companies that offer the
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
If the US funded the revolution in Ukraine it did a pretty damn good job of finding a representative cross-section of the Ukrainian population to do so. It's much more likely that it's a classic case of an economically failing pet
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Except missing the context that it's part of a move to a Great Firewall, China style, and that the a lot of the blocked content concerns 'dissenting opinions.'
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I don't think it'll go anywhere fast. Russia has been on a media-blocking spree, shutting down 'dissenting opinions,' ever since the Ukraine conflict started. With CloudFlare they're running into the problem that th
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Good question. I should write an ebook on that once ;) It's a lot of little things though. A few major ones that come to mind: Learn to scan entire code bases (+docs/wikis) to get a solid high-level overview of the entire system a
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Also keep in mind that the tax company, at least where I'm from, will tax your income as though they occurred over the whole year. That means you'll be paying quite a bit less taxes.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Not everybody has droughts; if you're doing longer term work it's fairly easy to book yourself (virtually) solid for the whole year. I've been doing what tptacek calls 'staff augmentation' (i.e. drop me in any proje
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I think it's actually the opposite, as I've also just started doing the same after almost losing my father and with a family on the horizon. I'd say it's actually because of these 'commitments' that you've
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Ah well; thank you for your contribution. Enjoy it here; I have feeling you'll fit right in by now. I'll just retreat to my old-man cave to contemplate a time when the internets had this quaint little place where conversation was

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