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by noarchy 10y ago
> If I were France I would start bricking up the chunnel tomorrow. Depending on how things turn out in France in the near future, they may be busy fighting "Frexit" sentiments in their own country. Le Pen has already brought up
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by noarchy 10y ago
>EDIT: You can only be a contractor if they are actually paying you. If you are getting no money, not sure what that means. Breach of contract?
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by noarchy 10y ago
>BB users by and large consider government surveillance irrelevant. And interestingly, every single BB user I know works for the government (I'm in Canada).
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by noarchy 10y ago
There are still a good number of federal government offices based in Quebec, including one massive complex (Place du Portage) across the river from Ottawa. BlackBerries are still handed out to a fair number of government employees here.
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by noarchy 10y ago
Canadian here. I'm often amazed at how tall the trees are, when I've visited the southern US. I'm not even that far north (I'm near Ottawa), but the differences are still quite obvious to me.
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by noarchy 10y ago
>The fact that companies are choosing to comply rather than simply not do business in India seems to mean that their policy is a huge success. Ok, then conversely, which companies have chosen not to comply? Would that mean the policy i
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by noarchy 10y ago
Is there some kind of law in India against selling used phones? Or was this an arbitrary decision by the commerce and industry ministry? I guess I don't see what the big deal is (and the article isn't clear to me).
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by noarchy 10y ago
Yes, they invariably do. Again, my anecdotes aren't data, but this is what I've seen.
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by noarchy 10y ago
>Doesn't seems too harmful to me. A corp that wants to milk people of overtime are not likely to want them drinking a lot, especially for dev. Then you may not have seen as much of this phenomenon as others of us. There are definite
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by noarchy 10y ago
Buying whiskey in Canada is often a exercise in frustration, with the provincial monopolies cranking the prices into the stratosphere. But we do have a fair number of good ryes that have popped up of late. Even the big brands like Canadia
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by noarchy 10y ago
I was hinting at that towards the end of my post: the idea that you're expected to drink it if it is offered, particularly after work hours are over. Not all of us fancy sticking around at the end of the day.
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by noarchy 10y ago
Should it be seen as a red flag when you're given a tour of the office (maybe during an interview process) and they make it a point to show your the beer fridge? My anecdotes aren't data, of course, but every time I've had th
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by noarchy 10y ago
You nearly had me for a second there. I could almost see that coming out of the mouth of a Scrum evangelist.
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by noarchy 10y ago
>I am Brazilian as well and feel the same way. Laws are laws. We can change them if we don't like them, but defying and ignoring them is the wrong course of action. This almost sounds like fundamentalist religion, to say the law is
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Survey says 34 percent of Bay Area residents are ready to leave(cnbc.com)
22 points by noarchy 10y ago|9 comments
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US spy court didn't reject a single government surveillance request in 2015(zdnet.com)
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by noarchy 10y ago
>I've been interviewing for past 1 month and every single company made me do whiteboard, big O stuff past phonescreen. I don't doubt that at all, and I know whiteboarding is popular with interviewers. I'm talking about its
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by noarchy 10y ago
If I could blacklist companies that do whiteboard interviews, for example, I'd do it. I'm not expecting most companies to show their hand, though, precisely because of how unpopular these practices have become.
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by noarchy 10y ago
They've really got the surveillance state thing down to a science there, if they're doing things like that. In North America, where there are cameras, they tend to only look at your speed at a specific moment.
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by noarchy 10y ago
That seems odd, maybe because I am used to the "conventional" way of rolling d100: roll two d10s, where the first die is concatenated with the second. A roll of 0 on both dies indicates 100. Some d10s are even sold with a zero tac
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by noarchy 11y ago
>or just have a legislature banning it... like NY recently banning Draftkings/fanduel. This is how a lot of areas ended up with government monopolies on gambling. They decided it was bad, but not if they were running it and pocketin
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Quebec seeks to block access to non-government online gambling sites(thestar.com)
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FBI agrees to unlock iPhone for Arkansas prosecutor(abcnews.go.com)
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by noarchy 11y ago
>This is true, and the unfortunate effect of treating all software engineers as equal. However, if PhDs are not expected to write code, don't call them software engineers, call them "researchers". Generally, they aren&#x27
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by noarchy 11y ago
I have to concur with this. The interview process in tech seems like a hazing ritual, at times. In the current market, we should be able to use our leverage, as talent, to bring about some change in hiring practices.
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by noarchy 11y ago
Great deal, indeed, but good luck downloading the PDFs right now. Paizo watermarks them with your info before you can download them, and their servers are overwhelmed.
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by noarchy 11y ago
A counter might be that popularity can overcome a dated interface. Look at the Drudge Report website, after all - wildly popular, and it looks like something out of the 1990s. I, too, would like to see collapsible comments on HN, but I also
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by noarchy 11y ago
I'm wondering how driverless cars would be "evil". Uber isn't hiding their own efforts on that front. Maybe they aren't blaring trumpets about it when they pay their human drivers, but we know where things are going
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by noarchy 11y ago
It is true that you can get Play Store apps without a Google Account, but the Place Services framework does a lot more than this. Many apps rely upon the framework for certain pieces of functionality from Google's libraries.
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by noarchy 11y ago
>Why not tell them an imaginary salary then? Indeed. After all, some companies suddenly become "flexible" once they find a candidate who really blows them away. Their alleged "top range" becomes malleable. So their ra

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