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by noarchy 11y ago
Not sure if this is meant to be a sarcastic reply that imitates the usual negativity of HN, due to the subject of the article, or a legit reply.
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by noarchy 11y ago
It is one thing to have the government get access to software, and quite another to have truly open source software. Does the entire Chinese population have access to the source? I seriously doubt it.
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I would have to add to what you've said, that turnover in recruiting agencies seems to be huge, if my LinkedIn feed is any indicator. They seem to move between jobs as much as many contract developers. And of course, some still will ex
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by noarchy 11y ago
You may have more against Quebec than the average Quebecer has with the ROC. The population here isn't as homogeneous as your broad strokes have painted it to be. I'd probably agree with you on a number of your criticisms of thing
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by noarchy 11y ago
>I wish Quebec would stop talking and separate already; they barely share any common values with the rest of us and are constantly doing embarrassing and (federally) illegal things like this. Quebecer here. It isn't 1995. There is n
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by noarchy 11y ago
Surprises like that have become increasingly common in this "endless scrolling" era.
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by noarchy 11y ago
Except these are companies choosing to shorten their work days. This isn't a top-down imposition by government. I suspect you are envisioning a 6-hour day, with government requiring overtime compensation beyond that. As for basic inc
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There are plenty of people who watch TV in the UK without paying the license fee, to say nothing of the Internet. I'd bet that the percentage of non-license payers who use iPlayer is higher, due to cord-cutting.
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by noarchy 11y ago
This has been true for me in Canada. I've declined multiple full-time offers because my contract rate was far more attractive than the benefits that came with the full-time alternative.
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Oracle says Java 9 modules will be a boon for developers(infoworld.com)
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They're also not socialist, in the sense that the parent comment was (I think) hinting at. There's plenty of capitalism at work in both Sweden and Norway.
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Not to mention, I see less incentive now for Jetbrains to make the IntelliJ plugins on par with the standalone, language-specific IDEs.
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by noarchy 11y ago
PyCharm and IntelliJ both have "Community Editions" that are free, but missing a few features. They're very usable in that state. Something else to note is that Android Studio, which is similarly free to use, is based on Inte
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by noarchy 11y ago
I was suspicious of this, too, as I am anytime a seemingly-popular article suddenly vanishes from the front page.
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On a related note, how many IT workers here are working as "independent contractors", when they'd probably be considered employees if anyone took a close look? It seems to be very common where I am (Canada), to the extent tha
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by noarchy 11y ago
I genuinely think it is useful to have articles like this on HN. We do have our share of pedants, and many with comments that do nothing but correct someone's grammar or spelling. I suppose a debate can be had over how useful any of th
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by noarchy 11y ago
I'm curious if, as an alternative, you'd rather see decentralization (smaller population units), some kind of global superstate, or something else entirely? We've all seen the poisons of nationalism, but I wonder if what one
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by noarchy 11y ago
It could also have the whiff of an "Agile" team that has a crisis every 2 or 3 weeks, due to routinely setting unrealistic sprint goals. No, this isn't supposed to happen, but I've seen it at more than one shop, that&#x2
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by noarchy 11y ago
This post regarding the apology is fairly new, with a lot of points and comments. Yet it has already sunk to page 2. I assume that reddit-related posts are given a negative weighting of some kind on HN, of late?
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by noarchy 11y ago
Who are the groups driving all of the mentions of basic income/mincome on social media? Or is it a coincidence that we're seeing more and more discussion of the topic on places like reddit and HN? I'm genuinely curious to kno
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It often happens that recruiters will contact me on LinkedIn, on which my resume is essentially laid out in some detail, and then still demand a resume. I assume they have to enter an old-style resume into some sort of internal database, as
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by noarchy 11y ago
>free speech isn't always the solution >I'm not from the states There's a cultural difference that rears its head here. Free speech in the US seems to be nearly-absolute when compared to even its northern neighbour (Can
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>According to the Internal Revenue Service, a business that hires an independent contractor is not entitled to dictate how or when the contractor performs a job. Maybe things work differently in the US vs here in Canada, but here "i
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by noarchy 11y ago
I know that /r/politics seems to lean heavily towards what might be termed "liberal" politics, but outside of that it really depends. Most of the subs I read aren't political at all. The nice thing about reddit is t
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There would have to be a lot of careful discussion about such an organization. I would hate to see it end up being little more than a vector for rent-seeking, and shutting people out of our industry for a host of arbitrary reasons (immigran
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This is a North American practice. There are some countries where it is common to attach a photo to a CV.
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Cancellara was recently injured, and doesn't seem interested in trying for the record anyway. http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/02/news/cancellara-lost-...
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And? Are you somehow obligated to do business with them? When you choose to hand over your money to them, you're not conveying the message that their sandwiches are substandard, or that they provide zero service.
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You clearly know what Subway's deal is, but something about it doesn't agree with you? It almost sounds like you were trolling them, or playing dumb just to get a reaction out of them.
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Can we assume that the big spirit producers would embrace this kind of process, or instead, seek to tighten laws as to what can actually be called X or Y spirits, in order to specifically exclude these new processes?

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