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by notzuck 7y ago
They don't actually sign anything. They just need to have any positive response via email followed by a paid invoice, that's enough for the client to be in contract with me should we ever end up in court. Given that I invoice on a
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by notzuck 7y ago
Sorry about the formatting. I don't know how to get HN to format things better. Lots of questions attached to my comment. I'll do my best to answer some here. Question: snowwrestler 9 hours ago [-] I'm amazed that companies w
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by notzuck 7y ago
We're billing over 500k per year in retainers right now and taking on more implementation work. We work out of an extra room in a house (we're a 2 man partnership). Why would we need an office? Alan Weiss never had one...
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by notzuck 7y ago
Me and my partner do the same. Billing weekly is what has allowed us to have no contracts in place, worst case scenario we lose 2 weeks pay but that's never happened. We have no contracts because plenty of people have a budget but most
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by notzuck 7y ago
Thank you for the downvote. Much easier try to silence an opinion you don't like than leave a meaningful response. Why bother downvoting if you don't like what I said? This isn't reddit... or high school. I just watched two h
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by notzuck 7y ago
The appeasement policy was the right thing to do. The UK couldn't win a war in 1938 (no allies, no money, no air defence etc) and the bad taste of WW1 was still in peoples mouths. The policy did fail because Hitler was going to go to w
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by notzuck 7y ago
Not joking. If the years have taught me anything that would be pragmatism. You want to introduce a new vendor and cost centre for what? Send your docs out early followed by a password if that's secure 'enough' for your use ca
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by notzuck 7y ago
Assuming version numbers of acceptable, he should have sold this to Zerodium.
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by notzuck 7y ago
The first method sounds simpler and cheaper. You're over engineering.
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by notzuck 7y ago
That depends on your definition of shitty ADSL. My old ADSL wasn't just slow, it was unstable and would regularly starting lagging out / having massive pings which would then go away and come back. Three years of talking to the IS
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by notzuck 7y ago
Look up ‘santy worm’ and the now defunct “howdark.com”. It never ended up in court, it went as far as lawyers letters until they backed doen. It wasn’t phpbb that sent the lawyers letters, it was a business owner that used phpbb that was hi
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by notzuck 7y ago
As someone that has sold exploit code to various brokers in the past, I don't think Zerodium are making the internet a worse place. I forget the exact year but it was around 2004 - 2006 one of my friends reported a vuln to phpbb, they
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by notzuck 7y ago
Cultural difference - most of my friends in the UK and Australia (I have lived in both) use whatsapp as a primary way to talk to groups of friends. FB is more of an attention seeking thing and a place for your mum to see what you're do
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by notzuck 7y ago
"I don't get this whole "Facebook is the devil," If you don't get it then that line of thinking is not for you. Different people like different things. I left FB a few years ago now and do not miss it one bit, whats
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by notzuck 7y ago
On various google internal comms you can declare that men are trash and not get sacked. I think Damore had a few screenshots of similar.
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by notzuck 7y ago
Not at all - I get the same problems. Most people at companies I have worked at are very liberal / left leaning which means I just get a stream of things I don't care about and don't agree with and if I seek out more conserva
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by notzuck 7y ago
But you'll stop growing yellow ones so now when a yellow comes to your job interview you may turn that flower down purely based on race which is wrong. It's illegal to discriminate purely on someones race. If I would have otherwis
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by notzuck 7y ago
"We'd like a more diverse pool of applicants" does not mean "we'd like a pool of applicants with zero of <over-represented demographic> in it". Are you sure about that? I don't think this is about eq
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by notzuck 7y ago
I'm not sure what % of the population or wordpress user population is trans. Do we need to match the population in the first place? What if trans people just don't want to work for Automattic?
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by notzuck 7y ago
"we realized that the demographics of people we attract to apply are not inline with the demographics of the people we hope to hire." I already quoted....
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by notzuck 7y ago
She literally said she gets applications from a demographic that she doesn't want to hire from.... am I missing something here? You can't just say I have too many Asians and therefore would prefer to have my applicants not be Asia
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by notzuck 7y ago
Looks like I misunderstood your point - thanks for clearing it up.
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by notzuck 7y ago
There's nothing wrong with reviewing your hiring processes to audit for equality. Outright saying that you attract a demographic that you DO NOT WANT TO HIRE FROM is a whole different level of problem. Might as well say no blacks and i
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by notzuck 7y ago
It's on a blog by someone that makes hiring decisions. It's not in the linked article. You can google it.
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by notzuck 7y ago
You just created fake news. You took the context, the facial expression and the exact wording out of that quote and ignored it. When I listened to EXACTLY what he said and watched EXACTLY how he said, it doesn't look like he's sug
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by notzuck 7y ago
"To that end, as we reviewed our hiring process, we realized that the demographics of people we attract to apply are not inline with the demographics of the people we hope to hire." If that's there attitude then fuck them. Yo
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by notzuck 7y ago
So you grew up in Italy - yeah I can see why you'd not want to be in the country side. I grew up in a town around Manchester and according to you that makes me some sort of country idiot? I had a great childhood and clearly ended up le
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by notzuck 7y ago
Sounds like you're the one that needs to travel. You've made a lot of assumptions about me that simply are not true - hope you enjoy giving your kids asthma and cancer. Hope Trump let's teachers carry guns, might stop one of
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by notzuck 7y ago
No idea what a country boy is. I don't understand how you built social skills quicker than me? how did you build more connections than me and how did they help you later in life? I lived in a medium sized village near a large town. I w
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by notzuck 7y ago
A problem for city kids maybe? My parents were smart enough to raise me somewhere more suited for children. All I ever took out with me was a wallet, house key and my bike - I never even used to lock my bike up, I'd just throw it in a

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