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by nxc18 9y ago
I get why there should be protection for people on paternity leave. At the same time, if you're using an 'expectations' system appropriately and honestly (as opposed to just a renaming of some other scale) it may be dishonest
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by nxc18 9y ago
That last bit sounds like textbook age discrimination; if you have that on any sort of record, or even if you don't, I would consider challenging it - not just for yourself, but for all the other 50+ job seekers out there. Full disclos
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by nxc18 9y ago
LOLd at the 'Windows XP was a strong and stable operating system that was more than adequate for the vast majority of the world’s business (and NHS) needs.' bit. Windows XP may have been acceptable at the end, but the first few it
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by nxc18 9y ago
Windows is not a real time OS. Neither is Linux (except for perhaps a limited number of forks/distros). If someone is going to die if a computer stops working for any reason at all, it should not be running Windows, or Linux, or macOS.
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by nxc18 9y ago
They don't say it at all, but perhaps the biggest change here is that they're making headings big and bold now. For quite a few years, Apple, Microsoft, and Google (even pre-material) all seemed to be competing on thinnest, smalle
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by nxc18 9y ago
The website has plenty of parallax scrolling, especially with the background. Maybe it just isn't on mobile? It is subtle.
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by nxc18 9y ago
The Amazon page makes it look like its not ready yet, but I just got part 1 on kindle.
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by nxc18 9y ago
Did you switch to Bluetooth headphones at some point? I've noticed battery performance is much worse when using Bluetooth, yet that is the trendy thing these days.
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by nxc18 9y ago
My credit union requires I have a savings account with $5.00. The overdraft fee is $30. There are no recurring costs outside of that. Both checking and savings accounts earn interest - much less for the checking account - rather than costin
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by nxc18 9y ago
Skip the bank. Credit Unions are where its at: nation-wide shared branches, fee-free checking, sane overdraft policies, no minimum balances, reasonable interest payments, and in my experience, not a single instance of them blatantly trying
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by nxc18 9y ago
If you're making syscalls on Windows, you're doing it wrong (with the sole exception of drivers, for which the API surface is adequately documented).
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by nxc18 9y ago
Have you ever tried typing emoji? Or reading it? Or writing it? Or speaking it? Go give a tech talk about .js but careful, don't want to confuse it with .js
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by nxc18 9y ago
Really, really disappointed by the lack of Windows on ARM news. All the rumors were pointing to it, but it looks like we're stuck with Intel. Not that Intel is bad, and its gotten better on mobile, but still, legitimate choice would be
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by nxc18 9y ago
I just recently completed a build myself. It was pre-Ryzen so AMD wasn't an option at the time. I went with the Intel i7-7700 (quad core) at 3.6 GHz. I was surprised by two big things: high-performance devices are extremely affordable
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by nxc18 10y ago
Teens and college students hate advertising. Sometimes targeted advertising can work. How anonymous do you feel when apps pop up ads for that thing you were searching for two nights ago on Amazon? How many advertisers want to have their con
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by nxc18 10y ago
Yik Yak destroyed their product the moment they introduced handles/names. That move, combined with bowing to pressure from community groups to block & de-anonymize, ruined any trust in the service. The complete lack of understandin
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by nxc18 10y ago
Its kind of like appliances. Everyone likes shiny new appliances. It is terrible when people keep old fridges around. They are less power efficient. They take longer to reach a cold temperature. They are less stylish. Still, it sure does su
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by nxc18 10y ago
This looks great. I love the simplicity on mobile and it has some nice touches (e.g. top progress bar). I'm working on a project that needs something similar to this - embedded html presentations - but I'm faced with a problem I h
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by nxc18 10y ago
This is a really great point. I have 'old' web apps in .Net from a few years ago that just work today; same with old desktop code. Go back to a e.g. Meteor app from a year ago and it will very likely be broken, either by some chan
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by nxc18 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words for example. There are more limitations but that's an easy and possibly counterintuitive example.
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by nxc18 10y ago
No one has ever had more control over their life than the privileged few enjoying the 9-5. In contemporary society, things are nice enough that people typically trade a fraction of their time in exchange for work, income, and reduced risk e
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by nxc18 10y ago
There is a good point in this article about the perception of effort and how that affects comprehension, rather than the medium. I've met and worked with many people who think that just because it is being read through a computer that
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by nxc18 10y ago
Not defending United, but the airline industry is known for having pretty slim margins. Air travel is fantastically expensive and we all want it to be cheaper than it really is. This is one of the ways that is done (people who don't sh
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by nxc18 10y ago
I think you're grasping when you claim that PDF is a "very problematic format": * full text search works fine; much better than on your site. Try searching "hospital" in both and see which gets better results (spoil
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by nxc18 10y ago
Hold shift/ctrl then click+drag.
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by nxc18 10y ago
Apple Maps does the same thing and was doing it before Google. Interestingly, Apple seems to have better imagery, at least where I am; trees are sharper and more realistic, the ground imagery is more detailed and the colors truer to life. I
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by nxc18 10y ago
That is exactly what happened pre-TSA. And is isn't so much that local government is better, it is that the whole thing is largely unnecessary to begin with; security was different pre-9/11 and it probably worked about as well as
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by nxc18 10y ago
The amount of stuff that gets past the TSA is pretty strong evidence that yes, local government probably could do a better job at basic security/screening. Anyone who really wants to get away with something needs to worry about a 100 o
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by nxc18 10y ago
Could just as well be adderall or ritalin, doctors hand out prescriptions like candy on Halloween, especially to people who are currently or were recently young.
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by nxc18 10y ago
Don't want to add fuel to the acquired-by-microsoft rumor fire, but when Xamarin was being acquired they had a hiring freeze in place for the duration of the process. I understand that is standard practice for acquisitions, but might b

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