ownagefool

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by ownagefool 14y ago
I worked at a small web hosting company that did probably £2m in revenue a year in my first programming job. They had me spending part of my time as support and the other part on projects. After about 3 or so months they took me took me ou
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by ownagefool 14y ago
"Recent studies have shown that the wage gap shrinks—or even reverses—when relevant factors are taken into account and comparisons are made between men and women in similar circumstances. In a 2010 study of single, childless urban workers b
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by ownagefool 14y ago
I go to work every week day to do stupid stuff people want me to do it stupid ways to pay for a stupid house and stupid food in order to make sure I survive. For the area I live, I get paid reasonably well I'd say and I do it they way beca
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by ownagefool 14y ago
Thats because it's true but it's also true of all positive discrimination. Sex, Age or Race should never really be a deciding factor when you're attempting to decide who to hire, but we live in a world where people are trying to right wron
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by ownagefool 14y ago
From the article:- "The key to being able to keep the good employees is not so much the salary you offer them or even the actual work, it is more about how you manage them and how they feel working under you as their manager. " Personally I
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by ownagefool 14y ago
To be fair it's not the uncommon proposed answer, so if he's not responding to the article specifically, in general he'll probably still have a point for a lot of people who agree with the tone. I'm about 5 years older than the article post
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by ownagefool 14y ago
I've had a similar experience. Most of remote my work has been between 4-10 hours drive away (I'm in the UK, so thats pretty far) and anyone within an hour wants me to commute. I generally don't take them up on the offer as driving for 2 h
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by ownagefool 14y ago
Replace remote worker with new starts and you could have written a very similar article. I've been remote working for about 5-6 years and I use that same argument to get jobs. Hiring, supporting and listening to your remote workers is a gr
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by ownagefool 14y ago
I'm not that bitter; just using a negative experience to counter the original point. Yeah, you'll probably never hear me say a positive thing about my ex, but at the end of the day people don't stick together for 4 years if its all bad. Al
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by ownagefool 14y ago
It depends. If you feel its all about the destination then splitting after 2 years would be less of a waste of time than 4. If its the journey then that doesn't matter and much of the time we spent together was well spend, both because th
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by ownagefool 14y ago
I've just recently had a 4 year relationship end on me here (28, male, UK). She wanted marriage and kids but I did not. There were three key reasons for this in my mind. * I was always fairly sure it was love but I was never sure I could
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by ownagefool 14y ago
Me too. Came here to say it won't look as pretty when you replace all those photos with random images taken by random people from their phones but the parent beat me to it.
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by ownagefool 14y ago
Its a nice idea but you're still going to need to put the money down for the specialist docking stations to turn this a laptop, tablet or a desktop, and you'll probably be stuck with the processing power and more importantly the IO of your
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by ownagefool 14y ago
"It seems universal care sacrifices everybody's quality". I don't think thats quite the case. I live in the UK and can't comment on the US system from personal experience, however what I hear most about over the pond is the many people who