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by peterclary 6y ago
Pretty much any incentive scheme can cause problems if it’s poorly thought through. You also need people paying close attention to any abuses. I knew of one company where the Sales team were compensated based on the value of orders booked b
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by peterclary 6y ago
Things had already started looking very shaky even before Covid-19. City firms moving jobs abroad. Companies seeing orders drop off as EU buyers switched to sources that wouldn’t be affected if the UK left the transition period without a de
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by peterclary 6y ago
Back in the early 90s I worked for a small company that had a Boxer dog. She liked to sit right behind my chair, which had two problems. First I had to remember that she was back there. Second, whenever anybody came to the front door of the
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by peterclary 6y ago
I worked for a company where developers could opt in to on-call cover. Doing so meant you got some extra cash, and if you were called then you got so much for the first hour, then a different amount for each hour after that. Not being coy,
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by peterclary 6y ago
Coincidentally I was just last night reading about another "Fried Chicken War", which was a rivalry between two hotels in the Catskill Mountains arising from a guest/manager dispute. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by peterclary 6y ago
Auroville is mentioned in the Apple TV+ series “Home”, episode 6 “India”. Anupama Kundoo's Wall House is just outside the Auroville city limits, in an area designated for experimentation. I saw the episode recently so was surprised to
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by peterclary 7y ago
Thing about Arsenal is they always try and walk it in.
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by peterclary 7y ago
I have a MBP 16 with a Philips 48.8” 5120x1440 monitor, running with the lid closed. I have the extra 8GB on the GPU. The only time I’ve noticed fan noise was when I was running Minecraft with Optifine and a very aggressive shader pack. At
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by peterclary 7y ago
That ignores that - for at least the last 16 years - Windows has exposed a WebBrowser control which developers can use in their applications. MS could potentially remove the IE icon and some of the UI, but removing the core browser componen
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by peterclary 7y ago
That’s really interesting. Thanks!
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by peterclary 7y ago
The BBC Micro B had a physical internal relay which controlled cassette tape player motors. The following program (from memory) would produce an alarming buzzing which, if left long enough, purportedly led to the relay wearing out, i.e. phy
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by peterclary 7y ago
I keep looking at the Dell XPS 15, but several colleagues at work have horror stories about Dell laptops with faults and bad service. I've seen similar stories online. At least with Apple I can walk into the store and talk to somebody
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by peterclary 7y ago
Did a building conservation course a few years back which covered damp proof courses and engineering bricks, showing pictures of how people had had to allow insurance company-approved damp-proof “experts” to drill a cavity into the face of
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by peterclary 8y ago
Interesting. Was that apathy from the new staff, who weren't interested in spending time acquiring institutional knowledge vs skills/experience which would increase their value in the marketplace? Or apathy from the corporation it
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by peterclary 8y ago
Two things that my son hated about the beta, and haven’t changed in the release, are they moved the playback pane from the left to the right, and the sound editor is less fully featured (e.g. can’t delete within sounds, only trim them).
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by peterclary 8y ago
Darmoking?
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by peterclary 8y ago
Are you arguing that losing electricity is a bigger problem than running out of water?
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by peterclary 8y ago
Something to consider for VR headset manufacturers and VR software developers? Pumping bright blue light into the eye at close range seems like the worst case.
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by peterclary 8y ago
In the case of female shoppers, the measured purchase patterns were exactly same, regardless of the amount of muscle at the entrance. On the other hand, male shoppers were clearly influenced.“ “This alone provides a valuable marketing insig
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by peterclary 8y ago
No. If I lend you money, I have a correspondingly smaller amount of money. Nothing is created from nothing. On the other hand, banks are allowed to lend more money than they actually have. Remember that a lot of money exists purely as numbe
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by peterclary 8y ago
The only way of getting the TV show or the movie in the UK seems to be Region 1 DVDs.
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by peterclary 9y ago
Happy memories. I wrote a MUD engine in QuickBASIC 4.5 (back in 1988 or 1989 I think) which ran on a Compaq 486. I wrote the engine, while my friends did the world building. It was hosted at a system in the UK called IOWA. They had a really
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by peterclary 9y ago
A very sad loss, and it's a great shame that we didn’t get more of The Great Egg Race. I met him briefly while working as an assistant at Space School at Brunel University one year.
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by peterclary 9y ago
The BBC Micro didn't have the UK schools market entirely to itself. I was born in 1971 and both my primary and secondary schools had LINK 480Z computers by Research Machines. The primary school only had the one, but the secondary schoo
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by peterclary 9y ago
Are you arguing there has been no impact at all? My understanding is that there has been a significant increase in prices since the Brexit vote, generally ascribed to the falling pound (both actual and anticipated). This is obvious in elect
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by peterclary 9y ago
The numbers I saw, regarding how areas are best positioned to cope with impact of Brexit, suggested that Leave-voting areas would be impacted far worse than Remain-voting areas.
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by peterclary 9y ago
Worth noting that you’re not counted as unemployed if you’re working as little as 1 hour a week, or if you’re on a government training scheme or on Workfare. Given that many people who work are in poverty it would be more meaningful to trac
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by peterclary 9y ago
Another possibility: being fed on by blood-sucking parasites makes birds crave the taste/smell of cigarettes, without any understanding of the insecticidal properties.
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by peterclary 9y ago
I know what you mean. It works well for exhibitions, I think, but not so well for trade shows. I've seen exhibitions on Ray and Charles Eames, Star Wars, Video Games and other stuff up there. I also went to a PC World show there back i
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by peterclary 9y ago
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing! Richard Rogers has applied an even more extreme philosophy on some of his buildings (I'm thinking specifically the Pompidou Centre and the Lloyds building) where he put all the HVAC ducts etc. on t

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