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by raarts 9y ago
Very hard to believe the company has'ludicrous' quality standards but at the same time works with so many bad contractors without putting controls in place. I don't buy it.
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by raarts 9y ago
Unfortunately this simplistic strategy doesn't work in many cases, that's why these victories in court are important. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/17/432...
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by raarts 9y ago
GNU has example exemption forms on their site. If you explain you contribute to open source projects many employers will grant exemptions as long as it's not competing with their products.
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by raarts 9y ago
Also be aware your own IP does not get stolen, or that people do not 'wiggle' themselves or manipulate you into owning part of your IP. I've had multiple attempts of people trying this. One outright stole my source code and r
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by raarts 9y ago
My comments about infidelity should be read from the POV of a young programmer, that knew nothing about entrepreneurship, starting or running companies, who looked up to C-level management, who's entire network was filled with people i
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by raarts 9y ago
I started my first on the side, I was 33 and building a family, so I couldn't quit my day job. I hired an intern to handle marketing. Amazingly, he also did support. After a year the company made enough money so I could quit. My advic
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by raarts 9y ago
I'm not convinced, even though I keep hearing this a lot: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Euro_health_consumer_index Netherlands ranks #1, Belgium #5.
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by raarts 9y ago
>countries You'd be hard-pressed to find a country that as at-will employment besides the US.
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by raarts 9y ago
For comparison: same Amsterdam, about the same timeframe. No drive to start my own business (initially!), because didn't even know that was possible for regular people. Started out when I was eight, I got into electronics. Read all mag
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by raarts 9y ago
I thought the 'double payment' refers to people paying for the research through the tax system, and then paying again to look at the resulting paper?
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by raarts 9y ago
Can you Netflix?
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by raarts 9y ago
They do have a monopoly in search. If they decide to delist you, you're f*cked.
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by raarts 9y ago
Can someone provide a tl;dr ?
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by raarts 9y ago
> AMS-IX is the largest connection between Europe and the US An IX (Internet eXchange) is not a connection, but is more like a giant switch, where internet access providers send local traffic, so they don't have to send it through t
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by raarts 9y ago
> top talent would behalve ethically On the contrary. CEO's are much more often psychopaths than average. It's in fact the sharks that bubble up to the top.
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by raarts 9y ago
I don't know if I should flag this or not. Most every post gets the obligatory reply like this one, stating 'this is not news', 'what do you expect', maybe there's even a term for it. Does this really add value
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by raarts 9y ago
Does a dentist really make $400k in the US? Wow, just wow..
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by raarts 9y ago
56 yo here. Since a year on a learning spree: Docker Swarm, CI/CD, React, RN after a life of C/PHP/Python and -later on -C-level management. Not aware that I'm slower these days, but slightly harder to focus, so using a
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by raarts 9y ago
Following house of cards? US elections? Remember WW II? Where they had just a tiny bit of info on a specific group of people (their faith, and registered address) and used that to the max to commit genocide on them? Think that'll neve
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by raarts 9y ago
This PostgreSQL diehard had a usecase that required a cluster of 3 masters to stay up if two of them died. Turned out that was really easy with MySQL multi-master and multi-source where each master is a slave to the other two.
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by raarts 9y ago
Well I like it because of all the things you can DO with it, not for all the things you can do wrong with it.
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by raarts 9y ago
The problem is (and I've seen this happening) for many managers or C-levels, it's really hard to see the distinction between high- and low quality. They just can't tell. So if all offers look the same quality to you, you obvi
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by raarts 9y ago
The problem is, that for CTOs, there are so many people who 'know' how to make things better for them. You can't listen to them all.
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by raarts 9y ago
OP makes some good points but should go on vacation in the Netherlands. Way ahead in road safety. For example: https://youtu.be/FlApbxLz6pA Or more extensively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0GA901oGe4
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by raarts 9y ago
This reluctant attitude is what allows them to win.
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by raarts 9y ago
Most wizards were just annoying pop-ups which made you click on Next for a few times to get you where you wanted to be.
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by raarts 9y ago
Citation needed for both of you.
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by raarts 9y ago
Isn't that obvious? 1% of all users.
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by raarts 9y ago
The employers obviously think otherwise.
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by raarts 9y ago
And for that employee it is most likely more important than a shuttle.

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