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by rickmb 15y ago
If an employee doesn't fit in with the culture just because of their age, than the culture is the problem, not the employee. You've just described something that actually is pure age discrimination: maintaining a company culture in which th
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by rickmb 15y ago
Since I'm well within the endangered age bracket I feel I should be equally offended by those quotes from Google. But with the exception of the (allegedly) derogatory use of the words "old guy", I'm not. If somebody actually is a "poor cult
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by rickmb 15y ago
It's basically formalizing what happens naturally when you still have a small, physically colocated team. (Of course, most methods are.) And like all formalizations, it's not so much the method but the people and how they deal with it that
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by rickmb 15y ago
Let's translate this to the real world shall we: the FBI will monitor all conversations taking place in schools, offices and public transport. Congratulations: you are now living in a police state. "Seeing it" because it's public and "monit
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by rickmb 15y ago
Seriously, someone digs up a link to a remnant of an old page on the Apple site, and this ends up on top of HN as a critique of Apple design? Is this Reddit?
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by rickmb 15y ago
Just wondering, since most reactions from Americans who've never experienced this are usually tame and rational: Does anybody realize how infuriating and humiliating it is to be refused service because you're from the "wrong" country ? No
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by rickmb 15y ago
You are so very wrong. Hardly any marketing is done for US shows abroad. You could easily miss the premiere of a new season if you weren't paying close attention. US shows are thrown on the air mostly as filler, with some rare exceptions th
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by rickmb 15y ago
Uh, yeah, that is what "sustainable" means. If the input going into the product is not sustainable, than the product is not sustainable. Besides the ad absurdum of drivers' private lives, what did you think sustainable referred to? Just the
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by rickmb 15y ago
Paul Carr uses the standard copyright mafia propaganda method: equating unauthorized copying with unethical behavior, using copyright laws as a bridge, because hey, everyone knows that if something is illegal it must also be unethical, righ
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by rickmb 15y ago
God no. This is not about the tech industry, this is about civil rights. If the tech industry starts messing with the law in the same way the copyright industry has done, the general public will just get screwed in a different position. Don
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by rickmb 15y ago
Dutch TV aired BSG months later. Result: everybody that wanted to see the show had already pirated it, and the viewing figures were miserable. This has happened with several popular shows.
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by rickmb 15y ago
That's not really new, here in the Netherlands the gap between US and local broadcasts has now often been reduced to less than a week for certain series. A 3 day window however is still too long for shows with real fans that want to partici
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by rickmb 15y ago
I would like to add to this that none of these companies seem to have a problem with ignoring local privacy laws.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Methinks age is the most important factor here. We teach children the basics skills needed for most studies well before that age. Reading, writing, math etc. You can't expect someone to successfully study literature if they don't know how t
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by rickmb 15y ago
I live in the middle of the Jordaan. And while waiting for a permit (about 2-3 years, but we live in the area with the longest waiting lists) we could park the care somewhere within a 10-15 minute tram/bike ride. Which is not a big deal if
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by rickmb 15y ago
It's time people realize who the supporters behind ACTA are. Here's one: http://www.inta.org/Press/Pages/EUsignsACTA.aspx INTA represents amongst others our good friends Rackspace, eBay, GoDaddy (surprise!), Yahoo, Microsoft, etcetera.
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by rickmb 15y ago
A digital civil rights movement that prefers secretive backroom politics over public activism is not exactly the right organisation to protest secretive backroom politics... This is typical for BoF. "They" decide what's important, behind cl
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by rickmb 15y ago
I've never understood the whole emphasize on testing technical skills during the interview phase. In most countries it's either easy to fire someone, or you have legal probation period. One month of employment should be enough to find out i
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by rickmb 15y ago
National parliament ratification is also not a mere formality. The EU cannot afford to be divided at this moment, or have the mood in member states turned against it even more. Ironically, rejection by the EU parliament would save the EU a
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by rickmb 15y ago
You are clearly not living in the city center of Amsterdam. The system works perfectly for people living there: those who want to keep their own car can get a relatively cheap parking permit, and most only use their car for exactly those ra
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by rickmb 15y ago
The headline is misleading. There are still several national parliaments that need to ratify this (there appears to be a majority against in the Netherlands at the moment), and it has to go through the EU parliament. The EU parliament is no
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by rickmb 15y ago
Because OSX runs mainly on laptops, where people tend to put their computer in sleep mode rather than turning it off (often several times a day). Same tends to go for most iMac users. Only users of big old desktop boxes still tend to boot t
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by rickmb 15y ago
I don't like Apple's proprietary tactics (not any proprietary format for ebooks for that matter), but greed and incompetence on the side of the publishers killed the viability of ePub as a standard a long time ago. It's virtually impossible
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by rickmb 15y ago
The US uses most of the difference for it's imperialist agenda (as in waging offensive wars well outside its borders) and simply shoveling money to it's military-industrial complex, not defense. Germany spends enough money to reasonably pr
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by rickmb 15y ago
He's talking about supporting all the hangers-on, the stylist, make-up artist, managers etcetera. That is purely perpetuating the parasitic industry that has latched itself onto popular music. Disrupting the industry in my view means separa
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by rickmb 15y ago
I'm not in favor of banning (see Gruber discussions), but it does worry me that there are HN-ers that use ZDnet as a source of information. Let's please stop giving these dinosaurs any more traffic and hope they die soon.
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by rickmb 15y ago
As a European who constantly runs into the same "go away, foreigner" notices on US sites, I find this way funnier than I should.
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by rickmb 15y ago
I'm sorry, but all I read here is the suggestion to accommodate greed instead of music or art . Which may be perfectly sound (no pun intended) advice for anyone trying to do a startup related to the music industry, but it has nothing t
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by rickmb 15y ago
Also, there's very little incentive for gaming the system by ordinary users. Karma points give you no advantage whatsoever, and it's more of a running joke than anything substantial. Redditors' reputation is depends on their actions, not po
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by rickmb 15y ago
Now change "does something I really don't like" to "stops executing policies I dictate" and you're getting somewhere..

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