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by robjan 3y ago
The 787 and A380 are still the best planes (in terms of comfort, at least) on the market. It makes my 12 hour flights between HK and the UK way more bearable.
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by robjan 3y ago
After 6 months the employee is then free to do the bare minimum.
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by robjan 3y ago
Usually companies now ask the question "would this candidate be eligible for rehire in the future". If someone is fired for performance or other cause, the answer is more likely to be "no". This works around potential li
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by robjan 3y ago
It's more a self-hosted alternative to Firebase written in golang
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by robjan 3y ago
If they truly provide the same economic value this creates the incentive to hire younger people into these roles so this may actually prevent age discrimination.
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by robjan 3y ago
We tried low code (citizen development) as a solution to the "IT dept sucks" problem. It worked pretty well at the start but eventually became a data governance nightmare and as soon as we needed to restructure the business we end
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by robjan 3y ago
The work is in the cities
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by robjan 3y ago
I don't think so. I don't code anymore because I am responsible for around 100 FTE but can still pair programme effectively. Coding is just the tip of the engineering iceberg.
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by robjan 3y ago
Aren't you describing Lotus Notes?
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by robjan 3y ago
What part do you find addictive? Is it the endless depth of links or the ability to search for anything you think of or something else?
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by robjan 3y ago
A good manager reframes and finds a way to protect themself from what you are describing.
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by robjan 3y ago
Same as renting vs owning. Eventually you become the company laying the undersea cables and incremental increase in bandwidth utilisation effectively costs zero but you still have to pay to own and maintain all this infra.
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by robjan 3y ago
How would you get the phone to your destination? Phones are banned in checked luggage.
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by robjan 3y ago
The 100ml limit is starting to be lifted in some countries that have upgraded their x-ray machines.
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by robjan 3y ago
Signal is peer to peer by default as well unless you go into advanced settings and enable "always relay calls"
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by robjan 3y ago
It's a little more than that because you can also interact with the post and take part in a conversation.
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by robjan 3y ago
I'm not sure about Stripe in particular but many financial institutions are tracking the top 10 global risks published by the World Economic Forum. The number one 10 year risk is "Failure to mitigate climate change". In total
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by robjan 3y ago
It's not exactly the same as email though. Email servers don't have a culture and you don't generally interact with other users of your email server unless they have given you the email address. And most people don't cho
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by robjan 3y ago
If you work in a regulated environment it's so much easier to explain to a regulator that you work with a single SOC 2 compliant, ISO 27001 certified cloud provider rather than a mishmash of services.
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by robjan 3y ago
If you're interested https://www.thefanimatrix.net/The-Fanimatrix-(DivX-5.1-HQ).a...
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by robjan 3y ago
I think the key words are "a" vs "the" when you use "a" the relationship is one to many, whereas when you use "the" it's one to one. If I say "Charles is the King" then "the King i
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by robjan 3y ago
Wet is an adjective
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by robjan 3y ago
Not a lawyer but most countries have the idea of secondary or contributory infringement where if you compel, induce or cause someone else to infringe copyright you have committed an offence. It's probably very hard to prove.
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by robjan 3y ago
The whole purpose of shrinkflation is to prevent yourself from getting into a game of prisoners dilemma with your competitors. You can cut the product size, and therefore costs, and maintain a "competitive price".
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by robjan 3y ago
There's a general push in supermarkets to move consumers towards own-brand goods as the profit margin is higher. It wouldn't surprise me if this was a marketing tactic to push people in this direction.
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by robjan 3y ago
Hong Kong is in China and everyone has an English legal name and most people have a Chinese legal name. The English name may be a Romanisation of the Chinese name, a western name or a combination. Depending on which combination of names you
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by robjan 3y ago
I have met people with 5 years experience who are significantly more capable than others with 15 so I don't think time is a good metric. A lot of it is about attitude, some of which comes with age, but some is more intrinsic to the per
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by robjan 3y ago
They own .blog so I am guessing they can at least keep that part of the bargain. As to what level of service they can maintain over 100 years, or whether the web as we know it will continue to exist, remains to be seen.
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by robjan 3y ago
This ignores factors such as accident, defect rate and cost of disabilities associated with not taking time off.
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by robjan 3y ago
Chinese, especially in the upper tier cities, don't want babies now. Same as the West and for roughly the same reasons. Historically kids stayed with their parents until marriage who would then look after the grandchildren while they w

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