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by shimms 8y ago
Yup - we’ve always duplicated that data in our systems. Aside from anything, if Stripe/payment-processor-of-choice changes their data model, or rearranges feature tiers in the future to make reporting beyond the last 180 days an enterp
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by shimms 8y ago
From experience, associating an account directly to their current plan in this was adds some complexity in being able to have a history of plan changes (downgrades/upgrades etc). You might be accommodating for this in other ways, but
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by shimms 8y ago
If they have to buy a laptop anyway, spreading the cost over the life of the equipment turns a capital expense on the balance sheet into an operating expense on the P/L statement, and can have some pretty nice tax benefits (jurisdictio
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by shimms 8y ago
Genuinely curious - what would you choose over Jira for agile/product planning and work item tracking? I’ve been increasingly falling out of love with Jira, but all the alternatives lack core features.
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by shimms 8y ago
> Credit on the other hand runs out when you actually use it, so is much more likely to coincide with you being ready to pay for the service. Most have an expiry on them. A credit is (typically) a liability on the balance sheet, so compa
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by shimms 8y ago
This is the cause of my fear of wifi becoming standard on flights.
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by shimms 8y ago
Some jurisdictions (Australia) have input credits that offset tax already paid on dividends. If a company has paid 30% tax on a profit and distributes dividends to shareholders, the individual pays tax on it at their marginal tax rate less
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by shimms 8y ago
Yes - I’d love that compared to the open plan layout with constant distraction and interruption.
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by shimms 8y ago
If they choose to sell it. Whilst markets exist for selling shares in private companies, it’s harder and there is a smaller pool of people looking to buy. On the public market, any shareholder can sell their shares (relatively) easily, and
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by shimms 8y ago
What does unplanned pregnancy have to do with HIV status?
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by shimms 8y ago
Yeah we pay $50 per year per user (two of us) on our custom family domain. Spam filtering is good, don't get any spam in Inbox, occasionally get legit incorrectly classified as spam. Training the model seems to prevent future occurrenc
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by shimms 8y ago
Have you checked out Fastmail? Whilst I use and pay for Office 365 for business, my personal email is on Fastmail (migrated from Gmail after a decade with them) and very happy with it.
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by shimms 8y ago
That’s true - my first gen MacBook a couple of years ago was replaced three times. My MBA is only a few weeks old, and I’ve noticed the space bar feels different already on the right hand side. Not sure if it’s real or imagined yet, but bas
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by shimms 8y ago
> It won't be another MBP, because of the keyboard regressions Have you tried the third generation butterfly on the 2018 MBP and MBA? I hate with a passion the first two attempts at the butterfly keyboard, but the third gen I actual
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by shimms 8y ago
But with fewer tlds supported (for now). Was excited to move my GoDaddy registered domains there, alas none of them are supported (yet).
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by shimms 8y ago
I’ve just switched to new MacBook Air (after feeling the same way for the past few years). Use case is typical Rails dev work, react front end, databases, docker etc. I was worried going from a 12 core Mac Pro, to the dual core MBA, but so
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by shimms 8y ago
How did that conversation go with your manager when you first wanted to reduce your hours? I had a similar conversation about 8 years ago, moving from 5 days to 4 days. My boss at the time wasn't too happy with the proposal, and sugges
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by shimms 8y ago
What a fantastic analogy, and aligns almost 100% with why I like management and leadership. I've often struggled to articulate the reasons I enjoy these positions over a "producers" role. This will help - thank you.
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by shimms 8y ago
Google is more likely and already a significant investor.
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by shimms 8y ago
Thanks - that's a great list. Some of them (atlaskit, MS fabric, Jetbrains, vmware etc) are geared towards building an integration withing those company's products. Whilst they can be used independently (without assets in Fabrics
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by shimms 8y ago
3 - because we spent time configuring it to our needs.
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by shimms 8y ago
Can you infer uninstalls from heuristics? If you're collecting activity metrics for app interactions and you get a complete dropoff for a given user, could you assume they have uninstalled? Even if they havent, checking in on decreased
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by shimms 8y ago
Because in the first example all the person lost was money, in the other - their liberty. Not sure how they're at all comparable.
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by shimms 8y ago
Oh sorry, I totally misread you question and thought you asked what it is needed for. I got the kit from OSX wifi: http://osxwifi.com/apple-broadcom-bcm94360cd-802-11-a-b-g-n-... Works well, had a bit of trouble getting unl
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by shimms 8y ago
Yep - they're great. I've put in USB3, replaced the spinning disk with SSD, upgraded the WiFi and RAM, but haven't done the CPUs yet (already got dual 6 cores, so aside from a slight clock bump not much point). My only concer
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by shimms 8y ago
For unlock with watch an AC card with beam forming (factory was N), for handoff/continuity Bluetooth 4 (from memory, may be wrong).
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by shimms 8y ago
My 2012 Mac Pro (cheese grater) can’t run Mojave since the GPU doesn’t support Metal. There are aftermarket GPUs available, but it’s becoming an ongoing chore to keep the machine running the latest macOS features (needed new wifi card to su
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by shimms 8y ago
Except it was an AWS employee who misconfigured the bucket, not a GoDaddy employee. Misconfiguration yes, but not GoDaddy's.
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by shimms 8y ago
Like this one: https://makingnoiseandhearingthings.com/2016/07/12/googles-s... AI/ML inherits the bias from it's trainers - this is pretty well accepted.
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by shimms 8y ago
Please cite evidence that women are inherently more fragile than men.

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