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by shubb 12y ago
I got stung real bad by ovh when they advertised kimsufi servers they didn't have, then failed to communicate timescales, eventually delivering about 2 months late. That box wasn't for anything important, but it made me not trust
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by shubb 12y ago
But he only put $156 in. Everything from there was self funded.
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by shubb 12y ago
If they use Youtube or Skype, they use some of them. Any online/app audio/video chat thing will probably use a mixture. Depending on how your office VOIP phone works, or the PBX it's connected to, or your POTs carrier, you mi
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by shubb 12y ago
Trouble is, the academics talking about deep web don't mean a clandestine corner. They more mean private Facebook pages and uncrawlable product catalogues. Stuff that is part of the normal internet though. It's kinda silly semanti
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by shubb 12y ago
China had it's own historical cement recipe, including rice. Recently discovered it may have useful properties that can be reapplied today. http://phys.org/news194411869.html
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by shubb 12y ago
Actually the company firewall here blocked it because it automatically recognized the hexy domain name as 'suspicious'. Which if you think about it is kind of smart... Worth knowing too - people sometimes hide analytically servers
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by shubb 12y ago
Wow, I'm really not sure how to judge your friend ethically... Providing a source of breast milk is really important. Providing a source of income for people who are poor enough that getting milked for $2 a day sounds good is important
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by shubb 12y ago
Depending on the fund it does. This diagram explains it: http://www.agilevc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Startup-Ca...
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by shubb 12y ago
Is tuple programming a thing yet?
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by shubb 12y ago
Pair programming.
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by shubb 12y ago
UK law for new employees is pretty weak. You are basically 'at will' for the first year (although you will be paid notice, in my case 1 week). This is a good read: http://www.lzwlaw.co.uk/downloads/LZW%20FACT%
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UK Election Polling Infographics(theguardian.com)
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by shubb 12y ago
Also, I guess western governments have Huawei bent over even more of a barrel than say google. Huawei devices are used extensively in infrastructure. Most governments (known to include the UK and India) insist on huawei funding government l
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by shubb 12y ago
If all your tech might be spying on you, you should pick the one not controlled by someone with legal authority in your local area... Unless you are working with military technology, or some real 'secret sauce' company confidentia
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by shubb 12y ago
So much importance placed on a single metric, maybe not even related to the candidates actual job. It's sad there doesn't seem to be a 'teaching track' in the UK (where this article originates). I remember the best teach
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by shubb 12y ago
I'd be interested to hear where. I'd like to try freelancing, but my skills are in embedded, so I figured I'd need to get good at web? Where are you finding your customers?
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by shubb 12y ago
It's a good thing we have electric lighting now, so people can get up at 2pm and still work a 14 hour day. It's a shame working long hours is both inefficient and socially encouraged. It's not coincidental that early waking i
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by shubb 12y ago
So magical it might even be a tax dodge... a lot of companies have a complex structure where some business units are optimized for tax, and other deliver services. They take the profit in the tax optimized units. That might be part of what
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by shubb 12y ago
The main thing is that if you are earning decent money, you want to be a contractor because it is tax efficient.
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by shubb 12y ago
Or they might do something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_%28journalist%...
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by shubb 12y ago
Outside startup in the UK, experienced developers outside London get 40-60K, with very talented ones getting more. However, plenty of decent experienced developers also get less than that. Salaries are pretty random when it comes down to it
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by shubb 12y ago
I wonder if they get new ASIC designs before they ship to consumers. I'm remembering buying mining ASIC and then actually getting shipped them much much later. We thought at the time that they were being held back and 'burned in&#
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by shubb 12y ago
I find the opposite. I'm fairly new at a company, and worry about not looking bad. Sometimes, things stall. The next morning, I can explain where I got stuck, and get someone who the group trusts involved. If it's a hard problem,
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by shubb 12y ago
Uh, this metric is nuts, because it views anything that isn't 9-5 on a payroll as 'not a real job'. That ignores everything from independent contractors to seasonal work. These are huge components of the economy and always ha
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by shubb 12y ago
Iphone BOM can here: http://cdn.ihs.com/Technology/SharePointImages/PublishingIma... $12 is a lot of money for a box, and would be one of the most expensive things you buy, unless you want the latest communicatio
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by shubb 12y ago
I can see the merits of this, but (scanning the front page) it looks like the primary tool for selecting candidates is a psychometric assessment. First of all this is only data driven if we can show that candidates who score well are actual
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by shubb 12y ago
Some companies still provide (everything) for employees who are highly mobile. An obvious example would be container ship crew. But I am also aware of defence companies that take on apprentices at 18, ship them across the country, and provi
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by shubb 12y ago
He might be complaining about C++ or Java. If you read Hacker News, you might think those were dead.
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by shubb 12y ago
The finance industry, particularly around the front desk, is notorious for freakishly long working hours. I don't work in that industry, but friends that do speak of 100+ hour work weeks, with 80 hours considered normal in some workpla
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by shubb 12y ago
Yeah, but he seems to be predicting the decline and fall of western civilisation because of unspecific use of language by young people these days. As there is no single definition of western civilisation, this is ironic as well as dumb. The

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