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by softveda 4y ago
The Australian Securities Exchange has officially written off the long-awaited technology overhaul designed to replace its core trading service with a blockchain-based system at a cost of around $255 million.
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by softveda 4y ago
The license raj is still there for business, except maybe some sectors like tech startups. Yes there has been improvements in citizens life like mobile phones etc. But official harassment and bribery is as prevalent as before. Want to get a
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by softveda 4y ago
In a very crude way, sales is about landing new deals or expanding. Customer success is about securing renewals for existing customer and increase adoption, prevent churn. It is a post-sales role.
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by softveda 4y ago
Same in Australia, atleast for professional jobs you will need to give your Passport or Citizenship Certificate for verification. https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/employing-and-sponsori...
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by softveda 4y ago
What rubbish, the only commitment for employees is to work to professional standards in lieu of money. If you need such long term commitments then hire like executives with retention, i.e. if you let go the employee before the term (except
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by softveda 4y ago
Many companies in Australia do not even put years of experience in job requirements as a HR policy. What matters is experience like "has build complex APIs for integration" not how many years you have been building APIs. Then if y
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by softveda 4y ago
One thing I don't understand is why you need more engineers to scale your product usage to higher volume. More machines/infrastructure or even support makes sense but devs no. I have same question for Atlassian, they are hiring li
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by softveda 4y ago
This is the norm in Australia. You cannot fire people except for misconduct. Here they abolish your role or department due to business restructuring which is legal. Since your role is gone the company has to provide a redeployment opportuni
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by softveda 4y ago
100%. A backend API can be used from multiple frontends. Just one from my experience working for an electricity provider, API from Desktop webapp, android mobile app, IOS mobile app all retail customer facing. Then from a Sales pipeline for
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by softveda 4y ago
That is why government intervention is needed. Australia is proposing significant changes to its cyber security framework and legislation. https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/reports-and-pubs/files/streng... Mandatory
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by softveda 4y ago
That is just a merchant contract isn't it? In Australia government passed law that disallows such clause in contract and it is very common here to pay a credit card fee (the fee can only recoup the extra cost for CC transactions and no
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by softveda 4y ago
Not a full service but partial features like S3 Bittorrent support was removed.
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by softveda 4y ago
Does this include core banking, e.g. the ledgers.
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by softveda 4y ago
I shitload of the economy is directly or indirectly government funded. In Australia defence, health/hospital/disability/aged/mental health care (even if private), education all levels (even private), public infrastructur
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Australian Digital Neobank Volt shuts down with loss of 140 jobs(afr.com)
1 points by softveda 4y ago|0 comments
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by softveda 4y ago
Australia doesn't have entrepreneurship because historically there has been almost risk free return from real estate investment. Also corporates here have no preference to higher degrees or MBAs, experience trumps education as a genera
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by softveda 4y ago
One bank in Australia (NAB) is also doing this inner source thing. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nab-to-innersource-some-of-it... .
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by softveda 4y ago
Under Australian law Google, Facebook etc. are considered publishers and publishers of defamatory content can be sued. This is not new and there are multiple precedences.
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by softveda 4y ago
You can do this in Australia too. A simpler way is use a labour hire company, they keep you on payroll and bills the client for your work (an agreement has to be drawn between them and the company) (you need to submit a weekly timesheet). T
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by softveda 4y ago
In Australia in some states (Victoria and Queensland) it is now mandatory to have hardwired (or 10yr Lithium battery), photoelectric and interconnected smoke alarms in every room and hallway. In Victoria they also need a compliance check ev
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by softveda 4y ago
The biggest thing you have left out is one API calling another API which requires on-behalf-of flow. This is an extremely common scenario and yet mostly glossed over until the day you have to do it in a real enterprise to flow the delegated
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by softveda 4y ago
AWS This is my Architecture video series https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/this-is-my-architecture/
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by softveda 5y ago
I am a happy customer of O'Reilly Learning. I do not even earn US level salary, but for a few hundred dollars annually I get access to a massive collection of books, training videos, live training, interactive coding and much more. In
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by softveda 5y ago
> Maybe we have different definitions here, but I've never, or perhaps once, had a manager who I felt could do my job in a pinch, The chief of Air Force still flies the fighter jets just as well as the junior pilots. The head of sur
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by softveda 5y ago
This is how is works in Australia. The Australian Tax Office will pre-fill your tax return online with income from your wages, interests, managed fund distributions, dividends etc. That maybe enough for simple tax returns, you can just acce
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Australian judge sends Google for prosecution for not deleting defamatory videos(smh.com.au)
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by softveda 5y ago
Funny you say that, but Uniqlo a Japanese owned fashion brand and quite popular in Australia has a fantastic modern e-commerce website.
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by softveda 5y ago
Most new cards that I have seen in Australia doesn't have embossing, they have flat surface. The number is simply printed on the back. Many banks allow you to lock the card using the App as well.
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by softveda 5y ago
Google doesn't understand Enterprise. They expect enterprises to use features or solutions that they think is the best way or highway. AWS/Azure bends their back to introduce whatever features enterprise needs. Next is poor suppor
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by softveda 5y ago
2 or 3 years fixed interest terms are common and 1-5 years fixed terms are available. FI loans cannot be closed early without incurring some penalties (economic costs). But the most popular loans are what are called Variable Rate Loan over

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