stevezsa8

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by stevezsa8 4y ago
I've also found that closeness can happen by just spending time with someone. For example. - A weekly lunch with a colleague. - Meeting a group of friends for a fun activity.
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by stevezsa8 4y ago
"I mostly talk to people if one of us needs something, but not much besides that." Have you tried to speak to people just to chat and see how each other is doing? What about a club or activity you can enjoy with other people?
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by stevezsa8 4y ago
I think you hit on a good point here. - The job should pay enough - The work environment should be healthy and supportive
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by stevezsa8 4y ago
"trusting in what life will provide" is a bit new-age I feel. The analogy is comforting. But maybe something more realistic would be like this: -- Picture two hamsters. One works constantly to pay off his hamster-mansion, and hams
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by stevezsa8 4y ago
I think off-site backups are the way to go regarding the fire scenario. Having a print out of where your financial assets are located is a good first step for the scenario you die. This way your next of kin can track them down. You should s
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by stevezsa8 4y ago
I was that guy in the office who would volunteer to help move equipment or furniture for office events. I made a lot of friends. My boss would make fun of me when my good deeds would result in hassle for me. She was a meanie. I have been re
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by stevezsa8 4y ago
This is actually an interesting question. - If you find £10,000 cash in the street, do you keep it? - If you find a watch in the street, do you keep it? - If you bought a laptop from your cousin Vinny for $50 and found out it was stolen, do
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by stevezsa8 4y ago
Less than 1GB is pretty easy. Copy-1. Compress a copy and email it to your self. Copy-2. Burn to a DVDR and keep it on your shelf. Copy-3. On a USB stick and store where you keep your passport. Copy-4. On your rolling backups (you have back
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by stevezsa8 4y ago
The study proved discrimination based on gender. I would say that being discriminated against is pretty harmful. I think laws are written something like: "employer cannot discriminate based on a person's gender". Which covers
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by stevezsa8 5y ago
Given how cheap SSDs are now, unless you are living below the poverty line, buy a 500GB MX500 for ~60USD. You deserve it :]
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by stevezsa8 5y ago
Your office got off lucky. We had a guy walk into our office behind employees. No one challenged the trespasser... he walked off with a stack of laptops.
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by stevezsa8 5y ago
So true. Each time I was hired, I was expected to learn on my own time. The best I could get was a $30 book paid for. I kinda assumed the company was responsible to train you. The only training I received was when I volunteered to be first
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by stevezsa8 5y ago
I've worked in many software companies. We had lunch time/after hours boardgames at every single one. OK, I was the one organising it, but still. Plus we got paid well. Win/win :]
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by stevezsa8 5y ago
I moved to Germany a few years back (was born and raised in the UK). When I saw the 4%+ just to the realtors... I was pretty shocked. I swore to my wife that I'm not paying almost 20K to the person giving me a tour of a house. Seems li
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by stevezsa8 6y ago
I lived in South London (England) for many years. There is the famous 'Covent Garden Market' and a more industrial 'New Covent Garden Market' a few mile away. Occasionally I'd see very nicely dressed American touris
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by stevezsa8 6y ago
You sound like you're trying, which is good. As the other poster said, maybe don't expect so much. For example, I'm a total wimp. I forced myself to do go-karting because the big macho guys wanted to do it. I hated it, it was
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by stevezsa8 6y ago
This is what I'd recommend. 1. Backup to external SSD or NAS. This is the backup you will rely on if your PC loses all data. It will be fast to replicate to. 2. Mirror the external backup to a second external SSD. And sync it every wee
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by stevezsa8 6y ago
Start by letting your customers report bugs. Give them an easy way to contact you. Cost will be free. Ensure that you fix the bugs and write some automated test for this case if possible. Again free. Pay someone to do a little QA of your pr
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by stevezsa8 6y ago
It depends on the project. I'm a manual tester who's worked on many different projects. The larger ones have had a separate automation QA team. On the smaller projects, I'll fetch the code base and suggest missing unit testca
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by stevezsa8 6y ago
Ouch. You should raise this with your team / company.
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by stevezsa8 6y ago
As a QA myself, every project I've worked on except maybe one... has had good shared ownership of quality. Maybe it's because we were embedded in the dev team. Sorry you didn't experience the same thing.
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by stevezsa8 6y ago
As a QA Engineer of 15 years, I see some good simple points here. I would always hire a little more QA resource than you think you need. Nothing worse than signing off new features but not having the time to think outside the box and find o
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by stevezsa8 6y ago
Many countries and governments recommend having atleast 2 weeks supply of food and water incase of a natural disaster. Not to mention for people who live in remote places. So I want to say that you were not laughed at by everyone. Now... th
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by stevezsa8 7y ago
I worked at a place where on incorrect login, we recorded your attempt (with whatever was in the user/password field) into the logs. The logs went to data warehouse too. That was a fun day in the office :P
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by stevezsa8 7y ago
I feel this is a bit like comparing apples to oranges. If every coder paid £100 for a programming language/compiler, I'm sure it would also have a great UI and UX.
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by stevezsa8 7y ago
Any spreadsheet software will do this. =money_in_account*(interest_rate/12) I would advise to start with a spreadsheet and then move to custom accounting software after you are used to keeping track of numbers.
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by stevezsa8 7y ago
Culture evolves/changes over time. So it's a valid question as long as it's not a veiled "will there be too many brown people".
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by stevezsa8 7y ago
I think you had a good point with your first sentence. It's always good to be aware that people have different opinions and views on certain things.
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by stevezsa8 7y ago
Nah... Daily Mail headline would be 'foreigner taking away our DNA tests'
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by stevezsa8 8y ago
If some people cheat, doesn't make it a universal trait of that culture. Would you hire someone with an Indian name who was born and raised in Canada? Just trying to gauge the cut off.

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