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stormbuilder
10y ago
Generally speaking I only read 3 star reviews. 5 star and 1 star reviews are usually garbage - either fluffed fake reviews, or reviews outraged about something unrelated with the quality of the product itself.
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stormbuilder
10y ago
Great info thanks. It is entertaining how the stalwart protectors of free markets oppose them when it becomes too inconvenient.
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stormbuilder
10y ago
This is not reddit. If you don't have something meaningful to contribute, please feel free not to post.
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stormbuilder
10y ago
Also known as consultants, who get hired full time if the company likes them and viceversa.
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stormbuilder
10y ago
1) Find me a profession where people don't have grievances 2) Considering that so many companies slavishly build their whole culture on servicing engineers, color me skeptical.
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stormbuilder
11y ago
As always, there's a happy balance. It is probably bad to be a social recluse, unless you are in crunch mode and not looking for hiring anytime soon, but at the same time it's probably bad to be out for events every night and spen
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stormbuilder
11y ago
Wouldn't that be a self-supervised learning? Yes, as the brain lears, it gets rewarded or not, but not by any external organism - rather by itself (or a part of itself). The "learning instruction manual" is in there somewhere
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stormbuilder
11y ago
Well, after the Snowden reveals, everyone was talking about it every day for more than an year. Did that actually lead to companies choose EU providers over USA ones? Not sure, but it certainly was a factor that many considered. Especially
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stormbuilder
11y ago
IANAL, but I believe the burden is on Apple, not individual employees. Apple will have however to show that they are doing their best effort, and so will be forced to fire/transfer them to other positions and hire engineers willing to
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11y ago
Well, debatable. Last major war before WWI was in 1870, however there was an arms race and escalation of military preparation since the last years of the 1890s. So you really only had a couple of decades of peace, then people started prepar
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11y ago
Philosophy is a mandatory schools in Italy's lyceums. Really, there are many reasons that I left that country, but the high school education it provides (on average) is absolute world-class when it comes to the "soft" skills.
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stormbuilder
11y ago
Thank you for answering. The same way students can take a semester off, could employed people take a sabbatical to focus on this? Cheers
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stormbuilder
11y ago
Hi Kat. Two questions: 1) If we are still looking for / selecting technical co-founders, can we apply? 2) Does the entire team need to dedicate itself full time to this? Alternatively, if the "paying bills" job is quite light