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by thisone 10y ago
Aye, I read it and it's been a long time since I found a short story collection that made me miss university. Lots to unpack in those stories.
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by thisone 10y ago
I have an uncommon name spelling and I still get misdirected emails. Not to the extent of the above, but for instance, last year I received someone's job offer in Colorado. I did respond to the sender to let them know of the mistake of
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by thisone 10y ago
Stop thinking you're old, and that exploiting people (very long hours, low pay) is normal for companies. Places that exploit employees like that are not healthy places to work for anyone of any age.
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by thisone 10y ago
Rereading my way through the two Dune 'trilogies' now. Currently in the middle of God Emperor. This time through it's been shocking to me to see such parallels between the politics, policies, and consequences there of and the
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by thisone 10y ago
The underlying principals of SOA haven't been dismissed. However, there have been some rather bad implementations of SOA that have been passed off as 'how to do SOA'. When enough people started using, for example, web-service
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by thisone 10y ago
2kg, for me, is enough to go from, 'these jeans are too tight' to 'these jeans fit'. It'll depend on where you carry weight too.
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by thisone 10y ago
Imo, there's a sandwich date range from around 1976 to 1982 where you either identify as Gen X or Gen Y/millennial. I'm someone in that gap and identify much more closely with millennials than with the Gen X slackers, though
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by thisone 10y ago
The UK is not friendly to non-EU individuals who want to come to work. Immigration laws have tightened significantly in the last 10 years, making it infeasible to move here without a sponsor and without enough money to buy your way in.
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by thisone 10y ago
I'm with you. And I'll add to that the horrible production quality and bored sounding hosts/guests that plague programming podcasts.
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by thisone 10y ago
Times like these i feel like the only runner who doesn't experience any sort of clarity of mind or runner's high. I run five days a week. After a hard run i feel tired. If i made a good time with a low heart rate, i feel slightly
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by thisone 10y ago
depends on the actual code. I work with someone who likes to code by "works on my machine, in my limited tests, ship it, if it breaks then fix it" which is terrible since this person isn't on call and wouldn't have to de
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by thisone 10y ago
Honestly you'll probably be best served reading the border agency's website and consulting with an immigration solicitor. Immigration law in the UK changes every year. What was true for someone else may not be true for you. Never
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by thisone 10y ago
I worked for a company that ended up failing to pay wages (long story with a lot of lying and shady owners). They were hiring until the bitter end. The last hire never got paid by the company at all.
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by thisone 10y ago
don't worry, the status was green the entire time...
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by thisone 10y ago
You're just missing the Red Boots DLC. Makes everything perfect. Warts and all I really enjoyed wasteland 2
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by thisone 10y ago
That was how I thought, who could really believe these ads are actually personal endorsements, until I read a thread about people being angry about a podcast with ads from 99 designs. Some people really haven't developed the means to d
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by thisone 10y ago
Can tell you what I don't want to hear, which is easier for me. Not another tech podcast with hosts who sound bored. Not another tech podcast that can't be arsed to put in the work to get good sound quality. Not another tech podca
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by thisone 10y ago
remember to tell people about the long arm of the US tax law. So many other ex-pats I know are like FBAR-whaaaa?
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by thisone 10y ago
I've no idea of what your doc requirements are, but if you don't have any real plans for the data, stick it in a cost effective format that requires little to no maintenance but that can be read by multiple systems. Say parquet or
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by thisone 10y ago
you should figure out what you plan on doing with the data first. That will help inform what you use and how you store it.
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by thisone 10y ago
It's a moot point, but forex's are also used to move money internationally. It is ultimately buying and selling currencies, but you get much better rates than through the bank because the forex isn't actually moving your mone
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by thisone 10y ago
The fake institutions were/are profiting from these illegal students. At their worst they are engaging in human trafficking. At their best they are stealing a lot of money from hard working international students who actually wanted an
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by thisone 10y ago
I don't remember exactly where it is in settings, but it's not called 2fa or something obvious it's called something like PayPal Security Key
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by thisone 10y ago
There is a drinking culture in the UK. There is the expectation that you drink too unless you are visibly muslim. And with some people, there is the feeling that if you aren't drinking with them then they can't trust you fully. In
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by thisone 10y ago
I'm not exactly good at it, but you need to ignore the snark as you see it. Ignoring the snark, you then see if the issue really exists/is a fair point/is something you care about, and you respond as you would to any non-snar
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by thisone 10y ago
Let me give you a 'fer instance' (this may be the only one that exists, but it's one that had me WTFing until I found the correct documentation to read via stack overflow) Calling grouped on a Seq. I've been playing arou
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by thisone 10y ago
If you think you are wrong, and someone tells you that you are wrong, you are being proved right. It's not much different to my mind, and I fall into that camp of people who always think they're wrong. Try to tell me I'm comp
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by thisone 10y ago
Looks like smart TVs may have Red Button+ which gets its data differently than dumb TVs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Red_Button
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by thisone 10y ago
I know, 10ish year old me just remembers him as an old guy (probably in his 40s). Quite a small town as well.
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by thisone 10y ago
just teach them safety, and figure out when you can trust them to keep safe. Even 25 years ago, weirdos existed. As a ~10 year old, walking home one day, a stranger stopped his car, leaned out, and asked me to go get coffee with him.

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