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by timv 10y ago
> if the person is willing to set up a company in their own country I can't speak for other countries, but in Australia this is far simpler than most people realise. There's a range of companies that will do all that for you.
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by timv 10y ago
The Australian system is similar to the New Zealand system mentioned by Avelaps . The overwhelming majority of Universities are government operated and are subsidised. There is a fee, that can be paid upfront or be deferred to be paid thro
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by timv 10y ago
I don't see anything dying down in that trend. The last point on the graph is for July which is very partial data, so it's probably best to ignore it. Without that point, the trend seems to be upwards. I wish it was dying down -
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by timv 10y ago
> Are we sure this isn't true? I don't know of any studies, but I suspect there would be some. In addition to the question of "how do we share income in a less-work world?", there is the question "how do we e
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by timv 10y ago
> a soul-crushing job is better than no job Really? Do you mean: "Being paid to do soul-crushing work is better than not being paid" ? Or: "Doing soul-crushing work is better than having nothing to do" ? The first i
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by timv 10y ago
I can't see why I can't have both... If my central package repo had genuinely reproducible builds, such that I could download the source, run the build process and know that I had the same output that the repo held, then I think t
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by timv 10y ago
> You can't add non voters like that ... because 0.76 + 0.34 = 1.1
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by timv 10y ago
The rejection of the trangender guest was, seemingly, a room in the host's house (she mentions her son being across the hall).
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by timv 10y ago
Does that extend to requiring that single females be willing to rent out their sofa to males? And if you expect that of AirBnB do you expect the same for private apartment sharing arrangements? Single [ethnicity undisclosed] [gender undiscl
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by timv 10y ago
As far as I can tell, the current maintainer wants copyright assigned to the FSF. He is not willing to hand the project over to someone who isn't willing to do that. The proposed new maintainer is not willing to assign copyright to the
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by timv 10y ago
> your hypothetical is so ludicrous My wife is a former welfare case worker. The scenario I painted is quite real, but if it is so far removed from your reality that it seems ludicrous then that says good things about your family lif
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by timv 10y ago
How many times do you put up with your kid beating up his mother when he comes home drunk in the middle of the night before you require him to move out of the house? Keep in mind that his is 15 years old... As parents, we tend to believe th
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by timv 10y ago
Now if Chrome is auto{fill,complet}ing those with usernames + passwords, that's definitely a disastrous bug You say "bug", they say "works as designed".
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by timv 10y ago
No, he meant "sudo" https://xkcd.com/149/ http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/149
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by timv 10y ago
This! I have previously wasted so much time working around this browser behaviour. The trick I use now is to add in a hidden (via CSS) pair on inputs earlier on the page, that do nothing. The browser fills those in, and leaves the real pa
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by timv 10y ago
It turns out that my 2 year old is a "visionary" - who knew?
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by timv 10y ago
Note: I'm not the parent poster. > 1. You don't believe top developers are intrinsically 'worth' the amount that FB/Goog/Amzn/ and many other SV companies pay, that it's not a net win for the co
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by timv 10y ago
> Money is the primary motivation to work For the overwhelming majority of people, the decisions about work are a balance of competing interests. I could go out and get a part time job working on weekends, and make more (overall) mon
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by timv 10y ago
No, because a static page generator would mean that there is no database connection.
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by timv 10y ago
Your original comment linked broken branches with the fact that they can't be deleted. That's only true if you intended to talk about Mercurial named branches which aren't broken, they just aren't what you want them to
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by timv 10y ago
Tridge made no attempt to force his code on others. In fact, it was the reverse - he felt like he was being locked out of kernel development because he didn't want to align his moral code with those who used BK. So, he tried to find a
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by timv 10y ago
I think that the hate that gets lumped on mercurial's branches, though understandable, is a bit unfair Disclaimer, it's been years since I used hg as my primary DVCS. So some of my thoughts here might be out of date, or have a m
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by timv 10y ago
I think one's assessment of the manifesto is largely dependent on how generously you read it. > Individuals and interactions over processes and tools needs to be read in conjunction with: > while there is value in the items on
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by timv 10y ago
It depends. Much like most "scrum" teams don't really do by-the-book Scrum, it was very rare to do by-the-book waterfall. If you defined waterfall to mean - get every requirement written up in absolute detail before you do an
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by timv 10y ago
We were specifically asked to be nice . I certainly didn't think that saying "Please don't give money to Pinboard, I don't think Maciej will act appropriately and it will spoil any chances of following this process agai
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by timv 10y ago
I can't see how there is any possible explanation of the agreed upon facts that doesn't paint Kyle as making a horrible mistake with respect to ownership rights. He submitted a YC application that listed them as co-founders, and h
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by timv 10y ago
The issue is (assuming what Jeremy says is true) that he was forced out after 1 month with no say in the matter, no agreement & no buyout of stock. So while 1 month probably shouldn't be worth 50% of the company, you also can&#x2
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by timv 10y ago
Assuming Jeremy's story is true, then by the time he exercised that strategy he'd already by forced out by his co-founder and was no longer a "teammate". I don't think it's fair to judge the ethics of a person
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by timv 10y ago
> Most founders would LOVE an investor help defend in a situation like this. There's a lot of value in having an investor try and solve the problem. That should include offering advice like "don't let this derail the acq
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by timv 10y ago
> I wanted people to know how hard Kyle tried to settle. Why? Why is it so important that everyone knows that Kyle is the good guy and Jeremy is the bad guy? You're taking a preemptive step to defend Kyle's reputation by tear

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