troels

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by troels 8y ago
I'm afraid I'm not deliberate enough to have an actual playbook I go by. It's more like; this is my goal for the first month or two.
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by troels 8y ago
I realise the way I put it may sound ominous, but it's for the good of everyone involved really. Most organisations are shockingly ineffective. Micromanagement and lack of long term planning is abundant. I get hired because I'm go
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by troels 8y ago
In the broadest sense, by gaining the trust of people and by showing initiative, rather than waiting for someone else to dictate what I should be working on.
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by troels 8y ago
The first thing I do is work to gain enough political leverage so that I can manage my own time.
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by troels 8y ago
They still do, pretty much.
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by troels 8y ago
Venetians, and especially the Genoese had large slave populations at the time. This source quotes up to 10% of the population being slaves around 1400: https://books.google.dk/books?id=G4dECgAAQBAJ&pg=PT28&lpg=PT...
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by troels 8y ago
I like that Europa is roughly the size of Europe.
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by troels 8y ago
> Problem is that a 40yo dev needs 2x the pay of a 20yo but doesn't bring 2x the value. I beg to differ. They may have the technical skills to match, but they won't have the other skills that makes you truly able to deliver val
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by troels 8y ago
Yes, but the copy on the page was the part that tripped me up the most.
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by troels 8y ago
Wow. I read that page, believing it to be satire, but then clicked through to pega.com - https://www.pega.com/technology/software-writes-your-softwar... . And I'm still not sure if this is an elaborate in-joke.
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by troels 8y ago
I have to concur. I was confused for a moment about the staggering number of deaths caused by terrorism, until I realised what was going on.
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by troels 8y ago
But people have always died from violence. It's hardly news.
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by troels 8y ago
Do people actually stay on with a company for six months, after giving notice? And what manager in their right mind would ever want that anyway?
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by troels 9y ago
> It's countries filled with uneducated people who don't understand how to evaluate information that are vulnerable to this kind of propaganda. I see plenty of similar sentiments in my facebook feed.
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by troels 9y ago
> So there you have it. With just 44 lines and the help of several widely-used, thoroughly-tested, reliably interoperable components, we have the bootstrap for a modern PHP application. Uhm .. so ... a framework?
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by troels 9y ago
No, it's the other way around. A billion means one thing in english speaking countries and another in most of the rest of the world. For a frenchman, it's indeed ambiguous -- there, a billion (english) would be a milliard (french)
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by troels 9y ago
Well. A Billion is ambiguous. In many countries, it's called a Milliard. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
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by troels 9y ago
I some jurisdictions, putting overtly one-sided constraints in an employment contract (or any contract, where there is an asymmetry in power between the parties) may render it un-enforceable. For example, a non-compete, for no good reason,
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by troels 9y ago
> He would give away money, but … to my knowledge it was never done in a way that he didn't get publicity for it. Well. That's a bit of a circular argument.
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by troels 9y ago
That's a relief. :)
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by troels 9y ago
I don't know if you're joking or not about the ASP classic.
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by troels 9y ago
Depends. Some programmers have absolutely no hygiene wrt formatting. You'd want that sorted for readability. But the bigger point is that you reduce merge conflicts since you won't have all sorts of unrelated formatting changes mi
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by troels 9y ago
CF still exists?
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by troels 9y ago
You probably know, but Europe is a pretty diverse place. Salary in the north is significantly higher than the south. Labour laws and cultural expectations wrt work load etc. also differs quite a lot.
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by troels 9y ago
Just to clarify. You get ~15 national holidays. On top of that 6-7 weeks are normal. (At least for Denmark)
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by troels 9y ago
Long term contracting is not much different from 'permanent' employment. But it does come with slightly less safety net (e.g. essentially you can be fired at-will)
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by troels 9y ago
> That, or the client has some pretty free money to burn. You say that as an aside, but it's actually quite relevant. Esp. larger clients will have budgets where the one hiring you isn't directly responsible for the cost -- or
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by troels 9y ago
As measured from where? CET is a pretty wide zone.
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by troels 9y ago
So does foreign currency
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by troels 9y ago
> Having written bespoke scraping systems professionally, I think you overestimate the applicability of this technique. You may be right, but I would say that it shifts the balance. If the content is poisoned, the scraper will have to sp

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