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by unreal37 9y ago
Interesting that this blog basically publicizes the vacation schedule and dates for every employee in the company. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EhvYITqDk-vGzM9yy1uS... It looks like the average number o
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by unreal37 9y ago
You can see their vacation spreadsheet as it's public! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EhvYITqDk-vGzM9yy1uS...
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by unreal37 9y ago
How amazing is it that Tim Berners-Lee mother was one of the first programmers and one of the first freelance programmers. Amazing.
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by unreal37 9y ago
The difference, the $24, comes out of driver's pockets. And also, Uber loses money on every ride. That $26 ride to the airport cost Uber $30. :)
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by unreal37 9y ago
Cologne is the fourth largest city in Germany. Was surprising that Uber didn't work there. Uber "seems" everywhere, but is largely North American.
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by unreal37 9y ago
It took the success of Uber for my local cab companies to offer an app to order a ride, and cut the prices for a taxi. I doubt it would have happened without that. So it happens quite a bit actually.
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by unreal37 9y ago
It honestly sounds like you think $100/hr is the upper limit of consulting earnings. There are at least some people making $250/hr+ as a technical consultant. Is it 0.01%, 0.1% or 1%? Who knows. But it's possible, and it&#x27
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by unreal37 9y ago
Mozilla Foundation reports $500 million per year in revenue. From search engines, primarily Google. So, they're not turning on "private browsing" as the default.
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by unreal37 9y ago
Firefox, Chrome et al exist to serve ads. That's where they get their funding. That's who pulls the strings. Turning off cookies would kill that model for revenue.
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by unreal37 9y ago
Run the benchmark test and see if performance is way below expectation. Just because Apple replaced the phone doesn't mean the battery isn't deficient.
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by unreal37 9y ago
You can see that a LOT more devices were affected on iOS 11. I assume they tweaked the algorithm as to when it's triggered. https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2017/12/iphone-performance-an...
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by unreal37 9y ago
Geekbench https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/geekbench-4/id1130770356
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by unreal37 9y ago
My wife's iPhone has been running slow ever since she upgraded to iOS 11. Literally the day she upgraded, she's regretted. I'll run the speed test later to confirm. But there is absolutely NO warning in iOS that I can see tha
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by unreal37 9y ago
I wonder how many hundreds of sales he got simply from that article.
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by unreal37 9y ago
It seems the author saved around $2000 before quitting his job. And promptly spent $1000 of it on paperwork and such. I know 4 months sounds like a lot, but $2000 does not sound like a lot.
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by unreal37 9y ago
Some credit card companies charge $3 or $5 for transactions made in other currencies, with exchange rate being separate.
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by unreal37 9y ago
What's the transaction fee on a Bitcoin transaction these days? Minimum $1.50? With a 15- or 30-minute delay on confirmations? Not for micro- nor instant-transactions.
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by unreal37 10y ago
But it's true. Reuters is going to treat media reporting in the US like they treat reporting in countries heavy on censorship and hostile to the media. Let's see if that improves the reporting of facts.
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by unreal37 10y ago
He wasn't "lucky" to get a better job. He got it. It's not a lottery. You apply, and someone hires you. If you want a better job, go get it.
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by unreal37 10y ago
He wasn't a "mentor" in the true sense of the word. Just a random guy he helped a few times. That's not a mentor.
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by unreal37 10y ago
TL;DR "Helping people is evil." I get the point you're making of the people who didn't get the job that were hurt. And the employer was hurt too. But you can't put the blame on "helping people". Who you ma
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by unreal37 10y ago
That was an odd part of the story. If you make less than someone, you're not really "mentoring them" in that.
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by unreal37 10y ago
20 years ago I worked for a major gasoline refiner in Canada, who supplied the gasoline for all of the gas stations in Toronto. Esso, Shell, BP, Petro-Canada, Sunoco - all bought their gas from the same refinery. The whole WORLD is branding
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by unreal37 10y ago
In fact they do. "Since 2011, PayPal has been required by the IRS to report the sales of goods and services for customers who, in a single year receive: More than $20,000 USD, AND 200 or more payments." [1] https://www.
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Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts(npr.org)
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by unreal37 10y ago
I'm not even talking about the software. I'm talking about the people that were the active maintainers who made a few attempts to connect with him over the course of a year, being let down. And the response after that time of &quo
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by unreal37 10y ago
If he's avoiding thinking about this, then it doesn't matter what the communications channel is except "in person" or "email from a close friend".
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by unreal37 10y ago
I see you are the founder of Coverity. It might seem unfair, but you stated that "every customer wanted to know that". So that project has value to you.
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by unreal37 10y ago
It's still not a good sign that it took this level of public attention to get you to reply to the active community on their urgent needs.
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by unreal37 10y ago
I just had dinner with someone two days ago who had this idea. "Who owns a fax machine any more? Sometimes you have to fax a document, so someone should create a service where you send your document to them and they fax it for you.&quo

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