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by user5994461 5y ago
I can only comment in the general case, I don't know your personal situation obviously. Contractors cannot be at arms length. There has to be an arrangement with the employer (Google here) and the contracting firms to pay. That means t
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by user5994461 5y ago
The employer pays the contracting firm based on the timesheet, then the contracting firm pays the employee based on the timesheet/pay they were forwarded. When there's a problem with the employee not being paid, the root cause oft
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by user5994461 5y ago
Modern web frameworks generate a lot of connections. Let's say, a typical application may run on 4 instances each one with 16 cores. That means a total of 64 processes because one process per core. Each process opens 16 connections to
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by user5994461 5y ago
The IR35 change was needed to stop companies skipping taxes, benefits, pensions and holidays by hiring contractors. It's not a failure and it was beneficial to low-pay workers. As bad the UK government may be, it's not their fault
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by user5994461 5y ago
There is no maths to do. The company has to pay for hours worked.
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by user5994461 5y ago
HR is always involved with external contractors. The way contracting usually work is that the contractor must submit timesheets daily or weekly to a supervisor at the parent company. The supervisor must approve the timesheet. The contractor
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by user5994461 5y ago
My advice is to get a Anker USB-C to HDMI cable. One cable per display. It works well for 4k@60Hz and it's one of the cheaper solution at ~ 20$ per cable. Cherry on top, it's sold by AnkerDirect on Amazon, which is the genuine man
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by user5994461 5y ago
My advice is to not use docks. They cause too much troubles. It's game over as soon as you try to plug multiple displays and/or 4k displays. Connect each display with a dedicated cable, thunderbolt to HDMI. Works better. The only
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by user5994461 5y ago
Of course nobody wants these jobs. A lot of positions were filled by tourists and travelers who stayed there for a little while and worked a bit to earn side money. - Staff at a restaurant is £8 an hour, that is minimum wage. - Expect two s
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by user5994461 5y ago
Arbitration clauses aren't binding. It's a perfect example of something that is very common and abused in the US, yet has zero bearing in the rest of the world. ^^ A clause that tries to define particular types of torts/defen
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by user5994461 5y ago
For Windows XP, you have to go to device manager and uninstall the CPU and/or the motherboard, that will reset them to generic ACPI something if I recall well. I've done it once, migrating a very old machine to new hardware by jus
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by user5994461 5y ago
Do you know if the company appealed to the cour de cassation?
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by user5994461 5y ago
think: Orange makes software for the government, that the government pays for, that actually turns out to be existing software owned by someone else and under GPL license (which extends to the whole project and has other implications). That
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by user5994461 5y ago
The license already has preconditions. That's part of the problem. To determine whether there is a violation (copyright or anything), it first requires to determine whether the conditions are respected, which first requires to determin
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by user5994461 5y ago
How about I make a second article to explain licenses vs contracts in US and the rest of the world? Your question went to US court in 2017. I wanted to cover that briefly but the blog is already quite long without getting into more specific
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by user5994461 5y ago
Found more info: If I understand alright, it's about somebody selling 13 656 illegitimate copies of Windows. Microsoft went all the way to cour de cassation because they wanted to get full price for each copy and the court wanted to us
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by user5994461 5y ago
Interesting case https://www.legalis.net/jurisprudences/cour-de-cassation-ch-... Looks like it's about someone selling Windows, without paying Microsoft and/or without having a reseller partnership with Micro
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by user5994461 5y ago
What for? What's the relevance of the FSF here? Well, if you really want an anecdote with the FSF. I happen to have one :D The court used the French GPL translation from the FSF. The very translations saying that they are not official
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by user5994461 5y ago
Reverse engineering is allowed under French law, there are specific legal exemptions around that. It's common to see EULA/license/contracts with clauses that prohibit reverse engineering, these clauses are void in France and
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by user5994461 5y ago
Full title too long for HN "French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid; must be enforced via contractual dispute" There was a brief HN discussion on the initial ruling 2 years ago https:/&#
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French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid(thehftguy.com)
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by user5994461 5y ago
Commenter is talking about retail banks that outsource everything. They get bottom of the barrel outsourcing firms that sends them any hot body that's available (you don't need to be a developer to enter an outsourcing firm). Add
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by user5994461 5y ago
You conclude that most EU countries have a credit score by linking to a Wikipedia article showing that almost none European country has a credit score?
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by user5994461 5y ago
That's certainly an effective way to get a bad rep and cut yourself from half the job market. In the UK, an enormous amount of jobs goes through recruiters. Even if you did not get your current job from recruiters, it's quite like
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by user5994461 5y ago
Definitely SEO and low content spam. Look at the tabs on the website, a page to Win $100, a blog that's low content meme spam written by third party authors. https://metameme.app/blog/ Ideally he should be cross p
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by user5994461 5y ago
It's unusable today, more so than it was a decade ago: - modern frameworks have a much higher startup time (see Python imports, Java VM and other). CGI was fine to run a perl script with no dependencies. - it prevents any form of cachi
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by user5994461 5y ago
update: hit the jackpot the library is currently in use by Heroku/SalesForce to build deploy java apps (or something like that) https://github.com/heroku/java-buildpack/blob/master/go.mod I wonder w
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by user5994461 5y ago
>>> I also think it shows that licenses really don't matter all that much as some people think, they are not computer code. They matter as long you're willing to enforce them, and have the time and money to do so. In that
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by user5994461 5y ago
>>> I'm not sure what it looks like at the entry level end, but for experienced hires it's busy. Busy doesn't mean hiring, it just means they are sending candidates continuously (to fail). The reality is that high fi
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by user5994461 5y ago
Windows has a function EnumWindows() to do just that. If you say that there's an similar API on Linux for X11, then that's the same methodology across platforms.

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