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by vellum 14y ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17654781 : Research published last year by Mercer HR suggested there was a statutory minimum of 14 in Spain, 13 in Portugal, 12 in Greece, 11 in France, and nine in Germany and Ireland. It found US and Au
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by vellum 14y ago
Some places have crazy HR filters that are keyword based so applicants try the “better safe than sorry” approach. If they’re smart, they usually list specify what language they used at each job, so you can get a rough idea of their compete
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by vellum 14y ago
You should put up a screenshot on the front page. Also, the demo link just looks like regular text.
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Ford smart car locks your phone when you’re stressed or distracted(extremetech.com)
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Yahoo, Facebook settle patent dispute, ad alliance(bostonglobe.com)
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by vellum 14y ago
Good idea, but how would you determine who is a "patent troll"? Some of them are more obvious, like i2z. But 1-click is also a bullshit patent. Big companies like Amazon like to use patents both defensively and offensively. They're not
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by vellum 14y ago
DFP: Dart for Publishers http://www.google.com/doubleclick/publishers/dart.html DFA: Doubleclick for Advertisers http://www.google.com/doubleclick/advertisers/dfa.html SSP: Supply Side Platform http://www.adopsinsider.com/ad-exchanges
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by vellum 14y ago
Yes.
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by vellum 14y ago
The home page design looks good. I'd think twice about requiring registration to browse. You have to at least show some sample listing pages so people can see what they're missing.
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Vacation Sabotage: Don’t Let It Happen to You(travel.nytimes.com)
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by vellum 14y ago
According to a poster on ToyTown Germany (expat site), web devs can get a freelance visa. http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t215325.html "Hi scabadaska, I do exactly what it is you are talking about doing: Web application devel
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by vellum 14y ago
I agree. Github is like a portfolio. But you don't need a portfolio if you're a great developer with a strong network.
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by vellum 14y ago
"Currently we're in double stealth mode (the public doesn't know what we're building and neither do we)." +1. That's excellent. I did a google search for desks from South African railways, and didn't find anything. But you can get desks
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A Georgia Town Takes the People’s Business Private(nytimes.com)
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by vellum 14y ago
Have you tried attending some meetups in Paris? Go to the coder ones. Berlin has a good startup scene as well. Another option is to travel to SF for a few weeks and go to some meetups there.
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by vellum 14y ago
If you want to open a business bank account in California, you need paperwork from the California Secretary of State. HSBC, Chase, Wells Fargo all asked for it. If someone managed to get an account without the paperwork, I'd like to know
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by vellum 14y ago
Marco Arment had a good quote about frustration: "And there will certainly be hard parts: you’ll get frustrated, go to Google, find some guidance, bang against it for a while, then finally get it working and experience immense satisfaction
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by vellum 14y ago
An alternative solution might be to just sell DRM-free pdfs, mobis and epub files on a non-Amazon service, since most people hate DRM.
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Is It O.K. to Be a Mediocre Employee?(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by vellum 14y ago
Meebo was based out of Mountain View, right next to Red Rock Cafe.
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by vellum 14y ago
Good luck with that if you're American. Thanks to the new IRS regs, a lot of foreign banks won't do business with Americans. http://www.accountingtoday.com/debits_credits/Taxpayers-Stra...
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by vellum 14y ago
Teens also have better eyesight. I used to read a lot of paper books when I was a kid. By the time I got to college, the only thing I read were textbooks, because I hated squinting at tiny print. Publishers have an incentive to be stingy
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by vellum 14y ago
So he's basically the Danish Tucker Max?
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by vellum 15y ago
Some more context: According to Opensecrets[1]: Computers/Internet spent $125.6M in 2011. TV/Movies/Music spent $123.2M Telecom spent $58.9M 1: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&...
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by vellum 15y ago
You can use Firefox's Private Browsing mode or Chrome Incognito mode if you've used up your 10 articles.
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by vellum 15y ago
You're going to run into a world of trouble thanks to the new FATCA law [1]. You better have a good lawyer and accountant lined up. 1: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/business/global/for-americ...
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by vellum 15y ago
If you're going to use Arabic to pick up women in conservative Middle Eastern countries, you need to: 1.) buy a phone with bluetooth [1], 2.) learn the Arabic chat alphabet [2]. Links: 1: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8916890/ns/world_news-m
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by vellum 15y ago
people consistently over-estimated my language abilities, and as a result said a ton of stuff I couldn't understand The same thing happened to me in South America. I studied Spanish in high school, but when I asked someone a question the
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Free "Extended Cut" DLC to expand, clarify Mass Effect 3 ending this summer(arstechnica.com)
1 points by vellum 15y ago|0 comments
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An Expert's View on Google's Goggles(technologyreview.com)
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