walshemj

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   by walshemj 7y ago

   Telecoms is a bit more rigorous when it comes to standards :-) Back when I worked in that area our standards collection for x.400 /x.500 took up about 1/3 of a full hight cupboard
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   by walshemj 7y ago

   That's situational in the UK IT is short hand for working in tech
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   by walshemj 7y ago

   "Unfair" sorry that's not how capitalism works
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   by walshemj 7y ago

   Its Related works eg if you are a semi pro musician your employer has no claim on any songs you write.
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   by walshemj 7y ago

   And MOP never heard that one in the UK
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   by walshemj 7y ago

   Depends on country in Anglo Saxon law (UK USA) its the norm. And many European countries eg Germany just have it as part of the general labor law - so you wouldn't see it in a "contract"
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   by walshemj 7y ago

   Fair enough but those sort of interesting jobs are A rare and B badly paid.
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   by walshemj 7y ago

   Exactly what reputation is this? I have heard that about a former employer British Telecom, I suspect it varies I can imagine the sort that went into CS and rote learned their way to a Degree might have a problem. Not that some of googles p
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   by walshemj 7y ago

   This is indeed's business model - certainly that's what the big uk recruitment sites thought.
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    Its more a dark joke about the large number of protestant splinter groups that founded most of the colonies. Some left the UK and the Netherlands as those countries where to liberal in terms of freedom of religion.
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    And pitching small stocks (which appear to be unlisted) that return 15% yoy - sounds rather shady.
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    Would you like to cite any studies on why the 99.99% of tech employees /workers don't need unions. An most tech workers pay is not "monstrous" compared to our peers in other professions - even more so out side of SV The
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    We are all workers in the end
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    Brought dell -; relatek audio is shite
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    I wonder exactly what you have done to windows to cause those problems - all these problems people mention here I haven't see any real problems. Where you using the windows git client that plus atom with the right plugins is great The
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    A Union is a Union not a employment agency
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    Everyone needs unions - not just the little people.
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    And in the UK "tech" and "Entertainment" are in the same union. There is a lot of similarity and crossover between teh workers in that area.
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    They are not Google employees here they are employed by a third party.
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    They way I do this (in the UK using ISA's and mostly Investment Trust based) is when an individual stock gets to big relative is to stop reinvesting dividends in that stock and reinvest that dividend in other's. At the moment I j
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    For me it was reading the riddle of the sands and about 20 years ago I passed on the chance to do a leg of the round the world yacht race - I was worried about my existing medical condition meaning I would need a medicvac and spoil the race
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    In the end we bit the bullet and rebranded on a more secure platform - it was flaws in a diy solution that allowed the hackers in.
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    I have had (in the uk) a few recently - they stopped after the last one after I answered in my best BT Phone Voice "Met Police Duty Officer"
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    Happened to some of the sites I looked after - its when your SERP snippet changes and you see traffic for pharma and porn terms.
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    Not "bloggers" its black hat SEO
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    And buzfeed could see this happening to them if they looked at their logfiles
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    Google does take action and completely drop hacked sites like this. Happened to a client of mine back in 2008 ish hackers added thousands of links to porn sites by creating thousands of pages
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    And also an airport works extended hours if not 24/7 so for those starting early or finishing late public transport my not be as practicable as a strict 9-5 job
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    And in a similar vein John Company taking over India
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    by walshemj 7y ago

    I think you need to reform employee stock options - in the UK there are far less possibilities to screw employees over stock options.