__chrismc

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by __chrismc 11y ago
No, his boss isn't stupid, he's exercising the "duty of care" part of being a decent boss. If you're sick, you should stay home and recover, whether you think you can be as productive or not (from personal experienc
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by __chrismc 11y ago
Same here - in fact, I've had to say this to members of my own team recently. It's strictly forbidden by HR - if you're sick, you take days off until you're better, so you are not putting yourself at risk of getting wors
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by __chrismc 11y ago
As someone who has to give the news about the review outcome, I can confirm this from my own experience as well. Pretty much only those who come out of it as "top-tier" get any benefit, and no amount of "spin" will cushi
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by __chrismc 11y ago
We possibly work for the same company, as our system - flaws and all - are identical to what you describe. As someone who has to carry out both sides of the process (reviewing staff/managing them through the process, and getting my own
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by __chrismc 11y ago
While I appreciate the work you've put into this, why should I use this over messenger.com? edit to add: by which I mean "what's your main selling point?"
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by __chrismc 11y ago
It's not forced. You can very easily not pay the license fee. I don't, and haven't for ~18 months, with the full knowledge of the TV License authority. You just have to follow a simple rule of not watching or listening to liv
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by __chrismc 11y ago
I met mine on Tinder, 7 months ago. We moved in together last month. Before that I'd done the "normal" chatting up someone in a bar (that's how I met my ex-wife), or meeting through acquaintances. Online dating can work
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by __chrismc 11y ago
Me and a friend tried it with a (UK) bank note while we were at school, way back in the 90's, and received a warning about not being allowed to print scanned currency on screen when the scan finished. It might not have been Photoshop w
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by __chrismc 12y ago
As someone who's travelled 10,000 mile round-trips for final interviews, only to lose out on "culture fit," I find it the most frustrating excuse for not getting a job I have otherwise proven over previous interview rounds th
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by __chrismc 12y ago
> Being able to share data plans with phones at nominal cost would be one interesting upgrade driver but that's really in the hands of the carriers and is unlikely Vodafone in the UK will let you do this (with no extra fee). They&#x
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Why we don’t have technical interviews for technical roles at Buffer(medium.com)
17 points by __chrismc 12y ago|4 comments
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Amazon faces European Union tax avoidance investigation(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by __chrismc 12y ago|0 comments
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by __chrismc 12y ago
You're not alone. I've been in my current job ~3.5 years - every day I've read through (and sometimes speculatively applied for) many job postings. I like my job, but that doesn't stop me keeping an eye out for something
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by __chrismc 12y ago
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Not likely in the short-term Technologies: ASP.NET (MVC mainly), PHP, HTML/CSS, some JS, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Windows Server, Linux, Mac Resume: On Request Email: chri
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by __chrismc 12y ago
This is similar to my experience (iPhone 5S, 8.0.2), though often I don't even need to reboot. Open the Health app; no data; close it; do something else for 1-2 minutes; reopen - data is now visible.
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by __chrismc 12y ago
I'd say it's the opposite. Selling radical change is harder than selling the status quo. The Yes campaign has to prove Scotland "has what it takes" and dispel all the fears and uncertainty which comes from big change. Al
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by __chrismc 12y ago
We have an old Scots phrase: "common weal," meaning both wealth shared in common and for the well-being of all. Sounds fairly close to some definitions of Socialism. On renationalisation, as noted elsewhere in this thread, the ide
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by __chrismc 12y ago
It's worth pointing out that the only variance it can make under the existing powers is to _raise_ income taxes - this is why it's never been used. Doing so would be political suicide and see a population drain as those able to wo
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Tech as the Teen Common Ground(nickbradbury.com)
2 points by __chrismc 12y ago|0 comments
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by __chrismc 12y ago
I've found an increasing number of sites use validation preventing the use of '+' in email addresses (which I used extensively when on Gmail). To get around this, I use a feature of Fastmail to give me something similar - &lt
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by __chrismc 12y ago
Moveable Type was the first blog system I used, over 12 years ago. Oh the memories... my first exposure to Perl and setting up sites on a shared host. Slacking off in university labs to tweak the theme files/write posts/work out w
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by __chrismc 12y ago
Have you tried installing the Infiniality bundle? It's a replacement set of libraries that definitely improved the font rendering in Arch, to my eyes at least. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality-bundle
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by __chrismc 12y ago
My heating system's got a proprietary wireless thermostat/control box (I guess what Nest refer to as a "programmer"), but it's a newer combi-boiler, less than 5 years old. The previous heating system had no thermost
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by __chrismc 13y ago
Good point. I've done this in the past (i.e. back when I was at university) - speed up cooking ramen noodles (or "super noodles") by pouring a boiled kettle into the hot pan. But these days my kettle is almost solely used as
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by __chrismc 13y ago
I don't even drink tea, and I have an electric kettle. In case any guests want tea. It's the "done thing", as they say.
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by __chrismc 13y ago
Yes they are. They changed their surname to Windsor after high anti-German sentiment during WW1. [1] Prior to that they were the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's.[2] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor [2]: htt
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Wordpress-to-Jekyll Exporter Plugin(github.com)
1 points by __chrismc 13y ago|0 comments
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by __chrismc 13y ago
Don't forget to account for licensing (after all, this is Oracle), hardware/hosting, software 'maintenance' fees, etc... I'd have thought a significant part of the $40m figure to be in these types of cost alone.
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by __chrismc 13y ago
I had my first trip to SF last week. I knew ahead of time there was a problem of large numbers of homeless, and some of the underlying reasons for it. Even though, I was completely unprepared for the sheer scale of the issue - it was way
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by __chrismc 13y ago
Why do you rate GitHub's support as "poor"?

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