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by aragot 12y ago
Spain has a 15-days notice for termination and Luxembourg 1-month, France 3 months for IT jobs (I'm French) and I guess employee protection laws are proportional to those figures. So I wonder whether it's essntially France which i
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by aragot 12y ago
The default accountability rules say 3 years (or maybe "minimum 3 years"). Therefore older hardware is assumed to have no value, unless someone takes the time to think about it.
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by aragot 12y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I'd like the choice to rebalance my donations at the end of the month. Stackoverflow (if it were a charity) is immensely useful to my business while BuzzFeed isn't. If donations are proportional to c
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by aragot 12y ago
Is 1-3$ enough? If we had to invoice "the internet" and OSS to users instead of financing it with ads, wouldn't it require something starting above 1. $40/month for the charity websites and 2. $600 per machine (the equiv
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by aragot 12y ago
In many countries, companies have a tax incentive to contribute to charities, up to 1% of their income. Billing this as a normal service to customers then transferring the money to charities after a tax-reduction scheme could be a way to fu
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by aragot 12y ago
There's only one way to reach peace: By not attacking the other party and by giving up past debts, altogether at a country level. Example: The current way we deal with respect for women in IT is to raise those problems, get people fire
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by aragot 12y ago
It often happens in US to fire executives because of bad PR, undepending on their work. It doesn't have to be - How do they do on other continents? And this kind of be-perfect-or-be-banned rule doesn't have to extend to LTEs or ev
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by aragot 12y ago
> inexperienced driver's reliance on Google Maps for navigation When I lived in Sydney, I used to take the taxi often. And the rule was pretty much: If your address doesn't exist on Google Maps, they don't know how to get
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by aragot 12y ago
I've had positive experience with Postgresql, but I haven't personnaly witnessed how it behaves in production. In my opinion there aren't good alternatives to a recursive query: - Send one request for each level of hierarchy?
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by aragot 12y ago
Whether you like it or not, redistribution is the basis for most of the laws of my country (and certainly yours). It's not up to you or me, it's how the People think. In fact, that's what the OP is about. It is besides the po
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by aragot 12y ago
I'm worried about the form of the redistribution. In France, we have small taxes in many places. Just one example: We dealt with copyright issues by creating a tax on storage mediums, from a few cents to 20-40€ depending on the contain
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by aragot 12y ago
... or they could develop badware for Ubuntu.
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by aragot 12y ago
If I pay 1900-2200$ for a deluxe laptop, I would be keen to pay about 300$ more and have a deluxe Linux. Please Canonical, charge me but give me the deluxe experience ;)
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by aragot 12y ago
And drop the services we like a lot.
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by aragot 12y ago
How is it legal to talk about it? Surely they've brickwalled them in the employment contracts saying "The employee agrees not to publicize events happening inside the company, with no limit of time, or the employee agrees to compe
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by aragot 12y ago
Yes it explains a full range of behaviors in life. It seems we can go over such "facts" in non-challenging situations and dismiss them as non-relevant, but there's a point where we're emotionnaly overwhelmed and take tho
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by aragot 12y ago
A relative worked for an alcohol post-rehab center (Patients would get the severage in the hospital first for a fortnight, then go to rehab for several months). She says former drinkers almost never come here on their own choice. They'
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by aragot 12y ago
Atlassian shows the source code to their customers, even without being open-source. They don't give redistribution rights obviously, but this has proven very useful in developing the ecosystem of plugin developers. Many people to date
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by aragot 12y ago
Technically, this is impossible because their build system and shared libraries [0] Commercially, this is exactly the right thing to do! Then you can only blame customers for not buying shares of the spin-off! [0] https://news.yc
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by aragot 12y ago
In a previous video posted on HN, a police officer explains how they would use a concession made by a honest humble person during an interview to boost their conviction rate: "Sure, I never like the guy. But I would never do anything m
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by aragot 12y ago
Why should global warming taxes be also an instrument to rebalance wealth? That's exactly what discredits them when I push for them as a debate: The middle class feel very insecure about "redistribution".
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by aragot 12y ago
Correct, we all are in startups with 90% chance of failure ;) More seriously, I laugh when former colleagues think of me as successful. It's correct that I've launched a successful product, but money is so random that I rather con
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by aragot 12y ago
Good from EFF to advertise companies who have a good behavior, but what sensitive information does reddit manage? It seems to me like it's only logins and IP addresses, so it's not like they are in charge of emails, maps of where
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by aragot 12y ago
I've always been i trigued by the CAPS in the BSD license. On what criteria was the text uppercased? Does it give it more weight in a court? Then why isn't every clause uppercased?
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by aragot 12y ago
I think the earthshaking point of the agreement is: Reputation. With Twitter info, Google will be able to determine who are the leaders in the world. As the founder of a small, bootstrapped product, I know that my competitors are able to le
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by aragot 12y ago
There's a "friends fallacy": Statistically, your friends have more friends than you. It's a true mathematical fact, due to the fact that the people with a lot of friends weigh a lot in the average of a lot of people. So
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by aragot 12y ago
Sorry I "arrived late at the party", was Turbo Pascal ever used beyond business applications? I've always thought it was a cool programming language but that C was the massive leader.
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by aragot 12y ago
I haven't looked at it for long, but as I remember it could help if there was a visualized for those files. Often it's a png, a jar, it would be less frustrating if it could open anyway, just in the right editor?
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by aragot 12y ago
And yet the graph seems exact: According to the Telegraph, Apple's sales in 1982 were indeed $1b. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/steve-jobs/8810045/Ste...
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by aragot 12y ago
Obligatory quote: http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25 - "9, 9, 9, 9... -Are you sure that's random? -That's the problem with randomness: You can never be sure."

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