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by mickt 8y ago
The only tech job that mentions remote work is the one titled "Open Source Engineer".
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by mickt 10y ago
PBS did a documentary about this in 2005: https://cosmolearning.org/documentaries/scientific-american-...
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by mickt 12y ago
There does appear to be a lot of negativity around systemd, such as people giving out about binary logging. I'm sure there's got to be a way to enable text logging along with binary logging. This lad seems really enthusiastic abou
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by mickt 12y ago
Location: Boston, MA USA Remote: Depends on salary/location. Willing to relocate: Depends on salary/location. Technologies: Django+Python, Java, Linux+*NIX, Ansible, HPC. Skills: Programmer, Devops, Problem Solver. Résumé/CV:
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by mickt 13y ago
>If you're an employee you spend money where you live, not where you work During the work day most of these people are 40 miles outside SF on self-sufficient campuses, often with free food. That means that during the week they'
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by mickt 13y ago
^R
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by mickt 13y ago
No Anandtech reviews, but here's a few: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2422923,00.asp http://www.androidguys.com/2013/08/30/lenovo-ideatab-a1000-t... I think the average concl
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by mickt 13y ago
Will this be another application that Google lets wither?
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by mickt 13y ago
Or the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2006#Extending_th... Laws written originally to thwart the IRA were used to detain suspects and in many cases innocent people, who happened to be Irish, where convi
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by mickt 13y ago
>Employers do not read my email. In most jurisdictions your work e-mail belongs to the employer and not the employee and can be read and monitored by the employer. Is Israel an exception?
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by mickt 13y ago
Go to any "Army, Navy" store (they sell old military uniforms etc).
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by mickt 13y ago
50% is as much or more than the percentage of tax that most Western Europeans pay and US government entities seem to provide less services compared to their European counterparts. Perhaps part of the reason is the huge portion of the Federa
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by mickt 13y ago
On Chromium 25.0.1364.160 on Ubuntu 13.04 just the running tab died.
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by mickt 13y ago
If that's the case, then it's time for small businesses to take their business elsewhere. The problem is, what other options are there?
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by mickt 14y ago
But Irish people do, and that's partially the point. If this can happen in Ireland or Belgium, you can bet that organizations in other countries will consider doing the same thing.
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by mickt 14y ago
Is the US unique in that you can go to jail for not paying a ticket for a minor traffic violation?
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by mickt 15y ago
I'd never heard of Premium cable network Starz until I read that article, and I guess now I'll never see any of their content. I do have Netflix and I don't have cable. I don't understand why people pay so much money to watch TV?
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by mickt 15y ago
For some reason in the US diesel is more expensive than petrol/gas, see link for prices in the Boston area: http://www.bostongasprices.com/index.aspx?fuel=C I was recently in Ireland and diesel was .10c cheaper a liter.
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by mickt 15y ago
I heard similar stories at a US financial company; lads would work for 6 months, get trained and up to speed, then they would either get head-hunted or look for a better paying job and leave. New people would have to be hired and then be tr
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by mickt 15y ago
It's the first thing I thought of, and it could be a clue as to where MS may lead Skype. Are they going to come out with some killer VOIP app for Windows 7 mobiles phones that will cause us all to drop our iPhones & 'droids?
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by mickt 15y ago
If your logged into Flickr the new homepage look isn't apparent unless one logs out.
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by mickt 15y ago
Unity reminds me a bit of Afterstep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfterStep However, after using regular E/Gnome/KDE/OS X/Windows for so long I feel handicapped with it; for example I can't right click on Unity bar to customise it and it
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by mickt 15y ago
It's also quite possible that you have a more fulfilling life. Just because people are gallivanting hither and thither does make their lives better. Also, the hard work your doing now may aid you in later years with a work ethic your friend
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by mickt 15y ago
And these guys are trying to buy T-Mobile! If they want to be #1, then they should try and do it with better service and planning of their infrastructure instead of dicking around with their customers.
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by mickt 15y ago
Is this Reddit?
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by mickt 16y ago
I'm thinking of just going back to old friend Debian (which I run on my Desktop). Ubuntu almost seems to be trying to be so friendly to newbies that it just gets in my way.
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by mickt 16y ago
"some motherboards are not capable of supplying enough power to their usb ports." That's just lovely. At work someone ordered 2 western digital passports harddrives. They wouldn't work with any Apple laptops that we had (2 15in MBP, a 13in
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by mickt 16y ago
Old KDE fan where, moved from KDE to Gnome, then back and using Gnome for about 4 or 5 years now. Last week I tried KDE 4.5.1 that comes with Ubuntu (I do so every now and then to see if I'll move back). After 30 minutes of trying to get Ne
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by mickt 16y ago
I find it interesting that the Wiki page on Suzhou make little mention of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou#Industry The whole page almost seems like a piece of PR.
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by mickt 16y ago
Reseting them with Cookiesafe on Firefox usually does the trick too.

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