troels

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by troels 7y ago
I wonder if that might backfire. I've been using Chromium for a while now, but whenever I need to see video, I copy paste the url over to Firefox. At some point, I'm going to be bothered enough to just switch permanently to Firefo
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by troels 7y ago
Yeah, but for those they have a cheat sheet next to the register.
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by troels 7y ago
They stuck to it for a long time and the argument was indeed speed and to some extend ergonomics (the cashier doesn't need to lift up items). There is a system to it (100-199 is liquor, 400-499 dairy etc.), so it's fairly easy to
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by troels 7y ago
Some dialects allow you to hint to what index to use.
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by troels 7y ago
wtf Brought to you by the same folks who figured that locale settings should determine how CSV is generated/interpreted.
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by troels 7y ago
And because everyone knows this, a contractor can easily charge 2-3 times what an employee makes - aka what they're actually worth. The system works (Except of course for the employees)
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by troels 7y ago
This is the "common knowledge" thing to do, but I don't think it's always applicable. If you have an advantage in the market (e.g. are sought after), you can simply present a high figure and either they accept or you mov
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by troels 7y ago
You seem to assume that the company/management would act rationally. I'm going to guess that you are an engineer?
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by troels 8y ago
This is very accurate. I think it might be somewhat true for the majority of the workforce though. For specialised roles such as developers, management etc. I think the spread is bigger. If I were to guess, I would say that the lower bound
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by troels 8y ago
It also seems to apply to all types of employees, not tech specifically. The executive is from ISS, which is a services company, not a tech company.
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by troels 8y ago
Ok - Thought perhaps I was missing something. The analogy probably isn't a good fit for luxury watches, which is a truly weird industry. Rolex, with their near-mythological status could probably shut down all advertisement and still
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by troels 8y ago
Curious - Where do you have the information fro that TAG have a smaller advertising budget than Rolex? I would've assumed the opposite.
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by troels 8y ago
It really depends on why you want to join a startup/where you are in your career. If you are young, you probably want to focus on gaining experience and build your network. If you are older, you may value financial aspects more.
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by troels 8y ago
The Army decided some years ago to give every Company (~140 people) a Raven drone for recon. However, it's a huge deal if it gets lost (if the GPS guidance were to suddenly fail), so no one ever uses them to avoid the fallout as
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by troels 8y ago
Same in Denmark, at least for DUI. You'll get roughly 10 x BAC x monthly salary (post tax). A local footballer famously got hit hard by this, with a fine of DKK 842K (~ USD 130K).
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by troels 8y ago
> It's a bit heartbreaking at first (you spend hours/days/weeks working on something, and then a fellow hacker comes and cuts of the unnecessary pieces), but in the long run I'm grateful we do that. The single hardest
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by troels 8y ago
How does that benefit you though?
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by troels 8y ago
I'm sure Microsoft had the same reasoning about IE.
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by troels 8y ago
" ... so I transitioned to an automatic" Clever.
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by troels 8y ago
Somewhat related. I wonder how often someone would plant false information that would cause a panic sell-off, then buy on the dip, before everyone realise that it was a lie? It's like the opposite of inside information. (Does this part
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by troels 8y ago
Yes, it's the good ole "trap street". Works for combating scrapers too.
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by troels 8y ago
"A collection of papers written in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452, d. 1519), in his characteristic left-handed mirror-writing (reading from right to left) (...)"
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by troels 8y ago
> I've already made some comments about rewriting it and the response was basically "ok". Response from whom? The previous developer?
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by troels 8y ago
It's in the second paragraph. But I agree that it's a terrible name.
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by troels 8y ago
Not sure I buy in to the whole thesis here, but I really like the term "managerial feudalism" - Great little soundbite.
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by troels 8y ago
Reminded me of this little gem. Seems there's a whole tradition of inventors of pesticides offering to eat it on camera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtcXXbuR244
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by troels 8y ago
Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying the difference.
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by troels 8y ago
I'm confused: Some subjects, which included prison inmates, developed tumors from the injected cells. and later When I asked, “What if they had?” he calmly replied, “If they did, we’d just cut it out.” So did they or
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by troels 8y ago
Yeah, I was addressing the inconsistent space between "if" and opening parentheses.
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by troels 8y ago
It probably makes me rather pedantic, but if you write about programming style, I expect you to format your code consistently. It's either `if(record == null) {` or `if (result != null) {`. Make up your mind (I know which one I prefer,

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