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Tyrannosaurs

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About Tyrannosaurs

Tired, slightly geeky, domesticated generalist based in Glasgow, Scotland.

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    Comment #9129533

    The thing I like about CSM is if you hover over (or click on, I can't recall exactly) the ratings for each category they outline why which helps you make your own mind up how flexi…

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    Comment #8984053

    everybody* * not everybody

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    Comment #8898693

    You might want to have a think about what the drug trade does and has done to some South American and East Asia counties before you cry victimless. A legalised drug trade could be …

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    Comment #8850506

    A bit more on this: Android licencing means that no company is allowed to ship both Google Android and non-Google Android. This means that to ship Google Android on the phone they …

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    Comment #8844829

    Two KSP mentions: Q: In order to use the full MCT design (100 passengers), will BFR be one core or 3 cores? EM: At first, I was thinking we would just scale up Falcon Heavy, but it…

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    Comment #8704493

    Australia also has crocodiles, box jelly fish, sharks, lethal spiders... I don't think that I'm imagining that Australia has more species of lethal animals than any other country. …

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    Comment #8703785

    Interestingly if you put in the cliche American free market priorities (jobs, income high, safety, work life balance, environment low, everything else in the middle) the US does co…

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    Comment #8681312

    Worth pointing out now that Ember Data is still in Beta. It's a late Beta so you're probably safe but it's not impossible that it will change.

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    Comment #8681303

    We're using Ember and have been for a couple of years now and it's come a long way in that time. 12 months ago I'd have struggled to recommend it but it's improved significantly. W…

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    Comment #8670563

    Plus you opt out of the recommendations. I'm not sure what that means for it actually scanning your device and passing it to Twitter.

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    Comment #8667089

    Switching costs are low but the barriers to entry into the market are massive - Larry and Sergi starting out today wouldn't be able to build a competitive search engine. The more i…

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    Comment #8667014

    That would be an oligopoly and illegal. They could no more do that than oil companies could (legally) conspire to fix prices.

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    Comment #8629998

    You don't have web browsers on Linux? ;-)

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    Comment #8607374

    Given how over subscribed the beta is I think they're getting feedback. Remember with this sort of product the questions they have are "is this interesting?", "is this useful?", "d…

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    Comment #8607358

    I might agree with some things but not with e-mail, it's too important to most people say "hey this is probably OK but who knows". And because of that there is the risk of reputati…

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    Comment #8607042

    I disagree. They're short cuts you might take to get a product out and get early feedback, the same sort of shortcuts most of us have taken when pushed to release something sooner.…

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    Comment #8607014

    The last paragraph: "However, we still haven't figured out exactly why Google is blocking Inbox on Firefox. That the application is not working, seems to not be fully true. With so…

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    Comment #8606437

    Yep. My personal view from my interactions with HR (as a manager looking at redundancy, poor performance, sickness) is that they're best viewed as the Employment Law team.

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    Comment #8602271

    > Even a basic knowledge of labour laws is not a pre-requisite for a career in HR. This might be a US-centric view. In the UK if you don't know employment law you're no use as an H…

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    Comment #8602261

    HR is there to protect the company from all staff - yes you but also your manager and his/her ignorance of employment law. Maybe it's just a European thing but I've seen more HR pr…

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    Comment #8601183

    Google+ not being actively maintained by someone? I'm shocked I tell you...

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    Comment #8601006

    I agree re Linux and OSX but I could see iOS and Android. The scale of mobile is such that if you want to be relevant in the way MS have historically, they're two platforms you can…