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honest_george
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Comment #35611184
> Adults don't want to behave like they used to behave as kids. > They don't want to spontaneously talk randomly about something to an unknown person, because that comes with risks…
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Comment #20766681
Something's seriously wrong with your browser/encoding. It seems all apostrophes in your message are replaced by ’ (a with hat, euro symbol, TM symbol).
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Comment #17365722
While I can't speak for US law, most of the time it's the delivery address that matters - if the location you're at when purchasing matters, you could do all of your expensive on-l…
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Comment #16810715
Note that this only works if you're working with small amounts of data. CSV with 5 million lines are no issue at all, just don't try this in Excel.
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Comment #16772880
I couldn't even read the article, it may as well be written in a different language.
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Comment #16527806
It's the best thing you can do at the time, but some managers take this badly. It makes it more difficult for them to throw you to the wolves.
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Comment #16268041
This also means that if you're working for small company, you should charge small amounts of money. Or just reject the project entirely. Because anyone claiming he can bring 500k a…
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Comment #16231605
Waze's routes are a little more aggressive. Which, if you spend a lot of time in a car, can add up.
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Comment #16229882
How much heat would you lose by submerging your head and neck, versus how much would you gain by keeping the fetal position? I'm not sure if that's a positive tradeoff.
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Comment #16037250
Same here, in Gmail.
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Comment #15959670
And then Windows decides you've had enough time to reboot. And you have to click "Ask me again for reboot in 4 hours", because 4 hours is the maximum time the system will allow. An…
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Comment #12546082
For more context, consider (1). It shows the expected pay for someone with a masters in comp sci, working as an engineer in Belgium. It tops out at just over 5k (gross) a month, so…
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Comment #9546762
That link seems to be geolocation-specific. For me it returns salaries from 23 to 31k [1] [1] https://imgur.com/cCq85nI
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Comment #8138617
You can always sue of course (there is no union in the company). But what would you gain by doing so? They might be forced to hire you again, in which case you can be assured you w…
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Comment #8138572
I've had very different experiences working in the EU (Belgium). On my first day of work, I received a document containing company rules and guidelines. Overtime is never paid and …