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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 bo…

Yeah, but for those they have a cheat sheet next to the register.

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 li…

Some dialects allow you to hint to what index to use.

wtf Brought to you by the same folks who figured that locale settings should determine how CSV is generated/interpreted.

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 emplo…

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 …

You seem to assume that the company/management would act rationally. I'm going to guess that you are an engineer?

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 b…

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.

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 …

Curious - Where do you have the information fro that TAG have a smaller advertising budget than Rolex? I would've assumed the opposite.

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 …

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), …

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).

> 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 gr…

How does that benefit you though?

I'm sure Microsoft had the same reasoning about IE.

" ... so I transitioned to an automatic" Clever.

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 l…

Yes, it's the good ole "trap street". Works for combating scrapers too.

"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) (...)"

> I've already made some comments about rewriting it and the response was basically "ok". Response from whom? The previous developer?

It's in the second paragraph. But I agree that it's a terrible name.

Not sure I buy in to the whole thesis here, but I really like the term "managerial feudalism" - Great little soundbite.