The statutory weekly rate of Paternity Pay and Additional Paternity Pay is £139.58, or 90% of your average weekly earnings (whichever is lower).
This a pittance, especially for those of us who live in London. We couldn't afford to live off this if I wanted to take off more than the two weeks that I'd get at full pay. This whole 52 weeks paid leave is BS as far as I can tell, but made some good publicity for the last government.
Is there something special about Silicon Valley professionals that cause the incidence of cluster headaches to be much higher than than in the general population (to the point it's mentioned in the story)? According to Wikipedia at least, 0.2% of people suffer from cluster headaches, which seems pretty infrequent. Compare with migraines for instance, which affect 15% (19% of men), which I don't see too many people getting on a daily basis (my wife suffers, and at one migraine every 1-2 months it's difficult to remember when one caused serious disruption, but then again she's Aussie and thus tougher than most Silicon Valley professional:P ).
This goes back to the days of Netscape. I remember having a discussion here in the Mozilla Suite days before Firefox took off about how they should at least separate browser, calendar and mail/news tools in to separate processes. Devs at the time claimed it was too difficult and would break tight integration between these parts of the app. Same story now with the whole multi-process browser thing, and it all points to poor architecture and poor engineering skills at Mozilla.
Any idea whether they've fixed the performance issues with TrueCrypt? I tried to use it to secure some large customer movie files (e.g. 75 - 250 GB range) and found that when writing these files that it gets slower and slower, from tens of MB/s dropping steadily down to KB/s after several hours of copying a large file. Files beyond a certain size take so long to write that I couldn't use it (gave up after waiting 24 hours).
Meanwhile another year has passed and they still haven't completed the Electrolysis project (multi-process browser).
The monolithic process with all its memory leaks and unrestrained memory growth, and no way to figure out which tab was eating all the CPU and draining my laptop battery meant I switched to Chrome and Safari years ago. FF is not fit for purpose.
My experience is that my iPhone under reports my runs by at least 100m every 5km (I get variances of 100-300m under reported for the same 5.7km loop that I run once it twice a week.
I ran the Richmond-upon-Thames 10k last year and after crossing the line I had apparently only gone 9.8km. Other people at the finish mentioned their Garmins had reported even less. I wrote an email to the organiser who came back to me with a plausible explanation and a defence that they were IAAF measured (with a certificate confirming the length): the sample frequency of these devices isn't frequent enough and will cut-off corners, which was particularly bad for this event which zig-zagged through Kew Gardens, with 17 right angles and a long curve along the river Thames.
As I runner of just 15 years, I'm of the attitude that all you really need is a pair of shoes, and clothes don't need to be special. Keep it minimal and just enjoy the run.
Due to continuous breakdowns due to injury I switched to finger shoes (and been fine since), which are awesome for taking on business trips because they take no space in my bag. I learnt a good lesson on one trip to Shanghai though, out with the Hash House Harriers... always carry a phone and some money because there's nothing more scary than being the wrong side of the river and no way to contact your friends when you're lost, no idea where you're going to and no way to get home! Even when I'm at home I take my phone and just share my location with my wife so I don't have to carry more shit than necessary.
Improved healthcare and ageing population? It's unbelievable how much China has changed in this period of time. I read somewhere that the policy has prevented 400 million births.
I wondered how long they'd keep all that, now we see they've found somebody to pay for the storage. Rovi's only interested in the metadata about those discs. They've been desperately trying to cut costs since Fred Amoroso left a few years ago and the current CEO went on an anti-product purge and focused on patent trolling, which went abysmally in some places (see Rovi vs. Virgin Media in UK).
The last two times I've tried to get an Uber I've ended up taking public transport. Just last night I tried to get one outside a Tube station in west London. The app said 3 mins until pick-up, until I actually tried to hail one, at which point it jumped to 11 mins and suddenly all the vehicles nearby vanished from the map. When I tried to reserve it it sat there for a bloody age before flashing up a driver. Somehow it got cancelled. This is the second time I've seen this. Given that I've only used it about three other times, I'm not so impressed about predictability or reliability. I've never had a problem with regular taxi firms.
On one of the other occasions that I took it, I was talking to the driver about the Tube strike that had occurred a few days earlier. He said he waited around and deliberately didn't start work until after the strike started because he knew surge pricing would make him a mint. Seems like it's a driver's market, not a passenger's.
I have an iPhone 5s from work, and one of the benefits of these devices having so little storage coupled with the bloating of applications in the last couple of years is that is that it's just too much of a pain in the arse to install a new app. There is very little to entice me to spend money on the app store.;)
Now I just wish all those websites that try to push you to their pointless app would stop interrupting my browsing.
When you make a £28.4MM loss, you would expect heads to roll but instead FB continues to award their staff. The employees have been rewarded for their loyalty with a huge reward as their options/stock awards vest, which is something that FB can't apparently afford to keep paying out in the UK, based on their losses. They're either lying to HMRC or they're lying to their investors!
Don't forget to setup a backup system with that server too.
In fact that's one of the dangers of the dangers of git: ensure your work gets pushed to another server and isn't just on your local machine. At least committing it with git gives you a local duplicate I suppose.
Maybe on the interstate, but it's rarely a problem on the kinds of streets where you might encounter pedestrians.
Let's not forgot:
Results show that the average risk of severe injury for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle reaches 10% at an impact speed of 16 mph, 25% at 23 mph, 50% at 31 mph, 75% at 39 mph, and 90% at 46 mph. The average risk of death for a pedestrian reaches 10% at an impact speed of 23 mph, 25% at 32 mph, 50% at 42 mph, 75% at 50 mph, and 90% at 58 mph. Risks vary significantly by age. For example, the average risk of severe injury or death for a 70âyearâold pedestrian struck by a car travelling at 25 mph is similar to the risk for a 30âyearâold pedestrian struck at 35 mph.
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From the Government source you linked to:
This a pittance, especially for those of us who live in London. We couldn't afford to live off this if I wanted to take off more than the two weeks that I'd get at full pay. This whole 52 weeks paid leave is BS as far as I can tell, but made some good publicity for the last government.
Yeah they sound horrible. Never met anybody who gets them though.
Is there something special about Silicon Valley professionals that cause the incidence of cluster headaches to be much higher than than in the general population (to the point it's mentioned in the story)? According to Wikipedia at least, 0.2% of people suffer from cluster headaches, which seems pretty infrequent. Compare with migraines for instance, which affect 15% (19% of men), which I don't see too many people getting on a daily basis (my wife suffers, and at one migraine every 1-2 months it's difficult to remember when one caused serious disruption, but then again she's Aussie and thus tougher than most Silicon Valley professional :P ).
Whatever, little man.
What, like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., used by Chiltern Railways and built in the 1990's (fairly modern by rail standards). They appear to be using: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Checkout the trains from Marylebone. Chiltern Railways are in the dark ages.
People have been saying similar things on this web site for more than 15 years. Good luck with that.
How's that maildir support coming along? Oh right: https://support.mozilla.org/en...
Are the Mozilla devs not able to deliver any decent technical features in under five years these days?
This goes back to the days of Netscape. I remember having a discussion here in the Mozilla Suite days before Firefox took off about how they should at least separate browser, calendar and mail/news tools in to separate processes. Devs at the time claimed it was too difficult and would break tight integration between these parts of the app. Same story now with the whole multi-process browser thing, and it all points to poor architecture and poor engineering skills at Mozilla.
Any idea whether they've fixed the performance issues with TrueCrypt? I tried to use it to secure some large customer movie files (e.g. 75 - 250 GB range) and found that when writing these files that it gets slower and slower, from tens of MB/s dropping steadily down to KB/s after several hours of copying a large file. Files beyond a certain size take so long to write that I couldn't use it (gave up after waiting 24 hours).
Meanwhile another year has passed and they still haven't completed the Electrolysis project (multi-process browser).
The monolithic process with all its memory leaks and unrestrained memory growth, and no way to figure out which tab was eating all the CPU and draining my laptop battery meant I switched to Chrome and Safari years ago. FF is not fit for purpose.
My experience is that my iPhone under reports my runs by at least 100m every 5km (I get variances of 100-300m under reported for the same 5.7km loop that I run once it twice a week.
I ran the Richmond-upon-Thames 10k last year and after crossing the line I had apparently only gone 9.8km. Other people at the finish mentioned their Garmins had reported even less. I wrote an email to the organiser who came back to me with a plausible explanation and a defence that they were IAAF measured (with a certificate confirming the length): the sample frequency of these devices isn't frequent enough and will cut-off corners, which was particularly bad for this event which zig-zagged through Kew Gardens, with 17 right angles and a long curve along the river Thames.
That would be a really small wall. ;)
So which do you think the NSA prefer: spying on German citizen's data in a US data centre, or spying on German citizen's data in a German data centre?
As I runner of just 15 years, I'm of the attitude that all you really need is a pair of shoes, and clothes don't need to be special. Keep it minimal and just enjoy the run.
Due to continuous breakdowns due to injury I switched to finger shoes (and been fine since), which are awesome for taking on business trips because they take no space in my bag. I learnt a good lesson on one trip to Shanghai though, out with the Hash House Harriers... always carry a phone and some money because there's nothing more scary than being the wrong side of the river and no way to contact your friends when you're lost, no idea where you're going to and no way to get home! Even when I'm at home I take my phone and just share my location with my wife so I don't have to carry more shit than necessary.
How do you know they haven't just re-used a generic sort component, which is faster to use in-proc than forking a separate process?
Improved healthcare and ageing population? It's unbelievable how much China has changed in this period of time. I read somewhere that the policy has prevented 400 million births.
Wasn't there an exception to the policy that allows a second child if the first is a girl?
I wondered how long they'd keep all that, now we see they've found somebody to pay for the storage. Rovi's only interested in the metadata about those discs. They've been desperately trying to cut costs since Fred Amoroso left a few years ago and the current CEO went on an anti-product purge and focused on patent trolling, which went abysmally in some places (see Rovi vs. Virgin Media in UK).
The last two times I've tried to get an Uber I've ended up taking public transport. Just last night I tried to get one outside a Tube station in west London. The app said 3 mins until pick-up, until I actually tried to hail one, at which point it jumped to 11 mins and suddenly all the vehicles nearby vanished from the map. When I tried to reserve it it sat there for a bloody age before flashing up a driver. Somehow it got cancelled. This is the second time I've seen this. Given that I've only used it about three other times, I'm not so impressed about predictability or reliability. I've never had a problem with regular taxi firms.
On one of the other occasions that I took it, I was talking to the driver about the Tube strike that had occurred a few days earlier. He said he waited around and deliberately didn't start work until after the strike started because he knew surge pricing would make him a mint. Seems like it's a driver's market, not a passenger's.
Before 2/3rds of Americans owned an icebox, we also didn't have a huge great hole in the ozone layer. Skin cancer is very disruptive, don't you know?
I have an iPhone 5s from work, and one of the benefits of these devices having so little storage coupled with the bloating of applications in the last couple of years is that is that it's just too much of a pain in the arse to install a new app. There is very little to entice me to spend money on the app store. ;)
Now I just wish all those websites that try to push you to their pointless app would stop interrupting my browsing.
When you make a £28.4MM loss, you would expect heads to roll but instead FB continues to award their staff. The employees have been rewarded for their loyalty with a huge reward as their options/stock awards vest, which is something that FB can't apparently afford to keep paying out in the UK, based on their losses. They're either lying to HMRC or they're lying to their investors!
Don't forget to setup a backup system with that server too.
In fact that's one of the dangers of the dangers of git: ensure your work gets pushed to another server and isn't just on your local machine. At least committing it with git gives you a local duplicate I suppose.
Maybe on the interstate, but it's rarely a problem on the kinds of streets where you might encounter pedestrians.
Let's not forgot:
Per: https://www.aaafoundation.org/...