Me and my partner were never as close as when we loved in separate cities during the week, and together at weekends (and on occasional weekends when one of us wasn't working). We both like to 'have space' and are happy to spend time alone though, so maybe this is just something that suits us.
All being well we'll soon be able to buy two houses close to each other, and have our own spaces again.
Whilst I say this may be something that just suits us, I know a few other couples who have similar arrangements and it works well for them too. However, if we had children I'm not sure this would work...
Pity you are at 0, because this is exactly it. Whenever I wish to change phone I look at the same phone on contract 'subsidised' and paying outright. Every time so far it has worked out cheaper to buy the phone, then equivalent service. Also every time my monthly cost has dropped after some time, so it works out even cheaper than the original calculation makes out.
Further - if i wish to change phone, I sell the old one, and get to choose a new one (I never come out ahead, but it is nice to reduce the burden).
I haven't been to the US for a couple of years, but last few times i _was_ there I was really impressed with... bar tenders. It seemed that some people saw this is a perfectly good career choice, and indeed were very good at it. From minimal chats it seemed like they earned a reasonable wage too.
That seems fair enough, skilled workers, good at their jobs, earning a decent living and getting respect for it. I had assumed that a lot of non-white collar workers in the US were similar, is that not the case? (It seemed to me one of the really good things about the US).
One side says that there were threats of making a big issue of it, the other side says nothing of the sort. You can decide who you believe, but you can't say some who believes the other persons view is being deceitful.
Personally I think this whole/. discourse goes a long fucking way to demonstrating why woman may have issues with guys in tech.
Except it is obviously tosh. (I say that as a big fan or Orwell - this is one of his stupid pieces).
Look at times with simple weapons - times when most societies were tyrannical, normally monarchical tyranny, but also often religious. Now look at complex weapons societies - like most of the democracies we have.
Fair point on plagiarism.
The college I do some work for _claims_ to be able to spot when someone else has written your essay for you though. And in fact I thought this did tie into plagiarism - in that the software also aims to identify when writing style changes. Though that was told me by one of their prof's, who whilst not a complete idiot probably was only parroting what he was told.
Isn't this just the same software that college use to detect plagiarism and whether someone else wrote that essay for you? I thought it was in common use in academia.
Isn't this already the case - if I look on Amazon there are scores of cheap Android tablets.(no idea if they are any good to be honest - I've never used one)
Just to qualify - I am encouraging when I do the puzzle question - i do ask people to talk to me, if they don't I try to engage them, remind them I want to know what they are thinking &c. hence going silent is going silent after being encouraged to talk.
In general - never *ever* filter someone out on one part of the interview. Except... if they go silent - instant fail. if they say to me - sorry, I can't think right now / could i have 5 minutes alone / could i get back to you later et cetera, not such a bad response.
Going silent - always bad. If someone doesn't understand, doesn't know, needs help, and they don't tell me - then they don't fit on my team. Maybe they are great at their job, maybe they are awesome at some things, too bad, just too big a risk I'm afraid.
BUT - that is because of my personality as much as theirs - I need people who will point out when they have a problem. Interviews aren't just about the candidate, they are about my team, the project they will be going to, the people they will be working with and me (assuming I will be managing them).
Most of the people who use them (myself included), seem to apply this logic. Maybe when people hear of puzzles being used in interviewers they just don't get that?
But the idea isn't to get an answer - and I am very up front that I don't care about the answer, and I already know it anyway. What I do want to see is how someone approaches a problem that they don't know how to solve. I had one candidate ask me the answer, I already know it after all - immediately top of my hiring list, and she was an awesome hire. Another asked if they could use google on their phone - again a pretty much perfect answer. The puzzle is completely irrelevant, the ability to question, put forward ideas and not just say 'I don't know' or, even worse, go completely silent and get embarrassed that you don't know, is pretty fucking critical. IMHO.
I also look at samples of previous work, and we make all candidates carry out real world tasks along side us.
My Father died (very) recently, after a relatively short time of being unwell (2 months). As a family we knew his wishes if he were to be in an effectively unrecoverable state - that he would prefer to not be put through agony just to go through futile care. His surgical team did everything they could for him, but knowing his and his families wish seemed confident in talking to us at the point where they could continue to carry out surgical work, but they felt there was no possibility of his ever recovering. We made, i think, a rational decision.
It was not easy, knowing wishes and discussing them with siblings and then our Mother and my Fathers siblings (large, close family), knowing when the treatment became futile, watching him die that last day - it was pretty much the fucking hardest thing I think I will ever do. But it *was* the better thing ultimately.
So - if people forgo futile treatment to spend time with family and to make the most of the time that remains then I would like to figuratively shake their hand for showing such a vast amount of bravery and *character*.
Very true, but surely the point stands - if they just wanted to seel ebooks they'd have gone with at least their own and others (epub), if not just jumping on what is rapidly becoming the standard (epub).
Presumably you didn't even read the article, or think too much about the summary. This is NOT about a tax to support artists, it is the cost the ISP's will have in putting measures in place - and those costs will be borne by their customers.
Maybe you are taking it too it's logical conclusion (if this stops filesharing in the UK, then how much of the extra revenue will artists see). So maybe I am being harsh, in which case sorry. But I don't think that is the case.
Amazon are actually losing money on most of their $9.99 books (at least for the ones that are selling at the same time as hardbacks). They get them at the same price as the hardback, which is around $12.
I think Amazon are doing some bad things at the moment, but they are not driving the price up, they are making a loss to drive it down.
This is pretty much obviously not true. If it were then they would sell ebooks in a format that any other reader could use (pretty much ePub, at this point).
They don't, they use a proprietary format that no one else is able to use. Thus I assume that they are not *just* after selling electronic copies of books.
I don't remember the exact time line that the Kindle was released. I think that Sony hadn't yet started to move to ePub, and nor had many others. In which case they should have stuck to ereader or mobipocket. They even own one of those (I always forget which),
I had a similar idea, and did some initial work on it. Then along came the Netflix challenge, and I realised I was a) also lazy and b) didn't have anywhere near enough knowledge in the field.
It seems a reasonable idea. Get people to review anything, align the users likes with others, then make recommendations. If it were that easy, surely someone would already be doing it...
Pretty much what I do. I try to be last to leave (and often first to arrive). Not some macho shit, just that if I expect my team to be in, I'll be in, I won't ask them to work hours I'm not willing to work.
And if there isn't anything for me to do, yeah, I'm the tea boy. Weekends, I always go get lunch if we're in.
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:) hmm, Freudian slip?
Me and my partner were never as close as when we loved in separate cities during the week, and together at weekends (and on occasional weekends when one of us wasn't working). We both like to 'have space' and are happy to spend time alone though, so maybe this is just something that suits us. All being well we'll soon be able to buy two houses close to each other, and have our own spaces again. Whilst I say this may be something that just suits us, I know a few other couples who have similar arrangements and it works well for them too. However, if we had children I'm not sure this would work...
Pity you are at 0, because this is exactly it. Whenever I wish to change phone I look at the same phone on contract 'subsidised' and paying outright. Every time so far it has worked out cheaper to buy the phone, then equivalent service. Also every time my monthly cost has dropped after some time, so it works out even cheaper than the original calculation makes out. Further - if i wish to change phone, I sell the old one, and get to choose a new one (I never come out ahead, but it is nice to reduce the burden).
I haven't been to the US for a couple of years, but last few times i _was_ there I was really impressed with... bar tenders. It seemed that some people saw this is a perfectly good career choice, and indeed were very good at it. From minimal chats it seemed like they earned a reasonable wage too.
That seems fair enough, skilled workers, good at their jobs, earning a decent living and getting respect for it. I had assumed that a lot of non-white collar workers in the US were similar, is that not the case? (It seemed to me one of the really good things about the US).
Inline, text, condensed not showing up for me - Feedly in a Galaxy Note2. Annoying, I'll look for something else.
One side says that there were threats of making a big issue of it, the other side says nothing of the sort. You can decide who you believe, but you can't say some who believes the other persons view is being deceitful. Personally I think this whole /. discourse goes a long fucking way to demonstrating why woman may have issues with guys in tech.
Except it is obviously tosh. (I say that as a big fan or Orwell - this is one of his stupid pieces). Look at times with simple weapons - times when most societies were tyrannical, normally monarchical tyranny, but also often religious. Now look at complex weapons societies - like most of the democracies we have.
Fair point on plagiarism. The college I do some work for _claims_ to be able to spot when someone else has written your essay for you though. And in fact I thought this did tie into plagiarism - in that the software also aims to identify when writing style changes. Though that was told me by one of their prof's, who whilst not a complete idiot probably was only parroting what he was told.
Isn't this just the same software that college use to detect plagiarism and whether someone else wrote that essay for you? I thought it was in common use in academia.
Wow - when did they change? (Not that I post that often, but i didn't realise it had changed).
Same here - if that video is representative of the usability of this WM, then...
Try this?
The Wacom Inkling should work fine, I think - it just dumps out vector files.
Isn't this already the case - if I look on Amazon there are scores of cheap Android tablets.(no idea if they are any good to be honest - I've never used one)
Just to qualify - I am encouraging when I do the puzzle question - i do ask people to talk to me, if they don't I try to engage them, remind them I want to know what they are thinking &c. hence going silent is going silent after being encouraged to talk.
In general - never *ever* filter someone out on one part of the interview. Except... if they go silent - instant fail. if they say to me - sorry, I can't think right now / could i have 5 minutes alone / could i get back to you later et cetera, not such a bad response. Going silent - always bad. If someone doesn't understand, doesn't know, needs help, and they don't tell me - then they don't fit on my team. Maybe they are great at their job, maybe they are awesome at some things, too bad, just too big a risk I'm afraid. BUT - that is because of my personality as much as theirs - I need people who will point out when they have a problem. Interviews aren't just about the candidate, they are about my team, the project they will be going to, the people they will be working with and me (assuming I will be managing them).
Most of the people who use them (myself included), seem to apply this logic. Maybe when people hear of puzzles being used in interviewers they just don't get that?
But the idea isn't to get an answer - and I am very up front that I don't care about the answer, and I already know it anyway. What I do want to see is how someone approaches a problem that they don't know how to solve. I had one candidate ask me the answer, I already know it after all - immediately top of my hiring list, and she was an awesome hire. Another asked if they could use google on their phone - again a pretty much perfect answer. The puzzle is completely irrelevant, the ability to question, put forward ideas and not just say 'I don't know' or, even worse, go completely silent and get embarrassed that you don't know, is pretty fucking critical. IMHO.
I also look at samples of previous work, and we make all candidates carry out real world tasks along side us.
My Father died (very) recently, after a relatively short time of being unwell (2 months). As a family we knew his wishes if he were to be in an effectively unrecoverable state - that he would prefer to not be put through agony just to go through futile care. His surgical team did everything they could for him, but knowing his and his families wish seemed confident in talking to us at the point where they could continue to carry out surgical work, but they felt there was no possibility of his ever recovering. We made, i think, a rational decision.
It was not easy, knowing wishes and discussing them with siblings and then our Mother and my Fathers siblings (large, close family), knowing when the treatment became futile, watching him die that last day - it was pretty much the fucking hardest thing I think I will ever do. But it *was* the better thing ultimately.
So - if people forgo futile treatment to spend time with family and to make the most of the time that remains then I would like to figuratively shake their hand for showing such a vast amount of bravery and *character*.
Very true, but surely the point stands - if they just wanted to seel ebooks they'd have gone with at least their own and others (epub), if not just jumping on what is rapidly becoming the standard (epub).
Presumably you didn't even read the article, or think too much about the summary. This is NOT about a tax to support artists, it is the cost the ISP's will have in putting measures in place - and those costs will be borne by their customers.
Maybe you are taking it too it's logical conclusion (if this stops filesharing in the UK, then how much of the extra revenue will artists see). So maybe I am being harsh, in which case sorry. But I don't think that is the case.
Amazon are actually losing money on most of their $9.99 books (at least for the ones that are selling at the same time as hardbacks). They get them at the same price as the hardback, which is around $12.
I think Amazon are doing some bad things at the moment, but they are not driving the price up, they are making a loss to drive it down.
This is pretty much obviously not true. If it were then they would sell ebooks in a format that any other reader could use (pretty much ePub, at this point).
They don't, they use a proprietary format that no one else is able to use. Thus I assume that they are not *just* after selling electronic copies of books.
I don't remember the exact time line that the Kindle was released. I think that Sony hadn't yet started to move to ePub, and nor had many others. In which case they should have stuck to ereader or mobipocket. They even own one of those (I always forget which),
I had a similar idea, and did some initial work on it. Then along came the Netflix challenge, and I realised I was a) also lazy and b) didn't have anywhere near enough knowledge in the field. It seems a reasonable idea. Get people to review anything, align the users likes with others, then make recommendations. If it were that easy, surely someone would already be doing it...
Pretty much what I do. I try to be last to leave (and often first to arrive). Not some macho shit, just that if I expect my team to be in, I'll be in, I won't ask them to work hours I'm not willing to work. And if there isn't anything for me to do, yeah, I'm the tea boy. Weekends, I always go get lunch if we're in.