If I was to buy a 10 USD game and ship it, shipping would be anything up to 100 USD. All those sites that say free shipping Worldwide... they exclude most of Polynesia.
It's a popular holiday destination, especially the island I work on, so short stays are expensive. But long stays are not bad, as the price evens out over winter.
Nice, now I've got people slurring my company's reputation:
"FWIW unless I literally had nothing else worthwhile for an employee to do I wouldn't have given someone in the OP's situation ..." <--- But you wrote "You've behaved insubordinately, made unreasonable demands and tried to make your sickness/injury their problem" The employee was taken off their normal duties that they would be expected to do in their job and put on more difficult ones. And then hat's your response? I would advise people never to work for your company. — Araucaria10 hours ago
nothing is cheap, especially when the minimum wage = around $1 USD, so what passes for a senior engineer here would in the top bracket to make 20,000 USD equivalent per year
@motosubatsu if it's excersising your mind and making you look at things logically in terms of problem resolution strategies then it's well worth the effort I reckon
Kayak has a daughter company HolidayPirates as well. They blog about cheap holidays. Interestingly, they don't get a commission for all content they share, which makes them more "complete" imo. Pick your origin country in the top right corner. holidaypirates.com
I found out I can deduct a rather large amount from taxes in 3 years from now. Since it will be more than I pay in taxes at all, I should be able to deduct the leftovers again the year after.
@Twyxz I just had a conf call with a French woman who expatriated herself in Taiwan. I got soooo jealous during the call (Of course I didn't let her know :p)
It's alright because I wouldn't really wear a skirt anyway
tbh, no cars are really designed for the summer. Even things like convertibles are stupidly warm in the summer. They don't trap heat but they let the sun directly contact the surfaces
@Twyxz I hear the Tesla cars keep the interior at a 'safe' temperature at all times, so if you lock your dogs in the car or something they will be 'safe'.
@Twyxz Yep. I have a different username on TWP. I'm not too bothered about my colleagues encountering the question, but I don't want to give them too many hints it is me.
I'm on the outskirts of the M25, so I see one almost every day. They are really fun to drive behind if the person is running autopilot, you can make their car bunny hop lol, takes practice and stop/start traffic, but it's fun to mess with them.
Maybe part of the problem is that he's the only person who understands his own spaghetti, which is a significant part of our codebase.
The manager demanded someone replace me if I go to a different team. He got someone more experienced and socially much stronger than me. I think the other manager(s) know something is going on.
I've got some suspicions, I really hope they're true.
We recently got a new CEO. The last one was kind of lax. The new one is changing things actively. All teams are doing agile development, except our team. Our manager refuses to. He focuses on quantity over quality, even though the company values quality over quantity. Our manager also ridicules people behind their backs. Old CEO never cared, because our manager pitched his quantity and never mentioned that we had most bugs, even though we are the smallest team.
I joined this team a few months before we got this new CEO. He was department manager at that time. He put me on this team. I impressed them quite a bit during the first few months, until I started outperforming the other colleague.
Still trying to impress, I did everything asked from me. At some point I got asked to do a rather large task that, I realized in hindsight, was my manager's responsibility. I did a good job at it, but I assume the manager somehow took credit for it. I have no proof though, nor has he proof that he did it, but I don't think I can just go swinging "look, I did my manager's job!" around.
The other colleague seems to be the type of person who believes he is the best and he really can't have this "girl" be better than him, so his lecturing got worse.
Just go find a bug, then report it and say "Hey I was thinking about the code I wrote, and realised I had coded a bug when I did 'this thing', and I want to fix it before it's causes a bigger problem"
Now, what I think is happening: the CEO is realizing what is going on, having put me there as a bit of an expirement originally. Now he's putting someone else there to fix the team.
@Snow yeah I know they are just blowhards for the most part - but when you share actual facts with people, facts that I've spent significant time to learn and understand and you get random ad hominem attacks because the facts aren't popular or people argue their baseless opinions as being just as valid it just feels a bit pointless.
I didn't learn all this stuff for SE but foolishly I thought people might actually appreciate the opportunity to save themselves the tedious hours of research but apparently not. The comment earlier was bad enough in of itself but in reality it seems to be a symptom of a much larger problem.
@motosubatsu I learnt a long time ago that the internet isn't important enough a thing to get upset about. There's a lot more in real life that's more important than random complainers on the internet.
@Snow oh I wouldn't say I'm upset or anything that strong - but I am definitely less inclined to spend my time and effort on contributing, and while I'm sure that in the grand scheme of things the site wouldn't miss me in the slightest if I got hit by a bus tomorrow (not even my ego is that big!) but I'd lay good money on me not being the only person to feel that way and the last thing the internet needs is yet another site filled with uninformed dross
@Belle-Sophie you're correct of course.. if you can't attack the argument attack the person making it seems to be the philosophy behind them, the sad fact is that ad hominem attacks work
Some random guy just called me and says he's seen my CV online
On Cv Library but I haven't used that in literally 2-3 years and how come when I'm looking for a job I get my first call from an employer from that website in 2 years
on the bright side my kids saved up to buy me this laptop for fathers day :-).... although their $27 wasn't quite enough and I made up the $900+ difference quietly.
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Other than a bit of language (which I cleaned up), I'm having a hard time imagining what isn't clear. It seems like an extremely straightforward question to me, and likely has a definitive ans...
We seem to close/hold an awful lot of questions that would be easily answered if the OP were to provide or clarify one or two minor details. However the VTC's don't indicate that, so I propose we add a new one that says something like:
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@Twyxz astronomical insurance costs mean that more and more commonly now you'll find 19 year olds haven't bothered to even get their license - and those that do often can't afford to actually run a car
@Twyxz well they might be surprised that it got you there in the same calendar year I suppose :D More seriously though be prepared for endless jokes about how you are a "boy racer" and "we must be paying you too much", apparently the notion that someone might genuinely be into cars and choose to spend money on that rather than absurdly tight jeans is lost on the general populace these days
@Belle-Sophie yeah, people also seem to assume that a sporty or fast car is automatically very expensive. I used to get the "we're paying you too much" comments all the time from people who drove around in 30k cars when mine was worth all of about 6k
@Belle-Sophie sounds like a very sensible justification to me ;)
@Belle-Sophie you've reminded me of the look on my (older) brother's face when I turned up in my first quick car, he did seem to take it rather personally
@Belle-Sophie Nice :) The 208 GTi was a welcome return to form for Peugeot - it's like they collectively woke up with a pounding hangover, looked at the 207 and went "aww crap.. what did we do last night"
@Belle-Sophie so very much this
my current car is the youngest I've ever owned - and that's 7 years old
@Belle-Sophie ooh..tough call, the Fiesta ST is a very nice bit of kit, the Fiesta is probably the better handling car but it feels a little under-powered next to the 208 IMO
@Belle-Sophie yeah my current (2011) car replaced one from 2000 - the 2000 car was certainly a fine car but the never ending conveyor belt of bills was getting silly
@motosubatsu My brother, being the Ford lover that he is, would have murdered me to claim my car if I got home with a Fiesta. I guessed that I could manage the 208 without getting murdered.
@Belle-Sophie Volvos are great cars actually.. the C30 T5 is great fun - same underpinnings as the Focus IIRC so it handles very, very well and looks great. Just a little less practical than the ST. I very nearly bought an S80 as a commuter hack a few years back, the seats were amazing
@Belle-Sophie couldn't agree more! my last contract had me spending 4+ hours a day in the car on my commute, if I hadn't had the lovely electric leather seats in the S6 I might have gone postal
As someone with spinal issues comfy seats are serious business
@TolMera I've never owned one but driven one a few times - I never ceased to be amazed at how something with that much solid-looking steel around you actually managed to go around corners quite well. I suspect witchcraft :D
I really don't think mods should go around deleting comments explaining close votes (which has happened to probably at least a few dozen of my comments by now).
Unless they're just trying to get people to stop contributing to any sort of moderation on the site, in which case I guess that's working.
I'm pretty bad at interviews and was wondering what was the "best" first job. I would prefer to stay within Canada.
And through internships and side projects am quite comfortable with front-end, back-end and blockchain (solidity and truffle), but wondering what I should aim for?
Is it better to...