Oded

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The Water Cooler

General chit-chat for workplace.stackexchange.com. Feel free t...

Oded

Oct 20, 2017 12:02

Workload depends on company and contract. Just make sure your contract protects you (get a lawyer to review it - it is worth the pay). That's why I suggest IPSE membership, @Nofel - they have your back.

Oded

Oct 20, 2017 12:01

I've found it difficult to fall on my face doing contracting. Just need to make sure you have something lined up - start looking between 2-4 weeks before end of current contract.

Oded

Oct 20, 2017 12:00

@DavidK it was on the newsletter.

Oded

Oct 20, 2017 12:00

Manchester is probably big enough to support a contracting market indefinitely (London definitely is - that's where I live).

Oded

Oct 20, 2017 11:50

One piece of advice - get yourself a membership with IPSE - "The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed". They have a bunch of documents about contracting and once a member you get some legal and tax advice.

Oded

Oct 20, 2017 11:48

3 months is an average contract length. I've had 3 month contracts extended to 2 years.

Oded

Oct 20, 2017 11:46

Meh. I've contracted for ~8 years. And most of the perm jobs I held had no more security than the contracts.

The Bridge

General Arqade Chat. We tried to leave once, but the door lock...

Oded

Sep 8, 2017 16:22

@Avery scroll should be fixed, yes.

Oded

Sep 8, 2017 16:14

TBH - Chrome 61 changes (body.scrollTop behaviour) helped push the change faster (I was already in the middle of doing it for related reasons, but it coming out...)

Oded

Sep 8, 2017 16:13

I take my scrolling very seriously, you see.

Oded

Sep 8, 2017 16:12

@TimStone but it was.

Discussion on question by Gusdor: Wha…

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Oded

Jun 27, 2017 11:35

Can really rephrase to "What can I do for developers who are not willing to learn new ways of doing things?". The problem isn't with git - it is with these people.

This room is not fine

For posting the line 'this is fine'

Oded

Dec 19, 2016 14:30

Discussion on question by Matt Brenna…

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Oded

Nov 10, 2016 19:19

How do you know this happened one company premises? Or done by another employee? What country did this happen in?

The Whiteboard

General Discussion for softwareengineering.stackexchange.com P...

Oded

Oct 25, 2016 20:40

I certainly don't. Currently listening to the next Stack Overflow podcast, as it is being recorded.

Oded

Oct 25, 2016 20:31

@RobertHarvey rolls off the tongue

Oded

Oct 25, 2016 19:57

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Oct 25, 2016 19:56

Dammit. Was gonna close/delete a question, but got sniped by @ThomasOwens

Oded

Jun 20, 2015 21:46

Oded

Jun 20, 2015 21:23

Just saying that not demonstrating leadership and showing product management work may be enough to get such an answer (which may or may not be the case here - dunno).

Oded

Jun 20, 2015 21:22

Oded

Jun 20, 2015 21:22

heh - I can imagine that. FT?

Oded

Jun 20, 2015 21:21

Thing is, you are talking about your masters here in chat, suggesting still being in academia - and the role would require someone who has been PMing for a while and driving change (so that's the kind of thing that would need to be on the CV/cover letter).

Oded

Jun 20, 2015 21:15

But... I am not a part of the process, so can't speak for others.

Maid Café (メイド喫茶)

Welcome back, my Master! (お帰りなさいませ、ご主人様!) Sit wherever you'd l...

Oded

Jun 13, 2016 11:19

Also - the feeds are RSS based - RSS is not event based, is not push but is a pull technology. That means polling.

Oded

Jun 13, 2016 11:14

@Hakase the architecture uses batch operations on a schedule. It is more efficient for us (using a relational data store).

Oded

Jun 7, 2016 11:43

That's why I am digging into it. Trying to figure out what's going on.

Oded

Jun 7, 2016 11:10

Yeah, it looks like "featured" feeds don't work for bots? Dunno what's happening there - but looks like it has been a couple of years now.

Oded

Jun 7, 2016 11:06

So, I hopped in to see what's the deal.

Oded

Jun 7, 2016 11:05

Q: Why doesn't this feed for featured questions work?

I've created this feed user a little more than four months ago. It is supposed to post featured questions from Anime & Manga. However, it never worked. The feed is currently empty, since we have no featured questions right now currently has two questions. However, whenever there are featured ...