mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation.
Its quite common in europe (but not the UK or IE) to get an extra months pay or two as a bonus. 13th Salary and 14th Salary.
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mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: I bet you over-engineered your startup
Nope the poster was comparing Apple Developing Macs with Ms developing NT when MS started with NT Apple was on OS9 and stayed that way for years.
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: I bet you over-engineered your startup
what was good about OS9 :-)OK it gave Amiga users a good laugh back in the day.
NT was developed by ex VAX Guys from DEC
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: I bet you over-engineered your startup
Thats not over engineering just crap design and using the latest toys for the sake of it.
Overengineering is the Victorian egineers way of desiging as they did not have the indepth knowledge we have and so have massive margins of safety.
Of course that means that some of the pre WW2 London Underground tains lasted longer than the ones bought in the 70's.
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: After my PhD how much salary should I expect as a professor of computer science?
I think geting tenure as a professor is harder than doing a PHD.
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: A Dust Over India
Not realy there have been large States that covered a substatial part of what is niow India but never one that covered the entire subcontinent in the way that the Raj did.
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF's Lawsuit Over Government Spying Program
Are there really tons of hackers (in the way SV or even Silicon Roundabout understands it) remember a lot of the cream of engineering grads and technicians all want to work at Audi et all and get an office with "Doktor" on the brass plate
And this is from experience in having to work with german parent companies on behalf of their uk subsidiaries on web/internet work.
Makes working with France Telecom in Agust seem childs play
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF's Lawsuit Over Government Spying Program
hmm a country where the local government FFS has its own "secret police" and you have to register with the police when you move house.
You have heard of the recent fiasco where one of the local secret police forces manged to miss (for several years) a neo nazi group under its nose who killed several people form ethic minorities finally committing suicide
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Treating JavaScript like a 30 year old language
80 cols is to fit on a punched card and has nothing to do with the variable name length limit on old versions of FORTRAN.
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Why Russia Locks Up So Many Entrepreneurs
You would rather that some one being investigated went back to work and potentially adjusted the evidence that is why when your investigated for a serious offence at work you are suspended.
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Hiring Employee #1
But not in the context of a startup which is the context I was talking about your right a lot of the big firms on the FTSE will offer BUPA or somthing similar.
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant
AT&T cough Transistors cough
BT and AT&T Ethernet cough
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Hiring Employee #1
Well you dont have to worry about heathcare as the NHS takes care of that.
Incorporating is quick. Taxes are simpler than the states theres only one sales tax, one income tax and none of this complex mixture of 52 state taxes.
Housing and Gas is more expensive like for like
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Summary of June 29 AWS Service Event in US-East
Au smelters are a some what special case though I take the point.
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Summary of June 29 AWS Service Event in US-East
Yes you have to be Govenment RnD to aford this the big widtunnels at one RAE establishment(twinwoods) in the UK had there own HT link to a local power plant.
I suspect that Area 51 and the like do somthing similar. Though Google has sited one DC near a source of Hydro power not sure if they where running there own link to it or not.
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Minitel, France's precursor to the Web, to go dark 30/6/12
Yes recall people comenting that PRESTEL did amazing things back in the day when BT was still efectivly a civil service organisation.
PRESTEL was designed in an era where if the female employes got married they had to leave the company. And there where strict rules about how senior you had to be before you got a chair with arms
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Minitel, France's precursor to the Web, to go dark 30/6/12
i think FIDO and manyother BBS's suported videotext modes
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Microsoft office in greece attacked with bomb
Yes why microsoft I could seen Greeks geting upset at Mercenees, Porsche or Audi Dealers.
Could be some hard left Terorist group reactivating but an od choice of target even so.
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: Microsoft office in greece attacked with bomb
Then they would not be able to by those nice German cars :-)
mjwalshe | 13 years ago | on: EU Commissioner Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By EU Parliament
With my wonk hat on sounds like an MEP needs to put up a motion of "no confidence" in this particular Commissioner.
the MEP's aprove comissioners and therefore must have the ability to censue or remove them.
as "The Parliament may also block certain Commission decisions where there has been a delegation of powers to the Commission and may repeal such delegation of powers."
If a Commissioner directly states that they will ignore the will of parliment they deserve every thing they get