honest_george

> Adults don't want to behave like they used to behave as kids. > They don't want to spontaneously talk randomly about something to an unknown person, because that comes with risks like rejection, looking like a fool, being labelled in a certain way, associating with somebody boring/annoying/leeching, etc.

> Kids takes way more risks, including social risks, because they don't know those are risks.

It sounds like I never was a kid.

Something's seriously wrong with your browser/encoding.

It seems all apostrophes in your message are replaced by ’ (a with hat, euro symbol, TM symbol).

While I can't speak for US law, most of the time it's the delivery address that matters - if the location you're at when purchasing matters, you could do all of your expensive on-line shopping when on holiday in some place with low taxes (or using a VPN...).

Note that this only works if you're working with small amounts of data. CSV with 5 million lines are no issue at all, just don't try this in Excel.

I couldn't even read the article, it may as well be written in a different language.

It's the best thing you can do at the time, but some managers take this badly. It makes it more difficult for them to throw you to the wolves.

This also means that if you're working for small company, you should charge small amounts of money. Or just reject the project entirely. Because anyone claiming he can bring 500k a year in value for a local small butchershop is either a liar or fooling himself.

Waze's routes are a little more aggressive. Which, if you spend a lot of time in a car, can add up.

How much heat would you lose by submerging your head and neck, versus how much would you gain by keeping the fetal position? I'm not sure if that's a positive tradeoff.

Same here, in Gmail.

And then Windows decides you've had enough time to reboot. And you have to click "Ask me again for reboot in 4 hours", because 4 hours is the maximum time the system will allow. And repeat this every 4 hours.

In Windows 10 it's even worse, you have to define off-hours when you're not using the PC, and in those hours the device will reboot itself if it feels like it. Don't worry, the applications you had open will be restarted, surely no data can be lost.

Edit: Windows 10 even has the configuration panel "Restart Options," which tells you "We'll show a reminder when we're going to restart. If you want to see more notifications about restarting, turn this on".

I've also had lots of trouble with failing updates.

You can always sue of course (there is no union in the company). But what would you gain by doing so? They might be forced to hire you again, in which case you can be assured you will never receive a raise and will generally not enjoy working there a whole lot.

You could even try proving you worked too many hours, but that's quite hard to do (a list of start and end times would surely not suffice).

Edit: Also, they will surely claim that they did not tell you to perform that overtime, and that in fact you did so without them knowing.

I've had very different experiences working in the EU (Belgium).

On my first day of work, I received a document containing company rules and guidelines. Overtime is never paid and it is considered "an engineer's pride" to fix any bugs in his own time. Of course this overtime isn't limited to bugfixing, and when there's a deadline coming up (there's always a deadline coming up) or when someting just isn't working you are expected to do whatever it takes to get things working.

One of my colleagues received comments on a recent evaluation after he refused to come in on a Saturday because there was a problem with a display driver on a project he hadn't worked on for weeks.

The 38 hours we work each week is more of a guideline than a rule really. Unless of course you want to work less, in which case that would be grounds for immediate dismissal.