Comment Re:threatened (Score 1) 25
It's more that this is the group that is the most curious about it and that also may have questions where you can't easily google the answers.
It's more that this is the group that is the most curious about it and that also may have questions where you can't easily google the answers.
Is there a way to opt out of this protection racket?
Is it illegal in the UK to spy on the US?
If not, what exact reason would there be to extradite him? Even the accusation is rubbish.
I'm not saying it *can't* be someone who is enthusiastic about aviation, but there's the danger of what psychologists call "motivated thinking" -- you or I would call it "wishful thinking" or "denial". If someone really loves the product, you need him to be able to believe something he wish was not true.
That's actually a rare quality. If a close call by a referee goes against your team, I'd say at least 90% of people would automatically believe it was a bad call and could not be convinced otherwise.
Well, ok.
If it's just yet another key that you have to pay a premium for a keyboard where you can turn it off so you don't accidentally press it, no thanks.
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Look at the salaries for generally competent software developers of any experience level in the UK. Now look in the US. It's not hard to see why our industry lags in the UK.
Look at the tax system that applies to employees in the UK. The scale in effect has massive increases in marginal tax rates part way along the curve that mean it's not a progressive system, for no sensible reason. It's even worse if you have kids, when at some points on the curve a huge proportion of any pay rise never actually reaches you in practice, or in extreme cases you can even be worse off after a pay rise, because of the strange ways that various allowances work.
Now look at the massive increases in effective taxation that have been applied to founders and owner-operators of small businesses in recent years. We're talking about 10-20% more of your revenues getting eaten by taxes before you get to keep any profits. In many cases you can now give up all the security and benefits of full-time employment (which are much better in the UK than the US, remember) and potentially invest your own money into bootstrapping your business, but then even if it works out modestly successful you end up paying higher tax rates than someone else taking a salary. Again, not hard to see why we're lacking in entrepreneurs.
Look at the flexible workforce. Contractors and freelancers in the UK live under a perpetual sword of Damocles called IR35 that has all but killed off the real flexible labour market in recent years and means even "contractors" are really being treated as disguised employees by default and again would probably be better off taking a permanent salaried position to get the extra job security and benefits. And given the difference in salaries as mentioned above, obviously some of the good people are then going to take their skills elsewhere.
None of this is news but successive governments have just stuck their heads in the sand and ignored the problems affecting smaller businesses, not just in tech but across other industries from healthcare to logistics as well. It's like they haven't noticed that there are 1,000 SMEs for every enterprise giant and collectively the SMEs create more jobs, pay more taxes, make more useful products... And then someone in government acts all surprised that our tech industry is lagging. Well, duh.
Quite simple: "Hey, competitor? The guy you shanghaied from us? Yeah, allow me to let you in on a secret, that guy bailed and stiffed us with the training costs. Just a heads up in case you plan to qualify them..."
1. It's less a lack of ambition and initiative, if my company doesn't want to invest in me, why the hell should I be invested in my company? Because if I train on my dime, I'll get the training I want that will provide me with the skills that I need to go somewhere else for greener pastures. If my company trains me, they can decide what they think will be useful for them and choose the training depending on their needs.
2. I dare say it's not more cost effective to hire outside. Yes, a better trained employee will want more money. But the key difference is that the existing employee already knows your company and the people in it. I know that C-Levels think that people are fungible and that they're plug and play, but they are not. Depending on the complexity of the job and the company business red tape, it can take months until a new hire is up to speed with company processes and procedures, both official and inofficial ones.
Zero carbon?
Dude, flat beer is the worst!
You have no idea how many horses you just offended...
There are ways to ensure a person has to stay for a while when you train them, it's all a matter of contracts. Mine stipulates that if my employer pays for my training, I have to stay around for 3-5 years (depending on how expensive it is) or I have to refund them.
Sure, one could argue that refunding may be financially more interesting than staying, but I guess that means that you should pay your workers more because if they can command a salary difference higher than the training cost, you would not have kept them either way.
This right there.
It's amazing how often I got hired for what I know (and learned on my own), for a multiple of what it would have costed to train someone who already existed. For some weird reason they have no problem hiring someone for six figures when training an existing person for four would do.
Different user bases. I'm a Linux fan, a couple Linux projects have my name in it. All my servers are Debian. But my notebook and desktop are Macs. Because when I need to get desktop things done, that's the platform that works best.
I waited a decade for the Linux desktop to get there and it didn't. Then I stopped waiting and started being productive.
Would I want to have a Linux desktop and application choices equal to what I have on the Mac? Absolutely. Do I expect it'll happen anytime soon? Absolutely not.
The decision to make its Affinity applications a one-time-purchase with no ongoing subscription fees has earned it a loyal fanbase
That is putting it mildly.
I am an occasional user. Once or twice a year I create something that needs proper DTP software. To pay for a subscription is complete nonsense, so for the past decade or so I made do with an ancient version of InDesign purchased before they switched everything to subscription. Obviously, that's not working too well anymore.
So I use the 30-day trial of Affinity Publisher, found it does 95% of what I did with InDesign and most of it equally well and some things even better. I'll find workarounds for the missing 5% (or I'll figure out that it does them after all, just hidden away somewhere, such as cross-document references).
The fact that it's a one-time purchase was the #1 deciding factor. Adobe's business model simply doesn't work for me. And certainly for thousands of people who are in similar positions. It might work well for those whose everyday professional tool is one or more Adobe products, but not for occasional users.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.