There was the referendum. Then the elected representatives voted on it, and passed it. Then there was a general election, after which Leave was again voted for in Parliament (and both the main parties back leaving the EU). How many votes are needed??
How's it spam? I select people/accounts I want to follow, and tweets from them show up in chronological order in my timeline. Sounds brilliant, someone should get on that!
Anything goes? Twitter have been actively censoring hashtags, banning people, shadow-banning accounts and most recently "de-verifiying" people due to political differences.
On call as a core part? Really? Thankfully I've never worked anywhere with such a "duty", tbh if my current place proposed it I'd be applying for new jobs by lunch time.
What's the standard pay for being on-call as a matter of interest?
Every healthy engineering place I've worked at had developers on call. It's called "eating your own dog food". Devs should be responsible for the things they build - it affects the dev culture significantly when your shitty code can wake you up in the middle of the night.
So realistically, is the code going to be fixed at 3 a.m.? Why can't it wait til I'm in the next morning at 8 a.m. for a proper review, triage, priority listing and then fix?
I'm shocked that people would so easily give up their free time really, but to each their own.
How much does it pay extra?
> It's called "eating your own dog food".
No it's not, that's using your own product. Which I do.
Yes, if it matters. I can think of dozens of examples. E.g. you provide a payment processor, and you have clients worldwide.
At any significant size, it's going to matter if your service is down for 5 hours. Let's take an extreme example - let's say Google search goes down at 3am PST. Do you think the engineer on call is going to wait 5 hours before "triage, priority listing and then fix"? Are you kidding me?
I don't know what bubble you live in, but in the real world and for many businesses, outages out of hours matter. I'm sure some places they don't (like maybe day trading systems).
If you don't want a call out, build your systems to be resilient to failure, and self-healing.
On the flip side - if your workplace is toxic or bad enough that you aren't allowed to fix systemic issues that cause outages, well then I can see your viewpoint. It's not worth being on call if you can't make things better.
Except for the lack of readily available credit. For the most part, it seems the people paying the high prices are "able" to afford it. The problem is that home ownership (and the security that brings, particularly in Ireland) is not attainable for most young people and families anymore.
Could this be a result of Ireland being somewhat of a tax haven? If there's a lot of capital just sitting in Ireland waiting to be repatriated, it might make sense to invest that money within Ireland in the interim. That would increase demand for housing in the short term. The main thing to worry about would be that your housing market could experience a crash whenever that money does get repatriated
> Could this be a result of Ireland being somewhat of a tax haven?
In short, no. It's not as if the EU lacks capital markets.
Also: "Is anyone really so naive to imagine that these balances are not already fully available to finance new investments by U.S. companies here? Do they think the global financial system is that unsophisticated? At present interest rate levels, a company needs only to issue debt at favorable rates in the U.S., invest the funds held abroad at floating rates, enter a fixed-floating interest rate swap, and voila, the company has access to the funds exactly as if they had been brought home. Indeed, this is just what many U.S. corporations appear to have done. So cry me some crocodile tears for companies that hold profits abroad." [1]
> Could this be a result of Ireland being somewhat of a tax haven?
Not really. The problem is that building all but stopped in the aftermath of the 2007/8 crash. Meanwhile the economy recovered, Dublin in particular is booming now but we're still lacking enough homes to meet demand and building never recovered to the necessary levels. Add in a reluctance for "building up" and a growing population, that gets you higher and higher prices...
No, it's nothing to do with Apple's tax arrangements. They're not in the business of buying houses. It's a simple supply and demand issue. There are a lot of young people who want to buy a home, and not enough housing stock to meet their requirements.
Well, you also have Kathleen Hartnett White as the new head of the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality who majored in religion and is global warming denier.
I honestly don't remember that. I could easily have predicated what would come up in the article, the G have a bizarre fascination with that mini-shuttle protesting story. It comes up in pretty much every tech/SV story. Throw in a bunch of anecdotes, a few jabs at gentrification (because it's only tech people who are responsible for it, not planning etc), the hilarious implication that most techies work for the big companies listed when you and I both know that bs, a video of a few morons from Dropbox and somehow that all equates to techies being the new bankers? Really? That's got past an editor?
