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Thanks! That's what I was planning to do, but the recruitement firm that would be paying me (and billing the client) is terrified of paying an invoice to a foreign firm, they are adamant about it. I might just have to go to the client directly, it's a company in the finance sector, I'm sure they can figure out how to send money to someone.
Thanks a bunch! Yes, I had a feeling this was possible, but they are very hesitant to simply wire money across the border to an individual, because it might look like money laundering (!)
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grsites on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:50PM
from the self-post dept.
I am a Canadian who just landed a (short-term contract) job working remotely for a US company. Since this happened through a (US) recruiter, my employer would pay the recruiting firm, who would pay me.The problem is that the recruiter is unable to find any viable option to pay me. They suggested I incorporate in the US and get a US corporate bank account (corp to corp), but this would be very...
There's no way I'm "upgrading" my iPad to iOS Barbie.
On the other hand, focusing on a small number of great products is what Apple always did under Jobs. The first thing Jobs did when he came back to Apple was jettison superfluous products and concentrate on what Apple was good at. Seems to me like he was giving genuine advice.
Wouldn't it be funny if they forgot to renew their domain name and it got snatched? ;-)
Better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven.
I've heard many people mention namecheap and dreamhost as good alternate registrars that charge about the same as godaddy.
The other thing to consider is to ask whether the presence of this feature is obtrusive or bothersome to the 95% who don't use it. Does it needlessly clutter some user interface? If instead it is mostly invisible to those who don't use it, then there is little harm is leaving the feature where it is.
Yes, that's essentially it...
> Building a web app to allow researchers to submit their articles and have them peer-reviewed by other researchers would be an interesting project that could actually disrupt the industry.
True, but the chicken and egg problem prevents that from taking off: researchers submit to the highest impact journal they can get the article in, not the open access journals. Similarly, they won't submit their articles to such a service until it is already well established.
I'm hoping that bringing the problem to light will provide an impetus to evolve to a better system.
No yet, but once it launches, you'll know. :-)
I haven't found any, but I guess that's the problem: they're private.
This kind of gouging soon won't be a problem anymore. I'm in the process of creating an online service (launch date sometime this summer) that will provide completely free full-text access to
all academic journals in one fell swoop. Think Napster for academic research.
I won't give implementation details for now, and I'm still evaluating different domain names, but it will be called Acropolis.
Yes, I know it will create a legal shitstorm, but I feel it's a small price to pay for what is at stake. To hell with it. Academic research is supposed to be free.
This is not terribly surprising, and illustrates why Facebook and Twitter are completely different (and complementary) social networks.
Facebook for keeping tabs on people you know and who know you, i.e. symmetrical relationships.
Twitter turned out to be well suited for keeping track of people you know, but who have no idea who you are, because they are well-known, not you, i.e. asymetrical relationships.
If you havin' concurrency problems, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems and side effects ain't one.
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Oh and by the way, what do you use to losslessly compress PNG's to check for image optimization? Pngcrush didn't yield nearly as big improvements as slowcop suggested...
One little tip: many people use Google Analytics and there's no use listing "
http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js under "Leverage browser caching" since we can't do anything about it and caching it would defeat the purpose anyway.
Very nice indeed! Increased page score on grsites.com from 92 to 96 in 5 minutes. More convenient than YSlow. Bookmarked!
Sounds like the shotgun-collar trap in Saw III.
So MS is suing Motorola, Motorola is suing Apple, Apple is suing HTC, Oracle is suing Google. Did I miss any?
Maybe WinMo 6.5? I guess even Microsoft employees can't quite stomach that.
At least Windows Mobile is no longer using IE6. Gasp!
Yes, it seems like it won't go as fast as a Segway, so it will just make you look lazy.
"Do you have a knee injury?"
Correct. I think I'll do that...
He works for the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin is his "boss".
Great site! I just registered 6 domains, and then decided to go ahead with the $14.95 subscription for access to the full list. Definitely worth it! :-)
Me too. Switched in April 2007 to openSUSE, now running 11.1...