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Re:French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave on Monday September 28, 2020 @08:17PM (#24622752)
Companies just plan for redundancy in roles so they are ready when people need to take parental leave or sabbaticals. It isn't that difficult for a company to handle, but companies in countries where this isn't the norm just plan and hire for it.
Re:A Basic Git Workflow for Smaller Projects on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @07:17PM (#22680100)
Right, the main difference there would be that the changes get combined into one squash commit rather than a merge commit. Mostly an aesthetic choice, so I could definitely see both as viable.

If I wanted to move changes between branches I would probably prefer a squash rather than a regular merge, as that will look cleaner in the history.

Re:Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead? on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:18AM (#22263875)
This sounds like a Product Owner to me. Indeed, all these types of roles are pretty much interchangeable depending on the exact structure of your teams.
Re:Want to make good business decisions? Learn causality on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:56PM (#21997790)
Causality.
I would even say: in every case, except where a GPU or TPU is necessary to achieve a certain speed. Unless there are very specific reasons for it, GPU/TPU is just unnecessarily cost inefficient.
Re:Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus on Thursday December 26, 2019 @07:28PM (#21888068)
The actual dataset from the paper: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/datasets
Re:Darktable 3.0 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @08:23PM (#21876098)
I wouldn't count on it. As long as the product is available and marketed in other countries they can get caught in legal issues for not following those countries laws relating to marketing and offering of products.
I don't see why cashless must mean non-anonymous. There are chargeable payment cards around the world that effectively are anonymous and cashless.
Re:The History of American College Dorms on Thursday September 05, 2019 @03:13AM (#20884541)
This is a thing for many older big companies in Japan
Re:Dean and Deluca Is Closing Its Stores on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @09:17PM (#20455547)
I'm not sure about this, but it seems that the Japanese Dean and DeLuca is just a Japanese company owning and operating the brand under license or joint venture. This is how a lot of foreign brands enter Japan (for example, Taco Bell and Baskin Robbins), and why many remain even when the original company more or less goes under (for example, Mister Donut). I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up being the same.
In Japan it is generally called Service Overtime when it is for free, as it is a very friendly service you provide the company.
It is for kids.
Re:Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends report [pdf] on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @08:56PM (#20160861)
Rephrase it as "Which companies do you asses have the security practices necessary to adequately protect your health data?" and this makes sense.

Adding: To be fair, it probably more strongly correlates with "Which technology companies have you heard of?"

I am 80% sure this is a line from NCIS.
Re:Memory stick found in frozen seal faeces in New Zealand on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @01:57AM (#19093268)
Now that's some long con social engineering. I'm impressed.