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Research shows that five work hours a day can improve productivity and bolster wellbeing. There’s only one thing holding companies back Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately. "Well I wouldn't say I've beem missing it, Bob."
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Wired wrote: There’s only one thing holding companies back
Willingness to pay the same for less hours even if it could boost productivity?
M.D.V. 
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I bet these researches are working much more than five hours a day...
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When you get good enough at what you do, hourly rates will start penalizing you. One man's parable about being too smart for your own good.
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Good argument! 
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As always, it depends...
There projects things that are doomed to be like the rabbit hole and there are things that you can end with closed eyes.
So the best is to know how to distinguish between them and choose the best tarification for a concrete project.
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His model works well with reasonably competent and mentally healthy clients. Unfortunately all too few of these angels exist.
I have turned down jobs where the client didn't give a good vibe during initial discussions. I even turned down a follow-on project once. I had a university professor who had formed a startup with some graduate students, and I'd written an application for him. A year later he emails me wanting to add a feature to the app. I give him an estimate of like 40 hours, and he says he needs it in a couple of days. To top it all off, the grad students had been mucking around with my app and made all sorts of changes. My internal alarm bells were going off, and I said no.
A hardware guy I know lost $5K in billable charges when the client he was working for went bugshit over some needed design changes. The guy essentially threw my buddy out and told him he wasn't paying for anything he'd done since the last invoice.
Children, this is why you charge by the hour, you invoice monthly (30 days net), and if they don't pay on time you stop working. Never give binding estimates and never, ever go fixed price.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Microsoft demonstrated its deep and meaningful affection for all things penguin overnight by borking packages.microsoft.com and leaving some Linux fans bereft of the company's wares. It was running on Office365+OneDrive and it was on Bill's credit card that expired, nobody knows the password and the recovery address is an expired hotmail.com
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Wait until it gets worse[^]
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I've always thought that was one of Randall's most apt works.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Today, on June 17, 2021, Microsoft will discontinue the publication of drivers to Windows Update for Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. Goodbye my friend will I ever love again
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Quote: ... will no longer be able to download drivers via Windows Update
That's why I always keep a local offline copy of the ones delivered at buy time and the ones I upgrade later on.
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The search giant is working to allow Rust code in the Linux kernel, a major technological and cultural shift after decades using only C. Good news! Except to poor, poor hackers.
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Why? Lately Hackers have only to wait until the security researchers bring their hands on it... 
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Apple has been under a mountain of scrutiny lately from legislators, developers, judges, and users. Amidst all that, CEO Tim Cook sat with publication Brut. to discuss Apple's strategy and policies. Privacy is a human right ... as long as it doesn’t cost us money.
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New information in the form of end-of-life (EOL) dates for Windows 10 and a leaked screenshot of something purporting to be "Windows 11 Pro" heavily imply that serious changes are on the way. Come Windows 10, I myself will carry you through the gates of Valhalla.
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Not sure Valhalla is where Windows 10 is destined for, isn't there another place?
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There are Hel and Niflhel. Both are places in the underworld.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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So 2025 is the Year of Linux? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sean Ewington wrote: ...serious changes are on the way...
"Serious changes" is a marketing term, right? It has no relation to the definition of the first word.
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A researcher has uncovered one of the more unusual finds in the annals of malware: booby-trapped files that rat out downloaders and try to prevent unauthorized downloading in the future. Y'arr, there be a hole in my pirate ship.
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A new survey from Allconnect adds that two in five Americans don't even know what speed they're paying for. The other 27% just want MORE!
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Need and want are two different things.
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True, and I definitely need to keep reminding myself of that. 
TTFN - Kent
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