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Doh. I never noticed that it moved.
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I know this is a rubbish clue. I was bogged down with meetings at work. Sorry.
Americans spelt it wrong (7)
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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"EVERYTHING" is ten letters ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Better than my guess Greg
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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How so? You guessed the same thing, and I don't know who actually posted first, because I edited mine and then noticed yours posted at the same time. Spelled would also work, and maybe it's the right answer, even though it wouldn't really be a proper CCC.
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He did say it was a rubbish clue
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Spelled is the answer. In old British English, spelt can be found everywhere but when Americans adopted the language, they settled for spelled. I know this is a rubbish clue but you are up for tomorrow.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Well, I crossed that answer out and went with spittle, which is almost always spit in West Pond! So I think you should be up again tomorrow, but I'll take it if you don't want to do another one.
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No I don't think I have time tomorrow morning either. I think you can take it.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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This really surprised me. I have always used "spelled" and assumed that was the British way and that "spelt" was the US version.
How do other Brits on here spell it?
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Spittle ? ( hoping I'm wrong )
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It decided to set my calendar default view on "monthly", which is a view that I do not even understand the usage, until you have a 60" monitor, or love mosaics.
So every time I click on my calendar, I have to click on "Day" to change back to the daily view, in order to see, well, my meetings of the day.
And, guess what, there is no way to change this behaviour easily - at least not at work, company policies etc... because of course my company knows better than I how I need to setup my tools.
Just needed to vent, but damn, I am getting old, I have no patience any more for this kind of f***ery.
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My Outlook keeps resizing the pane that shows email accounts and folders, so that I have to keep making it wider to get the width that I want.
And Excel recently started minimizing to a thin bar instead of the narrower, but still screen height, window that I sometimes use to look at something else at the same time. I then have to drag the bottom of that minimized bar to the bottom of the screen to get the window that I want.
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"That is a better pane size, believe me" - Outlook, every day.
On the same vein as your Excel thing, I have one contact in my Android phone that shows a special behaviour when I get an SMS from them : instead of showing it in the message app, it creates a floating icon that I have to dismiss every time. No reason for it, no setting that can be changed to stop it, happens only with that specific contact out of a couple hundreds. 
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Rage wrote: "monthly", which is a view that I do not even understand the usage
I even use monthly on my phone.
Works fine if you don't have more than a few meetings a day/month
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We have been working in Home Office for the last two years now, which means every interaction is done over the phone (as opposed to max 10% before). I have between 5 and 20 meetings a day, which indeed makes the monthly view useless. I often have 2 or 3 meetings in parallel.
Interestingly, this also slowly impacts my health : my eyes hurt because phone=MSteams=document sharing=staring at the screen, and normal work means staring at the screen. 10 to 12 hours on the phone in a day is psychologically exhausting - I am completely off power at the end of the day, more than back then when I run from one desk to the other to directly speak with colleagues. And there is no point in going to my workplace, since the few times I did, I was alone there, so back to phoning to everybody, but from a different place, with additional commuting - not interesting.
I do not miss the 2 hours commuting a day, but full time home office does not seem healthy on the long run. I wonder how you freelancers are coping with this.
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Rage wrote: I wonder how you freelancers are coping with this
I'm not sure what you mean with this.
I know freelancers who work from home, but in a team, just like you, except they earn about three times your salary.
I also know freelancers who work at the office, in a team, just like you before COVID, except they earn about three times your salary.
And then there's me, I work alone most of the time, in a private office in a building that I share with other tenants.
For me, it's 15 minutes by car or 45 minutes by bike (my preferred commute) and I rarely work from home.
Also, I earn about three times your salary 
Bottom line, freelancers do pretty much the same as you, except for a lot more money, but also more risk (contract ending without a new job, falling ill, etc.)
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I was talking about the missing of social interactions, but obviously most of them are in teams, either physical or virtual.
I doubt about the salary though, because that would mean the company would buy their services for between 300€/h and 350€/h, which is a crazy amount of money - maximum externals I have in my projects are around 120€/h and they are real experts in their field, average is around 95.
Or you are working on three projects at the same time for 80€/h in each project - in that case, yes, the figures must match, but it is well deserved money in regards of the crazy amount of worked hours...
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You make €100 an hour as an employee!? 
That's crazy and frankly, I don't believe you.
Let's say you're making €5000 a month as an employee, an average month has about 21 work days, or 21 * 8 = 168 hours.
Then your hourly wage is €5000 / 168 = €30.
€5000 is pretty much already, but maybe you have a company car or whatever, so I'm guessing the average programmer makes about €25 to €35 an hour.
And as you say, the average freelancers makes around €95 (although €5 - €15 often go to middle men).
So freelancers earn somewhere between two to four times as much as an average employee.
An average employee costs and employer about 1.5 times their salary, so around €40 to €50 an hour.
So employees are cheaper, until they get sick, or you want to fire them.
Employees earn less, but they get perks like paid vacation and sick days, holiday pay, social security like unemployment benefits...
There's pros and cons to both, both for the employee/freelancer and the employer.
Also, if you say a freelancer has to make €300 an hour to make three times more than you, that means you earn around €15.000 a month, but you also get all the perks of an employee.
That would be crazy and would put you right into the 0.1% of richest people in the world!
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Sander Rossel wrote: You make €100 an hour as an employee!?
I wish ! But no, I was talking about buying services from free-lancers or free-lancers companies (what you called middle-man), which I actually currently buy (as a project manager) between 80€/h and 120€/h, without taxes (about 20% more). I do not know how much is left to the free-lancer in the end... So to compare with it, I took what I am costing to the company, which must also be around 100€/h. The factor is 1.86 in my employer country, so this means ~55€/h and all taxed deduced (27% social and 35% income) around 25€/h net, which is what you estimated.
But the salaries are more than 5k in Germany, they are public and regulated by syndicates, here the grid:
file:///C:/Users/sdt2bue/AppData/Local/Temp/2018_02_06_MuE_TVe_Entgelte_u_AVo.pdf
SW Engineers are typically in the last five levels (so 13 to 17) on page 7 which you multiply by an experienced based factor between 1.1 and 1.3 determined by your employer, and you get this yearly between 13 and 14 times depending on local primes, so for a just graduated first job, this would be 4780€ x 1.1 x 13.5 = 5915€, so the company gives you 5915*73%=4318€/monthly, so about 33€/h or 22€/h after income taxes.
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