Declanomous

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   by Declanomous 9y ago

   Or it could be like the place I worked where IT made as many hurdles as possible to the installation of new software. So I, as a database marketing associate, linked 4 different CRMs used by different departments together using the magic of
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   Customer service isn't purely tech support. I've called customer service because I've been burned by malfunctioning products before. I received a replacement product in addition to some financial compensation. I'm sure t
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   I've never worked at a company large enough to have in-house counsel, so I figured that it was a title given to the entire legal department. I work in marketing, and it drives me nuts when people say "well we didn't know abo
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   by Declanomous 9y ago

   This is interesting. At the risk of being lambasted for this view, I've often felt that this is the issue with a lot of places within the United States. For instance, I've always considered personal interactions in the South to be
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   I don't know why I would contact the general counsel of a company if they stole my work. I'm not an artist, but I have made some art, and if someone stole that art I would call the company itself. Additionally, I've tried cal
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   by Declanomous 9y ago

   I think the mono-conversation group is present on HN, but I feel like it's balanced out by a pretty substantial group of people who have made a conscious decision to live somewhere other than SF or NYC because they don't agree w
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   by Declanomous 9y ago

   I didn't go to a research University, and I'm fairly sure none of the staff used mice as a model organism. I think they were merely used in student experiments. Now some of those students may have published work as part of their s
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   by Declanomous 9y ago

   If results were thrown out because of a confounding factor then it would hopefully be mentioned in the paper. I've had a similar thought about these little insights. There are literally thousands of times more biology undergrads than t
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   by Declanomous 9y ago

   In college we used to joke that animal behavior should be called animal misbehavior. We literally had one member of our lab group that could work with the mice and get sensible results. Neither of the guys could get any data that made sense
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    Somehow that part of the article didn't click for me. The NYT article linked in the following sentence does a great job of explaining why they are being taxed if you don't have a finance background.
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    Can someone explain to me why Universities, which are mostly non-taxable entities, would use offshore banking?
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    This is something I did a lot using VBA. I'm not sure how to do it with open document format, but it's really easy using VBA. The MS Word object has a method to combine documents. I did something similar to what I think you are tr
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    My great-grandmother's recipes include instructions like "use more coals than normal for oven."
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    I imagine that a company has a range and they just don't feel comfortable posting it. Maybe they are afraid that their range is too low or too high and are using the applicants salary range as a baseline. It's pretty easy to prove
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    It could be similar to when YouTube stopped supporting shorter encryption keys, and a lot of streaming hardware suddenly became useless because they couldn't support longer keys.
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    Another bonus is how much longer your battery lasts without animations. I'm pretty sure battery saver just turns off tactile response, and disables animations for the most part (in addition to changing the gps update speed if you are u
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    This could be a copy-paste of rants I have written. I think marketing has ruined pretty much everything. Everything has a subscription now, and it's in the cloud . My experience is that everything is slower than when I first started u
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    Wouldn't replacing the 74S86 with a 74VHC86 have worked? I'm a hobbyist, so my knowledge is pretty limited[1], but I was under the impression that the VHC series chips were drop-in replacements for the S series in both timing and
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Potentially Technologies: VBA, VB, Excel, Access, SQL, Python, Linux, Bash, USPS, HTML LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanfahey/ Email: dylan /a&
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    We have a bunch of regulations on that stuff in Chicago now. I don't know if it was the same guy, but some people got upset because they thought solar panels were super ugly. Here's a pdf (warning) of all of the hoops you need to
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    I have trouble understanding how winning the lottery this often doesn't immediately raise red flags for fraud. Is there some reason that people might buy winning lottery tickets?
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    We don't preface highways with I in Chicago. We either just use the number (I took 290 to 294 to 88), or we use their name. Sometimes we use a combination (I took the Eisenhower out to the Tri-State and then to 88).
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    That was at least part of my intent.
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    Not a dig at you, but I tend to use $5 words when a normal word would suffice. Even though the obscure words usually express my thoughts more precisely than common words do, they do a worse job of conveying understanding, since people often
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    Topolobampo in Chicago is a Michelin starred restaurant by Rick Bayless. There is actually a ton of Mexican fine dining in Chicago, and tons of excellent standard-fare Mexican in Chicago. I've had fine-dining Mexican in other cities, a
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    Well, that's partly true. A lot of the flooding is due to the fact that the entirety of Texas doesn't care about hydrology, and all that water is ending up downstream, in Houston. There'd still be flooding, and it would still
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    When I watch things floating in water, objects below the water seem to move back and forth with the movement of the water, as if the object and the water were the same, but things that are partially in the water, they seem to "ride&quo
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    Check Walmart. They have 6 packs for a dollar, and the one near me still had plenty.
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    You guys also put your washing machine in the kitchen. In the US the washing machine goes in a different room, which means you have to run a lot more plumbing. Combination machines are also extremely rare, and people don't really air d
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    by Declanomous 9y ago

    Yeah, the thing is that our health insurance has a deductible still, and it's generally a percentage of the cost of the visit. Since prices aren't published, you have no idea how much anything will cost until afterwards. Even the