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by Duff 16y ago
That's a great technique for getting yourself off of the annoying recruiter mailing list.
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by Duff 16y ago
I disagree -- it's cutting out the middleman. The actual author is making more money and has more (ie. complete) editorial control over his art. Cutting out the middleman means returning things like writing to a craft rather than of an afte
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by Duff 16y ago
I think that's the issue many folks have. You coast up the salary band at a big corporate or public sector employer and get accustomed to a $100k gig coordinating paperclip management or something. At big companies especially, it's easy to
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by Duff 16y ago
I think it depends on degree of unemployment. Folks in this 99 week situations have been unemployed for nearly 2 years... you have to wonder at some point why they haven't gotten some sort of job -- even a lousy one. For an IT job, are you
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by Duff 16y ago
I'm sure the engineers could hack something up, no problem. The problem is that Facebook's market defines mass-market -- the unwashed masses need to be able to figure out how to do stuff. That's hard.
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I love how the Facebook PR angle is that they have consulted with "child protection" experts who advised them that a real-name policy is a good idea. "Save the children" is a really lame excuse in this context.
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Harvard building Backblaze-style storage pods for big data.(blog.jcuff.net)
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I'm sure Zuckerberg gets this -- it is a pretty blatantly obvious concept. But addressing this technically is hard to do, and likely to be unsuccessful. Think about your own rules that you posted about. How is Facebook going to successfully
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by Duff 16y ago
I've chosen to out-opt of Facebook for a variety of reasons that aren't really germane. To assist with this, I use a Chrome extension called "Facebook Disconnect" to basically remove FB from my daily web experience. So for me, TechCrunch do
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Accounting courses are horrific, but in fairness they try to get you up to speed on the basics before diving into the detail. A typical CSI 101 course is often like this -- you learn about operators, etc without understanding how things act
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Never said that. The article isn't about entrepreneurs, which are an entirely different type of person that makes different kinds of mistakes. An entrepreneur isn't afraid of making mistakes, regardless of his place in the social order. Tha
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by Duff 16y ago
New York State.
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by Duff 16y ago
I think the scenario in this article works in some banks, law firms and other places that give a hoot about Ivy League connections and hire a few proles to avoid being painted as a company full of elitists.
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by Duff 16y ago
The bartender does that only until he gets busted by a police sting operation. A good friend of mine had his nascent teaching career destroyed when he some confident-looking 20 year old chick dropped a 6 pack of Bud Light on the counter of
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by Duff 16y ago
So for most professionals, the tax-deductibility at most is 30% of the purchase price. And that is assuming that you can deduct the complete cost.
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by Duff 16y ago
Facebook doesn't want to be a Microsoft partner, they want to be AOL, circa 1994. (ie, a walled garden)
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by Duff 16y ago
Buying the medicine in the open market adds some moral clarity. You are left with whether performance enhancing drugs are ok or not, which is an ambiguous issue. I don't think that coffee should be equated with Adderal, but I am not sure wh
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by Duff 16y ago
US military pilots in wartime are expected to operate for longer than 12 hours at a time, supported by speed pills. If it were legal for truck or bus drivers to do so, companies would compel them to as well.
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by Duff 16y ago
You need to change to adapt to things. Do you do things exactly the same as you did in high school? Probably not -- you adapted to the changes that life threw at you. RH is a small company that has to compete against behemoths with a full p
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by Duff 16y ago
Perhaps I should have said "I don't care about the learning outcomes of people looking for an edge" If you have a medical condition, the government or insurance company should be paying for the drug. I don't think passing out pills to get
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by Duff 16y ago
I think personal integrity matters. Lying to a doctor to get an insurance company to pay for drugs that make you appear to be smarter is an issue in my book. If I did it, I don't think I would sleep well at night. I also want to agree with
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by Duff 16y ago
A phony ADD/ADHD diagnosis is cheating because getting diagnosed as a "learning disability" entitles you to special accommodation. You're also a party to a felony, since you are either committing insurance fraud from the bogus prescription
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by Duff 16y ago
The Jersey turnpike brings out the worst in everyone. After you recover from the food poisoning from the Roy Rodgers or Bob's Big Boy on the turnpike, you're feeling pretty down. Then, the blues turn into rage as you drive down I-95 and Del
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by Duff 16y ago
In other news, the sky is in fact blue. Of course airline customer service sucks. The secret to dealing with any airline exception is not to run for the ticket counters with the mob -- call the 1-800 number immediately. The folks on the pho
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by Duff 16y ago
Sounds like the dev types get 3-4 monitors and very beefy PCs, and work 40 hour weeks. Why would you want/need a laptop in that case? Multi-monitors with a laptop is asking for ergonomic-related health problems.
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by Duff 16y ago
This is an 80/20 rule thing. The vast majority of PCs get refreshed in one way or another every 3-4 years. So a company like Microsoft can invest in the 80% of the market that drives sales (ie. people who refresh computers) OR invest resour
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by Duff 16y ago
The Salem Witch trials are another great example of this phenomena.
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by Duff 16y ago
It depends on what you do. Personally, I'm a pretty meticulous filer, I keep lots of paper and digital records, filed in filesystems so I can figure out wtf happened 3 or 5 years ago. (I'm a manager in a large IT organization) Ancient email
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by Duff 16y ago
This is for individual contacts, not the email directory. Google has several customers with >10,000 accounts.
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by Duff 16y ago
In Exchange, you can have multiple folders that contain contacts. I asked our Exchange guys, who said that over about 5,000 you may run into issues. YMMV. I haven't worked in a Congressional office, but if you're keeping track of constituen

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