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by Duff 16y ago
Sounds like an application for a database or CRM system of some sort so that you can age out the old entries. How many contacts from 3 year ago are still relevant?
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by Duff 16y ago
It depends on how you eat. In my efforts to lose weight and get more healthy in general, I shop mostly along the outer edges of the store (produce/meats). In these areas, prices have shot up way beyond 6.7%. Onions and potatoes are easily u
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by Duff 16y ago
IMO, this is an area where 37signals has the right approach. I run into things like this when we consolidate email systems. Its always a battle. Weird corner cases like the guy who has 50,000 folders in his inbox, cross referenced with mult
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by Duff 16y ago
This happens all of the time. Unfortunately, that's the reality of international politics.
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by Duff 16y ago
When folks here posted their blocklists, there were a few borderline sites that I noticed. About.com is the notable one that comes to mind.
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by Duff 16y ago
They were more like allies than enemies at that point. The pact carved up Polish (and other nations) territory a few weeks in advance of the German invasion.
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by Duff 16y ago
What mistake? The Soviet invasion started a couple of weeks after the German invasion.
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by Duff 16y ago
Maybe I'm just a simpleton, but it seems odd to attack something designed to make statistics analysis easy for statisticians, because it doesn't meet the needs of mid-level managers. Managers and other folks who need to make pivot tables, g
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by Duff 16y ago
This isn't Hipmunk's fault, but the lack of Southwest schedules kills the utility for me.
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by Duff 16y ago
I thought part of the globalist/"free trade" snake oil was supposedly that we ship the dumb jobs to the third world, and all of us here in the US become programmers and scientists though some magic process.
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by Duff 16y ago
You're comparing a totalitarian system to a mid-level manager at a company. Not the same things. There is a ton of material written about the workings of the Nazi German government and the Soviet Union. I suggest reading it. While Stalin, H
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by Duff 16y ago
This jives with my personal observations of my work. I'm a very busy guy, but I easily spend 40% of my day not focusing on work. Probably another 20% is walking around talking to the people. To me, "focusing" on random stuff (ie. Hacker New
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by Duff 16y ago
The problem is that we're pretty bad at predicting the long-term implications of discouraging consumption. Examples: Tobacco. State revenues in particularly are dependent on tobacco taxes, which were enacted under the theory that since smok
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by Duff 16y ago
I think that it is one of the driving factors, and that the experience of the housing bubble confirms it. I live in sleepy Albany, NY, which as a state capital and small city it is a pretty stable place. No boom-bust cycles at all -- it's a
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by Duff 16y ago
How is someone stuck in the poverty cycle different than a serf? Read about how difficult it is to break the $40,000/year barrier if you have children due to the escalation of taxes and scaling back of tax and other incentives. How is someo
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by Duff 16y ago
You sound like a typical middle class person who doesn't get out much in an urban area or have had to struggle. Bill Gates isn't a rags to riches tale -- he had every advantage. The poorest people around us probably aren't dying of hunger a
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by Duff 16y ago
That process started happening in NYC decades ago, depending on how you define suburb. Suburbs are awful places to be poor, as you need to be able to maintain a car to get by. Parts of Nassau county and even Westchester (ie. Southside of Mo
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by Duff 16y ago
My family moved away from NYC in the late 80's because they couldn't afford to send us to the Catholic school, and the middle school that I was going to be sent to had some issues with violence. Violence like kids burning up cars with molot
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by Duff 16y ago
It depends on the actual negotiating position. Sometimes you are negotiating with a second stringer who isn't empowered to do what needs to be done. If the other party needs you and knows it, the "fuck you" or "walk away" tactic brings thin
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by Duff 16y ago
I'll open myself up to scorn by admitting that I buy these things often. You don't get to select your tickets in NY, they are ripped off one at a time on a roll that is in a locked container. The most obvious vulnerability here is clerks an
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by Duff 16y ago
The EFF report talks about how they got to 40,000 on page 12. That estimate makes several assumptions whose validity is tough to validate. I agree that it is probably inflated. The 768 number is based on one release of documents, which only
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by Duff 16y ago
The average duration between incident and report of the incident is 2.5 YEARS. That's a long time, long enough to make effective investigation difficult -- memories fade, evidence goes stale or missing. EFF estimates that there are as many
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by Duff 16y ago
I guess the logic of this position is that if the suburban soccer mom's were forced to send their sons and daughters to war, they would do something about it. Or that as a nation we would somehow be more sensible since we would all know som
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by Duff 16y ago
I guess that would depend on the definition of failure. Relishing failure as in the "Charge of the Light Brigade" (ie. marching to certain death) is a little masochist IMO. Not too appealing to me. But if a almost certain failure served a g
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by Duff 16y ago
After watching about 45 minutes of inane coverage of Egypt on CNN and Fox, probably because they are controlled by an offshore entity and don't offer a point of view remarkably in line with whatever Washington is putting out.
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I doubt the actual weapon was profitable. They literally made like 75 million of the things. The Soviets may have made a few bucks setting up factories in the 3rd world for licensed production.
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You don't like this? What are you, some sort of communist? The US Government has already sold the livelihood of most of its people (ie. industry) under the guise of the free market. Talk to someone who grew up in Buffalo, Cleveland or any n
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by Duff 16y ago
This is probably the first good redesign that /. has done this century! I actually stopped visiting Slashdot because the previous rounds of "improvement" to the comment system was always a pain in the butt if you had to switch tabs while ty
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by Duff 16y ago
It's more like a restaurant hiring a third party to handle billing without you needing to collect cash or hold consumer receivables. (ie. credit cards) Who do you trust more to control who can use your identity? A gossip blog like Gawker Me
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by Duff 16y ago
I'm surprised that 37signal's thought process is so utterly flawed. Blaming a technology for implementation problems just doesn't make sense. Using this logic, we would have concluded in 1997 that since Geocities pages were ugly and slow, H

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