Duff

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by Duff 15y ago
That's the police equivalent of saying "Here, have a cookie for your way out." Call your local alderman, etc and make a stink about it.
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by Duff 15y ago
It's a gimmick to attract attention. It's the verbal equivalent of Ozzy Osborne biting the head off of a bird on TV, except lamer.
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by Duff 15y ago
The question then becomes, are you an accessory to a federal crime by enabling someone to gain unauthorized access to a computer system?
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by Duff 15y ago
Schools are breeding grounds for this sort of thing. Combine psychotic parents, "cyber bullying" (a crisis de jure), morals clauses in contracts, "think of the children" attitude, and sometimes tyrannical administration, and you get crazy s
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by Duff 15y ago
That's the passive-aggressive way. If you're not ideally suited to something, refer someone who is. I've wasted alot of time dealing with vendors who played these sorts of stupid games -- it's really frustrating, and lowers my overall opini
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by Duff 15y ago
The running cost is just part of the equation... those servers are depreciating away and generating no revenue!
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by Duff 15y ago
You hit it on the head. I used to have to deal with alot of litigation-related preservation of data... we started calling discovery "Mutually Assured Destruction". The lawyers basically try to make things more and more onerous in order to e
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by Duff 15y ago
Deliverable-based consultants always have a high hourly rate, because they are rarely fully booked. A freelancer is often 50% or less utilized, especially if they do short engagements. So in reality, they are making ($100k-taxes-insurance-o
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by Duff 15y ago
I think that you're trying to swim in dangerous waters. Do you think that your variation would be considered OK if you were talking about a racial group? Or short people? Personally, I'd want to stress that this is an event where you can ha
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by Duff 15y ago
I'm a guy who in more of an IT role with alot of women (probably a little less than half the people here) -- so I guess I come from a weird perspective. My sister is an engineer/designer, so I've heard her perspective on this as well. The i
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by Duff 15y ago
Crafting the perfect apology is fine, but you need to consider whether there is value in doing so. Are the people whom you are offending by acting like a fratboy really going to believe that you have "seen the light"? The apology these guys
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by Duff 15y ago
Think of it from a teacher's perspective: you do your job, when out of nowhere some nutcase or religious zealot comes out of the woodwork and tries to get you arrested, and failing that, pressures the school board to have you dismissed. Rig
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by Duff 15y ago
This is why teacher tenure is necessary.
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by Duff 15y ago
This is similar to the announcements from Intel about advances in lithography. Intel announced the 32nm process technology in 2009 -- that process gives them a platform to refine and improve their technology. So now, a top of the line Xeon
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by Duff 15y ago
Try parking in Queens sometime. "American" small cars have a reputation that is not so good.
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by Duff 15y ago
I'd argue that right now is about the dumbest time to buy a used car -- nobody bought cars in 2009 or 2010, so there is a shortage of off-lease or similar vehicles. The smart money keeps the car they have until the market settles.
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by Duff 15y ago
Huh? There are literally millions of people in NYC getting by just fine in NYC making $70k or less. You're not going to live a white-bread suburban dream though. The funny thing is, NYC has a great public transit system in Manhattan (and an
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by Duff 15y ago
For an intern, I would guess that $75k is a better salary in New York. You need a car in California.
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by Duff 15y ago
Huh? Rifles in a closed indoor environment are pretty scary to me. They are inappropriate and intimidating to anyone who isn't a gun geek.
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by Duff 15y ago
I haven't seen them in an airport lately, but National Guard soldiers are in Penn Station in NYC. They are armed with pistols, and spend most of their time flirting. If they are doing a drill or the threat level goes up, they are armed with
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by Duff 15y ago
I have a group of friends who have master's degrees in art education (from a private school), and are stuck being substitute art teachers and waiting tables, because there are few openings for art teachers. In their minds, they did the "res
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by Duff 15y ago
Whenever you buy stuff "Let the buyer beware" applies. I'm sure your brother has stories about unwary customers who paid ridiculous amounts of money for awful work that he had to fix up. A smart customer isn't an expert in cabling -- you ju
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by Duff 15y ago
At the grocery store, a banana is a banana -- it costs $0.89/lb, and the store's CoGS is $0.69/lb. Car dealers are different -- they don't make money on the car, they make it on the other stuff that the salesman peddles. Thus, no price list
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by Duff 15y ago
These days, most folks posting here have a backup regime for their PCs.
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by Duff 15y ago
At this point, isn't the pharmaceutical industry playing games with supply by limiting the production of many medicines? Even a common OTC drug like guaifenesin that has been around since the 50's is difficult to find by itself, except in t
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by Duff 15y ago
That's the idea of natural law. The concept of "owning" something in nature that is not scarce is not a natural concept. The notion that property has value is pretty much a universal concept.
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by Duff 15y ago
Making a decision is one aspect of negotiating, but it isn't the most important one. Establishing the scope of the negotiation (ie. what does each side care about?) is what inexperienced negotiators typically miss. Smart legislators underst
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by Duff 15y ago
Trip Advisor seems to successfully do what Yelp does, minus the extortion and general suckage.
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by Duff 15y ago
A: Because they get other jobs that meet their income requirements. People who make it through law school usually aren't idiots. So if they fail to achieve a satisfactory career in Law, they move into other areas. Attorneys work in governme
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by Duff 15y ago
It's a hard problem to solve, because you're selling disk based on capacity. Problem is, capacity is easy to figure out, but capacity at a specific performance profile is hard. In an enterprise datacenter, a "fast" Tier-1 or Tier-2 SAN runs

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