MrFoof

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by MrFoof 17y ago
I need to find the source, but when top GM brass was given a new model to demonstrate, they were given a ringer -- the whole car gone over with a fine toothed comb to iron out the slightest defect (source: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/
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by MrFoof 17y ago
> Unless the tools/languages are tremendously better than what is available for free/cheaper, I don't particularly understand the value in... There's tremendous value if it's what you already know. The opportunity cost associated wi
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by MrFoof 17y ago
>It's interesting how the copies are (inevitably) always deeply inferior to the originals. Some are dangerously so. DWR doesn't carry a knockoff, however there are a fair number of Isamu Noguchi coffee table knockoffs out there, with d
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by MrFoof 17y ago
This is mostly in reference to the US-market Honda Accord. Really, go anywhere outside the US for a while, come back, and you instantly realize how much of an absolute mess the US auto market is. Really, we're largely given substandard pro
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by MrFoof 17y ago
I've never understood the nickel and dime-ing of customers. Ok, I can understand it from certain perspectives but... here's the deal. Wireless carriers? Want to gain a large amount of market share ASAP? Give every 1000 text messages free
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by MrFoof 17y ago
life = wife
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by MrFoof 17y ago
This should be corrected (thought I updated it a while back, info is certainly there). If not, send a tweet to @robgomes.
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by MrFoof 17y ago
Inexperience, and a tendency to be a "saver". I've since learned how to read between the lines, ask a lot of questions hiring managers aren't expecting to be asked, and to request interviews with team members if it isn't offered (and refus
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by MrFoof 17y ago
We were explicitly barred from using tools that were not published by Microsoft. Even if Microsoft didn't make a tool to solve the problem. Instead, we were encouraged to create our own, on our own time, outside of regular business hours.
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by MrFoof 17y ago
I think what's most terrifying is they raised roughly $100,000,000 USD in funding, from folks like Larry Ellison at that. It was a glorified loyalty reward program. They did however manage a partnership with MasterCard that allowed members
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by MrFoof 17y ago
I threw Chrome 2 on my Windows 7 VM for the heck of it, and all I need to say is -- holy crap, it feels like I got a new computer. JavaScript-heavy sites simply have... "the snappy" now. At first I thought it might just be perception, so I