R_Edward

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by R_Edward 13y ago
I don't dispute the claim that there are very competent cashiers all over the place. I just seem to be particularly lucky in finding their counterparts whose greatest usefulness is in flattening the curve. Also, isn't it a little
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Some time ago, I was trying to buy a few hundred dollars worth of furniture, only to be informed that the cashier could not process my order because her computer was down. Everything I was buying had a price tag and I was paying cash, so I
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Depends: the sheets (whether fitted and flat, or two flat with one tucked under all four corners and one lying above) are there to provide an easily-washable envelope within which to couch your body while sleeping. While we sleep--and occa
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by R_Edward 13y ago
AKA flat sheet, which is really a more descriptive term, as it usually does not go on the top of the bedding stack. I don't see how tacking the flat sheet to the duvet cover helps--yes, it keeps the sheet from getting wadded at the foo
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by R_Edward 13y ago
I've been "selling my time" for 27 years, and if I had it to do over, I'd do it again. Probably for different employers, probably with some sort of career strategy, but I'd definitely do it again. Why? because to succeed, an entrepreneur n
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by R_Edward 13y ago
With nickel at $6.64 per pound, and copper at $3.28, I'd be more interested in a device that went the opposite direction. (I mean, since it's not actually performing fusion anyway.)
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Slightly off-topic, but street names in the Twin Cities metro are broken. I live in a subdivision in which nearly every street has the same name, differentiated only by the road's "last name." I.e., Maplecliff Drive, Maplecliff Circle (wh
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by R_Edward 13y ago
While I agree with the author's sentiment, I think it is a dangerous practice to assert that "Nothing is any of 100,000 characters and anything between 0 and 2 billion in length." By all means, let's impose more rigorous structure on data
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by R_Edward 13y ago
>Banned all forms of animal protein, including chicken litter, in cow feed in 2001. Saw a Dirty Jobs segment some time ago in which a Nevada pig farmer picks up all the waste from several casinos' buffets, hauls it out to his farm, hand
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by R_Edward 13y ago
My wife is a public librarian, and occasionally comes home with stories of people she had to help with the computer. Patrons are allotted one hour of computer time per day, and she says it often takes that much time just to create a gmail
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by R_Edward 13y ago
I had a trig/pre-calc teacher in high school who I really respected. He had a catchphrase in his classes, especially in the earlier math classes. "In my class, there are only two kinds of people: those who love math, and those who are goi
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by R_Edward 13y ago
I thought Truman Capote wrote the book and gave it to Harper Lee to publish under her own name. In any case, incredible book, although it was a little disappointing in that it failed to live up to its title. I never did learn how to kill a
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by R_Edward 13y ago
True, money is a means to doing things. Things like paying for an unexpected extended hospitalization. Or a new refrigerator when the old one dies. Or a new roof when a tornado plays peekaboo with your attic. Or a new vehicle when someo
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by R_Edward 13y ago
I'd be happy if the Java updater would garbage collect old versions of Java after it installed a new one. How many versions does the average user actually need?
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by R_Edward 13y ago
Apple gets most things right in terms of hardware--eventually. It took them a while to come up with a user-facing camera for Skype calls, as well as high-speed data access. Personal preference is everything in the digital device market, so
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by R_Edward 13y ago
I'm a citrus farmer. I have several acres of trees growing oranges. Now, you may know that we usually pick the oranges before they've fully ripened. Consequently, we have to store them in a building for a little while until they're ready
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by R_Edward 14y ago
I suppose the most compelling reason to disbelieve the sheeple agenda theory is Occam's Razor. Do not attribute malice where incompetence is an adequate explanation. If our high schoolers are generally lacking in critical thinking skills,
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by R_Edward 14y ago
"Government school" is a wonderful example of how snappy terminology short circuits critical thinking. It may be rewarding on some level to assume that every school operated by the government is part of a monolithic agenda to turn the nati
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by R_Edward 14y ago
A contract is kind of like a speed limit sign. It may specify behaviors that are in violation, but it has no power on its own to enforce itself. About all it's really good for is to describe for a third party--a judge--the agreement betwe
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Oh, I've no doubt that some of the hard-core cyclists would latch on to it--eliminating the wind chill effect would be a big score over riding on a naked bike, but hoi polloi, the people with a short commute who could switch to somethin
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Living in Minneapolis/St. Paul, I'm thinking this is not likely to catch on here. 4-5 months out of the year, the roads are icy; the air is cold, limiting the effectiveness of the battery; and the daylight hours are short. Maybe it'll cat
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Calorie counts on menus is a good start, but it's not enough. It doesn't mean anything to the average American consumer that there are 1800 calories in that Starbuck's Mochaccino he just bought. Contextualize it with an Ad Council campaig
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by R_Edward 14y ago
One of my team members actually ran out on her lunch break to buy a dictionary. She told me this a month or two after the fact. She needed to look up something I'd written in an e-mail. I apologized for causing her to go to the extra eff
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by R_Edward 14y ago
I've had that experience, and it's truly awesome. But I've never figured out how to make it happen on my timetable. :)
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Indeed--I find it works best when the person I'm talking to doesn't know anything about software, so that crucial points don't get hidden beneath a layer of shared abstract understanding.
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by R_Edward 14y ago
That's probably it: a simple boolean header. And I agree that changing default behavior is a very dodgy practice. I used to have an Outlook extension that disabled Reply-All on outgoing mail. I used the heck outta that thing! Nothing bug
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by R_Edward 14y ago
What we need is a virtual secretary: someone who will triage all our calls, and only ping us if something urgent comes through. Maybe two levels of pings, one for urgent, the other for important. Everything else just gets silently noted f
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by R_Edward 14y ago
I am somewhat past the middle of a career as an analyst/programmer of various flavors. As I look back on the previous quarter-century, I find that the software I am most proud of is that in which the development effort was punctuated by fr
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by R_Edward 14y ago
So is it a setting that affects only your own replies? Or is it something you set in an original email or reply that you're composing, that compels all recipients who click the reply button to reply to the entire addressee list by default?
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by R_Edward 14y ago
Is there no such thing as Fair Use in German copyright law?

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