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by Tangurena 15y ago
One to try, if you can, is a team, each with their own office, but also a large "war room" where folks can rotate in and out of during their projects. During "crunch mode" everyone involved is in the war room, but they still had a private o
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by Tangurena 15y ago
The apostrophe has been deleted from your link. I suspect some anti-SQL-injection code ate it. %27 should be the appropriate escape character. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolen...
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by Tangurena 15y ago
One previous employer had a corporate policy that forbade having low-end computers for testing. The closest we could come was to test the desktop software in a virtual, and starve the virtual for memory. When we had to move to .NET 3.5 for
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by Tangurena 15y ago
The Japanese government did this (selling below cost) with consumer electronics, steel and some other industries, with the end result being that no television sets are made in the US anymore.
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by Tangurena 15y ago
While JavaScript is parsing it as octal, this will cause a whole raft of errors if you are making your users enter dates. User enters 08 for August, even returning NaN would be a mistake.
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by Tangurena 15y ago
> If record labels state that they invest a ton of money in musicians and nearly all of them do not make money... It means that record companies fraudulently inflate their "expenses" in order to bleed off all profit from the industry.
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by Tangurena 15y ago
An exposition of how broken the music industry business model can be found in Courtney Love's essay: "Courtney Love Does The Math" . There are far too many corroborating similar stories for her story to be an outlier or an aberration. htt
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Amazon won't go for that because a number of states treat having an affiliate in their state as a "business presence" which triggers the requirement to collect sales tax in that state. All the affiliates in my state were eliminated that way
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by Tangurena 15y ago
If you still maintain your college .edu email account, you could join Dreamspark and get a legit copy of Visual Studio Pro for free. If you're interested in XNA, while the regular XNA game studio is free, the student version lets you join A
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by Tangurena 15y ago
> I have come to believe that for people that act like this, it is a game, and the game is not won if they cannot get every penny. It probably bothered them that I walked away from the table with less than 100k, because some how they d
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by Tangurena 15y ago
This has always been the case with PayPal. They deliberately make it as hard as possible to actually contact a real human, and then act all surprised if the victim manages to get enough publicity to get past the barriers. http://digitallif
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Paypal wants to be a bank without being regulated as a bank. If they were regulated, this sort of fiasco would get their charter revoked. In addition, the business courses I'm taking all (in the text books and case studies used in classes)
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by Tangurena 15y ago
I'm going to disagree with you in part, and agree with you in part. I agree with you that this is theatre, but I disagree in that I claim these fines to be trivial to the size corporations involved. By making the fines look "large" to membe
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by Tangurena 15y ago
I prefer to walk down the hall and chat with the other person. Humor and sarcasm don't translate well to email, and I've managed to personally offend people without realizing it. By taking the time to actually look them in the eye (and wink
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by Tangurena 15y ago
My local supermarkets used to have those Kodak kiosks in the place they used to have 1-hour developing (a decade ago). Last year, they tore out the kiosks to replace them with DVDs and magazine racks. My local camera store tried to manage t
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by Tangurena 15y ago
As an older developer who has been developing for more than 20 years, I find that the reason for the "half-life" to be the impedance mismatch between the demands of a family and the demands of mismanagers (and their crunch time and death ma
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by Tangurena 15y ago
I think the "hate" is that this blogger still gets his affiliate code to work, while those in many other states (such as mine) were disabled because Amazon got into a disagreement with states over sales taxes.
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Tech all over. Earlier this year, one such sociopath latched onto my sister and she convinced me to get involved. As soon as the project looked like it was going to get released, the sociopath tried to dilute my sister's and my shares from
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by Tangurena 15y ago
One story that I think can help explain why many companies are stuck selling to Walmart is this one: http://www.fastcompany.com/node/47593/print The issue quickly becomes a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" issue. If you supply the
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by Tangurena 15y ago
I disagree for 2 reasons. First, Apple is notorious with NDAs. Second, many large retailers are quite willing to cancel contracts with any supplier that gets uppity enough to complain in public. Walmart is so notorious for cancelling suppli
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Walmart pays faster, but they are just as aggressive at having their hooks into your financials as Apple and pressuring your margins down. If you update or replace your ERP system, your contracts with Walmart require you to integrate the n
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by Tangurena 15y ago
> She started a "geek feminist" website, so that didn't help... This comes across similar to the excuse: "well of course she got raped - look at how she was dressed". Feminism only became a "dirty word" during President Reagan's term.
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by Tangurena 15y ago
A number of women have been beaten, raped and/or murdered by men making identical noises. MikeeUSA wasn't trolling, he was threatening to murder those women he was stalking, and justifying it. As MikeeUSA himself wrote: > The women of
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Parking garages are not lucrative. The cost to build a parking garage runs $20k-30k per parking space. Building one underground adds an additional $10k/space. In contrast, a parking stall on a flat slab is going to run only a few hundred do
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Malaria is a parasite. Vaccines are not effective against parasites, and there has never been such a thing. Until this one.
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by Tangurena 15y ago
In Florida, in their state university system, a "certificate" is the replacement for a "minor". This isn't a total replacement, as one can get one's "certificate" issued separately from the diploma (I did this).
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Those "completely legal purposes" are only "completely legal" in the US. In the US, the owners of the computer own the data about yourself [1]. In Europe, the data protection acts go the opposite: you own the data about yourself. Furthermor
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by Tangurena 15y ago
> It’s not that political journalism has strayed from its roots, or stopped covering important elements of a modern campaign. It’s that the elements of a modern campaign have changed, and as journalists, we have not kept pace. As some
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by Tangurena 15y ago
Sorry. No. He is not the cult leader. Most of her friends for the past few years have been folks who've also left the same cult, so there might be a common background, but no. This isn't the cult trying to take her for a few hundred more th
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by Tangurena 15y ago
I've come across this exact thing before (where the techie has to do it all - including spending $10 at godaddy). Always with folks who convince my family to get hold of me. The cure has been to get the relative involved in the fiasco, wher

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