Tangurena

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by Tangurena 16y ago
F# is a bit weird to folks who are used to C# or VB, which is what PG was referring to with the "Blub" paradox. F# is different enough that the majority of .NET programmers I meet, or work with, have no frame of reference to understand F# w
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New York is one of the states that treats co-lo as enough of a presence to trigger the "you must now collect sales tax" requirement. I think TN is another. However, in this case Amazon had at least one warehouse and at least one office in T
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by Tangurena 16y ago
Historically, mail-order purchases were exempted from sales tax - unless the seller had a presence in the state. Before there was the internet, before there was telephone, some retail companies got their start shipping catalogs to rural peo
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I've worked for quite a few companies over the years who had made it a firing-offense to discuss salaries at all in the workplace. This made negotiation your top skill in the company - not the quality of your work, nor the quantity of your
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I know it was not frivolous. That does not stop people from attacking it as an example of "what is wrong with the world."
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> So, the strongest and most common objection against the English rule is that it would prevent the poor from suing even if they had a good case; they just couldn't afford a 10% chance of owing thousands of dollars. The majority of ca
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by Tangurena 16y ago
"Technical" recruiters don't understand technology. The ones I've met are only capable of handling bingo sheets of buzzwords. My take on the whole recruiter industry is that the parasitic field of recruiters exists because of 2 factors: 1.
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by Tangurena 16y ago
To get rid of browser crashes, I browse without flash installed, or disabled, whichever is appropriate for the computer in use. With ad banners in flash, and several per page, all it takes is one poorly written flash app to take down all th
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I will try to be there.
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I liken learning to throwing cooked spaghetti against the wall: some sticks, some slides off. The key to being smarter is to make more stuff stick to the walls, whether you can do that by making the knowledge more "sticky" or like what I do
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by Tangurena 16y ago
Yes, it is OK. However modern business tends to select strongly against introverts. So my advice would be to look for some classes on public speaking, or possibly look for a nearby chapter of Toastmasters. http://www.toastmasters.org/ Whe
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by Tangurena 16y ago
The profit margin for a grain farmer in the US is about $100/acre in a good year. There are 43,560 square feet per acre. The ballpark estimate for construction of 10-20 story office space is $125-150 per square foot. To break even, you'll h
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by Tangurena 16y ago
The problem lies in how badly companies hire developers. Sadly, the example used by the author - web development - is quite fitting. We have all met the sort of client who was never satisfied and for whom the saying "I don't know what I wan
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by Tangurena 16y ago
While I'm sure that the changes to the partner program make sense from the MS side, they were a case of too much too fast for our company.
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by Tangurena 16y ago
In many states, non-compete agreements are enforceable. In CA, they aren't worth the paper they are written on. If CA courts had held non-compete agreements to be enforceable, "Silicon Valley" never would have happened as the free flow of t
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by Tangurena 16y ago
In most states, non-compete agreements are upheld by courts. In California, non-competes are almost always thrown out by courts [1]. In other states, such as NY or OH, non-competes are always interpreted in favor of the company. What was be
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Snoop's story is tragically sad, but also inspirational as she did get out of the cycle of violence. http://www.amazon.com/Grace-After-Midnight-Felicia-Pearson/d...
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by Tangurena 16y ago
>Where does your platonic idea of chocolate come from? Cadbury Flake.
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by Tangurena 16y ago
Maybe I'm Jewish and I want to keep kosher. Maybe I'm not. It is my decision what goes into my body. Not yours. Not some company's. There are a lot of foods I don't eat anymore. I happen to love chocolate. But I don't want to eat chocolat
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by Tangurena 16y ago
Trying to eliminate what I consider "bad" foods from my diet is becoming harder as the producers change the name. I really don't care if it has been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt to be bad - because that process took over 100 years for
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by Tangurena 16y ago
Hmm, this is an interesting idea. Perhaps instead of making the buff wear off, make things available for the next time you are "in game" as it would be rather risky trying to play the game while walking on a treadmill, bike or eliptical mac
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by Tangurena 16y ago
Oh great, World of WorkoutCraft.
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15 years old. It runs Win 95 and is used to build a version of one of our products that stops shipping this summer. It uses a 3rd party control that cannot be installed elsewhere as the vendor has gone out of business and the product has an
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Some languages are closer to how you see a problem. Therefore they're going to be "easier" for you to program in.
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I found that uninstalling flash stops my tabbed browsing sessions from crashing. With 2-6 flash ads per page, a typical session could have 20-50 tabs open, so that there is usually well over 100 flash adverts running. All it takes is a sing
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by Tangurena 16y ago
> We don't get to hear their side of the story. The customer has no idea what's going on. That's a pretty bad business practice. That is the problem with pay pal. Dealing with them is like dealing with a roach motel: data and money go
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by Tangurena 16y ago
I am obese [1]. When I sit in one of those cheapy ($150 or so) office chairs from the office stores, I find that the gas cylinders last about 6 months before my fat a@@ squeezes the gas out of them. Since they're cheap imports, the only way
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If it is possible to predict a financial crisis, then it is possible to make a profit off of that crisis. The immediately obvious conclusion is then that it is worth provoking financial crises when it is possible to predict them. In Michael
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The current rules for the filing date for the copy of the recipient's copy of the 1099 is Jan 31. The electronic filing deadline for the IRS's copy is Mar 31.
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> What are the features that make pure software companies so attractive? Being a pure software company, there are lots of opportunities to jump around to different workgroups doing different things, as well as software development is

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