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by angdis 16y ago
It wasn't until the 1960's through 1970's, the car-ownership prompted massive shifts from cities to suburbs. Many baby boomers and those who preceded them (the "Ward Cleever" generation), can still remember the concept of having a main stre
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by angdis 16y ago
"Standard of living" means different things to different people. One could say that you've acclimated yourself to a lower standard of living by burning up lots of time and money commuting and taking care of a car and large house. I'll take
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by angdis 16y ago
"Halal internet?" Sounds tasty. I'd like to order mine in a pita with rice on the side, to go please.
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by angdis 16y ago
I think the question is wrong. It assumes that the problem is to find a "replacement" for oil, in other words, that all we need to do is replace the oil and everything else will work "the same." For whatever reason, Americans are locked in
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by angdis 16y ago
I forgot who first said it but the TSA is what you get when you pay people to use their reptile brains (the part of the brain that mindless reacts to fear). The things that REALLY keep us safe are pro-active investigations that take place i
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by angdis 16y ago
I don't see much point in the argument over whether or not programming is (or is not) a craft. In my book, you can imagine yourself as whatever you want as long as it gets the job done-- "engineer", "artist", "craftsman", "fry-cook", "archi
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by angdis 16y ago
OK, that was an example of hard-nosed salary negotiation. A little aggressive for most technical people, but you should see what business folks do! Since you mentioned it, I have to say it.... a NEW benz on a 109K salary?? Dude, you just bl
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by angdis 16y ago
Sounds like typical turgid ceo-speak. Is there anything in there besides generalities about "vision", "strategy", and "market"? "tough decisions" is usually a codeword for layoffs so I guess this a 2000 word note prompting employees to fres
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by angdis 16y ago
I've had this problem on interviews before, you get scheduled to talk to a bunch of people, serially, and end up saying/asking the same things over and over. An entire day of that is grueling and can wear down virtually anyone. For this rea
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by angdis 16y ago
He makes perfectly valid and compelling points but then shoots himself in both feet by using the word "Stalin". Language like that just alienates people. The dude needs a filter.
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by angdis 16y ago
I fail to see _any_ evidence of "overreaction" except for the usual chatter on the blogosphere. Is the author of the article saying that the area around the reactor should not have been evacuated? Who is he accusing of "overreaction" except
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by angdis 16y ago
Ok,so ~10% aren't indicating their true location. Why does it matter? Maybe they just said whatever was needed to get the HIT? If the HIT is not actually locale specific, there is no reason to expect all takers to truthfully divulge where t
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by angdis 16y ago
He clearly spoke too soon. Perhaps this can be taken as an example of why to be skeptical about ALL opinion coming out about ongoing catastrophes until the facts are actually known. I found it interesting to read about the Three Mile Island
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by angdis 16y ago
The short answer is "If you have to ask that question, you can't do it."
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by angdis 16y ago
The other possibility is that they pay attention to the writing on the wall, keep their professional networks fresh and are ready to bail out in time before the lay-offs come.
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by angdis 16y ago
It does suck as a policy, but this has been going on for a long time regardless of how good or bad the economy is. This is also why I am _always_ in a job search (even though I've never been laid off). There is definitely a career "cost" th
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by angdis 16y ago
The Sokal hoax was effectively a "bitch-slap" to certain philosophical camps that had devolved into a very deep rut of obscurantism. I think that Sokol was perhaps interested in what was going on in those circles but became repulsed by the
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by angdis 16y ago
The coffee-making analogy is roughly correct when you're talking about green-field work (starting a project from scratch). However, all projects very quickly turn into debugging exercises and yak-shaving adventures to solve problems associa
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by angdis 16y ago
At this point, I don't know why MS bothers to keep VB .NET going. The languages are effectively the same. AFAIK, you can map class-by-class, method-by-method from one to the other. How hard would it be for VB .NET programmers to migrate ove
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by angdis 16y ago
Based on that clip, it appears to be headed straight for DVD. To the actors' credit, they do not seem to be as grotesquely stilted as in the book. It must have been the acting challenge of a lifetime!
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by angdis 16y ago
gmail is more than "good enough" for the vast majority users, any valid criticism of it as a "could-based" email service (whatever that means) would have to compare/contrast it with the alternative "non-cloud" email service. More importantl
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by angdis 16y ago
I honestly would be OK with CSS if its only problem was anti-intuitive complexity. Unfortunately, CSS suffers from this complexity PLUS the fact that browser makers don't interpret CSS in the same ways. Both of these together make the whole
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by angdis 16y ago
There's nothing wrong with regular city tap water. Many folks are hyper-sensitized to the taste of a very small amount of mineral content that some water may or may not have. Bottled water manufacturers have latched onto these childish pref
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by angdis 16y ago
Employers with absurdly rigid hiring criteria (like ruling out candidates who've been jobless for more than 6 months) are most likely NOT worth working for. One has to wonder what other ridiculous rules are in store for the hires that decid
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by angdis 16y ago
IMHO, you don't say "got funding" until you can clear a check.
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by angdis 16y ago
I don't know if I buy into everything in the article, but she is right that women and men have different behaviors and that it helps to have some understanding of the differences. One example that comes to mind is that some women will actua
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by angdis 16y ago
There is often a huge chasm between what people SAY and what they MEAN. From a pragmatic viewpoint, I think it is best to not get hung up on word-choice and instead gain an appreciation of what motivates the managers/co-workers you're inter
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by angdis 16y ago
I think employers who have that attitude would probably NOT even be reading stackoverflow. In any case, one can reasonably argue that stackoverflow actually HELPS one get work done faster. Many times a thoughtful response to a pointed quest
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by angdis 16y ago
Stack-overflow is amazingly effective, especially when one considers the alternatives like those countless forgettable websites heavily laden with front-and-center ads, and the ones that have nag screens that block responses to answers unti
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by angdis 16y ago
OpenID isn't "done" yet. There very much is a market for 3rd party identification and I think that people will really want some level of neutrality from their identification provider. Unfortunately, it seems that facebook is filling that ma

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