berlinbrown

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by berlinbrown 14y ago
Are you sure? If she paid with a credit card and there is the automatic 18%, what processes deducts the automatic tip? It wouldn't have mattered that she crossed out that printed 6.29.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
At least for me. Waiting was the easiest job with the most reward for the least amount of work. Tax free in some cases because it was cash. Our job was to essentially walk from one side of the restaurant to the other side of the restauran
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
It sucks she backed down so easily. She should have lawyered up.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
It is a perfectly fine system but apparently in America, you have to leave a 20% tip under all circumstances. If the service is bad, who cares, leave the 20% or you are an asshole and we will post your information online. God help you if y
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
I don't think the waitress is a hero. She violated a person's privacy. The waitress already received the automatic 18% tip. What is her beef? She didn't like one comment on a receipt? How many tables did she wait on that night? 6-10?
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
We went from talking about Aaron Swartz, suicide, Cyberlaw, startups and algorithms to a discussion about tips being left on the table. This story has truly gone viral.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
As a general rule, restaurant managers at these chain stores have to respect the brand. According to Applebee's: "Employees must honor the privacy rights of APPLEBEE’s and its employees by seeking permission before writing about or displa
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
I see it as a human acting human. There are 7 billion people, their behavior is not predetermined.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
Why would anyone write anything on a receipt.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
It wouldn't have happened if the waitress didn't post that image of the receipt online. She acted with malicious intent and I am glad they fired her.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
This is exactly why Applebee's fired the waitress. She wasn't fired because the customer called the store. She was fired because she was the catalyst for all of this bad publicity.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
Exactly. Look at it from the other side, Applebee's has to protect their brand. They can't have waitresses posting information about customers online. That is why she was fired. I was immediately shocked by the waitresses' behavior. Tha
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
I am surprised that everyone saw this from one side. I was making an argument that the "pastor" has received a lot of undue criticism all because she made ONE comment on a receipt after ONE meal. Now, her small 15 person church is receivi
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
I am going to say defense is an important factor in the game. So I am going with SF.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
Hollywood has a programming problem. Why not instead of math, they should talk about programming. Programming is essentially applied math.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
There are several fallacies in your argument. You assume that software cannot exist without some corporations. Open source is almost like "free" information and content on the Internet. Any kid or adult can start a project. They can just
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
This is why it is so hard to buy a raspberry pi. Google has bought them all up.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
Amateurs
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
Calm down, it is a harmless folksy anecdotal comment on two technologies (ironically trademarked by the same company). Java is a technology (including web plugins) that has received a lot of criticism from the community. Just recently the
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
A lot of people use it. It is the Java of databases. Ironically, Oracle also is connected to Java.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
Hijacking a website is so 1990s. Hack a website and then give me all the logins. That would be kind of interesting.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
The cool thing about hacking government sites. No one will be in the office on the weekend.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
"You are actually now arguing that either she was incompetent because she picked bad expert witnesses or she had bad judgement in how hard she prosecuted." I didn't say that or imply it. On the other side. I have heard that Aaron had acce
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
I agree that the prosecutor went too far. But there certainly seems to be a case if just a minor one. I hate to use the adage but if you don't want to deal with the prosecutors you shouldn't get caught. On the case, I know a lot of techni
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
How did it go from state/civil to a federal case?
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
Darn, I missed it because... I was 3.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
Is this like Aaron Swartz illegal or something else? Is it a felony?
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
126 bitches.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
Also, I think the concept could probably be done with sed and whatever bash scripts. But the code didn't look that bad. It is Javascript after all.
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by berlinbrown 14y ago
Compared to the Linux (open) world? There was no real interface before 2000. Even with the core Linux developers like Linus, he absolutely did not care about the user space. Linux was sort of this competitor to MS Windows and the main cr

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