bpchaps

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by bpchaps 10y ago
Been thinking about doing the same for the same reasons and moving out to Switzerland or Germany. Have you already started the process? I'm curious how others have done it and what their thoughts are during/before/after the e
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I see little difference between the two. They're just different forms of the same abstraction.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Heh. Some empathy would go a long way, bud. When I see people with a "public face" all the time, I can't help but think the same way you you think about those without one. It's scary, it's creepy, it's manipula
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Thanks. :) & <3
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by bpchaps 10y ago
That's actually all available at data.cityofchicago.org. My first thought was along that line. Turned out to be about 60 different people, so it was still a bit much.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I'm not asking for a complicated query system, really. An upgraded version of outlook would probably do the job. Or an email to their IT department who could do it. That's what I ended up doing last time which ended up turning int
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Totally agreed on the points in your first paragraph. I try my best to help them out and stay as friendly as possible. For example, the Department of Finance senior FOIA officer and I are on a "hey man" basis now. :) Thanks! This
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Based on history from previous and successful requests, I shouldn't have needed to. They've fulfilled requests as vague as that in the past. Submitted two requests two days ago that might be a bit better than providing the domains
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by bpchaps 10y ago
This stuff is becoming more and more maddening to hear after my recent FOIA adventures. I requested this from Chicago's Mayor's office last week: Please provide to me all communications or records of communication (phone, email,
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by bpchaps 10y ago
For sure. I take adderall and have an incredibly high metabolism to the point of needing to add 1500 calories per day in protein shakes to stay at a healthy weigh. 7.5mg (15mg in half) is my usual dosage, but it's strong enough to fill
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Spilled milk, etc. Mayor's office said that about the linked spreadsheet, too. If that happens, then I'll either look somewhere else for equally relevant information, or just focus more on the two other ongoing legs. :) A rejectio
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Heh. I broke down after six months of not having one and settled on a flip phone. The amount of social and logistical requirements these days almost entirely necessitates a phone on you 24/7. It's frightening how much everyone rel
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by bpchaps 10y ago
This whole "open data" and "Freedom of information" thing is really falling short on me these days. As I keep going further in attempting to get Chicago's office of the mayor's communication records, I keep get
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Curious, do you have any research links on this sort of thing? #3 is something I've been working on for handling "failure" in general. I think that acknowledging a lack of success as a system whose outputs only include much m
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but this whole Change Through Piecemeal concept for these sorts of things cab be discussed so much more breadth. Let's talk about mental health with a focus on distancing the concept of 'othering'
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by bpchaps 10y ago
In hindsight, I actually do recognize you from your pictures. Almost entirely through passing, but I'm certain we've at least been in the same elevator together. :p
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by bpchaps 10y ago
You're right. Point still stands that google's design choices are god awful these days, though.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yeah, that's the case with my family. I was in the "lower middle class" when growing up, but we had a library completely filled with books. Most of them were cheap, used books, or were just collected over the years. In conte
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Because this is how hangouts looks on a 4k monitor: https://imgur.com/lPkNnhR This is its default size and behavior when in a browser: https://imgur.com/bXL1Ezn This. Is. Horrible. I have some very, very un
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yep, same building. Not that many folks from Chicago on this forum, so definitely a small world! :) I worked closely with Alberto V. and Gary M. who you might've worked more closely with. Made some decent friends with some of the rates
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yep, I'm in Chicago. I did second shift support for merrill lynch's FX system mostly, but dabbled in BoA's, too. Your name doesn't sound familiar, though! edit: looked you up on twitter - your picture doesn't look f
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by bpchaps 10y ago
It's definitely possible and it's happened to me more than I'd like to admit. I feel a lot of it stems from folks not stepping in and admitting theirs or others' faults. I did a second tour a baml and did some of their r
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by bpchaps 10y ago
They might as well have, honestly. I found it on accident when tying to link my group's database to the risk management system, since it was also their internal cluster computing system. It was more or less a giant python object store
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I wasn't so mad at him as mad as I was other things, really. I left within three months of that, I think. That was just one problem of maybe 50. Even with that shitty experience, it was still worth it with career in mind. I was support
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by bpchaps 10y ago
The point is that metrics are a fundamentally awful way to measure someone's value since they lack the empathy to observe nuance.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Well, as much as I disliked the manager, I don't think there was much he could've done. He legit had to leave to go somewhere. My gripe is with baml, not necessarily him.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I think I was told about it with some secrecy in mind, actually. My manager there felt really bad about the situation and wanted to clear it up before any fallout happened, i think.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
It sounds like they used to be much better. When I joined in 2010, they were working on a shift towards a new management style with metrics and the whole nine yards. That management style also resulted in their backend risk management syste
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Paywall :( I haaate these numerical ranking systems. Bank of America had one when I worked there. Managers would have meetings with each other to match their workers with ranks. Really, really long meetings. So long that my boss apologized
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Somewhere in between, just based on experience from spending 1.5 years to get Rahm's phone records. I've received one week so far and now I'm working on getting as much of a sample of his phone records as possible without the

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