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by cpwright 11y ago
Renaming a java variable or permuting arguments in IntelliJ is far easier than trying to do the same thing with grep/sed. IntelliJ happens to work with both Windows and Linux, but I've found that I'm certainly more effective
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by cpwright 11y ago
You might make everyone on an even footing; but the people around the table would have been more effective around the table than in their separate cubes with a headset.
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Apple Confirms: No Walk-In Purchasing for Apple Watch(pcmag.com)
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by cpwright 12y ago
This reminds me of the US where the railroads would get copious amount of land near the tracks, in relation to how many miles of tracks that they built. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Railroad_Acts Also, the MTA
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by cpwright 12y ago
I'm not against paying money to avoid doing things you hate or something you enjoy more. I just often hear something to the effect of, "My salary is more money / hour than I'm paying for the service, so it's a good
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by cpwright 12y ago
Maybe the Air Force doesn't want to provide the insurer with sufficient information about the payload to make a reasonable underwriting decision? Insurance also doesn't come free. The US government can also take on more risk than
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by cpwright 12y ago
There is a big fallacy here that the people who are going to be working more hours will actually make more money. These people are salaried, and may get better performance pay, etc. for more hours; but it is not guaranteed. Unless you&#x2
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by cpwright 12y ago
I've found that my Facebook feed has more pictures of home-made food that isn't necessarily terribly expensive; but there is often some social signaling involved (organic, CSA, vegetarian, etc.). Basically any meal that rejects p
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by cpwright 12y ago
I've actually found that the car buying experience is not that bad at a dealership, but the service/parts department is not something worth dealing with unless you really have to. At this point; the dealers know that you know what
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by cpwright 12y ago
Everyone hates car dealers now, but at the time the laws were enacted; they made some sense. The problem isn't that we are protecting Ford dealers from Ford (given that the franchisee did have to pay Ford for the franchise). The prob
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by cpwright 12y ago
The Kinesis Advantage also has no numeric pad, so that there is less travel for your hand to the mouse. I've had one for two years, and am a huge fan.
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by cpwright 12y ago
Flex Fuel Vehicles are a thing in the United States too; but only up to 85% ethanol. One of my vehicles will run on E85, but since it would cost more and is not as available as regular gasoline, there is no real reason to use it.
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by cpwright 12y ago
I find the fundamental disconnect to be that people are pushing the lower-cost transactions as a bit motivation for Bitcoin. The less enthusiastic point out all of the good anti-fraud infrastructure credit cards have from a consumer perspe
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by cpwright 12y ago
They don't fingerprint at 6 and 8 either. The finger scan predated magic bands; you had to do it with the plastic card tickets/keys as well.
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by cpwright 12y ago
The RFID refills bothered me. I didn't buy the dining plan/visit-long refillable cup, but when I got a soda at the Gasparilla in the Grand Floridian there was a refill count of either 2 or 3. I kind of fell that if I drop that m
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by cpwright 12y ago
In finance, at least, it is common to get an offer with a salary of X and a first year guaranteed bonus of Y.
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by cpwright 12y ago
You should consider total compensation and salary vs. just a salary. If you're looking at finance, people will have requirements for both a base salary and the total compensation. Looking at them in isolation doesn't work. Same
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by cpwright 12y ago
Its useful to point out that although the standard accounting method was used for the official numbers, at least one of the drilling companies in this article also included the impact of current prices on their reserves. Investors care abo
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by cpwright 12y ago
New York has the same thing. 11 points in 18 motnhs and you lose your license. Violations go from 2 points to 11. Speeding 1-10 MPH is 3 points, 11-20 4 points, 21-30 6 points, 31-40 8 points, and >40 or 11 points. The full list is a
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by cpwright 12y ago
But one of the types of cameras generating the most revenue is on the exit ramp from a highway. They have cameras that will clock you before you're in a "city street" proper.
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by cpwright 12y ago
> In the student cheating behaviour perhaps there is a deceived party (the future employer) - but it's not clear whether someone suffers or not, are biology 101 grades a good indicator of anything (i.e. future performance), should s
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by cpwright 12y ago
I think the title understates one issue and overstates another. He had a $750 bill, because he had no data package. They were willing to settle it after the fact for the $30 15MB data package; which seems fairly reasonable. On the other han
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by cpwright 12y ago
There are plenty of people who lose money flipping houses. It might sound easy, but in practice it isn't. More likely, if you go into a career trying to cure cancer; there is a big pharmaceutical company or research institution behind
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by cpwright 12y ago
In NY, at least for a developer Google and Facebook have to compete against banks and hedge funds for talent. In my experience, Google can pretty well go toe-to-toe with them if they desire. So that finance offers higher compensation, mea
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by cpwright 12y ago
About 10% of the US has oil or propane heat, both of which require a tank. Where I live in the Northeast it is about 30%. I've never had to pay to have a tank installed, but the tank itself costs around $500. I think if it were actua
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by cpwright 12y ago
I don't think it is that hard, it just isn't as useful. I have a tank in my basement that holds 300 gallons of heating fuel (basically diesel); and it is pumped to my boiler. Instead of diesel it could easily be gasoline to a ca
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by cpwright 12y ago
If you can take those days intermittently over 8 years, it seems like that is an easy cop-out for the dad to take 8 days a year to satisfy the requirement.
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by cpwright 12y ago
If they have the income to support it, many will put their child into day care (for a quality program in the NY suburbs that is around ~$1500/month) or hire a nanny (~$500/week). I don't know what people on a lower end of the
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by cpwright 12y ago
> In the long run, it's very important to switch away from a system of maternity leave to equal parental leave. Women of child-bearing age are routinely discriminated against because companies know that they might quit/focus on
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by cpwright 12y ago
Only if you're thinking of icing on roads (or in hockey), but not if you're thinking of icing on top of a cake.

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