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by cschneid 17y ago
You started off so strong. You really did. Next time avoid the "hurf durf, people are so dumb" line at the end. I made a very similar point on another comment in this thread, that basically the states should be making the majority of the
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by cschneid 17y ago
It's interesting though that the power of the states has dropped to such a low level that we rely on the federal government to implement the larger changes. Many states have been taken over by handcuffs of strict tax limitations (which is w
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by cschneid 17y ago
your last line is basically a public plan like I suggest, except run by the private sector, with direct payments instead of taxes. We basically agree on the shape of the solution, if not the specific implementation. But expecting insurance
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by cschneid 17y ago
Please refer to my post below that starts out with "Insurance companies are not money piñatas". Explain why a planned pregnancy is a candidate for an insurance payout? (not that I don't think pregnancy should be covered, just not by an ins
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by cschneid 17y ago
I'm crossposting my comment from a very similar Reddit thread (although that thread was more about "omg, insurance companies are teh evilz"). Hopefully I get some more meaningful discussion about it here. ------------ Insurance companies a
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by cschneid 17y ago
I do that exercise too, but as user stories before hand, instead of during development. But most of my work is for 3rd parties (doing contracting), so I'm limited in the ability to let my imagination run with new features, since they have t
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by cschneid 17y ago
Each of the original examples was important enough that you delegate to your professional. The whole reason you have a lawyer is so they can handle evidence rules, and correct your misconceptions. But I'm never going to go to a professiona
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by cschneid 17y ago
This is interesting, I love the idea of "rules engine" style development. It's basically just an external DSL for whatever you're doing. I've been enamored by Cucumber in the Ruby testing world, but it is a bit too.... helpful (verbose / c
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by cschneid 17y ago
Is it? Interesting. It was 7 or 8 years ago now.
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by cschneid 17y ago
More generally, boobytrapping stuff has lots of potential harm to lots of potential people. (gas company employees, police, etc). The fact that it's also harmful to thiefs is tangential.
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by cschneid 17y ago
So? That's already a risk every time your card leaves your sight. The details on the strip aren't much more than what's on the front of the card. I know I had access to people's cards back when I worked retail. The store-copy of receipts ha
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by cschneid 17y ago
I've thought about using student loans as a cheap business loan if the economy tanks bad enough that I lose my stable job. I sign up for a masters, get loans to live on (with few questions asked), and work 50/50 on school & business. W
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by cschneid 17y ago
http://www.newbelgium.com/ http://www.fortcollinsbrewery.com/ http://odellbrewing.com/ 3 Counter examples.... in my one town.... I suppose you can argue that Coors & Bud have close to a monopoly on the light beer category, but tha
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by cschneid 17y ago
A generic catchall for OS level crap that multi-core requires. Interrupts / memory management / ... other stuff.... I'm only really aware that there's overhead, and not the specifics of what it ends up being.
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by cschneid 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing#Amdahl.27s_l... Basically, you will never get a linear increase with parallel computing, especially on consumer type apps that are much more synchronous. So running multiple cores, with requ
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by cschneid 17y ago
SGML is fun. It looks like XML, but is way crazier.
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by cschneid 17y ago
Last time I looked Amazon's affiliate cookie was a 1 day one, not 30. (otherwise valid idea)
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by cschneid 17y ago
Being curious, I looked it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment#Specific_sta...
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by cschneid 17y ago
I think the point is the delay, not the briefcase. You came in with it ready, but they didn't know that until starting to ask about salary. Then you hit them with it.
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by cschneid 17y ago
I'm going to chime in with my own progress I've made over the last few months, and it shows a slightly different path than what the author took. I started at 220 pounds. I am currently 220 pounds. The difference? My body fat percent has
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by cschneid 17y ago
Counter argument, I grabbed Rainbow Six Vegas 2 when it was on sale on Steam. I play that on "Realistic" because it's so hard. I normally don't like hard games, but in this case it really changes the feel of the game itself, beyond just ma
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by cschneid 17y ago
I'm new to the site (never heard of it before), and I just did exactly that. Ran across a song that's sorta cool... and... no clue how to purchase. ohh well.
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by cschneid 17y ago
A <noscript> tag that has a message "You're viewing our javascript-free site. Most features are here, but try upgrading", with a link?
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by cschneid 17y ago
Can someone translate this to something I can understand?
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by cschneid 17y ago
I need to go look up the internals of batteries, but the first option is interesting. The second option is basically the flywheel suggestion, except with compressed gas instead of a spinning wheel. At that point you require a second power
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by cschneid 17y ago
Is there a reasonable approach to have electric cars match the "instant recharge" of a gas station? The only thing I've ever come up with is a hot-swappable battery, so they sit and charge at a station until needed, then you swap a new one
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by cschneid 17y ago
The takeaway I have is a question. Why isn't there a good equivalent to the big mac in the consulting world? Every time you go cheap, or with the "big consultants" that joel describes the expected outcome is massive time overruns and massi
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by cschneid 17y ago
On the other hand, we used google spreadsheets as an issue tracker to guide working with clients. It fell over repeatedly over the course of an hour phone call on all ends (5 or so people viewing). It's really bad at keeping connections al
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by cschneid 17y ago
The giant hole in usefulness of banks that I see is that doing bank to bank transfers of money aren't easy on a customer. For example, I have my checking account at one bank, and my car loan at another. In order to pay my car loan, I driv
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by cschneid 17y ago
Crushing the interview, but failing the interview badly by failing to see the reason for the question. I'd end that interview early, not because of lack of tech skills, but because the interview is an ass.

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