elptacek

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by elptacek 12y ago
I do not know. I suppose even if I did, it's one of those things nobody is supposed to discuss. I overheard talk here and there about raises, but since it didn't pertain to me, I ignored it.
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by elptacek 12y ago
When I was at Matasano, there was always enough inbound work (sometimes more than enough) to keep the consultants utilized. So yes, a company with a full pipeline will lose money on every qualified hire it doesn't make. Perhaps this is
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by elptacek 12y ago
s/our/their
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by elptacek 12y ago
This is 100% consistent with my personal career experience. The catch being that if I post details pointing fingers, I will be summarily chastened. Just today, I read some dumb quote that stuck in my craw: "When you complain, you becom
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by elptacek 12y ago
Onions.
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by elptacek 12y ago
"What will your children do all day long while you're at work?" I'll never forget how it felt to hear that. It was similar to the time I got hit in the stomach with a softball. Or the time I landed on the sidewalk after
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by elptacek 13y ago
One of my mom's hippie friends brought up the idea of a single world government to me when I was young enough to think it was a beautiful idea. Every time I've thought about the idea of open borders since, the analogy of driving in traffic
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by elptacek 13y ago
I think two things after reading this. First, I wonder, do men generally experience more positive reinforcement for the acquisition of skills, particularly ones requiring high intelligence, all their lives? Second, I have never been asked t
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by elptacek 14y ago
Could you ask your beekeeper friend if other varieties of bees (and wasps as well) are equally sensitive to pesticides as well? In my tiny little urban garden, I'm noticing that there are fewer of other varieties of bees than in past years,
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by elptacek 14y ago
Tom has finally convinced me that it is less expensive to us to have a handyman fix things than for me to do it myself. Which is a bummer, because I do so love excuses to use power tools. I've often wondered how many people in tech would pr
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by elptacek 14y ago
When I was 22, I was homeless, too. I didn't really snap to this fact until many years later: I had no home, therefore I was homeless. Everything I would want to say to you, someone else has already said in one of the other comments (eg, re
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by elptacek 14y ago
Weird. Something ate that post. The question was, "I can hear your kids in the background. Are you sure you're okay with working 40 hours a week?" From a female recruiter for a previous employer when I specifically inquired about FTE. Her b
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by elptacek 14y ago
I cannot rightly say I've ever been up against another female candidate. But I have a lot of opinions about how I am different, at least from a personality standpoint, from most of the women I work with. None of which are objective. :-)
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by elptacek 14y ago
My degree is in audio tech, not computer tech. I have always found the latter to be far less challenging in the gender bias department, and had a much easier time, in general making a career "in computers." I do have experiences where I was
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by elptacek 14y ago
Recently I watched a documentary in which a researcher told of how he was ridiculed for studying happiness, even though nobody saw anything wrong with studying depression. Then I saw a documentary where a handful of really skinny people wer
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by elptacek 14y ago
I'm having a bit of trouble writing a couple of sentences that explain why you should listen to me. I think this is partly because I'm not good at selling myself. But I've been where you are, had the same thoughts over and over, only I have
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by elptacek 14y ago
This is perfectly timed for me, having spent the last two days procrastinating (yesterday, by staring at someone else's code but not really reading it and today by running errands). It feels like the opportunity to be brilliant can so easil
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by elptacek 14y ago
Put a teaspoon of baking soda in the water when you cook them. Also, the less pointy part of the egg will have a small bubble in the bottom (the fresher the egg, the smaller the bubble). Tap the rounded edge first, gently, and you should h
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by elptacek 14y ago
Yes. Very much so. A couple of summers ago, we found a woman local to our vacation spot in MI who raises chickens very much the same way my mom raised ours. As corny as it sounds, the first bite nearly brought tears to my eyes, they were so
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by elptacek 14y ago
Coincidentally, I was just telling our kids last night how much store-bought eggs and raw chicken skeeves me out. I don't know where these things have been, who has touched them or what they've been fed. We never washed eggs with water (I g
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by elptacek 14y ago
Angry blog posts keep the conversation alive to a degree. Then they troll, polarize and reinforce stereotypes. Sadly, thoughtful blog posts don't get nearly as much attention. That is the distinction I'd like to make: creating a hostile pol
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by elptacek 14y ago
At this exact moment, I disagree with you. But this may be only because I'm feeling something of a pinch in my brain parts over social media feeding frenzies that keep popping up about booth babes and gender bias and blah blah blah... Every
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by elptacek 14y ago
Note that there are a few townships that provide emergency services free to residents for the first /n/ visits per year, after which some fees are assessed. If you are not a resident, you may receive a bill if that area's emergency services
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by elptacek 14y ago
Specifically, what I tell them is, "Would you give this person a $20 bill? Then don't give them anything more valuable, either." Note that I never once stated my opinion that there are or are not enough women|minorities|gays in technology.
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by elptacek 14y ago
Very true. I had a choice to respond or rise above and ignore it. I chose to respond. Not to wave my own flag, but to squeak back. Again, it boils down to choice of words. Some words are inherently polarizing. Sister, you might want to chec
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by elptacek 14y ago
Sabotage is the right word. Also, it's a syllogistic fallacy, right? If you asked 100 people if they perceived some disadvantage about themselves that impedes progress to their life goals, you would get 100 answers. And yet somehow there ar
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by elptacek 14y ago
So I am glad to not be the first comment on this post, because I almost was. Instead, I took a while to compose my thoughts and I'm going to take a whack at writing them down. To start, I just deactivated my facebook account to get away fro
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by elptacek 14y ago
You make a good point. It was completely necessary for me, not at all for Tom. If this kid can position himself in such a way that he has access to the kind of resources that universities have without having to go to one... he should be qui
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by elptacek 14y ago
A teacher approached my mother when I was 15 and strongly suggested that I be allowed to take the GED and move on to college. Later, an employer approached both of my parents and strongly suggested that I be allowed to take the GED and atte

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