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by epc 11y ago
I don't think the physical stores lasted long, they eventually were sold off to ComputerLand, possibly as part of a consent decree (before my time). A lot of bad business decisions at IBM start with the various consent decrees it opera
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by epc 11y ago
OS/2: decent OS, ahead of Windows for awhile, but IBM was never going to go to the mattresses enough to get it the install base it would need to compete with Windows. IBM's dysfunctional PC division didn't help. It would hav
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by epc 11y ago
Pensions in the U.S. have always been a bit of a balance sheet scam. With few exceptions companies were allowed to comingle pension assets with the companies' day to day funds with a chunk kind-of fenced off. But the pension fund was f
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by epc 11y ago
No, IBM had defined-benefit pensions, with 401ks as supplemental. In 2000 they announced that they would do away with pensions entirely for anyone not within N years of retirement (I don't recall at this point, possibly 5 or ten years)
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by epc 11y ago
Do you mean the WARN act? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
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by epc 11y ago
Many country TLDs require the registrant to be domiciled in the country. And the degree of domicile/nexus widely varies, from simply having an address, to having a physical presence. If you're just starting out you simply may not
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by epc 11y ago
Congress must pass a bill to revoke the US sanctions, which is a separate act of legislation from assenting to this deal. There are several Executive Orders which Obama can revoke but the embargo proper is embedded in US legislation. http
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by epc 11y ago
Not listing the compensation means that many potential applicants never even saw the role. It's 2015 yet many of these job sites will not display a role if one (as the potential applicant) has specified a salary range but the listing d
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by epc 11y ago
The value of the feature to the alleged monopolist is irrelevant to the FTC/DOJ, solely the impact on competition. If the primary way consumers consume information is shifting to mobile, and the premier mobile platform inhibits mobile
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by epc 11y ago
This will be the toehold DoJ and the FTC need to file antitrust charges against Apple, if it’s true that iAds cannot be blocked, and continue to be only acquirable through Apple’s process and not on the various ad exchanges.
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by epc 11y ago
This is a poorly written article. If Philadelphia truly needs more cabs, then Uber can't be blamed for the collapse in medallion prices since it's clearly NOT filling a market need. In New York City, where the medallion owners are
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by epc 11y ago
Week rollover? See http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.nuts/44994
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by epc 12y ago
I couldn't find any sub-regional breakdowns for this year’s census data yet. I assume they’ll appear at the second link eventually. Speculating but based on living here: much of the population growth has been in Brooklyn and "inn
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by epc 12y ago
That does seem to be outpacing growth in both the City and metro area. The City is now at approximately 8.5MM people [1], the metro area has approximately 20.1MM people. The City had 8.17MM people in 2010[2], so just a hair under 5% growth
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by epc 12y ago
For the non-NYC people: "DUMBO Heights" is a cluster of buildings just South of DUMBO, Brooklyn on the other side of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (BQE) which were owned by the Watchtower / Jehovah's Witnesses until I b
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by epc 12y ago
Yeah, that's the regrettable name the real estate developers came up with. I suspect BQE Heights didn't have the same melodious ring.
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by epc 12y ago
Engineers, UX, support staff. There's an entirely separate office in Hudson, NY for security and telephone support for buyers/sellers. Plus rent in Brooklyn isn't cheap (they likely have a fantastic deal for their early offi
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by epc 12y ago
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing (that I survived my teen driving years is entirely out of luck) but when we've built up a culture (suburbia) entirely dependent on being able to drive from point to point, we can&#x2
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by epc 12y ago
Most of my Generation–X friends surprisingly stayed in their respective cities on having kids (almost all have had kids in their late 30s or early 40s). Combination of improved schools in NYC, improved living conditions, desire to not spen
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by epc 12y ago
Worst outage: Christmas 1998. Site is locked down, all changes prohibited due to recently instituted end of quarter/end of year freezes as part of “professionalizing” our services. Am just out of cell phone range visiting family when
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by epc 12y ago
In the 1990s I ran www.ibm.com. As such I was one of a very small number of people who had "internet" in their job title on the internal employee directory (CALLUP for the IBMers out there). And I was the only person working at
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by epc 12y ago
I just donated $250. If there is nothing to stop large companies completely ignoring the GPL then what good is it?
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by epc 12y ago
For Battery Park you're thinking of the Wall St heliport (JRB). Mostly Wall Street types but there's also several tourist flights. The noise from this heliport on the Brooklyn side can be unbelievable in the summer. The 30th St
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by epc 12y ago
I've become a big fan of the AirTrain + LIRR combo since moving into Manhattan from Brooklyn. Almost always consistently 45-50 minutes from terminal to my apartment in Chelsea. Perfect for rush hour to/from JFK.
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by epc 12y ago
Looking for parking. 25-30% of commuters in the NYC metro area drive solo, the rest take subway/bus/commuter rail, walk, or some other form (ferry, carpool).
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by epc 12y ago
This…many of the major firms either moved to midtown, or to Jersey City.
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by epc 12y ago
Finance is still a dominant sector in NYC but has been dropping since the late 1990s (accelerated post 9/11, but there's been a long term trend of back-office jobs being eliminated or moved out of the metro area).
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by epc 12y ago
Lincoln Towers is a co-op (well, each building consists of co-op units in a condominium). The new super-tall residential buildings are being marketed almost entirely to foreign investors, at very high valuations, $3000-5000 per square foot.
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by epc 12y ago
The C# numbers surprise me, I get asked mostly for C/C++ and Java leads followed by Python and Ruby. I wonder if the C# numbers are from finance jobs (though that's where I get most of the Java and C queries from). I don't th
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by epc 12y ago
Once you become a manager your perceived technical value will be zero, regardless of your past contributions or current skill set. If you're cool with that, and have no plans to return to being "just an engineer" then go int

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