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541.
by epc 12y ago
I don't have a monitor recommendation but second getting a VESA mount and putting the monitor on an adjustable arm on the standing desk. I find that I need the monitor a couple of inches higher when I'm using the desk in standing
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by epc 12y ago
Curious how this impacts Streeteasy, which Zillow just bought some time in the past year. Streeteasy is the defacto MLS (in a sense) for NYC (Manhattan doesn't have an MLS, nor does Brooklyn. Uncertain about Staten Island, Queens or Br
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by epc 12y ago
I can give you an anti-pattern: for years IBM had an ideas program (I think called "Think Up!" but not certain). Employees could submit their idea online and it would be evaluated by "someone". I turned out to be one of
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by epc 13y ago
The L in LIBOR stands for London. Which is not in the US. And the theoretical basis for LIBOR was that the BBA called various banks to see what they'd offer. What we've since learned is that the various banks would chat with eac
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by epc 13y ago
The "obvious" is irrelevant. Under US antitrust law, if you conspire with others in the marketplace to fix prices, you can be prosecuted. Doesn't matter whether you're fixing prices for labor, pizza, cats, photos of cat
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by epc 13y ago
Collusion with competitors to fix or restrict a price of a good in a market is one of the easier antitrust cases to pursue, especially if it's nicely documented in email. Engineering salaries were likely depressed due to this non–compe
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by epc 13y ago
This is the first year (roughly) of the program. They (NY State) announced it last year. Many of us in NYC looked at it and were like: "ok, well, no use to us". The thing with NY State programs is that they're almost entire
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by epc 13y ago
New York State. Not New York City. The program is designed almost entirely to exclude New York City.
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by epc 13y ago
This is a New York State program, Bloomberg was mayor of New York City.
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by epc 13y ago
Note that this program, by design, almost completely excludes New York City (all five boroughs) and much of Long Island. It's geared primarily to upstate.
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by epc 13y ago
Absolutely ok. I interviewed with a company last year which would not tell me either how much money they'd raised or where the money came from. They just kept responding "we have plenty of runway, you don't need to worry abo
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by epc 13y ago
The screenshot of ibm.com seems to be from a text crawler, if this is your site you might want to grab a better shot from http://epcostello.net/library/ibmcom/ (full disclosure: my site).
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by epc 13y ago
Was it an iPhone? Did you deregister the number from the Messages app? I don't know that that's what's happened here but that's one route.
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by epc 13y ago
This is an extremely personal opinion but: I truly detest the trend towards the page-obscuring modal dialog box, whether it's an account creation signup or get-this-newsletter or whatever. Just my $0.02. However there's extensive
555.
by epc 13y ago
Seems pretty much every link which would tell me something about your inventory/stores/whatever leads to the signup page. I don't sign up for services which don't tell me anything of value of why I should sign up for
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by epc 13y ago
Future articles in the series will include: "High Frequency Traders: why don't they just use twitter and etrade?", "The Olympic Games: Why don't they just use Wordpress?" and "Politico: why doesn't it
557.
by epc 13y ago
I still think you should have the blunt conversation with him, but perhaps use that as an opening to "let me help you manage this process" and pick one or two changes to start with. Too much change at once == massive resistance.
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by epc 13y ago
Confront him bluntly with discussion about burial details and his will. Ask if he would record a message to his grandchildren he'll never see. Ask about his living will, does he want to be on life support? How about if he is brain dead
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by epc 13y ago
Uncertain about the percentage, here’s the relevant quote from the SEC filing: As part of the settlement, Overture will dismiss its patent lawsuit against us and has granted us a fully- paid, perpetual license to the patent th
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by epc 13y ago
Rent control and rent stabilization are controlled by New York State. City politicians can stamp their feet all they want, but the laws are state, not city laws. Both sets of laws will (in theory) lose effect if the city drops below 90% occ
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by epc 13y ago
I don't know that it's a routine thing but NY State has requested (and received) sales data from Amazon in the past.
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by epc 13y ago
email, file transfers, netnews (usenet). X-Windows and Andrew started mid-1980s. AFS relied on DNS to figure out where cellservers were. Gopher started 1989-1990. ftp was in wide use. There was a lot of activity on the Internet well bef
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by epc 13y ago
When IBM "woke up" to the Internet in 1990, think.com was registered by Thinking Machines. When TM folded in 1994(?) we (IBM) were still just getting an Internet group together and I don't think it occurred to any of us to g
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by epc 13y ago
It's a mix of design and organizational history, I left out most tech commentary because by the time I wrote it in 2008 the technology we used for ibm.com was laughably outdated and obsolete.
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by epc 13y ago
Depends on your goal. NYTM is the biggest monthly event but is hard to physically attend due to space limitations (there's a simulcast at NWC with a more manageable crowd). Queens Tech Meetup has taken off as well as the Enterprise Tec
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by epc 13y ago
I print them out and stash them in a safe. Also helps when adding MFA to other devices.
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by epc 13y ago
Bloomberg will never run for President. He's too protective of his private life to subject himself to the circus. Plus he's too conservative to run as a Democrat, and he's a communist compared to the current national GOP.
568.
by epc 13y ago
Also makes it more difficult for the competition and market analysts to gauge the company's activities.
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by epc 13y ago
From the linked PDF: Shooting Incidents YTD 2012: 581, 2013: 423 Shooting victims YTD 2012: 685, 2013: 486
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by epc 13y ago
Do you need the degree to learn the technical details about how to write in English properly? No. Do you need the degree to learn a small sampling of the breadth of English literature to draw on for examples, metaphors, similes, tropes and

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