esperluette

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by esperluette 14y ago
I like the idea of Saint Backup Day much better than world backup day ... but why not make it Jan 3, though, the feast day of St. Genevieve, the actual patron saint of disasters? Also in early January most people are in a "let's get organiz
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by esperluette 14y ago
You can make an educated guess, usually very easily. Not necessarily the clothes, but definitely the shoes, accessories (especially bags, watches, and jewelry), tattoos, and teeth, hair, and skin. Richer people spend more on accessories (an
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by esperluette 14y ago
"Girlfriend Impact" -- bleh. Yeah, I know, 99.99whatever9% of IT workers, esp in the ops role, are guys, but would it have taken so much extra thought to put "family impact"? Or even "balanced life penalty"? And I say this as someone who ha
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by esperluette 14y ago
another nice big list of these at Wordnik: http://www.wordnik.com/lists/contronympho
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by esperluette 14y ago
Unless you are actively lactating, trying on a bra is more like trying on a shirt than like trying on a pair of boxers. And if you ARE actively lactating, the last thing you want to do is go try on bras.
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by esperluette 14y ago
It's a ROI question: all that time, week after week, for two hires, one who lasted a year? That's not a great ROI for a good engineer's time.
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by esperluette 14y ago
Loved, loved the "I let him dig the deepest hole he could imagine by doing my best ditzy/derpy voice and just saying things like "they want me to ask about the load... average...?" bit. I do that too. Honestly, if you're patronizing me in
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by esperluette 14y ago
Many of the most prominent perfumers are men. Frederic Malle comes to mind, plus a large chunk of the ones on this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfumer#List_of_notable_perfum...
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by esperluette 14y ago
I think the danger is situational. If you're the kind of person who will give up when you see someone swiping your idea, there is danger. If it makes you work harder ... then it might be an asset. :-) You have to have faith that it's not ju
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by esperluette 14y ago
I actually did have someone steal my idea. I was interviewing for a technical co-founder and talked to a guy who seemed really interested. However, after a couple of conversations I got a weird vibe from him and went with someone else. (Oh,
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by esperluette 14y ago
It's sad but true that some members of a minority always find that it's in their personal best interest to be the "good" exemplar of a minority in the opinion of the majority. Think about women who enforce the patriarchy as so that they can
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by esperluette 14y ago
I have to disagree ... there are a lot of folks who don't learn well being thrown in at the deep end of "mess around until you understand it", and for whom a Bretian visualization of data would be useful over and over again (especially for
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by esperluette 14y ago
I bet you get a lot fewer rape & death threats than the average woman who uses her real name on the internets. "Verboten and punishable", sheesh.
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by esperluette 14y ago
Barely Ok: a subgroup of employees organizes it on their personal time (meaning: not using work email to send an "all@" message, or using work email at all). It's not discussed in the office, and no important work topics are discussed at th
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by esperluette 15y ago
Really well-written and extremely pragmatic -- the best way to discourage inadvertent bad behavior is to provide a face-saving way for the genuinely clueless to get on the right path.
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by esperluette 15y ago
That someone was Socrates: "The fact is that this invention will produce forgetfulness in the souls of those who have learned it. They will not need to exercise their memories, being able to rely on what is written, calling things to mind n