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by faster 11y ago
When I was in high school I applied for a job in a VW performance shop a couple miles from my school. They sent me to the owner's neighbor for a polygraph, which surprised me but didn't seem like a big deal at the time. The guy wa
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by faster 11y ago
[when sending assets to Paypal for publication] you grant the PayPal Group a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise any and all copyright, publicity, tradema
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by faster 12y ago
My sister bought a car last summer. She started with a fax-blast site, then scheduled a test drive with the dealer with the best price. The night before, she called a fleet broker one of her friends suggested. He sent a price that was about
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by faster 12y ago
This reinforces my policy of buying laptops with the cheapest drive offered and replacing the drive with an SSD before the first boot. I run Linux anyway, so booting Windows has no value for me.
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by faster 12y ago
The bandwidth chart I get from my colo (where I don't own the router that measures my bandwidth usage) works the way I described. The article mentions a single server, and nothing about owning the router also. If they did, that's
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by faster 12y ago
Because it's from the perspective of the router; traffic out of the router is TO his network.
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by faster 12y ago
I lived in Newport Beach, CA for a year, and quickly realized that the street sweepers were an excuse to write tickets, not the other way around. I'm sure there are places where the streets are actually cleaner after the street sweeper
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by faster 12y ago
This reminds me of Kornbluth's story 'The Marching Morons' where cars are made noisy but slow so the morons will be stimulated but safe.
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by faster 12y ago
Uber’s refusal to share data with governmental authorities is about evading public scrutiny. Replace 'Uber' with 'Google' and see if that still makes sense. I support requiring Uber to share exactly as much data as the
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by faster 12y ago
My dad built one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iad37q9kNPk and we spent a lot of time looking at our house power and trying to figure out where recurring patterns came from. Back in the early 70s, refrigerators
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by faster 12y ago
The optimal viewing distance for reading is called the Harmon Distance. It's normally the distance from your knuckles to your elbow. Of course, vision problems and aging can require adjustments, but that's a good starting place.
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by faster 12y ago
The title made me think of Analytics Made Skeezy[1]. I am a little sad that there's so little data, as others have already pointed out. [1] http://analyticsmadeskeezy.com/
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by faster 12y ago
Or just tell it like it is. http://deadatnoon.com/ As I watch my mother go from 'mild cognitive impairment' to dementia and now Alzheimer's, I think this is the path I want to take when it's time.
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by faster 12y ago
I have used your scripts and I'm quite grateful for the time they have saved me. However, the end result is not a fully functional OpenStack installation. I have no idea how much longer that will take, I'm still working on getting
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by faster 12y ago
LocaleApp provides a nice UI for managing text for your front end. Once it's set up it's pretty much seamless. It was designed for localization, but you can use it with only one language to get what you're looking for, I thin
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by faster 12y ago
A long time ago I did some work for a startup in China (I'm in the US). They paid my first invoice, but stalled and promised and didn't pay the second. After 3 months of listening to their lines ("the check was mailed yesterd
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by faster 12y ago
Totally anecdotal, but I was once pulled aside on the jetway by a woman with a Treasury badge and a burly guy who was probably a sheriff though he never said anything. She wanted to know how much cash I was carrying. I was flying from SF to
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by faster 12y ago
A friend of mine used ozforex.au while he was living in France, working for an American company, and wanted income to show up in his Australian bank account. He said it was quite painless.
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by faster 12y ago
Maybe they don't like his fax number. Registrant Fax: +1.5555555555 Because faxes are so important these days.
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by faster 12y ago
More expensive to whom? When I lived in France I paid 20 Euro per month for unlimited everything, including international calls to over 100 countries. As a subscriber, my per-minute rate was not of any concern to me since there wasn't
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by faster 12y ago
A few years ago I was supervising a guy who was hired to clean up a contractor's mess in a penthouse loft in the building I lived in. Making small talk, he asked me what I though the difference was between rich people and poor people.
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by faster 12y ago
Two hours could include driving to the gym and back, which could mean a 40-minute workout depending on traffic. Or it could be a trip to the beach to surf. If you haven't driven around LA, it's really hard to imagine how long it t
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by faster 12y ago
Back in the 80's the group I worked with got a VAX with VMS. Files are versioned in VMS, and you can delete specific versions. So we used that to prank each other for a while, editing someone's login script and deleting the newest
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by faster 12y ago
My contract was written by a Silicon Valley attorney, so in a different context you might have different concerns. Essentially, it says I'm a contractor I'm a contractor I'm a contractor Work products not part of client'
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by faster 12y ago
I was in high school when the US planned to switch to the metric system, then suddenly the deal was off. I never learned why, and I was too busy playing D&D to care. The article is right, though; metric measures are easier to work with.
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by faster 12y ago
A very long time ago, I worked for a company that was having growing pains. They tried a few things, one of which was codifying the 'culture' in a list of present-tense statements that management wished to be true. It was original
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by faster 12y ago
Julian Jaynes' book was required reading in my geeky circle of friends, and the root of many "voices of the gods" jokes. Good for endless drunken campfire discussions. Basically, he said that before we developed language, the
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by faster 12y ago
Not the most difficult, but one of the most satisfying... Early 90's (when C++ was new and broken in a different way for each compiler), I was on a QA team for a project where developers were learning C++ as they built the next version
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by faster 12y ago
Cunningham's Law to the rescue! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham's_Law
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by faster 12y ago
As an American living in France, one difference that I really notice is politeness. In the US, people are casually friendly, but not always polite. In France, politeness manifests as respectful words and actions, consistently. It doesn&#x27

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