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by gregd 12y ago
I wish you a speedy recovery @mindcrime. My good thoughts are with you..
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by gregd 12y ago
Did you even read my post? I mentioned the FDCPA. I'm very well aware of what my rights are under it. Most of the companies I dealt with didn't give a shit about it and simply passed my debts along to different companies who ea
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by gregd 12y ago
You say this as if being in debt and unable to make the payments, is no big deal. Getting calls from aggressive debt collectors at work, at home, on my cell, even to relatives and coworkers, is a form of "debtor's prison". W
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by gregd 12y ago
It seems weird to not only get rid of your hook (infinite storage - which they got rid of a while ago) and raising your prices for less product. And to boot, they aren't grandfathering anybody in. I was a beta tester and at one point
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by gregd 12y ago
When I read this, "As the controversy around Anonabox grew, Germar told WIRED earlier in the week that he had never intended the project to be aimed at normal, non-expert users, so much as developers who would contribute feedback and c
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by gregd 12y ago
I can't help but feel that with a judiciary that seems to be largely "out of touch" with technology, that when Microsoft walks into the courtroom and says something is bad...that the enamored judge thinks to herself, "we
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by gregd 12y ago
American Prometheus is an excellent book and I highly recommend people put it on their shortlist.
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by gregd 12y ago
3. NO SELF-DEVELOPMENT - Not an issue. I take full responsibility for this. That where the "SELF" comes from. Self development is one thing and I buy into this wholeheartedly. However, having a company recognize this into your wo
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Everyone Agrees: CEOs Should Be Paid Less(psmag.com)
2 points by gregd 12y ago|3 comments
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Meet the Scientists Preparing for the End Times(newrepublic.com)
3 points by gregd 12y ago|1 comments
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Compromise needed on smartphone encryption(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by gregd 12y ago|0 comments
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Is Coding Art?(newrepublic.com)
3 points by gregd 12y ago|0 comments
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Worse than Heartbleed? Today's Bash bug could be breaking security for years(theverge.com)
11 points by gregd 12y ago|3 comments
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How Facebook and OkCupid Broke the Law When They Experimented on Users(medium.com)
5 points by gregd 12y ago|0 comments
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by gregd 12y ago
SpaceMonkey was recently acquired by Vivint, Inc. "The Space Monkey team is excited to announce that the company has been acquired by Vivint, Inc." I don't hold out any hope that SpaceMonkey as a product will continue on, or
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by gregd 12y ago
“For a programmer, the cost of attending a meeting is always higher.” I would have extended this sentence to include just about all aspects of IT that require intense concentration and research. I don't do as much programming anymore
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Why our startup has no bosses, no office, and a four-day work week(qz.com)
11 points by gregd 12y ago|2 comments
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by gregd 12y ago
If I remember my timeframes correctly, it wasn't until last year (2013) that Cloudfront finally got a node in Australia. As much as I like to complain about Comcast here in the States, my Aussie friends may have it worse.
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What Should You Do After Drinking Coffee?(slate.com)
2 points by gregd 12y ago|1 comments
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How plagues really work(aeon.co)
39 points by gregd 12y ago|11 comments
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by gregd 12y ago
So reading these findings is kind of enlightening. As a former Manager with the State of Oregon, the lines about competing priorities really resonates with me. DAS (Dept. of Administrative Services) was tasked at one point with unifying I
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by gregd 12y ago
Holy shit, I had not seen this information previously. So it looks like Oracle (through a roundabout arrangement with Dell) was on price agreement and they entered into a time & materials contract with Oracle and paid them via POs. Jes
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by gregd 12y ago
I hold out no hope. The RFP process is inherently broken and seems to revolve ONLY around preventing nepotism and with a pervasive attitude of one-size-fits-all in State government, I don't see this changing anytime soon.
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by gregd 12y ago
It isn't a matter of Oracle managing this complex IT project. There would have been at least 2 PMs (one for Oracle and one for the State), probably more with a project of this scale. The question that I had, and continue to have, is w
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by gregd 12y ago
No the process to procure a contract is broken. What doesn't seem to be broken, at least from my perspective, is how you manage the contract once it's been won. I have a background in which I was responsible for putting out an
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by gregd 12y ago
To put my comment into context, I'm already forced to purchase a server from say Dell, off of their state website because they've already been put on price agreement, which means they've already bid on and won the right t
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by gregd 12y ago
It's essentially a broken attempt to avoid nepotism and gives the illusion of 'fairness'. Having worked in two different state governments for over 10 years of my IT career (some of it in management) I can assure you that mo
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by gregd 12y ago
Did you just whore yourself out for a MacBook Pro?
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by gregd 12y ago
Turning it off did not change the issue for me..
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by gregd 12y ago
I tried that. No difference..

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