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by imroot 8y ago
Luxottica ran the CostCo Optical centers for a little bit. I believe they got out of it because they were not making any money on it.
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by imroot 8y ago
To make matters more interesting, EssilorLuxottica is going to stop separating everything, and start "bundle pricing" things -- so, whatever clarity you might have had on a receipt or something else is going to go out the window.
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by imroot 8y ago
I have two solutions for this: The first one is easy: The Police agencies encrypt their Tactical channels and leave their dispatch and car-to-car stuff unencrypted. Police still have the ability to mask sensitive operations, the public ke
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by imroot 8y ago
I live in Miami, and the tech scene here is...small, and there's not really a lot of potential for moving up/around. There are some good employers with a startup mindset like Ultimate Software (payroll/HR software) who pay we
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by imroot 8y ago
I've went through Stripe Atlas as well -- and didn't have any issues whatsoever; When we decided that we didn't want to be a C-Corp in DE, we made it before the actual setup, however, when we ran into issues with our process
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by imroot 8y ago
What's interesting is that normally, USAA (and other banks that tend to cater to government employees) will offer 0% APR loans to those who are impacted by this. There have been quite a few reports of USAA not offering loans to those w
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by imroot 8y ago
Instacart and Shipt (who was recently acquired by Target) make money from the price slew between what they're paying (which, might not even be the cost that's on the grocery shelf -- it may be lower), and the price that they'
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by imroot 8y ago
Marriott did outsource their development of the migrated SPG+MI marriott.com.
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by imroot 8y ago
As much as I want to hate this, I was part of this marriott.com fiasco -- Marriott switched from a monolithic, huge, J2EE stack and moved to openshift for container management. The problem? the development teams didn't really and ful
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by imroot 8y ago
I've just dealt with it (K4IMW), but, I use my PO Box for my FCC ULS information. If the FCC or anyone else wants to get in touch with me, it's probably quicker to email me, but, I understand that there are times where a paper le
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by imroot 8y ago
Kentucky is one of those states -- if it's in your vehicle -- but, it's a "Secondary offense," and I've been told that they haven't cited anyone for that for 10+ years.
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by imroot 8y ago
Ginny has drained the life out of IBM -- and not in a good way.
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by imroot 8y ago
Not really -- I have used SuperMicro servers in the past, and we had our own Super Micro part numbers based on the company -- so, they know who is ordering each piece of equipment and they know where each piece of equipment is being built a
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by imroot 8y ago
Morning Consult | Senior Software Engineer | Washington, DC | ONSITE, Full- Time | https://morningconsult.com Morning Consult is a leading technology company revolutionizing ways to collect, organize, and share survey research d
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by imroot 8y ago
I have a friend who is an OB/GYN Oncologist in Indianapolis. Her hospital had IBM Watson Health on campus last year, and she mentioned to me in passing last month that they finally had kicked IBM off of their (learning) university&#x2
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by imroot 8y ago
Ohio didn't care that I moved out of Ohio in March, and Kentucky didn't care that I already paid Ohio. I was honestly just happy to pay it and get it over with.
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by imroot 8y ago
I had this problem between Ohio and Kentucky about 10 years ago: I moved from Ohio to Kentucky, and they both considered me living in their state for the entire year. I gave up trying to fight it after about 5 years (!!) and just paid the
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by imroot 8y ago
Ever time this gets brought up, everyone agrees with this, but, yet, no matter what, damn near every -- and I mean EVERY -- employer I've worked at, and even interviewed for since -- probably 2002 has gone to open plan offices. I can
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by imroot 8y ago
I had an issue where I accidentally sent an eBay shipment to an old address. It's something that I immediately recognized after clicking "Buy now," and immediately sent a message to the senders; all but one of them corrected
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by imroot 8y ago
I'm going to have to disagree -- and this is based on first hand knowledge (albeit from a few years ago), and from second-hand knowledge from friends that I trust who are working in/around Kroger now. Kroger is in a difficult posi
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by imroot 8y ago
I'm really not surprised by this at all. I know that Kroger was exploring a service like this last year, based on conversations that I had with someone from their legal team; they've had this in the Cincinnati area stores that I
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by imroot 8y ago
As for the POS devices looking identical: I've worked for a large retailer who has purchased a sizable number of verifone devices (hundreds of thousands). The devices do have NFC-enabled readers in them to support Apple Pay, however,
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by imroot 8y ago
I had a really negative issue with Simple: a garnishment (wasn't my garnishment -- there's someone with my same first and last name with the same birth date who has a different middle name) that was incorrectly applied to my acco
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by imroot 9y ago
I had Instacart express for a year (it was $99/year). I cancelled it after a year. If I want nothing but dry goods, I'll get them on Prime Now: the Instacart shoppers couldn't buy the produce at the quality that I would exp
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by imroot 9y ago
My biggest issue with an iPad Pro+Apple Keyboard as the main terminal client: - Where the "Control" key should be, is the "International Keyboard" key -- and there's no option to remap it. Control-something bring
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by imroot 9y ago
Like most other banned communities on reddit, they just moved to other places, it seems: https://www.reddit.com/r/SugarBaby/ In a way, I'm not really surprised.
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by imroot 9y ago
I think that Indianapolis' job market is much stronger than Cincinnati's is, right now, at least in the DevOps/Linux Tech space. Most companies around the Cincinnati area don't want to pay more than 80k/year for a g
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by imroot 9y ago
This feels like it's "DoubleClick For Publishers or Bust." Admittedly, I've only been on the DevOps side of content marketing -- and even at that, only on the cloud infrastructure side of it -- but, I think that just abo
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by imroot 9y ago
Selfcheck is a high-shrink area. Not everyone is as honest as you are. You'd be surprised the number of people who "forget" to put the "9's" in front of their organic produce when they are checking out.
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by imroot 9y ago
In Gaithersburg, MD, you're just prompted to enter in the number of bags you've used. You're then charged the $.05 per bag on your tab.

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