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by jbuzbee 13y ago
That sounds like a pretty good compromise, but you can imagine that it will still cause permanent employment friction. For example, say you run a small contracting company with a few 3-month probationary employees on staff. You're wait
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
I'm no human-resource expert, but as far as the policy to escort terminated employees out of the building, I think this is one case where you need to trust the manager of the employee and hope for the best. If the manager knows that th
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Yes, as an employee it would be nice to have a three-month notice. But the downside is that it makes employers hesitant to hire someone in the first place if they know they will be stuck with them for three months. In the situation I descri
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Yes, he was an outlier. Most people will not behave this way and will act reasonably. But of course, the problem is determining which people will fly off the handle in stressful situations. I never would have guessed that this guy would t
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Terminating an employee can be tough on both sides. I was involved in a situation where we should have had security escort the terminated employee back to his office to get his belongings. This employee was basically let go after multiple w
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
There are multiple ways to look at this. In one respect, you could say that this generous "easing redundant employes out the door" policy hurts the company and the employees still in place as it diverts money that could be spent k
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
I tend to agree if we're talking about client-side Java served up through a browser. But client-side Java has been going downhill for years. Server-side Java on the other-hand is alive and well.
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Worst thing? I was expecting to see discussion on the use of white-space instead of the obviously superior curly braces! :-)
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Makes me think of Meteor where changes to a document are reflected in the client immediately and then possibly rolled back if the the server-side equivalent change fails which typically would be very rare.
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
I wouldn't hold Allen up as an example of reinvention as his "renaissance" activities now include patent trolling. And Woz is none too happy about that: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/woz-paul-allen-stop-pa
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Remember Microsoft's mantra: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish...
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
I was expecting to read that a new round of lawsuits had been filed as it seems that is the only way these big companies "compete" these days. At least they are trying to compete on an actual product instead of just suing using a
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
US export restrictions? Can't export it much further than Mars. ;-)
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Apple price increase in 3,2,1... For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
"the global elite also control what we see, hear and think about" Rolls eyes...
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
I've used x10 on and off since the early 80's. And... it sucks. When it works, it's cool, fun and cheap. But reliable it's not. For starts, all the inexpensive units I've used only support one-way commanding and the
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
The cynic in me says that even if the patent is thrown out, it will have little effect on the extortion that Microsoft is practicing against Android. They'll just find another vague patent to threaten manufacturers with.
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
I've played with meteor a bit and and also hacked on drorm's mysql back-end: https://github.com/drorm/meteor-sql It works for some cases, but it quite limited in the type of database tables it will support. A
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Note that this is for the "life" of the device so we're likely only talking a few years for most people.
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
T-Mobile seems to be pushing the SOP for carriers in the US. I can't imagine this happening if the AT&T purchase of T-Mobile went through. Competition's a a good-thing and may cause the bigger carriers to start making adjustme
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
I don't know about that, but I do know that the only time I have had a pay-forward experience was at Chick-fil-A. And it was fun!
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
That was enough to make me hit the back button. Do they really think that is going to leave a good impression on readers and make them want to come back?
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
You read where companies cannot divulge that fact that they have received a NSL? What if they all started reporting that they did NOT receive a NSL? Then when the reporting stopped, you could draw your own conclusions. Wouldn't work fo
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
KYEN is certainly an interesting station. It's not uncommon for it to go off the air for days at a time. I assume that's because it's completely un-manned (there are no DJs), so occasionally someone has to find time to go int
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
We've got a little-known radio station in the Denver metro area that plays non-stop music with no commercials. 103.9 FM: http://rocktherockies.com/ I've been listening for years and the only "commercial"
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
This is really a quite cool feature. For me, it was able to do a good job on searches for things like snow, road, dog, sunset, etc.
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Yeah. United has both business and first on International flights. Having been in both, I'd say that there isn't a whole lot of difference though. But In both cases, I just love those lay-flat seats when doing a 14-hour flight between LA an
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Reminds me of the Wired article comparing shipping containers to network packets: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.10/ports.html
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Oh, another complex conspiracy theory. Rolls eyes...
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Give me a break - I'll assume you're just woefully uninformed. For example: http://www.ap.org/Index/AP-In-The-News/NYPD

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