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by jqm 12y ago
Some people find dogs threatening... I personally don't, but I do find rooms for adults filled with play-doh, comfort blankets and rabid third wave feminists a bit threatening.
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by jqm 12y ago
Here is my (completely unsupported) prediction... People involved in "safe spaces" or passing out fliers against "rape culture" (not rape, that's a crime and a different subject), generally, on average, after colleg
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by jqm 12y ago
I'm guessing the company in the article that limited bathroom breaks to 6 minutes probably did so not out of desire for control, but because there had been abuse, and so in typical bureaucratic fashion, they made an unreasonable policy
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by jqm 12y ago
Well... that's certainly one approach. Hire people because you like them. Though it probably isn't the best approach for getting results.
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by jqm 12y ago
If you don't have an hour or two as an interviewer, you probably aren't getting very good results. This is a pretty small investment of time considering what is at stake.
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by jqm 12y ago
I like this approach. It's pragmatic. After all, it's not what a person knows (nor who they know) that produces results. It's what they do.
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by jqm 12y ago
I have to say... that was an excellent post. I would have just voted it up and left it at that, but I thought it deserved a little extra. Very good take on the subject.
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by jqm 12y ago
My boss had some leftover budget money and decided to get some tech toys. He got a drone with a camera and a 3-D printer. I was skeptical of both. The drone was totally awesome and I want one now. The 3-D printer took a day to print some cr
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by jqm 12y ago
You can cheat on exams, but you can't cheat when it comes to to produce. You either do, or you don't do it. It's like stealing. You might get by doing it, a few people might get by, but everyone can't steal for a living.
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by jqm 12y ago
I suspect it won't be terribly long before we have genetically modified plants to produce a more complete fat and amino acid profile, and this will essentially replace meat in most cases. Probably this will happen before anything like
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by jqm 12y ago
Maybe a comprehension test isn't a bad idea. It would probably keep just as many whites from voting nowadays as well.
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by jqm 12y ago
I seem to remember years ago reading that the Japanese language was related to Finnish and considered to be in the same family. Maybe things have changed or I'm mis-remembering.
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by jqm 12y ago
I just turned 44 and I'm passionate as hell. Always have been. When the passion starts dying, I know its time to do something else. I've been a nursery grower. I've been a produce grower. I've been a landscape contractor
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by jqm 12y ago
I didn't get into programming for money. I got into it because it's something I really like doing. If this isn't you... I feel bad for you. Life is too short to spend your working days doing something you don't care for.
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by jqm 12y ago
"An acutely negative mindset..." Some people may say front end developers are not "programmers" in the strict sense of the word, but I believe much of this still applies... http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts
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by jqm 12y ago
Depending on who is cooking the meal... absolutely I'll take the microwave dinner!
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by jqm 12y ago
Also a cell phone cost $7000000 in 1950. So if we look at the change in terms of cell phones rather than in terms of pieces of paper with pictures of dead white guys on them, wages have gone up over a million time while productivity has onl
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by jqm 12y ago
Eh... let resources get scarce and social systems start breaking down. Then we will see if increasing non-violence and altruism is really a trend.
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by jqm 12y ago
Yes... there certainly is much medicinal value from cocaine and heroin. Which is why they were initially developed... for medical uses. In addition, one might argue they pick a person up when they want to be up and relax them when they need
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by jqm 12y ago
Not the shadow profile. Not at all.
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by jqm 12y ago
Eh... that's relative as well. Some people would argue these "bad drugs" have positive value. And others would argue what you are calling "positive value" is anything but. And in specific cases, all these arguments
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by jqm 12y ago
You can't move almond trees to other areas. They wouldn't thrive there. You might as well suggest moving a Banana plantation from Honduras to Montana to save on shipping costs.
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by jqm 12y ago
Correct. There are only a few areas in the world almonds can be commercially grown. California is one. Cattle can be grown lots of places.
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by jqm 12y ago
Everyone keeps blaming nuts, and they do use a lot of water, but Alfalfa is the biggest agricultural user of water in the state. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/opinion/meat-makes-the-pla...
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by jqm 12y ago
Alfalfa uses more California water than nuts. Maybe cut out the cheeseburgers first.
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by jqm 12y ago
http://www.redlinepharmacy.com/compounding-services/nicotine...
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by jqm 12y ago
The largest database is vendor provided so we are stuck (for now). Thanks for the insight.
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by jqm 12y ago
I haven't used MongoDB in production (the comments regarding reliability have been around for awhile), but playing around with it, I do like the json format and query structure. The issue I have with SQL (MS sql in the case of work) is
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by jqm 12y ago
This guy sounds like a major league twerp. And frankly, reading Kelley's twitter profile, so does she. I would look into this to determine who I thought was more at fault, but really, twerp soap operas aren't my thing. I don'
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by jqm 12y ago
I think this is awesome. The routine and self respect of getting up and going to a job every morning is something people trying to re-integrate back into society really need. Not to mention money to buy things. But I do have a story to rela

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