jrjarrett

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by jrjarrett 10y ago
I'm in Madison, too, and there are still a lot of places that don't use the chips. I was at Farm & Fleet yesterday, had to swipe, for example.
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by jrjarrett 10y ago
How about Moony McMoonface? :D
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by jrjarrett 11y ago
Who are these people and where are they getting that kind of cash?
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by jrjarrett 11y ago
What in hell does that even MEAN? "contextualize an experience?"
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by jrjarrett 11y ago
Worse: Bake sales to raise funds for diabetes research.
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by jrjarrett 11y ago
>>>We have nothing approaching basic income or housing that anybody could live off reasonably. >State welfare programs, section 8, food stamps, "earned income credit", medicaid, SSI, TANF, SNAP, etc. There's lots
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by jrjarrett 11y ago
So what's the connection between hover boards and fraud, I wonder? Why not something else?
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by jrjarrett 11y ago
This is exactly what happened with Enron and the backlash against that level of cheating -- the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. I refuse any argument that a line-level IT staff member cooked the books there on their own, yet the response - draconian co
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by jrjarrett 11y ago
Woo hoo! The reactionless thruster! Next: Outsider hyperdrive! http://news.larryniven.net/concordance/main.asp?alpha=T#thru...
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by jrjarrett 11y ago
Himal Chuli FTW.
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by jrjarrett 11y ago
Aw, I thought they'd invented the tasp.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)
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by jrjarrett 11y ago
I'm EXACTLY RIGHT HERE, right now. Tomorrow is my last day at my current employer of almost 11 years. I moved to this employer from an employer I'd worked for for 16 years before that. Things at my current employer are changing (t
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
I think the author is missing the point of what Cucumber tries to accomplish -- to allow non-technical, non-coder business analysts (for example) to write tests in an English like syntax, and then a developer can go behind the scenes and ma
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
It's not "if", it's "when."
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
So what? If, in the particular domain, that makes sense, then so what? It may be that in this context, an "order" is only unique to a customer.
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
What if orderID is NOT unique across the system?
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
Oh, this. So much this. Except I get stalled just THINKING about all the setup stuff, or how much I no longer know about iOS development, since I haven't done it at all in a month, never mind ever having gotten on top of the wave in iO
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
From the article: If, for some reason, YOU failed to prepare adequately for a highly-publicized storm and Uber is your only way to get some much-needed supply (from closed stores?), then don’t complain about price or availability. YOU brou
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
So as a recruiter, why not just state the salary range for the position, if that's fixed? Then if the amount of money I want from you as a potential employee isn't an option, I won't waste both of our times in applying.
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
So here's a related question - if you hold firm and do not give a number, get an offer, and it's substantially below where you currently are/what you feel you are worth, how do you negotiate from that position? Can you even?
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
For me, it's not about the length or the scale of the temperature, it's having grown up with the "feel" or the "time" of a measurement. If I see a road sign that says it's 130 miles to Chicago, then I know
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
They tried this in the '90s. Remember PowerComputing? Or UMAX? Apple is ultimately, a hardware company. The fact they put a lot of effort into crafting OS' for their hardware that give the average user a very seamless and excellen
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
No, no they are not.* Several times in my career I have looked at moving to SF, and when it's gotten to the point of talking about salary and upscaling that to what I made at the time, that's not true. The numbers discussed were a
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
I believe what the OP was saying here was that in countries like the UK or Canada with subsidized/government-provided health care, the costs for that health care is covered by higher taxes/VAT.
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
THIS. oh a THOUSAND times this.
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
Yes. I"m 48, and I've worked in software for 26 years. For two companies. I think I'm probably the last generation that looks at long-term employment as a good thing, and the older I get the less risk I want to take in being
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
I assert that by the time it's gotten to the point that you have gone out, slogged thru hundreds of job postings, had interviews, negotiated a new position, YOU'RE DONE AT YOUR OLD JOB. And there's no going back. Something h
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
Count Zero, by Gibson. Just finished Neuromancer (for the first time! Bad geek! No cookie!), and plan to read Mona Lisa Overdrive next.
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
This. I had the same experience (contacted RH about a specific job only to find out it didn't really exist), and continue to get spam emails and calls. I've told them sure, I'm interested in hearing about what they have but i
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by jrjarrett 12y ago
So how does someone who is a recruitee get connected with a DECENT recruiter? All I seem to get are the body shop type places contacting me (aka Robert Half, TEKSystems). I've told them that I would be interested if and only if it woul

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