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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Her anecdote doesn't support her case. It seems clear that the guy was taking out his post-breakup frustrations on Ms. Vargas-Cooper. He may normally be a decent, caring person who just tried to get back in the dating pool too soon. Puni
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Ask someone who works at a bank what mainframe support from IBM costs. Over $1,000,000 per year is not uncommon. Also, I'm fairly sure this $15,000 is intended to be in support of an internal team of sys admins, not in place of them.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Things that I actually heard from fellow students when I went to college over a decade ago: "The most important thing is to get a degree, I don't worry about what major I'm going to choose." "I want to make the big money so I'm going to maj
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Yeah, it's funny that the idea of a lifestyle business is alien to Andrew. He probably interacts with hundreds of lifestyle businesses. Nobody opens a Subway or a Radio Shack with the idea that they'll sell it for $100 billion. They just
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
The dead-end streets in my neighborhood are physically narrower, too, probably for the same reason. AS a side effect, though, it gets hard for delivery trucks and snow plows to turn around and get back on the main road..
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I'm wondering the same thing. Liebermann probably knows too. People say this a lot about politicians and I wonder how true it is. Lieberman in particular has never shown himself to be particularly smart. He mostly repeats the convention
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Contemplating stealing it? Or just contemplating it somewhere quiet all by yourself?
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Derivatives Backfire Leaving Taxpayers Holding the Bag(bloomberg.com)
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Somebody has to own the stuff you're renting. If I'm a renter I'm just passing along the responsibility to someone else. If the vast majority of us are renters rather than owners, who has incentive to do any maintenance or improvement?
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Perhaps the real problem is that Friedman's money comes from "nowhere" so to speak. He doesn't produce any physical goods and his wife's fortune comes from the trading and management acumen of her father. He can't understand a world where
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
A little over a decade ago, my company used a local charter company when Northwest's pilots went on strike. We were able to get a five-seat turboprop with two pilots for $2000 for 70 minute flight (about 400 miles.) A full-fare ticket on
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Also interesting to note that they're generally the product of upper middle class families and probably had a strong financial support system to fall back on if they failed.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
It's easy to crack the code NASCAR and MMA = Male Left Behind = Christian Branson, MO, RV's and Cruise Ships = White
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
You're right to a point. The big benefit to working a regular job is that there's a whole infrastructure of day care, preschool, sports, music lessons, etc. built around your schedule. In a start up or even a job with odd hours this infra
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
In the U.S., we pay taxes on a graduated percentage of our income directly to the national government. Due to various offsets and credits, most low and moderate income taxpayers actually end up owing nothing. Some states and localities ha
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
> For instance, anything 1k or up must be in writing in Georgia. IANAL, but chat or email probably count as "in writing."
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I agree that arbitrary code coverage goals are foolish, but there's a huge benefit that we seem to be glossing over. A good suite of automated tests can double or triple the productivity of a new team member. Whenever I join a project, I
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
There's something great about making something that affects the physical world, isn't there? I've written programs that manage billions of dollars and websites that support millions of users, yet I still get a thrill out of simple stuff li
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
My wife leads service projects for/with high school kids. They often list these service projects on their college applications. How much does it matter if a student has planned or led a project versus just going along and working? Is ther
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
The biggest change for me was the lack of free time to do everything. I can still make time to do what I enjoy, but I don't have time for reading books and watching tv and working out and sports and going out with friends. I have
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I agree with you on Google's intent, but intent is only half the issue here. They didn't just happen to get a peek. They deliberately searched for private information and recorded everything they saw. Perhaps I'm being naive or living in
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I disagree. Just because I leave my shades open doesn't give you the right to stand in the street and take pictures of my family through the window. After all, I'm allowing the broadcast images of myself through electromagnetic radiation
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I loved the travel aspect of my job when I was in my 20's. I did nothing but work on the weekdays and nothing but play on the weekends (in almost any city in the country.)
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
It seems like most of the objections to the OP boil down to "if they're offended that's their problem." The trouble is that it's _our_ problem. How many articles on HN complain about the lack of qualified programmers or complain that progr
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
If you're serious about home improvement and can afford it, I'd suggest getting both a nicer cordless and a medium-priced corded drill. The cordless drill will get used ten times as often as the corded drill because it's so much easier to
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
OK, so work the other way. What's the MPR (Monthly Percentage Rate)? If I'm using their lowest rate option and borrowing $250 for 6 months, I get an MPR of about 20% If I count the origination fee of $75, I get just under 25%. In contras
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Don't get me wrong--Carrie Fisher is pretty. She could have easily been the homecoming queen at my high school. As long as she wasn't too busy doing coke with Tony Bennett or whatever children of famous actors did in the 70's. I'm just s
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I read an article about the X-Files once where the author talked about how the show flipped the usual formula for television casting on its head. In most television shows, the female lead is hired primarily for her looks while the male lea
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
I mean that the buyers, designers, etc. that are attracted to a career at a stylish company like the Gap are, paradoxically, not particularly interested in selling the same old staples year in and year out.
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by jtbigwoo 16y ago
Call me sexist, but I firmly believe there are three areas women should not generally be part of: military, cooking and teaching. Lawrence Summers? Is that you?

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