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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
"Goat rodeo" is slang for a particularly chaotic situation where nobody's in charge and everybody's going in different directions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_rodeo
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If the snacks are provided by the company: -I don't have to carry change/cash. -I don't have to deal with a vending machine that will fail to give me what I want 2% of the time. -If something that I want is not there, I can ask the boss to
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Editing takes place before publishing, not after. A newspaper that prints a dozen retractions per day is not well edited.
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Wurtzel stepped down as CEO in 1986. He was still on the board after that, but it was his successors that made the decisions that brought Circuit City down. (As a board member you could argue that he was accountable, but things like Divx
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Some of us are basically forced to use Eclipse at work, unfortunately, especially those of us whose companies have chosen IBM server software.
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You can get a 40 year mortgage at many banks now. I doubt 40 year mortgages will ever catch on. The banks generally charge a higher interest rate for the longer term so the payments aren't much cheaper than a 30 year loan.
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I'm saying that I think the other person may have uploaded their contacts and then chosen not to send you a friend request or there's someone follows both you and the other person on twitter. In order to build long lists of suggestions, Li
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
Now that's fascinating. Matching an IP address is a different thing than using information that a user has shared explicitly.
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It's probably just name, location, and interest matching. Especially if you have a fairly uncommon name.
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There's a more benign answer to the creepy connection suggestions. LOTS of people import their email address books into linkedin. It's not a stretch to think that his girlfriend's mother (or some other relative) imported her address book
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Maybe you could go with a single friend and try to find a date for him/her?
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> It's how you minimize costs, and any smart seller that realizes you're not going through the bidding process jacks up the price to milk you for all you're worth. Honestly, I rarely get more than one or two bids when I'm looking for so
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I made about $2,500 for 2000 shares once when my company was bought out and was promised $50,000 more if the company hit certain milesones. We did not hit said milestones.
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Interesting read. If I was asked to give a commencement speech (which never will be, by the way), I'd cover only three points. -Make connections to others My boy scout leader used to say, "Humans are herd animals." Even if you're an intr
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The commenter may not want his or her posting history associated with his or her employer.
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When someone says "I can't find enough qualified people for X", the reader should always append "for what I am willing to pay." Miraculously, there never seems to be a shortage of qualified Wall Street traders, university administrators, or
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
Only certain types of rich people can pick up and move like that, though. Moving to a new country or even a new city means leaving behind the business connections and infrastructure they've built over the course of years and years. You'd
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I always thought that was funny, too. In real life, large cities can actually charge much higher taxes than smaller cities (think New York).
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The second car was still nice (thought it probably was $5k cheaper). They saw the kids and assigned me to the kid-hauler profile instead of the performance/luxury profile.
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
Loaner cars are a clever sales tool. The local dealership had a similar deal when I brought my car in for major repairs (under warranty) and maintenance (not under warranty, I paid). They promised a free loaner of the latest model for a fe
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
It doesn't seem that they're trying to actually build better workers, just that they want to select against poorer workers. I'd be more interested if someone tried to teach people the traits that make more effective workers rather than j
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
I don't pretend to know if the conferences mentioned in the story are exclusionary or just choosing the best speakers. The only thing I'll say is that speaking or joining a panel at a small conference often leads to speaking at bigger conf
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It could also be the lessening influence of Microsoft on the software industry. A decade ago, big companies were used to paying per seat because the bedrock apps like Word and Visual Studio were always licensed per seat or per server. Wi
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Turns out it was a popular sentiment! :) To be clear, I like mainframes. They make certain problems much easier. I worked in the company that maintains the world's largest DB2 installation and it was amazing and terrifying.
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Haha, Slate and Jezebel are unpopular. Nice trolling. (Oh crap, now I'm feeding the troll now, aren't I?)
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This sure looks familiar. Intel wants to build mainframes, basically.
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They're here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/02/07/lulu_app_for... and here: http://jezebel.com/5982867/the-creepy-new-yelp-for-boys-and-... Do you not know how to use google?
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>> Ideally, the money supply would expand exactly in proportion to the real economy, so there wouldn't be price fluctuations due to money at all, but this is hard to achieve, because there's no clear-cut way to quantify the size of
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>> He's missing the entire point, bitcoin was designed to stop the federal reserve and US Mint from systematically diluting the value of our money through systematic inflation, (taking taxpayer dollars and giving it to AIG buddies f
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Paypal was already a mature product back then. Literally every major bank already offered custom-branded payment pages and an API to process credit card payments. Why would you bother to build Chargify to offer custom-branded payment page

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