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lmorris84
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lmorris84
12y ago
Well no, I'm saying society has become hyper-sensitive to anyone expressing a view that isn't fitting with the current trend. spew, bigoted, hateful - emotive words that illustrate my point exactly (as does the downvote). Even a
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Without it, opinions opposed to the prevailing majority view point are not only side-lined, but the very expression of an interest in them becomes a cause for controversy and social rebuke. I think in many ways we're already there, b
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12y ago
Agreed. I think many people would naturally recoil from "big brother government oversight" but see no issue using similar means to have people found and locked up for calling someone an unpleasant name on twitter.
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12y ago
In the case I mentioned I wasn't serious at all - I was just putting feelers out and trying to gauge pricing across a few different vendors. A call at this point is probably wasting my time and theirs. For me, the stage after finding
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12y ago
rather than giving Cindy the quote which she asked for, I should have asked Cindy to hop on a quick call with me to discuss how they were planning to use Appointment Reminder I get this all the time when looking for vendors for various th
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Is it? The front page of CouchDB says "CouchDB is highly available and partition tolerant, but is also eventually consistent"
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12y ago
I'm a Java programmer so work with OOP every day. I think it has it's pro's and con's like everything else. My pet hate is how dogmatic some people get to the point where they get angry over the use of if/switch st
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Biggest worry for me is impostor syndrome. I'd be terrified of turning up and being absolutely useless and achieving nothing. I don't go to conferences for the same reason.
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I imagine they could dispute the charge with their credit card provider and put the onus on them to sort it out. Being in a contract doesn't make something legally binding - what if they put "if you leave a bad review we reserve t