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by m0nastic 15y ago
I really find that it's all dependent on the context. The use of profanity in a presentation (or the use of humorous images) can set the tone of the talk, and in a larger context, sets the tone for the event. People have stated that profani
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While it's possible that Kim Kardashian's 17 Million dollar wedding might be skewing the average, that figure doesn't seem outrageous to me. Just hiring a wedding photographer can average between 5 and 10 grand (and that's not to hire Annie
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This looks neat (although I agree the name is problematic). I've always tried to be a whiteboard person, but other than the occasional network diagram, I never seem to be able to incorporate it into my workflow (I have the same disappointin
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I set my alarm and sat at my desk on Saturday to watch the streams live (which may say more about me than I'm comfortable with), and my recommendations for the three to watch (if you don't want to watch all of them) are: * Max Levchin's tal
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I long for the days of an actual reputation system (like what cstross described in Accelerando), and I suppose in that regard, Klout is making progress. I'd be happier if their system was based on some sort of actual reality, but hopefully
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For what it's worth, I totally agree with you. I'm presently trying to extricate myself from a large enterprise. I'm not necessarily a gung-ho "startup good/big company bad" kind of person, but purely from an "asymmetric effectiveness" stan
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Entitlement that the rules put in place don't apply to you, because you are some sort of prima-donna superstar. I find that worrisome. It can bloom into pretty ugly (and moderately damaging) behavior. I've worked for clients who have certai
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I find myself agreeing with their recommendation, even though I disagree with their rationale. Agreeing to let "HEROES" use Macs in an enterprise (and dear god what a terrible term, as if us Mac users weren't smug enough) seems to be basica
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That's the point, they did a "limited deployment" and discovered that everything didn't work. Specifically, the VPN didn't work. Making the VPN work would require spending millions of dollars in hardware, as well as the deployment of said n
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I don't think training has anything to do with it. Rule number 1 for corporate IT: Keep operations going (i.e.: make sure everything works). At some point you see that Microsoft is releasing a new version of their operating system: 1.)
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by m0nastic 15y ago
If you're referring to our VPN software, the version distributed by the vendor would crash upon initialization every time for a good year after Vista was released. I presume they eventually released a version that was stable, but my company
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We still standardize on XP on the corporate images at my work (where we have more employees than many cities have residents), and are just now starting to even consider running a trial build of Windows 7. We had to skip over Vista completel
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by m0nastic 15y ago
That's actually a good point. You should definitely make sure that you've talked to anyone you're going to list ahead of time. I've done a couple dozen security clearance interviews for co-workers or past co-workers (which is basically a hi
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As I've now been discovering lately. I don't think it's very common (I haven't heard of any other companies that do it, for instance), but I'd really hate for other people to wind up in the same situation.
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At the risk of this sounding like a bullshit platitude, if you find yourself having to really cautiously cherry-pick your references, you might want to evaluate if that says something about your work (it may or may not). I may have just bee
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I've posted about this before, but I wanted to again bring it up as a note of caution for people who might be looking for work. My present employer (who I've finally decided to try and make my former) has a policy forbidding any employee fr
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by m0nastic 15y ago
See, that's good to know (and I suppose ironic in the O'henry sense of the word). The thing I've started to figure out is that there is almost no consensus on what people want to see on a resume (short of what they don't want to see).
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The "art" to resumes (as I'm now in the process of learning, after not looking at mine for ten years), is to figure out how to best portray yourself to the exact person(s) you're submitting it to. That should inform what sections are approp
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I'm a reformed surfer (not many good waves in Washington D.C. unfortunately), but I like the idea. I can understand the sentiment from folks who don't want to broadcast good spots, but I suspect there's a good amount of people who aren't so
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I would think that Zuck's experience is in founding a tiny startup, and growing it into the company that everyone points to as the poster-child target for your liquidity event. I don't disagree that for people who are now in the early stage
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Considering that it seems like a large preponderance of startups are trying to be "the next Facebook", I think the guy who started the current Facebook (I'm assuming the Winklevei were unavailable) would be super relevant.
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Macsales sells SSD upgrades for the Air (they're not particularly hard to do either) here: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Aura_Pro_Express
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Yay, that helps reinforce my misguided American belief that the BBC is still a quality news organization!
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I don't think it's all that crazy to postulate why Monsanto opposes labeling milk as rBGH free. Their position is that there are absolutely zero health effects for rBGH on humans (which as far as I know isn't disputed by any study). There i
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by m0nastic 15y ago
In the realm of news, almost no one knows who Dennis Ritchie was. You can lament that fact (obviously, to anyone even remotely related to computing he was a figure of paramount importance), but it's ridiculous to expect the mainstream press
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They already did, it's called the BSA‡ And they solicit informants to report piracy (with lucrative rewards). ‡ http://www.bsa.org/country.aspx?sc_lang=en
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I saw him mentioned in a Discovery Channel documentary when I was in High School, which surprised the hell out of me. I don't know how interesting it all is. He basically showed up in the Combat Zone one day and went from place to place tel
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Yeah, "retired" in southern California. Why?
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I think that's an interesting take on the problem. I don't think there is an equivalent law in the U.S. against paying for "protection", but it might make sense. My dad ran the racket for Boston's Chinatown/Combat Zone in the 70's-80's and
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I'm obviously not tptacek, but I take his statement to mean that currently, PCI finds the following scenario acceptable: You have a site that takes payment info. Rather than process that information directly and store it you decide to use a

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