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by mark-r 5y ago
When we built our house in 2000, my wife worked for a company that was doing a cross promotion with GE so we got a good discount on their appliances and fitted the whole house with them. Every single one has been nothing but trouble, and w
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by mark-r 5y ago
I learned years ago to avoid anything from Magnavox, after getting some real junk with that name attached. It was really obvious that the name was being abused to get trust for products that didn't deserve it.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I recently had the best interview experience of my life from an interviewer who had this philosophy. He's a professional interviewer who's done thousands of interviews over the past few years. He feels that the best way to gauge
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by mark-r 5y ago
I once failed an interview, and I think it was because the interviewer laid a trap for me. He asked if I would use such-and-so algorithm to solve a particular problem, and I said sure. I had never heard of such-and-so algorithm, but I fig
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by mark-r 5y ago
It's a great insight, but anecdotally dating sites aren't a great way to find a mate. I know two people who found their spouse through a dating site. The first was forced to get a divorce after his wife tried to kill him and near
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by mark-r 5y ago
I once had an interviewer ask me an obscure C++ question. I didn't know the answer, so I reversed it and asked if he knew. He did, and it taught me something I didn't know before. No, I didn't get the job. I no longer eve
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by mark-r 5y ago
You're probably right, but it pains me to admit it. I would never make up some BS just to get through an interview, it's not in my nature.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Once you've announced your intention to leave, even just privately, it changes your relationship. Accepting a counter-offer is just going to leave things awkward.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I never got to attend that all-hands meeting. The company scheduled two meetings at the same time - one all-hands, except for about 10 of us who were scheduled for the other one. It didn't take too much imagination to figure out what
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by mark-r 5y ago
In the U.S. sometimes your first hint of an impending layoff is when you're asked to train your replacement. And sometimes the layoff means the project you were working on is being cancelled. My own most recent experience is that the
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by mark-r 5y ago
I know anecdata is worthless, but we're coming up on the anniversary of my latest layoff so it's still fresh in my mind. It was Nov. 9, a Monday. And of course I wasn't alone. Going postal wasn't an option, everybody w
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by mark-r 5y ago
I wonder if reversing the statement is useful? Are the neighbors of a highly composite number more likely to be prime?
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by mark-r 5y ago
Odds have nothing to do with it, it's guaranteed.
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by mark-r 5y ago
In a capitalist society, when you find something that people are willing to spend above average on, there's usually no shortage of providers trying to produce it. Why isn't that happening in this case?
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by mark-r 5y ago
The only reason Minecraft doesn't have microtransactions is because they haven't gotten around to it yet. I recently interviewed for a position on the team that's going to make it happen.
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by mark-r 5y ago
When I was in college with a time-sharing system, someone as a joke removed all the keycaps from one of the CRTs. Didn't stop me, I'm a good enough touch typist that I just sat down and started using it. Good typing skills are a
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by mark-r 5y ago
FB probably knew going into this that the other company had no chance of winning a legal battle because they haven't attempted to utilize the trademark. They simply made an offer in the hopes of avoiding some hassle, their offer was p
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by mark-r 5y ago
I'm way ahead of you. I never registered in the first place.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I worked on a product called "Media Center" which we applied for a trademark on. The USPTO turned it down claiming it was too generic. Then 6 months later Microsoft comes out with a new version of Windows, with a Media Center in
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by mark-r 5y ago
The life blood of any independent site is advertising. Who would advertise on such a site?
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by mark-r 5y ago
I think computers may be better off using UTC, but people are still better off with local time. I'd hate to be at UTC+11 or UTC-11 and have the date change in the middle of the day.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Except that tzdata doesn't store offset rules for every city. You still need to know which city represents your location, which is just as arbitrary as some random timezone code. Every once in a while zone boundaries or local zone ru
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by mark-r 5y ago
In the U.S. CST becomes CDT in the summer. Which country changes it to CEST?
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by mark-r 5y ago
Timezones can change when specified by continent/city too. The bigger problem with three-letter zone names is that they're not unique. I found 3 different definitions of CST for example.
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by mark-r 5y ago
The best pans I have are tri-ply, aluminum in the middle with stainless steel on the inside and outside.
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by mark-r 5y ago
https://dhmo.org/
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by mark-r 5y ago
If Conway's Game of Life taught us anything, it's that even very simple rules can have surprising emergent behavior.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I worked with a guy who was an amateur pilot, and he had an opinion about dual engine planes. He said the purpose of the second engine was to get you to the scene of the crash.
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by mark-r 5y ago
It doesn't even need to be the most feature-rich any more. Microsoft has figured out that the key is corporate licensing. Is Teams better than Zoom? No, but my last employer ditched Zoom because Teams was already included in their en
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by mark-r 5y ago
I never understood why Motorola couldn't keep up with Intel in the speed race. If they had, 68K would be the dominant architecture today.

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