mfr

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by mfr 16y ago
There are mechanisms by which a landlord can raise a rent inside the bounds of a lease. In my experience, multi-year leases have "elevator clauses" that either allow for pre-negotiated upwards adjustments in price based on property tax, CP
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Fraternity of the Wired Works in the Wee Hours(nytimes.com)
37 points by mfr 16y ago|10 comments
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Project milestones and mental models (aka "Love your idiots.")(shadowcat.co.uk)
1 points by mfr 16y ago|0 comments
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by mfr 16y ago
Whenever I need to ask someone a question about something, I take 2 minutes to do just one more bit of homework on the topic. The goal to give my brain one more shot at figuring it out on its own. Either I figure it out and I don't have t
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Chinese engineer creates iPod - phone conversion gadget(cnn.com)
1 points by mfr 16y ago|0 comments
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by mfr 16y ago
Of course, I wanted to believe it was true. Unappreciated worker with morally-lite boss in a despised industry. What's not to like? The lighting was too good though. Specifically, it looked like there was a tripod, a well-calibrated fil
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by mfr 16y ago
If you don't understand why people are complaining, you may want to take a moment to understand why. You have shown how to block it, but there is a larger discussion of why or why not it's bad, how it breaks copy/paste, attribution problems
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by mfr 16y ago
To answer your specific question, it isn't necessary. It's just another Turing-Complete language, right? Perl was one of the first popular scripting languages out there to have well-integrated regex handling and was useful for programmin
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Jack Donaghy vs. Kabletown: The Case for Innovation(fastcompany.com)
2 points by mfr 16y ago|0 comments
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by mfr 16y ago
At the risk of self-promotion, a while back I did a presentation on naming schemes for network devices, which have slightly different requirements than servers: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog31/abstracts.php?pt=NjExJ...
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by mfr 16y ago
To use a recent movie quote: "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball." ITA's business is all about dealing with fiendishly clever transforms on small-ish sets of data, and the results are needed Right Now. Most of the hiring puzz
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by mfr 17y ago
IANAL, etc., but I believe you have it exactly right. The principle in question is the Clean Hands Doctrine ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_hands ). In short, an entity can not seek an equitable remedy if they themselves have acted in
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by mfr 17y ago
At a guess, they're trying to make it up in volume. If you're a merchant bank, the smallest thing you can profitably target is a small business, so even a handful of significant bad accounts will do bad things to your bottom line. Assuming
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by mfr 17y ago
Indeed, the title of the original post ensured that someone would point out that bit of misspelling. One does not insure against certainty.
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by mfr 17y ago
Just in case you haven't yet, put in a city/country name that doesn't exist.
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by mfr 17y ago
I'm just glad that the court explicitly said that "nonpracticing patent owners" are distinct from those who would benefit from the use of the patent in manufacturing. Stating that “we observe that Acceleron is solely a licensing entity, an
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by mfr 17y ago
I'm reminded of the Latin phrase "Age quod agis", literally "Do what you are doing." It has been my experience that half-hearted attempts to learn/do things end up taking twice the effort of making an honest attempt and getting real results