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by mjcl 8y ago
Just out of curiosity, what do you find to be long running? Five minutes, five days? Depends on the volume of other transactions happening simultaneously?
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by mjcl 8y ago
Country Time sells powered lemonade in US supermarkets. Separately, there’s a US tradition of children setting up lemonade stands to make pocket money during the summer. Typically parents help buy the supplies, the idea being that the kids
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by mjcl 8y ago
My experience (mostly BART & SF Muni Metro) is that “smelly person” is a euphemism for homeless person.
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by mjcl 8y ago
That’s not too different than Azure/Office 365, is it?
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by mjcl 8y ago
A few states are getting ready to try just that: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/health/death-penalty-nitr...
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by mjcl 8y ago
Different OSes handle it differently. Windows tries the primary, waits 1 second and then starts trying secondaries.
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by mjcl 8y ago
The best yelp engagement I saw worked with customers directly: a property manager ran a raffle for half off a months rent. To enter, you just had to leave a review on yelp. They didn’t explicitly ask for good reviews, but the majority were
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by mjcl 8y ago
No, they usually give the name of the restaurant. People giving their name is less common.
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by mjcl 8y ago
Office 365 is pretty close to that, actually. You need Premier support to get anything useful. My favorite O365 support story is where first level support dicked around so long with a missing mailbox that by the time they escalated the tick
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by mjcl 8y ago
A short story about the USPSIS: I was downloading Postal Service mp3s from Kazaa and ended up downloading some USPS disciplinary reports on accident. I shared them with a friend because I thought they were funny, and he posted excerpts on a
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by mjcl 8y ago
My experience with AT&T was that they were overly bureaucratic but outside of those rules anything goes. For example, they didn't ask for an LOA for BGP announcements of other people's IP space. When we were turning up a new C
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by mjcl 8y ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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by mjcl 8y ago
And yet they allowed me to accidentally double-sell bitcoin cash from my account, leaving me with a negative BCH balance for months now.
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by mjcl 9y ago
His bail was revoked for offering $5000 for her hair with the follicle attached, but he had already been found guilty and was awaiting sentencing. It was a last straw, not a sole offense.
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by mjcl 9y ago
Yup! I worked for a property management company that was rolling out check scanning (X9 imaging, not ACH/ARC) to 150 locations. In every group that was rolled out there was inevitably at least one person that would scan a batch of chec
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by mjcl 9y ago
I would expect that the wholesale change from Darwin to Linux would introduce an amazing number of new and awful bugs. It's not like their development processes will suddenly be fixed when it's been touched by Linux.
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by mjcl 9y ago
Isn't an NDA a lifetime contract?
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by mjcl 9y ago
Oddly enough, not always. I have a just-for-me app working on my phone that I last built on December 3rd.
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by mjcl 9y ago
Between 2006 and 2017 the first class letter rate has gone up eight times and down once. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_posta...
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by mjcl 9y ago
The user root always existed as a disabled user. The problem was that the logic error (whatever it was) resulted in the user being enabled.
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by mjcl 9y ago
> non-IP packets (ex. DHCP) DHCP is IP/UDP.
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by mjcl 9y ago
Or even create a self-fulfilling prophecy. What if someone is listed as "may leave" when they have no intent to do so. If the employer then starts freezing the employee out, that could lead the the employee eventually leaving, eve
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by mjcl 9y ago
I had a slightly different experience, luckily, I guess. When I was in recovery after having a brain tumor removed, I was first being given fentanyl once every hour or two. I found that for the few minutes I was lucid (before the next dose)
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by mjcl 9y ago
> pro-democrat hashtag #RNCinCLE What? That was the official hashtag, being promoted by Twitter [1]. [1] https://imgur.com/a/7SX7j
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by mjcl 9y ago
I think they're a mixed bag, probably depending on some customer profitability / value score. I've heard other people complain about trouble when packages were stolen, but the few times it's happened to me, I've got
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by mjcl 9y ago
And you no longer have to store the paper / electronic signatures.
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by mjcl 9y ago
I believe you need to sign up for their beta program at https://account.ubnt.com/manage/settings
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by mjcl 9y ago
They're not alone. I spent about five hours (across several meetings) trying to convince a CFO that giving an employee no annual increase was a negative signal. I think he only gave in when he realized I wasn't going to let it go.
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by mjcl 9y ago
Focused has to mean really focused ... REITs need to make 75% of their income from rents and 95% of their income from rents, dividends and gains from securities sales. Income from other sources is referred to as 'bad income' and i
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What stopped the Nazis?

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