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by pkteison 11y ago
What's probably happening here is there are company-selected vacation days being left out of the number. You get to choose 10, but another 10 are picked by the company. I worked as a programmer at a big boring company which did this -
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by pkteison 11y ago
I wonder about the infrastructure change required for electric vehicles. The bay area relies extremely heavily on on-street parking. If everything is to go electric, will there be charging stations every 15 feet along every sidewalk?
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by pkteison 11y ago
Sure, it can get crowded on the weekends. Still totally worth it, worst case you wait for the guy in front of you to finish the game you want to play.
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by pkteison 11y ago
Also if you like Pinball and are near the bay area, come to California Extreme July 18-19th. It's fantastic, hundreds of pinball games and classic arcade games for one glorious weekend each year in Santa Clara. http://www.
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by pkteison 12y ago
The quote in that article is fairly accurate, I don't see why you dismiss it. It's congressional testimony so you can get it from the source: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111shrg54048/pdf/
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by pkteison 12y ago
Take a look at a Toyota FJ
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by pkteison 12y ago
I used to do the ACH files for a large cellular provider. The thing that surprised me the most, and which you won't find by reading the spec, is that very clearly some banks present a fixed-width text field to their employees and the
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by pkteison 12y ago
I assume the idea is to give their drivers something useful to do with downtime. If all drivers could be closer to 100% utilized by taking a delivery when there are no passengers, they could have more drivers and happier/wealthier dri
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by pkteison 12y ago
I've never understood valuing the choice of costume... if this is really an important signal, doesn't the hoodie just become the new suit?
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by pkteison 12y ago
Have enough candy seems quite actionable. Why not offer a less frequent plan to these folks, say twice a quarter instead of twice a month, and you could pick a festival or holiday for people to celebrate with candy. "Here's your
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by pkteison 12y ago
Doesn't careful research into safest bets and optimal ways to do things just end up opening a bunch of McDonald's?
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by pkteison 12y ago
They should collect enough up front to make the revocation pre-paid. Refusing to revoke certs results in an unsafe internet and ruins the value of the entire service they are supposed to be providing.
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by pkteison 13y ago
Those are indeed in-game graphics, but they don't animate well during large battles, and controls become unresponsive. It's a bit better since they added time dilation, but it's still frustrating to be in a huge fight. Usua
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by pkteison 13y ago
Please don't rely on this. For example of the extra detail that is really involved, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Issuer_Identification_N... - e.g. 504837 is ATM only despite looking like a MasterCard.
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by pkteison 13y ago
I don't want more transparency. It just gives people something concrete to argue over, and you can't please the haters, so don't waste your time trying.
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by pkteison 13y ago
What I want to find out when conducting the interview is, are you really the awesome person your resume says you are? Or did you sit next to that awesome person on a team at your last job and just goof off all day and now put everything th
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by pkteison 13y ago
Too little, way too late.
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by pkteison 13y ago
Not square at all, this is a fundamental problem with credit card processing. As long as the costs of fraud are borne by the individual merchants I doubt it will be fixed. Fundamentally flawed system design / perverse incentives. To
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by pkteison 13y ago
Adobe says their source code was stolen last October: "Very recently, Adobe’s security team discovered sophisticated attacks on our network, involving the illegal access of customer information as well as source code for numerous Adobe
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by pkteison 13y ago
1a) Varies by issuing bank. Your processor sends the transaction viaVisa & MasterCard ("network") which passes along the transaction to the issuer (a large bank), which in turn decided to approve or decline the transaction an
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by pkteison 13y ago
I know 3 people with pebbles. All 3 have had the screens stop updating properly after several months. Plenty of other folks on the forums also have display problems. I feel like it was an ok level of satisfaction for a kickstarter and pr
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by pkteison 13y ago
The tech companies already run shuttles to CalTrain, there are a lot of their employees who don't take that option because it would be a very very long commute from most neighborhoods in SF. CalTrain only has two stops in SF, both on
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by pkteison 13y ago
It's not the sort of route that a mass transit system runs. This isn't going a few miles and stopping every few blocks. It's an express-style route, 1-way-at-a-time, to a location 40 miles away which nobody has any reason t
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by pkteison 13y ago
This is not true for debit cards. You skipped the next paragraph, which provides exemptions that mean you have unlimited liability if you don't report a problem within 60 days, or $500 liability if you don't report a lost card wi
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by pkteison 13y ago
Read the fine print (it's not provided at that link, that link says "Certain limitations apply. See deposit account agreement.") They literally give themselves an out if you have given your card number "to someone else&
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by pkteison 13y ago
A foreign Stanford student was denied boarding, presumably due to the no fly list. Conjecture is that the root cause is confusion between a terrorist organization "Jemaah Islamiyah Malaysia" and a professional organization "
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by pkteison 13y ago
I find human opinion fascinating, and look forward to the glorious future when we can do better than up/down arrows. Looking at a site like Rotten Tomatoes, where the metric is "professional reviewer thought thing was at least dec
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by pkteison 13y ago
They ignore patents and hope it isn't a problem. Not an option for a us-based corporation. "Q: Does FFmpeg use patented algorithms? A: We do not know, we are not lawyers so we are not qualified to answer this. Also we have never
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by pkteison 13y ago
I think you should pivot, catcanhazitrainbook.com is available, and the growing acceptance of domestic purrtnerships is nothing but pure up and to the right. I agree, college kids don't realize that felines have been marginalized in t
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by pkteison 13y ago
I don't think the experience requirements are exactly where you're imagining, but I think it's still there. I've been doing database backed web development for quite a while now, and I've had jobs doing that in C,

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