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by pstack 15y ago
The "employ a hacker to catch a hacker" methodology of hiring is fine, if your hacker is going to catch other hackers. If you're actually just hiring thieves to help themselves to all they can carry in their pockets, then their expertise re
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Goldman Sachs didn't have to convince anyone of anything. They already ran the treasury and the SEC.
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No and if you are legitimately shocked, then you don't understand to what extent the government is infiltrated with Goldman Sachs-men. Goldman Sachs' Revolving Door : http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20001981-10391695.html "A CBS N
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Yeah, it's wrong to cast aspersions on people who go to work for the government and act as extended arms of the industry and corporations they just left. Like the many Goldman Sachs people on the committee that authorized a trillion dollar
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Who is surprised? The committee that granted a trillion dollar bail-out of a few companies including Goldman Sachs was staffed with plenty of current/former executives from Goldman Sachs. The FDA and agencies involved for approving bovine g
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Alternately, if you have the talent and personality, nobody cares what you dress like. At worst, you're eccentric. I have a hard time believing there is anyone out there in the world who doesn't have the basic common sense to dress themselv
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Oh, I know there are guys who are into clothing and hair and all of that, just as much as there are guys who only wear one color of clothing (so everything always matches!) and usually take a trusted female along to make sure they don't do
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The gist of my point wasn't that women don't necessarily care about clothes and hairstyles and so on (of course they do) as much as it was that I don't care that they care. You can dress nice and look good without following whatever the lat
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Depending on the size of your city, you may want to check around. In the places I've lived the past decade (Portland, San Francisco, Denver) stores have had online ordering and delivery for over a decade. Safeway, Kroger, and Albertsons and
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I used to hate shopping with my grandmother, mom, aunt, and sister. It usually meant an all-day outing going to nearly every aisle of every store and lugging around incredible heaps of stuff. Endless eye-glazing hours. Much of it spent not
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Wow, if men weren't the target here, there might be accusations that it's sexist. Anyway, you know what? I don't like to shop. That's why I buy my groceries online and my local store delivers them the next day. I spend five minutes to do it
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Are you kidding? While we're a litigation-happy society, we are also entirely content with letting government and business trample all over us without raising an eyebrow, much less a finger. We let companies get away with destroying the eco
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Oh, great. As if I don't have enough things on my to-do list. Now I have to try this "shower" thing. (Also, I seem to be really sparse in the idea department. Or rather, in the interesting idea department. I've spent most of the last decade
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I didn't see taxes mentioned. Portland is a fantastic place for technology, but you're looking at very high taxation and the city government is rather anti-business. Great place to live, otherwise, though. Especially if episodes of Portland
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That isn't the point they're making here, though. They're comparing the valuation with the size of the user base. For example, at $3b for LinkedIn, divided by the number of users they have, it comes to about $33.33 per user. In other words,
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Because you can use that shell of plastic and glass to take your kids to school, go to the grocery store and haul your groceries back home, go to the building supply store and haul the supplies you need to build a deck on your house home, g
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Employers can fire you at-will, without cause, in America. It is traditionally considered good practice for an employee to give an employer two weeks notice before quitting a job, so that they have time to try and fill your position. It
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Slashdot's discussion of the Lastpass situation was titled LastPass Password Service Hacked and linked to an article at Kaspersky where their title said LastPass Probably Breached . sigh
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I hear people talk about how "RSS is so slow" all the time, but I still don't understand it. I see no failings or complaints about RSS. I get a headline and then I get an article. Are we talking speed between when content was generated and
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I have no interest in ever directly using Twitter and there's not enough content on there for me to bother with any workarounds. I currently use RSS for the one Twitter feed I bother to follow and if they ever really do get rid of RSS for t
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Yeah, I was going to mention FF4, but didn't want to start a browser preference war. Also, I tend to not be very impressed with things that only work (or work well) on one modern browser, but not others.
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This is to be expected when you have ignorant people reporting on things that they are not willing to educate themselves about. Anyone who wrote sensational garbage about the LastPass event didn't bother to understand how LastPass works and
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Wow, that slowed my dual quad core system with 12gb of RAM and a 2gb ATI down to about 5 FPS.
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The preferred solution would probably be an internal Jabber/XMPP solution run within and by your own company that you controlled access to so that your communications (between employes or customers) don't run through another company and you
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Thanks. I had seen someone else asking in the comments on that page about two form authentication with regard to this, but hadn't seen any further comments about who this may or may not affect at the time I read it. Of course, I went ahead
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Your new TV only ruins them if it's running with the 120hz or 240hz smoothing interpolation turned on. Chances are, you turned that off as soon as you set your television up, just like I did. There's no question that 24fps film looks awful
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Interesting, it isn't prompting me to do any such thing. Anyway, since many are mentioning 1Password - I used that for a couple years and switched to lastpass, because I was tired of having to install plugins across all the browsers on a pl
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I actually don't listen to music, very much. I was checking my last.fm tracking a couple weeks ago and if you average it out, I've listened to about one song per day for the last five years. Usually, I listen to podcasts or nothing at all.
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Exactly. Though I know everyone doesn't share this opinion, I believe that I'd rather hire someone with ambition and hunger and passion over someone with a piece of paper or a track record. Your history is important and can prove a lot and
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I don't normally share much personal information for the same reason I post with a pseudonym, but I'd like to share a story with you about someone far less qualified than you with far less going for them than you that made something out of

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