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by pythonistic 10y ago
A very strong magnetic field has bad health (neurological and intracellular) consequences. I can't find a good citation, but this blog post should help explain the risks. https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2015&#x2F
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by pythonistic 10y ago
Ignoring that the article ends with a sales pitch . . . Caveat: I'm a Zappos.com employee and former IBMer and Amazonian. The point of the Zappos model is to capture and grow ideas from anywhere inside the organization. As the story
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by pythonistic 10y ago
I don't have numbers in my user or installation manuals, but the previous model year supposedly used 11.7 US gal per load, or under 4 per fill. Living in the desert, I feel good about my choice of washing machine ($22-29 monthly water
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by pythonistic 10y ago
I bought a Speed Queen front-loader a few months ago. Although I can't say anything about the longevity, I was very impressed with the quality of the machine, going so far as to take pictures of the underside of the drum, drain plug,
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by pythonistic 10y ago
At my company, everyone is required to work customer service. Over the holidays, everyone from the CEO down to the newest tech or marketing hire will do 10 hours of "Holiday Help" on the phones on our busiest days. And, as part
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by pythonistic 10y ago
Ex-IBMer here: until 2015, Macs weren't an option for people upgrading their PCs. They're deploying new Apples as laptops age out, and employees will then have a choice of a MacBook/MacBook Pro (depending on job role), a Le
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by pythonistic 10y ago
If you're using a text editor, your IDE is likely the CLI.
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by pythonistic 10y ago
The retention rate was widely discussed in the groups I was in. It was especially low in Retail Customer Experience (RCX). In my teams, representing less than 20 people in total, firings were far more common that people leaving. Two busin
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by pythonistic 10y ago
They're up to 1.1 years now? Wow! They were at six months for developers for most of the time I was working there (2006-2010). At three years, I was in the top 25% of seniority ("old farts"). By comparison, Overstock.com a
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by pythonistic 10y ago
TekSystems gave me an exploding offer, probably to discourage me from looking into other opportunities. The employment agreement was so bad (and violated state labor laws) that I walked away from that one quickly. On the other hand, my nex
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by pythonistic 11y ago
Stross is a well-known and popular science fiction author and former system administrator. Pundits and SF authors don't need to be accurate to project what may happen in the future (e.g., Clarke assumed we'd have manned communica
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by pythonistic 11y ago
IBM does six hours of meetings, two hours of CRUD, and then four more hours in the evening fixing a problem the offshore dev team delivered without testing.
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by pythonistic 11y ago
I had to backport a fix for a similar vulnerability in a Seam installation three years ago. The solution at the time was to limit the directories and sources from which serialized object representations could be read.
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by pythonistic 12y ago
I worked for a company (Overstock.com) that on more than one occasion, during company-wide townhalls, requested that employees use Glassdoor to review the company. The feedback was reviewed by senior management to look for places to improv
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by pythonistic 12y ago
I have a Lenovo T530 from work and personally owned 2013 Retina MacBook Pro. The things I don't like about the T530 are: * I miss keystrokes on the keyboard when typing and the quality is low. The laptop, cushioned in a bag, rolled f