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by rada 15y ago
Oh come on. The "mansession" was a temporary phenomenon, largely due to the decline in higher paying jobs that are historically held by men. Today, men's and women's unemployment rates are roughly the same: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2
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by rada 15y ago
It depends on your definition of "not theirs". The law doesn't look at biology only. (Same gender parents, adoptive parents, grandparents as primary caregivers, etc). If you accept a child as your own for several years, the law is likely to
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by rada 15y ago
I understand why you would see the particular law you are describing as "anti-male" - however most laws related to children are the way they are because they are not about the welfare of the adults at all . The law is thinking something
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by rada 15y ago
To your last point, something I thought interesting: the kernel _reboot() system accepts his daughters birthdays as magic values. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6...
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by rada 15y ago
Great recommendation, thanks! For others, I just signed up with this promo: SVN55 (50% off first month).
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by rada 15y ago
Look into an assumed name, or a DBA. It costs around $100 and takes an hour. (You will need to see the County Clerk at 60 Centre Street). It doesn't give you much in a way of legalities but it does enable you to open a business banking acco
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by rada 15y ago
School situation in NYC is quite complicated. Several things to consider: 1. Private schools cost around $30k a year. However, this price deferential vis-à-vis free public schools is built into property prices so that you are not really "sa
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by rada 15y ago
I don't know if I would put too much trust in this list. From what I know about NYC salaries - 10 years freelancing at all kinds of companies, from startups to corporate behemoths - the numbers seem about $20k low, on average. PHP, Ruby and
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by rada 15y ago
On one hand, I understand your need to sleep better at night. On the other hand, here are facts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#Demographics and http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-media-stats/2011-soc... As you can see, Reddit
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by rada 15y ago
This is invaluable for anyone trying to raise a bilingual child. Big, big thanks to the developers!
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by rada 15y ago
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt : The TTL is assigned by the administrator for the zone where the data originates. While short TTLs can be used to minimize caching, and a zero TTL prohibits caching, the realities of Internet performa
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by rada 15y ago
The very first thing that wikipedia says about jury nullification paints it as much more than "an unfortunate edge case": A jury verdict contrary to the letter of the law pertains only to the particular case before it; however, if a patter
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by rada 15y ago
Off the top of my head, crawlers or html fragment caching and or/rendering.
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by rada 15y ago
I use GQueues, project management loosely integrated with your gmail account.
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by rada 15y ago
My one and a half year old learned the alphabet by watching a cartoon several times. I think there is a healthy balance to be found somewhere between 24/7 and zero.
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by rada 15y ago
From what I understand, high-intensity workouts do raise cortisol but only temporarily. Long-term, exercise-induced adaptations counteract those raised cortisol levels, and actually lower them.
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by rada 15y ago
My father has Parkinson's so I know a bit about this topic. The positive effects of bicycling on motor control are relatively well-known and there is special equipment available. Mostly, it's tricycles modified to accomodate a person with d
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by rada 15y ago
Nowadays, NoSQL is expanded to "not only SQL".
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News Corp hacked into competitor's systems to steal clients and more(nymag.com)
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by rada 15y ago
Have you seen metafilter? The one-time $5 registration fee does wonders for submission and comment quality.
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by rada 15y ago
This is nothing more than a bricks-and-mortar version of spam. Misleading subject? Check. Message scrambled so it can pass through the spam filter? Check. Exacerbating traffic congestion at pipe owner's expense? Check. Millions of people's
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by rada 15y ago
Freelancers Union has an excellent tool named Client Scorecard for rating clients: https://be.freelancersunion.org/client-scorecard/ It's anonymous and well-curated, if a little thin as of yet.
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by rada 15y ago
Whoa, the article is ageist, and proud of it. Though this program is geared toward people of all ages, young people are the best suited to maximize its advantages. Older generations tend to have families and other financial obligations, ma
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by rada 15y ago
Direct link: http://www.google.com/hotelfinder/
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by rada 15y ago
Submit it to the votebox. It's open to user submissions and comments.
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by rada 15y ago
To all those wondering about 400+ new hires, you can view and vote on the proposed featureset at dropbox.com/votebox. Some popular requests: - sync folders outside of the My/Dropbox folder - read/write permissions for shared files/folders
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by rada 15y ago
From Wikipedia: Non-compete agreements are automatically void as a matter of law in California, except for a small set of specific situations expressly authorized by statute. They were outlawed by the original California Civil Code in 1872.
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by rada 15y ago
As someone also rather sensitive to sound, I highly recommend Bose noise canceling headphones. It is the perfect socially frictionless solution to loud office environments.
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by rada 15y ago
This is a very solid value proposition for the middle class, once you figure in the right numbers. The subscriptions are for outfit bundles. Under the lowest tier $16 plan, you get 2 outfits, 2 items per outfit. So the cost per item is: $16
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by rada 15y ago
One thing I have seen a LOT lately is asking for references early on in the process. It used to be that a recruiter would ask for references after a successful interview but now every recruiter wants them upfront, often as part of the ini

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