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by totalrobe 8y ago
Theoretical harm? It's only theoretical because we maybe haven't seen direct negative consequences. However, there are plenty of examples where actions without negative consequences can still be prosecuted. The analogy for this re
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by totalrobe 8y ago
>Almost every web/smartphone mapping company is doing it Are you aware of any device vendors and/or providers that aren't doing this?
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by totalrobe 9y ago
I attempted to read some comments and address "these guys concerns" but it's just a cesspool of misinformation. They appear to think this is some authoritarian government doctrine and ignore the real world. Here's my arg
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by totalrobe 9y ago
Basic marketing to sell the book...don't be dense
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by totalrobe 9y ago
There is a 1 chapter preview available, not even halfway down the page.
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by totalrobe 9y ago
SAP HANA is an in-memory database. It's probably one of the more recognizable workloads to require significant amounts of ram.
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by totalrobe 9y ago
Good. But unless you're paying cash and you own a title company, expect to pay fees when closing on a house.
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by totalrobe 9y ago
Fees levied by the lending company and title company are in no way tied to the offer on the house itself. These fees are not included in an offer, which is an agreement between the buyer and seller. The offer is an agreement on the price of
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by totalrobe 9y ago
Oh please....have you ever bought a house? The loan company and title company drag their feet to provide the final numbers between 24-72 hours before closing. By this point you've filled out miles of paperwork and spent more than a day
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by totalrobe 9y ago
and stamps.com
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by totalrobe 9y ago
I had a similar experience, although I caught on very quickly that the Redfin process was not going to work for me. We were first time home buyers relocating and were looking for a house in a new area. Wife and I looked for months online an
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by totalrobe 9y ago
So what does Dean Baker suggest?
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by totalrobe 9y ago
Your "argument" is not as profound as you think. Since humans have been on this earth, some are obviously more successful using technology than others. Also, some are better at communication than others.. Piketty's argument i
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by totalrobe 9y ago
I am not saying either one is good or evil here, just commenting that the $4500 device is not super relevant to the actual Sanofi lawsuit. Obviously Sanofi should have been able to massively undercut the Mylan price if there truly was xxx%
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by totalrobe 9y ago
You are reading this wrong. Sanofi, the company that filed the lawsuit, had pricing in line with EpiPen: "In 2013, Sanofi began selling Auvi-Q, which works to quell life-threatening allergic reactions, just as EpiPen does. Sanofi price
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by totalrobe 10y ago
Yep, this is the scandal, not that the passenger gets a more efficient route. Not sure if the top level poster didn't read that part or just doesn't get it...
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by totalrobe 10y ago
These were my exact thoughts almost word for word...also the thoughts below make zero sense back to back. "At the same time, my old clients started referring me to other clients and everything snowballed into a big, unstoppable avalanc
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by totalrobe 10y ago
Usually a compromise due to a strong history of reinventing the wheel, although recently new technical management has been increasingly open to outside tools and technologies.
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by totalrobe 10y ago
Reddit front page hasn't refreshed yet
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by totalrobe 10y ago
A+ for effort... I wish any of our marketing folks had even heard of JSON
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by totalrobe 10y ago
I'm a product manager working on enterprise software, but do not do code professionally (I do hobby projects). I keep up with new tech, frameworks and tools partly so when I get push back from development such as "we can't do
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by totalrobe 10y ago
Got there (although I never feel like I'm "there", always trying to improve) after 2 years of grunt work, a little bit of career planning, and a lot of luck. I'm currently a PM in a global trade software vendor. After wo
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by totalrobe 10y ago
YMMV; I have a Razer Diamondback that's seen almost daily use since 2005 with no issues. Conversely, had a super nice Logitech MX crap out on me in a year or so.
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by totalrobe 10y ago
Check out Exploding Kittens - simple but requires a bit of tactical skill.
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by totalrobe 10y ago
Why would you compare the cost of an SSD in this case? You can get a good 1TB HDD for $50.
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by totalrobe 10y ago
In the past you could get savings accounts paying significant interest...nowadays it doesn't matter so much. In 2006 I had an ING Direct account paying something like 4.5%.
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by totalrobe 10y ago
NOVA would be very close to DC purchasing power on this map
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by totalrobe 10y ago
What were your biggest challenges with standard post solutions?
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by totalrobe 10y ago
Haha this is a funny little idealistic article. If any company actually hires like this I'd like to know. Want the job? This is the real selection criteria at west coast startups: 1) Went to interviewer's school and/or worked
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by totalrobe 10y ago
Well the majority of good software jobs are going to be geographically limited as well, unless you have the skillset and experience to break into remote work.

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