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by vampirechicken 12y ago
In my experience, it is more common for a company to make you burn all of your accrued vacation and sick leave before you can get your 12 weeks unpaid FMLA leave.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
My favorite Neuromancer Time/Tech signpost is when the narrator mentions that the protagonist Case has a couple of Megs of hot ram he's looking to fence. I absolutely love this, because it worked at the time, but it seems horribl
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Could also be used prevent your competition form poaching your workers for the buck an hour more that you're not willing to pay.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
> Money is fungible Indeed it is. Thanks for the dialog. I've enjoyed it.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
But it makes it not salary, and since there is not market rate for bonuses, since they often depend on profitability or percent to yearly sales numbers, the number that truly matters is salary. It's the number that potential employers
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Since most of the online definitions of bonus that I've found are with my own in that they include the idea of a bonus being above and beyond what is expected compensation, then I'm going to chalk this up to our having differing c
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
I'm not sure that your argument is a false dichotomy, but it smells of logical fallacy to me. Using the pathological case to prove your point rather than a more likely case is disingenuous at best. I'm talking about people trying
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
If it takes bonuses to get you to market rates, then you're still underpaid.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
We wanted National Health Service. We didn't get that. We got mandated insurance. No wonder nobody's happy about it.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
What's to stop all the taxi companies in all of Uber's markets from engaging in the same behavior? Seems like this could get fun, fast.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Having dealt with "grown-ups" in several PTAs, they never grow up. It's like middle school until you die.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Or the contrast being bigger, makes for a sexier article. Including non-ev-owning larger households in the comparison would have made it a a better article.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
I agree. I'm just repeating, and adding a little commentary to what I get told whenever I ask why any particular position requires a degree. Want to be a tech writer? Samples aren't good enough. Gotta have a degree - any degree. B
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
The degree is, in the face of people's stunning inability to judge others, a prima facie way to decide whether a person is capable of setting a long term goal and seeing it through to completion. It can, for less savory reasons, be use
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Once they get elected, cops have to answer to them and behave in ways to placate them.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
It's a time-honored tradion in business: ridicule and marginalize the things that you d not do or that compete directly with you - until you so them. Examples: Apple: Nobody wants native apps, theywant the mobile web. Oracle: You
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
But the question that will come from the chicken hawks is "If these guys could do it, why couldn't somebody bent on causing real harm?"
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
So you're basically causing your own problems by refusing to scale your proxy layer, which should be dirt cheap hardware, while scaling your beefier app servers. You basically have it backwards.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
I hope somebody told the poster about putting a proxy server (squid, apache, nginx, varnish, etc.) between the application server and the client. Proxy deals with slow client delays. App server serves app requests at speed. Tune number of
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Perhaps you should not assume shoddy work on the journalist's part. The nits you pick could have been created by editors prior to publication.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Because if you click out to another web site, they might lose your eyeballs, and you would not be looking at the print media company's adverts any more.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Chances are that your colo datacenter is building out an openstack-based cloud offering. So you build your colo'd private cloud on openstack, and then use their's to handle surges. As your traffic grows, you add your own gear to h
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
As a non-trader, my question is: Were the 24k shares being offered by one seller/broker, as in "I have 24k shares to sell at 17" or was the 24k just an aggregation of the availability all the smaller offers? If the former, it
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Mostly it's drowning, and this being voted up on HN is one facet of the problem. Us discussing it being on HN is another facet of the problem.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
There is a name for the practices of cable companies, cell phone providers, and banks - adversarial value extraction.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
More states are going to have to legalize before the fed gov will get on board. Like our other wars, the War On (Some) Drugs causes the govt to spend a lot of money on contractors and equipment, has enriched local police departments through
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
More interesting to me are the statistics on drunk walking deaths. According to freakonomics.com, it is more dangerous to walk drunk then to drive drunk. I'd like to see those stats with the DUI stats.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
I see that, but the examples were introduced as examples of removing gendered speech. I was expecting the bad examples to be the kind of jobs that are posted to the techcompaniesthatonlyhiremen tumblr, pepperd with 'he', 'hi
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
I don't understand what makes those average wordings gendered and the 'better' wording not gendered. From my readings of Dr. Deborah Tannen, (who writes books on the topic of the differences in male and female communication s
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
It is still a very good idea to review your process periodically in order make changes to your process.

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