vampirechicken

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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Is there a special lane for billy goats?
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
> The web won because it has the least barriers to entry for a new developer and solves a lot of difficult problems > that the old-school application stack had. This is all from my history and point of view so I'm sure a lot of
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
It must be ironic. Why else would they poke so much fun at other people's design choices and then center every line of text? centeredtextcriminal.com
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Get a whiteboard marker form Montblanc. You're worth it.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
The entire american telecom infrastructure is rife with spyware. Why should chinese telecom be any different?
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Since the majority of non-menial jobs now REQUIRE a degree (often any degree), if you want to be in the middle class, you need a college degree. One explanation I can think of to require a degree for everything is that it proves that you ca
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
I never understand the apparent glee with which people perform premature post-mortems on Perl. You never really see people declaring any other language moribund, and then kicking it a couple of times for fun. I don't see the point?
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Two questions: 1) Do you think the Democrats will not filibuster this bill in the Senate? 2) Do you think the President will sign it or veto it if it makes it to his desk?
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
90k is not much in NYC when you take into account how much a driver will need to spend to maintain a car that does livery all day long in NYC.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
"The youngest publicly traded U.S. automaker has tapped debt markets without a ranking from any of the major ratings companies, according to data compiled by Bloomberg." So they didn't pay for a rating, and got an unsolicited
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
So Yahoo wants to the the modern equivalent of AOL. At least they can articulate a strategy.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
TL;DR: Market Research - customer interviews. He's a people person. He talked to the end-users so the engineers didn't have to. Then the engineers could focus on what those people told him they wanted.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
There was a run of undercover Boss in the USA. For me, the most enlightening thing about the entire run of the show was how few front-line employees know what the CEO of their company looks like.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
They have found the perverse solution to the innovators dilemma. Having seen the new market developing, and having decided on its inevitability, instead of joining it, they're fighting it legislatively. I would love to hear Clay Chris
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
I myself own one of the few works Van Gogh ever did in ballpoint. Cost me nearly thirty dollars.
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Arbitration is not about justice, it is about the appearance of justice, while being incredibly stacked against one party. Arbitrators are paid by the party that demands arbitration (the corporation eg. cable, wireless, etc). If the arbit
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by vampirechicken 12y ago
Where there is arbitration, there is seldom justice.
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
The shock is in the short term costs, rather than those costs being amortized across the long miserable sickly term of the patients lives. So it's not a show to the health care system, it's a shock to the system of companies who s
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
I just also want to add, that giving you a pool of paid time off that you can choose for whatever reason, allows them to deftly avoid the issue of the celebration of holidays that are of (possibly religious) significance to an employee, but
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
Locked in a cycle of hate until the end of time. Just how it should be.
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
How does the support login have the privileges to delete all of the activity log files, and why is a login with enough privilege to delete logs allowed to perform SQL queries?
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
10 Critic Hater: Culture critics who criticize other culture critics?
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
the 12 day PTO is applicable to sick time, or vacation, or what ever. The fact that they've split the two of them, make me think you'll need to read the employee handbook very carefully to determine if either, or both, are subje
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
PTO is paid time off, it is your vacation and sick time (and sometimes some of your holidays) in one pool. It is typically a way to give you less time off.
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
The last time I was in NJ, the full-service gas there was the same price as the self-serve in suburban NY. Maybe that's changed, but given the hug number of commuters in NJ, I conclude it likely that holy hell would have been raised o
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
Microsoft and Salesforce are in, you nobody else in that space is allowed? Smells fishy to me.
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
Shame about the mystery meat navigation on the main menu.
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
Programming jobs are designed to make programmers miserable.
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
Apparently it still is not a better business proposition for Big Content to buy their own network. At some point, Big Network's disinterest in being a network provider) will force Big Content or (heaven forfend) Big Government to move
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by vampirechicken 13y ago
Notice that Compuserve was in Columbus, not in SanFran. We ruled the internet even when it was dial-up via rotary phones.

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