BenOfTomorrow

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by BenOfTomorrow 14y ago
When I was trained as an interviewer at Microsoft (circa 2006), they explicitly warned people against asking questions like that (and had been doing so for some time). There may be older employees who stubbornly persist, though. I should ad
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by BenOfTomorrow 14y ago
> From a human-memorable standpoint Not to derail your point, but who needs their WiFi password to human-memorable? Tape it to the bottom of the router like the rest of us.
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by BenOfTomorrow 14y ago
Yup; recently had my REAR wheel stolen (a large pain to replace tire, tube, wheel, AND cassette). Now I lock both of them.
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by BenOfTomorrow 14y ago
I bet a lot of people would use the same key to open all those places if it were actually a plausible option. That said, physical keys are different enough that an analogy breaks down. They're much easier to circumvent (break a window), whi
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by BenOfTomorrow 14y ago
Ambiguous. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4286857 .
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by BenOfTomorrow 14y ago
To be boringly practical: The contract would almost certainly be determined when you first signed up for the service (i.e., when you were still alive).
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by BenOfTomorrow 14y ago
Suspension of belief I something I expect to need for stunts, not social commentary.
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by BenOfTomorrow 14y ago
"Surely failing to graduate in an environment that places everything on having a paper diploma, including one's own image/self-worth, is more to the point of the suicide." I can't speak for the parent poster but my criticism of the film is
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
I read that as potentially firing someone as an expected outcome, not a desired/optimal one. HR is short for CYA. Clearly the author is hesitant to report it because of that outcome.
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
While you are correct in this instance, the original article is complaining about subtle inequalities that go unnoticed or tolerated by a much larger portion of the industry than just the "creeps". And the existence of that behavior is an o
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
If it's in an wildly inappropriate context, her perception of you can switch from "like" to "dislike" quickly. It's a factor, but lots of women have stories about attractive creeps.
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
Actually, the top comment in your link points out that Buffett has been LOSING the bet since its inception. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/26/the-warren-buffett...
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
Gravity's Rainbow: recognized, but not recalled, as science fiction. I don't necessarily object to the classification, but it might not come to mind if I were making a list. Also, Pynchon's prose is very rich - I expect popular lists to be
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
> Every single department was more likely to admit a woman than a man Not quite; you can see several exceptions to this in the table in the article. The key points of the partitioned data were: No department was significantly biased a
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
They need education most of all; there's a number of articles out there detailing the predatory businesses and people milking money off professional athletes. It's not just that they buy extravagant goods, but they pay for them with horribl
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
The problem with the filtering is that it isn't transparent. Updates from people I'm actually interested in don't show because Facebook's feed algorithm thinks we don't interact on the site enough, and there's no mechanism to correct it or
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
You can look at history as well. Australian aboriginal homo sapiens were isolated for 40,000-50,000 years or so without any speciation. You'd need an isolation event and a VERY long period of time; we have much more control over our environ
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
While this is true in theory, I don't maintain a copy of the database on my phone - when I converted to using a pw database I looked into it and didn't feel comfortable with the level of security on iPhone apps. I want to know exactly when
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
I put a copy of the database in cloud storage. There might be a little set-up to open it, but it's very rare that I need to get the contents on a new machine. The nitpick with pw databases is they don't fully solve the problem; I still need
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by BenOfTomorrow 15y ago
FYI - GoToMeeting was acquired by Citrix, not Cisco.