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by Woost 12y ago
I know it's hard, but stay positive here. You just had someone effectively offer to put in a good word for you with several companies in your country. Instead of 'I ran out of money and will have to move back soon', which rea
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by Woost 13y ago
It's because the organisms get trapped between your clothes and skin, and they only cause a problem in large numbers. Bare skin doesn't trap enough to do anything, usually. Also, when you rinse off, rinse off with saltwater. Fresh
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by Woost 13y ago
Your rant is quite misguided. In this case, the CEO explicitly asked for people to email him: "I discovered that Legere put an emphasis on customer service -- listening to calls and even sharing his email address." From the other
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by Woost 13y ago
Probably because it's split between everyone renting in the building, and while the tax is higher, it's not so much higher that you end up effectively paying the same amount. At least, that's my guess.
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by Woost 14y ago
Assuming a 40% tax rate (overestimating) and the expenses listed here, that leaves 2700/mo spare, still a good bit, but: That 2k/mo child support payment is what's insanely high(that's rent for an entire family!). Most families don't have t
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by Woost 14y ago
You should check out http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/ It's a blog by Bob Arno, a once stage pickpocket, who now wanders around the world looking for thieves of various sorts (and then interviews them)
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by Woost 14y ago
Would something like the above code be on your interview? (pow = 1 : [ 2*x | x <- pow]) I'd probably fail it even though I do understand recursion. I don't know Haskell, and the above is rather cryptic to me. I can infer that it raises
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by Woost 14y ago
This site is broken on an iPad...scrolling doesn't work at all
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by Woost 14y ago
It would also be good to be able to change the 'expenses' field for ownership. For example, if you live in NYC there's pretty much no chance you'll find a place which doesn't have (at least) a few grand/month in "coop fees" or "condo fees".
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by Woost 14y ago
There is, actually, a loss to the provider. Every person's version of pirated movie X will be unique, which means the provider has to pay for more storage space than they would without encryption. (since without encryption they could comput
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by Woost 14y ago
It read to me more like it was annoying for them. They want to get rid of ads so they can quit spending time writing reports for advertisers/vetting ads, and spend that time working on new content instead.
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by Woost 14y ago
I don't see anything that mentions where he is...it's entirely possible that he's in the middle of nowhere tech-job-wise. If that's the case, the first move should be "go somewhere with a tech job market".
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by Woost 14y ago
One more issue...if you login with a non-ec2 amazon account there's no logout link. I end up having to clear my cookies.
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by Woost 14y ago
Just in case it hasn't been considered, this is all stuff that can be negotiated with the original company. With proper legalese (read: talk to a lawyer to get a proper contract) you can trade your shares for the company agreeing that they
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by Woost 15y ago
If the employer wants loyalty, then they can pay for it. Maybe not literally, but when I really like my job it takes a hell of a lot more than an extra $10k/year to get me to switch. Or they can heavily encourage it, with vesting stock opti
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by Woost 15y ago
Thirding. The "what is freedombox" posted here tells me basically nothing. It sounds closer to marketing fluff than an actual description of what freedombox is and does. Is it a social network? Twitter? Both? Something new? Why should I wan
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by Woost 15y ago
I noticed a bunch of people doing the math on a 100k/year salary for a 3br. Presumably, if you need a 3br it's because you have kids and need to give them each their own room. Is everyone assuming the other partner won't help with anythin
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by Woost 15y ago
This is something I'm going to have to deal with soon. I'm not looking forward to it, but I know that I'm getting significantly underpaid compared to new hires. I'm also better than those new hires. I'll probably leave and find a new job if
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by Woost 15y ago
Reminds me of my current job. They asked for a potential hire's salary history to determine how much to offer them. They previously made, say, 40k, so an offer was made for 45k. Why? Not because their skills were worth 45k, but because they
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by Woost 15y ago
I believe OoTheNigerian's point is that he likes it when the sharing functionality is rolled up into another thing that you do. Say, every time you rate a song 5 stars, or mark one as your favorite. He'd rather not get a popup asking if he
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by Woost 15y ago
There's also Joe's impression of how much his employer values him: If Joe is perfectly happy working at 10k/year, but you're paying new people just out of college 20k/year it can cause Joe to start looking for ways to get poached.(for examp
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by Woost 15y ago
This. ;) When I'm mentoring fresh-from-school developers at work I constantly have to try to get them to think for themselves. They seem to want me to lay out the entire problem+solution and tell them (almost) exactly how I would solve it,
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by Woost 15y ago
Some recruiters I've talked to do actually have a magic wand that tells them when a new job posting has arrived. It's called a personal relationship with the hiring manager at the company. IE: The hiring manager informs the recruiter when t
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by Woost 15y ago
One minor issue: On windows XP/FF 3.6 the font is a little hard to read: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/543/201111041105.png/ I'm not sure exactly what firefox is trying to do (since both IE 8 and chrome are better), but I thought
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by Woost 15y ago
This isn't as simple as "push for equity". There are plenty of companies where equity makes no sense (say, a private consulting company, or a company with no plans to sell a la 37signals) What other options are there? Guaranteed end of year
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by Woost 15y ago
Groupon's business is basically all sales and marketing. The v1 tech behind the deal-a-day offerings is trivial. (leaving aside recommendations and such) You need to be very good at signing up businesses and getting good terms for your co
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by Woost 15y ago
Same problem, windows XP/firefox 3.6. (dropping a .png file)
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by Woost 15y ago
Plus there's the issue of time: If you have 100+million to throw at something and get it right now(in 6 months after due diligence), or spend the 100 mil on an in house project, wait 3 years, and get it then...which would you take? Personal
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by Woost 15y ago
The problem wasn't ruby 1.9, but ruby 1.9.1 specifically. I upgraded ruby to 1.9.2 and the stability issues went away. On 1.9.1 the server would randomly hang and require a kill -9+manual restart.
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by Woost 15y ago
The chef irc channel can be helpful ( http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/IRC )

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