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by codva 13y ago
Charge 5 dollars one time for commenting privileges here and I bet the community would scale down in number and scale up in quality quite nicely.
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by codva 13y ago
This is exactly what I do here. I start with the first few comments and then click through to read the story after the comments add some context to the headline.
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by codva 13y ago
I used that service in my job search in the Spring. I don't think that it really made any difference in my response rate. I did find my current job via LinkedIn, and my resume was pushed to the top on that ad. However, the job was a gr
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by codva 13y ago
That was as polite and professional a take down letter as I've ever seen. Although the OP might prefer to get the request from the lead designer, that is not the designer's job. It's the lawyer's job, and this lawyer act
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by codva 13y ago
"Working" class people are much more likely to have at some point tried to survive on a tip based job. So it's not surprising that they would be better tippers than more wealthy individuals whose only exposure to tips is bein
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by codva 13y ago
No problem solving? How to fast from sunrise to sunset, when there is no sunset, seems like a pretty major problem if that sort of thing is important to you. And the solution was more elegant than I expected. Religions generally don't
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by codva 13y ago
Instead of reinventing the school, I think we need to be thinking outside the school. The institution of school comes with a whole host of problems that are just systemic to the idea of everybody reporting to a central location and being pr
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by codva 13y ago
According to this living wage calculator http://livingwage.mit.edu/ , the living wage for a family of 4 where I live (suburbs of DC) is about $50K. That sounds like a lot, but actually living here there is no way we could su
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by codva 13y ago
Agreed. I don't know how "important posts only" are determined in Facebook, but it works well for me. I've got probably 50% of my FB friends on important only status. It makes the site much more pleasant to visit.
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by codva 13y ago
How many people are doing this at once? Farming 100 leads by identifying possible companies and finding a good contact is about 10 hours of work for one person in my experience, if you are not working off of some sort of minimally qualified
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by codva 13y ago
I dropped Wordpress in favor of http://anchorcms.com earlier this year. It's a little raw, not even to 1.0 yet, but quite functional and very lightweight.
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by codva 13y ago
I moved to TT-RSS immediately upon the GReader shutdown news. I'm perfectly happy with it.
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by codva 13y ago
I taught a class in "Advanced Search Strategies" back in 97 and 98 that used Alta Vista to teach Boolean to people that could barely turn on their computer.
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by codva 13y ago
You just changed the way I think about selling hosting and support.
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by codva 13y ago
Well, Purdue does take a big chunk of the Big 10 Network proceeds for the University, when that money is almost entirely the result of the athletic program. However, I wouldn't say the athletic programs are willingly sharing it.
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by codva 13y ago
True. However, they are factored in to the "cost" of college. The financial aid calculations include lodging, food, transportation, books, etc. It was surprising to see that the govt. thinks I'm contributing $23K of the $26K
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by codva 13y ago
//Tuitions subsidizing very expensive football teams.// I'm happy to say that at my alma mater (Purdue) the athletic programs are run as a separate business. They don't get one penny from the University general
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by codva 13y ago
Kids in a lot of colleges today are living a life of luxury compared to what I had in the 80s. Any dorm built or renevated in the last 10-15 or so years will have semi-private bathrooms. The dining options today are way better than what we
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by codva 13y ago
Could it be simply that millenials have always assumed that this stuff was going on, this they aren't surprised or particularly worked up by the revelations?
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by codva 13y ago
LinkedIn has a new service where they offer to centralize your contact management by importing all your contacts from wherever and giving you one central place to keep track of them. It may or may not be a good idea, but it isn't phish
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by codva 13y ago
It's nice looking, but I question its usefulness as a replacement for an online resume. Recruiters have notoriously short attention spans and I doubt many would actually click through to the details on the highlights. That said, as sor
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by codva 13y ago
For us it was the realization that our kids did a ridiculous amount of learning before age 4 without school, and we thought free of the distractions of school and prescribed, regimented curriculum, they could continue at that pace. It turne
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by codva 13y ago
Cherokee County schools in the late 90s are the reason we decided to home school our kids. Although we moved to VA soon after, we ran into all those same stereotypes farther North too. My family holds the rare distinction of being kicked ou
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by codva 13y ago
I'm painfully familiar with Carelink. Until just the last year or so I maintained an XP box at home that was only turned on once every 90 days, when my wife needed to upload data to print reports for her doctor. The Carelink hardware didn't
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by codva 13y ago
Speaking as somebody who is married to a Type I diabetic... The only way for a type I diabetic to stop taking insulin is to get a new pancreas. Tim Ferris claims a lot of skills but I don't think transplant surgeon is one of them. Proper di
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by codva 13y ago
I did 10 interviews at Amazon, for a freaking sales job. 3 on the phone and then they flew me from DC to Seattle for a 7 more interviews in one day. After all that I didn't get an offer.
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by codva 13y ago
I think the disconnect is that Facebook sells itself as a way to stay in touch with all your fiends, when in fact, as we all know, it doesn't really work that way. Every change to the site seems to take is farther and farther from the ideal
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by codva 13y ago
Also, if people today are going to comment on something you write on a blog its more likely they'll comment on your FB link to the post, or they'll link to the post on FB themselves, or mention it on Twitter. Before I killed comments with m
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by codva 13y ago
I'm not quite as stripped down as you, but clicking through to the story on mine gets you to mostly text on a white background. http://odonnellweb.com/anchor/
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by codva 13y ago
I'm using TT-RSS. I just installed it in a subdirectory of my existing domain account - so no incremental cost at all.

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