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by codva 14y ago
If you enable catch-all addresses on your email account, don't you open yourself up to dictionary spam attacks on your domain? I've woken up to 20,000 incoming emails targeted at my domain. It's not fun. Granted, this was years ago, maybe d
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by codva 14y ago
So if I send a PM to a friend on FB with a link and note that says, this is the lamest site ever the "Like" counter on the site goes up by one? That makes perfect sense.
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by codva 14y ago
When I joined Twitter back in the relatively early days of the service every tweet I did would generate replies and lead to conversations. I met some people locally and made new friends. That hasn't happened in about 3 years now. Unless you
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by codva 14y ago
In 1998 I moved to VA for a job as an Account Manager with a web consulting firm. Their business model changed almost immediately and I had to learn how to sell Sun hardware if I wanted to stay employed. Reading Slashdot was an important pa
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by codva 14y ago
I was selling storage (Sun, not EMC) back in 2000. Sales guy made a fortune back then not because they were especially good, but because they were selling servers and storage into the hottest tech market the world had ever known. The hardes
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by codva 16y ago
If the kid in band wants to be a touring rock musician, then he absolutely should get in the van and go on tour. Or maybe get a degree as a back up and then go on tour - but I probably wouldn't recommend spending Harvard money on that degre
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by codva 16y ago
I didn't realize Cornell is a Ivy. Great school, but I'll bet it wasn't what the author's were referring to as elite. And I agree, the term elite in this sense is sort of meaningless.
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by codva 16y ago
4H is trying to become more relevant to urban and suburban kids. But it is overwhelmingly still agriculturally focused. If you are President of the 4H Robotics Club I doubt the dean of Engineering at Harvard is going to hold it against you.
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by codva 16y ago
The 4H example in the article was odd. If you are president of 4H and want to go into some sort of agricultural field, what they hell are you going to do at Harvard or Yale anyway? You aren't even applying to those schools. You are going to
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by codva 16y ago
It might. However, large companies have an uncanny ability to screw their sales force. If you do really well they will reward you with a higher quota, and they'll divide your territory in half. I've seen it happen way too many times. Plus t