newbie912

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by newbie912 8y ago
These mistakes and the ending advice are pretty distracting tangents to a fundamental flaw: The business model can't afford employee overhead at even poverty salary levels. Everything else is just noise. The best take away is yet anoth
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by newbie912 8y ago
Surprisingly one of the areas I use my comp sci knowledge the most is in one of the most widely applied areas - relational databases. Every programmer spends lots of time reading and writing data, and understanding a lot of the low level op
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by newbie912 8y ago
Absolutely. I'm about 3 months in at a new company and starting to see areas for improvement. I just make a note and keep my mouth shut. In another 3-6 months I'll have earned the right to start diplomatically suggesting some of m
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by newbie912 8y ago
It's also well understood that we incorrectly attribute success to the individual and failure to externalities when measuring outcomes, so the successful entrepreneur says "be like me", while the failure lists a lot of factor
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by newbie912 8y ago
Although a big part of his job is writing about similar topics, so you could also say he's still doing the same thing, only posting to a different end point and getting paid. That too is success.
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by newbie912 8y ago
My $125 Alcatel Windows Phone meets or exceeds the specs of all but the highest end apple/android devices, but I can literally feel the ecosystem crumbling around me
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by newbie912 8y ago
Still on Windows Phone. Their inability to create a 3rd mobile ecosystem gives me all the smart features I want without the cost of apple or the dark patterns of android. Not that they didn't try... I know it won't last forever, b
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by newbie912 8y ago
Do you really believe this or are you just casually throwing it out there to see the response? Google, fb, et al most certainly do manipulate and discriminate against everyone. By design they give you the information you already know, bel
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by newbie912 8y ago
Except neither the president nor his close friends pay any taxes, so how would they know anything is broken? /s
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by newbie912 8y ago
Does it really need to auto scale for a well known and understood usage? If dominos can do it for the super bowl surely the irs can provision for annual fillings
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by newbie912 8y ago
They don't have to do the actual bg check though, just ask you do you have a criminal record. If you say no, then they do the check at the end and you do, you get passed over for lying, not for having a record. This is how many low pay
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by newbie912 8y ago
How will I know if my college roommates got fat though?
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by newbie912 9y ago
"but of an arse" is pretty generous for behavior that would cost him his job today.
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by newbie912 9y ago
No kidding. He wasn't told either, but easily figured it out. The rest of the executives should by charged with insider trading if they knew, or fired for incompetence if they were unable to figure it out.
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by newbie912 9y ago
No, that was public relations 101. Equifax the company and their domain can move past the beach without dragging along the baggage that's attached to that quasi-random, only ever so slightly connected domain. Mitigation playbook page 1
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by newbie912 9y ago
The article is about how they copycat app makes no mention of vlc or their gpl requirements, so while there's no guarantee you have the official vlc version, if it mentions vlc in the name you don't have this one.
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by newbie912 9y ago
Cigarette taxation in Canada depends a lot on provincial jurisdiction and with no inter-provincial borders it makes enforcement against smuggling tough