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by ten-seven 18y ago
You're not an employee, and they're a private company. It's a catch-22 situation. They'd probably tell you if you were an employee and option holder. Such information might be held as company proprietary information, and as a non-employee,
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by ten-seven 18y ago
It's been done, in several different forms. It depends on your political leaning how you manage to do it. His politics is evident from other writings. Using the name "watchdog" gives it an air of legitimacy it may not, or ever, deserve.
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by ten-seven 18y ago
Podcasting isn't failing. It's not meeting some people's expectations, but it's not failing. FTA I too get news from a podcast, since my commute may not take me through the next hourly update. With a little effort (and an AutoHotKey script)
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by ten-seven 18y ago
Some corporations made hefty investments in big iron. That doesn't make them economically viable today. I still believe that performance, energy conservation, space utilization, HVAC optimization, etc., etc. are reasons for updating to the
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by ten-seven 18y ago
We have a concept we call our "Bus Number." It's the number of people that know how to do what you do, or have been briefed on what you're doing, so that if you're run over by a bus, they can pick up what you're doing. It's a grim concept,
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by ten-seven 18y ago
Still, this is a deal killer.
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by ten-seven 18y ago
I recently got a "splatter-gram" email from a friend of my father, also slamming Advanta. Sorry, but I'm smelling a pattern here, and it makes me skeptical that something is going on targeting Advanta. It's likely what they're doing is lega
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by ten-seven 18y ago
Ha! good one! cadalac FTW!
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by ten-seven 18y ago
Back when I was coding a lot, there were two editors, vi and one other that came with the Unix variant we had. The other "visual" editor had an annoying tendency to convert multiple spaces to tabs if it was able to. This broke formatting an
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by ten-seven 18y ago
I wish my former employer was willing outsource services. While the customer base grew from two to twenty, the staff size trippled, the IT staff eventually doubled. It takes strategy and vision to outsource and manage the IT house. But, you
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by ten-seven 18y ago
Challenging? The problem is getting the entire entity legally registered. It takes more than a weekend, apparently. That said, the barriers to starting a business in the US are not unreasonable. Having read "The World is Flat (2.0)" and rec
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by ten-seven 18y ago
Not too young for that. I actually used BBS software, sort of, to run a UUCP node at home and receive low-volume mailing list digests.
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by ten-seven 18y ago
Lots of people are Jacks of All Trades, but masters of none. Take, for example, the Ocean's Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen movie franchise. Everybody had skills and roles to play. It wasn't possible for one person to be in all places all the time,
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by ten-seven 18y ago
Stick with the headhunter. The company that engaged them expects to work with them. It seems odd that they'd also post the position on their own jobs page. It's possible they weren't getting any responses, so they added the head hunter.