I'd like to know who that store was. Anyway, I can guarantee that you couldn't do that today.
Anyway you cannot and you can argue until you're blue in the face, get any sort of:
Utility service
Cell service
credit card
loan
Government job
Any other job
just file an application for a job.
without giving your SSN. (Home Depot requires one to even apply for a job - online. WTF?!) They will just refuse to do business with you which is their right. I am really paranoid about giving my SSN and I have refused to do business with many companies because of this.
And this bullshit of doing credit checks for prospective employees - even if you're not going to touch money!! If you have a lot of student loans, you may actually fail an employer's credit check. That's right, student loans can actually harm your employment chances!
He developed software to track the company's authorized dealers and prices. From there, he devised companion software to identify online sales that were discounted.
This put the stereo discounting to an end, Mr. Loomis says. In 2003, he launched NetEnforcers using similar software.
Mr. Loomis may be in violation of any NDAs and non-compete agreements he may have signed with his employer for whom he designed this very lucrative software for.
When Apple went public, Jobs would not give stock to several employees who made the Apple possible. My son gave them stock out of his allotment, or they would have never benefited from the long hours and devotion they put in to start the company. If you had given Jobs the money, he would have found a way to keep you from getting the stock.
I guess Wozniak is a class act. And as far as Jobs is concerned, well; I guess he and Gates are similar people. Actually, I don't think I've heard of Gates screwing employees out of stock.
We recycle code. We have to separate it ourselves though. There are code bins for C, Java, Javascript, Perl, and Python. It's pain though! Every semester some intern puts Javascript code in the Java bin and the other way around!
But it beats having the code end up in a landfill!
I hope the new administration has the cojones to finally rein these guys in and tell them to spend the money on something more useful, such as fixing up the hopsitals we send our troops to.
The Pentagon will just turn it into a "Black Project" like the F-117 was.
We don't need it anyway. If we are attacked during the Obama administration, he would call up the people that launched the missile, and after they talk, the aggressors will will see it Obama's way and press the self destruct button.
The answer is that FP languages store state in function parametersâ"that is, on the stack.....
Everything is a function.
I think of FP programming as if it were a multithreaded program with some threads having their own core. I write threaded programs didn't use global variables, OK, maybe a semaphore, but nothing like variables. I don't see what the big deal is. I don't think this is going to cause programmers as many problems as he is saying.
New Hampshire's state constitution is also the only one which recognizes the right of the people to rebel against their government.
Let's hear it for New Hampshire!
Aside from fucking up their motto - I have to say that New Hampshire is a state that I may have to retire to. I'll have to check their gun laws though. New England has become quite negative towards the Second Amendment.
When I want to tweak someone who's against gun ownership, I agree with them. I specify that I live in a community that hires off duty armed police officers that make sure that no suspicious people enter the community. I mention that to protect myself I stay away from bad neighborhoods. I would like to have an armed body guard to be with me, also. There have been a few break-ins in my neighborhood. The cops come by long after the crroks are gone and fill out their reports. Sometimes, they actually beat the ambulance there!
That is what rich folks do. When I hear a Kennedy or a celebrity like Rosie O'Donnell rail against guns in our society, I just shake my head and think "hypocrites"! Those people have security people that are armed to the teeth. What they really mean is that they do not want us hoi polloi peons to have guns to protect ourselves.
Any business transaction that Google may try to do will be under scrutiny. They are the: Coke, Kleenex, Jell-O, Sheetrock, Skillsaw, etc... of the internet. A brand name that is also a name for a type of product - a marketer's wet dream.
Several years ago (2001), I caused a crash. There were others in the car all taking. It distracted me - I cannot multi task at all. I can't even listen to the radio when I'm driving in heavy traffic. Anyway, when I talked to the insurance company the first thing they asked me was "Were you on a cell phone?" (I didn't own one.) And "Was the other driver on a cell phone?"
I think the insurance companies have known this all along but never shared the data.
It is not a question of people not paying their taxes, it is a question of how the politicians are spending our money. It amazes me how tax increases are always for noble things, but all the money doesn't quite get there. Funny how government spending works. isn't it? If the politicians stopped using tax money to help their buddies and buy votes, maybe there would be enough money for education, police, and fire. Until the politicians stop their free spending ways and folks stop falling for the vote buying scam, I will resent paying my taxes and I will do everything under the law to avoid them. I want quality spending; not quantity.
If that consumption is financed by mortgage debt and the housing boom - which is not included in GDP calculations, I have to wonder about these numbers that economists throw around. Sure we technically haven't been in recession because the numbers are skewed that way. What if we did include new housing? We'd be showing a huge decrease in output. Why aren't we including housing in the GDP number? Many of these measurements are created based on consensus and for political reasons. They are not based on any physical laws.
If healthcare was included in the inflation calculations, we would have double digit inflation. But that wouldn't be good for the Government and corp America because all the benefits that they pay (Social Security, Veterans benefits, etc... ) would have to increase dramatically.
How does it go again? Figures don't lie but liars can figure?
The healthcare industry has been growing faster than anything. It is taking a larger and larger chunk out of our pockets every year. Unfortunately, economists like to say that healthcare expenses (along with college tuition) is out pacing inflation. But why don't they include healthcare in their measurement of inflation?
Code reviews teach the reviewers as much as they check on the author. Why would you deny the lesser programmers the joy and experience of looking at good code?
Good point. Many professions have you observing and learning from more experienced people before you dig into the important and sometimes life threatening procedures.
At big companies, software has to go through various approvals before it can be launched. And the cost of doing this can be enormousâ"in fact, discontinuous. I was talking recently to a group of three programmers whose startup had been acquired a few years before by a big company. When they'd been independent, they could release changes instantly. Now, they said, the absolute fastest they could get code released on the production servers was two weeks.
At the big company I worked at, someone added some features to code that I wrote. It broke my code. I wanted to go in and fix it. Why not? I knew how it worked. I couldn't without a defect written by a tester.
On the other hand, if it was reviewed, the feature wouldn't have gone in; at least not without my input - I would hope.
I know this is going to get modded Troll or Flamebait, but why has MySQL grown in popularity while PostgreSQL has remained a distant #2 in the open-source RDBMS "market"? I just don't understand it. Can I get a [relatively] objective analysis of this phenomenon?
Because folks have a hard time pronouncing "PostgreSQL".
Is it, post-grease-squeel?
or p.ah.st-gree-squeel?
Or post-grease-S-Q-L?
I won't use it because I'm afraid of looking stewpid when pronownsing it.
All this litigation must be costing Amazon a fortune! Are they expecting to sue B&N and others to recover their costs and maybe make money if they actually prevail?!?
...the comments on this article can actually include speculation on what may be occurring beyond climate change alarmism?
That's the thing that kind of bugs me is that Global Climate change gets all of the attention at the expense, it seems, over other issues. For example, coal fired power plants. The argument usually boils down to green house gases and maybe air quality. But the issue of coal burning releasing mercury into the environment (why do you think predator fish are contaminated with the stuff?) is hardly ever brought up and if it is, it's just ignored.
Unfortunately, global climate change has become a very politically polarizing issue and it drowns out any sort of rational discourse. Which means, regardless of what needs to be done, it won't get done because folks will spend all their time digging their heals in to be "right".
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Anyway you cannot and you can argue until you're blue in the face, get any sort of:
without giving your SSN. (Home Depot requires one to even apply for a job - online. WTF?!) They will just refuse to do business with you which is their right. I am really paranoid about giving my SSN and I have refused to do business with many companies because of this.
And this bullshit of doing credit checks for prospective employees - even if you're not going to touch money!! If you have a lot of student loans, you may actually fail an employer's credit check. That's right, student loans can actually harm your employment chances!
He developed software to track the company's authorized dealers and prices. From there, he devised companion software to identify online sales that were discounted. This put the stereo discounting to an end, Mr. Loomis says. In 2003, he launched NetEnforcers using similar software.
Mr. Loomis may be in violation of any NDAs and non-compete agreements he may have signed with his employer for whom he designed this very lucrative software for.
Just saying.
When Apple went public, Jobs would not give stock to several employees who made the Apple possible. My son gave them stock out of his allotment, or they would have never benefited from the long hours and devotion they put in to start the company. If you had given Jobs the money, he would have found a way to keep you from getting the stock.
I guess Wozniak is a class act. And as far as Jobs is concerned, well; I guess he and Gates are similar people. Actually, I don't think I've heard of Gates screwing employees out of stock.
We recycle code. We have to separate it ourselves though. There are code bins for C, Java, Javascript, Perl, and Python. It's pain though! Every semester some intern puts Javascript code in the Java bin and the other way around!
But it beats having the code end up in a landfill!
The ISS is a white elephant and a distraction to NASA. It should be abandoned for real scientific and research pursuits.
I hope the new administration has the cojones to finally rein these guys in and tell them to spend the money on something more useful, such as fixing up the hopsitals we send our troops to.
The Pentagon will just turn it into a "Black Project" like the F-117 was.
Obama can do Jedi mind tricks?
Better. Even if you are the biggest and baddest, you still treat others with respect. It works miracles.
We don't need it anyway. If we are attacked during the Obama administration, he would call up the people that launched the missile, and after they talk, the aggressors will will see it Obama's way and press the self destruct button.
The answer is that FP languages store state in function parametersâ"that is, on the stack. ....
Everything is a function.
I think of FP programming as if it were a multithreaded program with some threads having their own core. I write threaded programs didn't use global variables, OK, maybe a semaphore, but nothing like variables. I don't see what the big deal is. I don't think this is going to cause programmers as many problems as he is saying.
Truly the best state motto ever.
New Hampshire's state constitution is also the only one which recognizes the right of the people to rebel against their government.
Let's hear it for New Hampshire!
Aside from fucking up their motto - I have to say that New Hampshire is a state that I may have to retire to. I'll have to check their gun laws though. New England has become quite negative towards the Second Amendment.
Don't Tread on Me! Baby!
That is what rich folks do. When I hear a Kennedy or a celebrity like Rosie O'Donnell rail against guns in our society, I just shake my head and think "hypocrites"! Those people have security people that are armed to the teeth. What they really mean is that they do not want us hoi polloi peons to have guns to protect ourselves.
Gun ownership is becoming a class issue.
Any business transaction that Google may try to do will be under scrutiny. They are the: Coke, Kleenex, Jell-O, Sheetrock, Skillsaw, etc... of the internet. A brand name that is also a name for a type of product - a marketer's wet dream.
I don't know if this would work for me, because I usually just end up listening on my phone. Yes, honey. Ok, honey. Will do, honey.
Yeah, but you could sell the excess power your wife generates to the utility.
I think women talking on cell phones will solve our future energy needs.
I hope there will be a headline where computer equipment manufacturers are recycling this shit.
I think the insurance companies have known this all along but never shared the data.
It is not a question of people not paying their taxes, it is a question of how the politicians are spending our money. It amazes me how tax increases are always for noble things, but all the money doesn't quite get there. Funny how government spending works. isn't it? If the politicians stopped using tax money to help their buddies and buy votes, maybe there would be enough money for education, police, and fire. Until the politicians stop their free spending ways and folks stop falling for the vote buying scam, I will resent paying my taxes and I will do everything under the law to avoid them. I want quality spending; not quantity.
If that consumption is financed by mortgage debt and the housing boom - which is not included in GDP calculations, I have to wonder about these numbers that economists throw around. Sure we technically haven't been in recession because the numbers are skewed that way. What if we did include new housing? We'd be showing a huge decrease in output. Why aren't we including housing in the GDP number? Many of these measurements are created based on consensus and for political reasons. They are not based on any physical laws.
If healthcare was included in the inflation calculations, we would have double digit inflation. But that wouldn't be good for the Government and corp America because all the benefits that they pay (Social Security, Veterans benefits, etc... ) would have to increase dramatically.
How does it go again? Figures don't lie but liars can figure?
The healthcare industry has been growing faster than anything. It is taking a larger and larger chunk out of our pockets every year. Unfortunately, economists like to say that healthcare expenses (along with college tuition) is out pacing inflation. But why don't they include healthcare in their measurement of inflation?
Hmmm?
"French" and "Three" and, ooohhh , "Strikes"... in the same sentence? I mean ... come on!
Never mind. I need to be alone with my computer now.
Code reviews teach the reviewers as much as they check on the author. Why would you deny the lesser programmers the joy and experience of looking at good code?
Good point. Many professions have you observing and learning from more experienced people before you dig into the important and sometimes life threatening procedures.
At big companies, software has to go through various approvals before it can be launched. And the cost of doing this can be enormousâ"in fact, discontinuous. I was talking recently to a group of three programmers whose startup had been acquired a few years before by a big company. When they'd been independent, they could release changes instantly. Now, they said, the absolute fastest they could get code released on the production servers was two weeks.
At the big company I worked at, someone added some features to code that I wrote. It broke my code. I wanted to go in and fix it. Why not? I knew how it worked. I couldn't without a defect written by a tester.
On the other hand, if it was reviewed, the feature wouldn't have gone in; at least not without my input - I would hope.
I know this is going to get modded Troll or Flamebait, but why has MySQL grown in popularity while PostgreSQL has remained a distant #2 in the open-source RDBMS "market"? I just don't understand it. Can I get a [relatively] objective analysis of this phenomenon?
Because folks have a hard time pronouncing "PostgreSQL".
Is it, post-grease-squeel?
or p.ah.st-gree-squeel?
Or post-grease-S-Q-L?
I won't use it because I'm afraid of looking stewpid when pronownsing it.
All this litigation must be costing Amazon a fortune! Are they expecting to sue B&N and others to recover their costs and maybe make money if they actually prevail?!?
...the comments on this article can actually include speculation on what may be occurring beyond climate change alarmism?
That's the thing that kind of bugs me is that Global Climate change gets all of the attention at the expense, it seems, over other issues. For example, coal fired power plants. The argument usually boils down to green house gases and maybe air quality. But the issue of coal burning releasing mercury into the environment (why do you think predator fish are contaminated with the stuff?) is hardly ever brought up and if it is, it's just ignored.
Unfortunately, global climate change has become a very politically polarizing issue and it drowns out any sort of rational discourse. Which means, regardless of what needs to be done, it won't get done because folks will spend all their time digging their heals in to be "right".