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  1. Re:5% unemployment is healthy on Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's 5% in a normal market. The last ten years haven't been normal at all.

  2. Re:Shoddy Workmanship on Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, if they're advertised on television, these are all drugs still on patent without a generic counterpart, so your "advice" to obtain a generic is erroneous.

    A lot of these advertised drugs are replacements for older drugs that are out of patent and have generic versions. Antibiotics is a good example. I often need two or three doses of the newer antibiotic to work effectively, but amoxicillin works effectively with a single dose. Whenever antibiotics are prescribed, I ask for and get amoxicillin.

    Please read carefully before you post your condescending comment next time. Thank you.

    Still playing the helpless victim. Sad. Very sad.

  3. Re:Shoddy Workmanship on Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    I would like to see Little Jimmy solve this problem with three different teams involved and less than a dozen emails: "Server is set up with a 40GB OS partition and an 200GB App partition on a single RAID-1 volume. OS partition is running out of space. How to resolve?"

  4. Re:Basic logic and flow control on Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? · · Score: 1

    I had a BigTrak tank toy with a programmable keypad when I was a wee lad. This was the physical version of using Logo, a programming language I would use on the Apple ][ in the seventh grade. I used to write out the instructions on paper, keyed them in, and let BigTrak do its thing.

  5. There's only one solution... on Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? · · Score: 1

    Bring back the dot matrix printers! You're not a real programmer until you printed your code in eight-bit block letters on green-and-white bar continuous paper and ripped it off the printer. Now get off my lawn!

  6. Re:Shoddy Workmanship on Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    I was already turned off from mainstream medicine due to the fact doctors heavily prescribe the *exact* same medications within the *same* day all the drug advertisements spin up on television, and write your prescription on a pad bearing the logo of said new drug.

    Sounds like you're a lousy health consumer. You can ask for the generic version of the drug, talk about alternative drugs or treatments, or get a second opinion. If your doctor insists on prescribing an expensive medication because he's a paid shill, get a different doctor. Playing the helpless victim doesn't get you the best treatment.

  7. Re:Dice? Really? on Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    When I had a bout of unemployment two years ago, I found Indeed to be a much better job search website. If you responded to a newly posted position within 15 minutes, you often got an interview.

  8. Re:FedEx on Amazon Prime Now Delivery Drivers Sue Over Classification As Contractors (itworld.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I was working at the college bookstore warehouse when my boss quit his job to become a contract driver for RPS in the early 1990's. He was much happier being outside the warehouse, driving around and meeting new people. His route was from the station to businesses. Every once in a while he would stop by to deliver packages when the regular driver was off.

  9. Re:Amazon doesn't stand a chance on Amazon Prime Now Delivery Drivers Sue Over Classification As Contractors (itworld.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not "settled law" until you get caught and settle with the government for a insignificant fine. For Wall Street firms, this is standard operating procedure.

  10. What's next, Amazon? on Amazon Prime Now Delivery Drivers Sue Over Classification As Contractors (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Won't be long before the non-bipedal delivery drones complain about their classification.

  11. Re:Debt collectors don't like robo calls either... on Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill · · Score: 1

    Most credit card companies and debt collection agencies will cease collection efforts when informed by letter of a pending bankruptcy and will call the bankruptcy attorney to verify.

  12. Re:Screw academic writing... on Investigating the Complexity of Academic Writing (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    We argued that point too. None of the half-dozen mathematic books I've looked up cited an earlier reference for the nearly identical description used to describe the same operation. If a push came to a shove, I don't think the college would have sided with my hard ass instructor.

  13. Re:Why an un-googlable name? on Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go · · Score: 2

    Python brings up all kinds of interesting snake videos on YouTube.

  14. Re:Don't answer your phone on Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill · · Score: 1

    I had that problem when I filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy. A credit card debt got sold three times in as many months. Each time I called up the collection agency, informed the agent that I was filing for bankruptcy and asked him to check the file notation. The first two ceased collecting, but the third one got nasty. A letter from my attorney sent them packing.

  15. Re:Uhh ... on Investigating the Complexity of Academic Writing (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was a lead video game tester, one of my testers reported that the instruction manual for a kids video game was written at the 12th grade readability level. At the same time, management told us to put documentation bugs into the database. So I told my tester to write up the bug report with examples for a sixth-grade readability level (a reasonable assumption for parents with kids who may not be high school graduates). The writers weren't please to have a bug report to rewrite the manual and complained to management. The QA manager threatened to fire me, but I pointed out that we were following his directions and I had a paper trail to cover my ass. The manual wasn't rewritten and the video game flopped in the market.

  16. Re:Torus on Investigating the Complexity of Academic Writing (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean its not a car made by Ford?

  17. Screw academic writing... on Investigating the Complexity of Academic Writing (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I wrote a college term paper on mathematic functions for a German-born English instructor who had a reputation of being a hard ass. I checked out a half-dozen mathematic books from the library to get a better idea on how to describe the process step-by-step. The descriptions were nearly identical. So I wrote mine the same way. The instructor accused me plagiarism because my description wasn't original. I pushed back, pulled out the photocopies that I made from each book, and challenged her to write a better description. She couldn't and gave me a C for the course, which was the highest grade she gave for A work.

  18. Re:Don't answer your phone on Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill · · Score: 4, Informative

    Someone did that to a local bank. Won a default judgment, called the sheriff department and news media, and shut down the branch office for a day. Under the law, he was entitled to the cash in the drawers and anything else he could carried out to satisfy the debt. The bank quickly settled as the one day closure and bad publicity cost them too much..

  19. Re:we're at the tipping point of Civilization on Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Business bankruptcy is different than personal bankruptcy. You may have heard that Donald Trump filed bankruptcy four times. Those were business bankruptcies. He was on the hook for the first bankruptcy only because he personally guaranteed something. After that, he never personally guarantee anything again.

  20. Re:Debt collectors don't like robo calls either... on Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill · · Score: 1

    If I wanted to be a winner, I should have stopped paying my credit cards when I got unemployed, filed for bankruptcy and kept $4,000 in savings I gave to the credit card companies. Instead I waited two years to see if I could get a job. Ironically, I didn't get a new job until the day after my bankruptcy was finalized.

  21. Re:FUCK NO! on Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill · · Score: 1

    The person with the wrong number may feel obligated to pay off the bill collector just to stop the phone calls. The debt collector keeps the money and sells the debt to another debt collector, while never marking the debt as paid. Otherwise known as legalized exhortation.

  22. Debt collectors don't like robo calls either... on Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill · · Score: 4, Interesting

    After I was out of work for two years (2009-2010), and preparing to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011, a debt collector got nasty by ignoring my letter not to call and kept calling me. So I decided to play hardball. I kept hitting redial to tie up his phone line until he agreed to talk to me. After ten hang ups in five minutes, he finally gave in and stopped calling me.

  23. I was encouraged by my early college instructors to become a teacher, took a child development course during the summer, and attended an open house event at the local university. The sausage making aspect of becoming a teacher in California turned me off. So much work for so little in return. I scratched that major off my list.

  24. Re:No surprise... on Joomla SQL-Injection Flaw Affects Millions of Websites (trustwave.com) · · Score: 1

    My problem with WordPress is the constant need to login and update the plugins. Not a big problem for an active site, but a pain for non-active websites. That's why I'm looking into static files for the older websites.

  25. Re:General Security on Ask Slashdot: Worthwhile Security Training Courses? · · Score: 1

    MS = Microsoft, M.S. = Masters of Science