duncanj

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I'm a veterinarian who was once a business software developer/consultant. I have used Java, C++, C, Ruby, Python and .NET commercially, and Smalltalk, Lisp, Modula-3, and probably countless other languages on my own time.
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Comment · 13 years ago
Once, I put a broken treadmill on the curb with a sign that said "Free." I came back a while later and it had a sign that said "$20".
Comment · 14 years ago
I think it's fair to say that when people suggest "any amount of money" they have already bounded it by what is reasonable. Of course the Koch bros. aren't going to pay you $10m/yr to scale their website. They don't even pay people that much to spout their agenda. Similarly, "any amount of money" probably means 150% or so of the going market rate.
Comment · 14 years ago
But daylight saving occurs during the time when you already have more daylight than the vast majority of habitable landmass does. You aren't "saving" daylight at all during the daylight poor months when you're inside at work during the entire daylight period.
Comment · 14 years ago
The feeling of helplessness in this economy is probably a big part of the problem. In 2005, someone could feel like they had the option to switch employers, and routinely make that choice to stay. Now, that option is probably not available to most people, and perhaps they feel like they're under the gun.
Comment · 14 years ago
"NSAIDS such as asprin" (wddty.com). So that means that 20,000 is ascribed also to ibuprofen, naproxen, ketoprofen, ketorolac, etc. While there is risk from all of them, the risk is dose-dependent.
Comment · 14 years ago
Peripheral context
Comment · 14 years ago
I remember that Buckminster Fuller said he started out dressing in a shirt without a tie and nobody took his message urgently. So he started dressing like a banker. That was a long time ago, but perhaps the lesson remains.
Comment · 14 years ago
Give me a quick (or configurable, or special URL) that includes a "search on Google Scholar" link and I will switch from Google. Ever since Google's visual refresh that removed the menu item for search on google scholar, I've lost one of my timesavers.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
My point is that posession would still be punishable by law.
Comment · 14 years ago
IANAL, but I think marijuana is specifically mentioned in the U.S. Code and it would take more than an executive order to change the law. While it might be removed from "Schedule I", that would just make Schedule I incomplete.

(21 USC 841)

Comment · 14 years ago
Business guy discovers that business is often full of vapid jargon-filled nothingness promoted by stuffed shirts. Film at 11.
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm just noticing, reading this, that I find "get out of my face with indeed.com" to be more offensive than if you said, "screw indeed.com", even though the former seems less dirty. Language is a funny thing!

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