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Comment Ask (Score 1) 195

Ask about the problem children and squeaky wheels (regarding to servers), that will get you down to the one-off fixes that are held up by bits of string and expect scripts that rely on chaining ssh across 5 machines to touch a file that doesn't exist. Ask about the oldest equipment, and spend some extra time getting to know your world. Leverage the time you have with him, when he goes home for the day scour the network and start looking at boxes and going over notes, when you run into problems write them down and ask him about those.

And you dont have a week you have 4 days, because the last day he may show up but you most likely wont get much out of him unless its a quick Q and A. That and keep your resume up to date because you may want to use it again soon.

Comment Re:No but Google did (Score 1) 365

I was referring to the narrative that since Microsoft released software for Android Linus won. Pointing out with the title that Google really builds and controls the SDK to a point and that Microsoft has released Office on Mac's for a long time, before windows in fact, http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Office. So if Office is the measure of making it, isn't apple on top? Or more to the original point, this isn't really a good metric since "it's just on android". Now Office running without wine on a desktop Linux distribution, where Microsoft actually has a large market share would be impressive. Microsoft has never done well with mobile, and continues to do bad, they've just started caring about it because its starting to displace full blow desktops.

Comment Re:"Controversial?" (Score 1) 435

Controversial or not its not a permanent position

"Integrity Staffing places qualified candidates to work on assignments at Amazon Warehouses on a temporary basis. Assignments vary in length. There is no guarantee to the length of the assignment. Length of employment is based on client’s business needs which can change."

Comment or maybe (Score 1) 347

It might be more about who the person identifies with. If someone grew up to be an abuser they identify with the person doing the deed and get a rush from the hormones they would usually get. Because encouraging someone to feel bad about something just isn't going to stick.

Comment Watermark, and get over it (Score 4, Insightful) 298

Put a watermark on the page and hand out a few small warnings to those that are distributing to please stop, and slowly step up enforcement. Make it cheap enough that people wont want to pirate it, make it valuable enough that people will respect you enough not to. And build a community around your product, you can always go the DRM route but its ruling with an iron fist, and makes the content inaccessible and hostile to port to other devices, at that point your customers will put in the effort to pirate it because they have no respect for your company.

Modern companies are getting worse at "customer service" and going the DRM route will make you just another one of the companies people love to hate.

Comment Not enough data (Score 1) 237

By far there is not enough data for them to come to a good conclusion about "fracking" in general. The problem is they use concrete to line holes and direct fluids, its not a matter if, but when something like that cracks. It's the same reason you have a gutters and drain spouts that lead water away from your house, that fluid pushing against your foundation constantly pushes and seeks an entrance. Your house shifts a fraction of a fraction and that water can seep in.
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Obamacare Software Glitch Will Limit Penalties Charged To Smokers 490

turbosaab writes "The Obama administration has quietly notified insurers that a computer system glitch will limit penalties that companies may charge smokers under the new healthcare law. The underlying reason for the limitation is another provision in the health care law that says insurers can't charge older customers more than three times what they charge the youngest adults in the pool. The government's computer system has been unable to accommodate the two. So younger smokers and older smokers must be charged the same penalty, or the system will kick it out. A fix will take at least a year to put in place."

Comment Re: 29 years old (Score 1) 432

yes, yes a thousand times yes! I'm so tired of the apps I use on my phone changing in extreme and sometimes anoying ways one day I updated and the trash button disappeared, it went from easy to access to pull up a menu and hit delete afer you go into an e-mail. this type of change is starting to sound a lot like the zombie version of south park. Change!

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