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Comment Are you sure you're using 'diverse' correctly? (Score 1) 446

To ensure a statistically relevant study with a high level of confidence (95% or better) and a small margin of error (5% or less), 1000 women and 600 men were surveyed in partnership with the research firm Applied Marketing Science, in accordance with the following:

  • Respondents were geographically and academically diverse, from all available regions and colleges across the United States.

I guess diversity means different things to different people. Although, I should have gotten the hint from the first page:

Editor’s Note: Throughout this white paper we report findings ...

Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 107

6. Why don't you guys advertise the Volt?

Answer: Have you seen the documentary "Who killed the electric car?" starring the EV1? Well, we are setting up the Volt to star in the sequel.

Answer: When we asked for the budget to develop the Volt, top-level decision makers took it out of the ICE budget. Freely and enthusiastically offered internal feedback -- incidentally, from the same group, whose market we would be directly competing with -- bolstered our own projections that requesting additional budget from them for advertising would be counterproductive.

Comment Perl knowledge as an asset (Score 2) 271

To most dev firms I'm going to look like a bit of a dinosaur, 40 odd years old, knows little of OO coding OR modern languages and aproaches to projects. I can write other languages and, with a bit of practice I'll pick them up pretty quickly.

A little tongue-in-cheek, but once you know Perl, you can argue that learning any other language with a fully-BNF-described grammar is much simpler.

Comment Re:It's not a networking issue. (Score 4, Funny) 384

If you're not very affluent in networking, the above will sound VERY confusing, but trust me it can be done.

I think you mean 'fluent', as in you understand networking well. Then again, you could mean that this is expensive, in which case, 'affluent' would be correct. Although, the original problem refers to programming pumps, so it could be 'effluent'.

Glad I could clarify that.

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