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Comment Re:Fun in Austin (Score 1) 110

From the Cambridge dictionary:
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overrun
verb [ T ]
us /ovrrn/
present participle overrunning | past tense overran us/ovrræn/ | past participle overrun

to spread over an area quickly and in large numbers
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Nothing more, nothing less.

I've visited Austin several times over the past two, three years and it was merely an observation. It are not causing problems other than that they seem to have their own interpretation of what constitutes a safe place to stop in order to drop off or pick up rides, but beyond that it are very much not triggering me.

Comment LinkedIn has been very good to me (Score 1) 22

I have had four employers in the past decade or so, and every single one of them had LinkedIn involvement in landing the job. But none of those jobs required me sending recruiters money and I'm seriously wondering why anyone would. It sounds exactly like "if you send me the transaction fee of $XX then I will send you $XXX Million". I thought people knew better by now, but apparently not?

Comment Re:PayPal was invented for exactly this reason (Score 1) 225

So use it.

Paypal was invented to enrich its inventors only. They are a bank that's desperately trying to avoid being regulated as one, which keeps them operating in a financial grey area of legality. There are many documented cases of when Paypal assumed ownership of funds it had no rights to, and you have little to no recourse if they decide to keep your money.

You should *NEVER*, *EVER* tie it to a bank account and be very careful when tying it to a credit card.

Use at your own peril.

Comment Eno (Score 1) 225

I use Capital One's Eno browser plugin that provides me with virtual numbers that can only be used with one merchant. Capital One is also pretty good at proactively blocking transactions that it deems fraudulent, which at one time prevented me from "spending" several hundreds of dollars at a Brussels airport car rental place while I was sitting on my couch 6,000 miles away.

I only save Eno's virtual numbers with utilities for which I use auto-pay. For any website that requires me to store a credit card number to buy their products, I will go back and remove it once the transaction has completed. However, if somebody would get a hold of any such number, they could not use it at any other place since it's tied to that utility (or merchant). The only thing they could do is pay my gas or electricity bill with my own credit card. /shrug

These one-merchant numbers saved me when a less than scrupulous database administrator (I assume) tried to use a number I had used (but not stored) many months earlier for their company to pay for their godaddy bills. That transaction did not go through and I immediately got a warning email. I notified the merchant's support but never heard back from them. Thus far this has happened only once.

The above means that bad actors can still get the number, even when it's not stored, so not storing numbers is only marginally safer. Any number that has been used for any online transaction is in some database somewhere. Virtual numbers that can only be used once, or at only one merchant seem to be more secure, but it's always good to check statements.

*Note: This may read as an advertorial for Capital One, but it is not. I have no special feelings for or against them, but I do happen to like their Eno plugin and they seem to be good at fraud prevention. YMMV

Comment Re:No (Score 4, Informative) 187

Currently sitting at 5.9 on IMDB. I’ll probably watch it tomorrow night since nothing else is on.

I watched it on opening night. Before I started, IMDB had it at 6.4, after watching it, it was at 6.1. The day after it was down to 6.0 and I expect it to go down further still. I wouldn't call it a steaming pile of shit, that is reserved for Revolutions, but it wasn't good. As far as I'm concerned NPH saved it from total disaster with his portrayal of The Analyst.

It looks like this franchise is about to be pulling a Star Wars: One incredibly good movie followed by many questionable to godawful sequels. I managed to watch Reloaded, which had its moments but, just like the first SW sequels, detracted from the original. I was never able to finish Revolutions, it was just awful.

Comment From the Zappos playbook (Score 1) 226

Everybody at Zappos was, and probably still is required to put in ten hours a year on the phones taking customer calls around the holidays. Not everybody liked it, but it absolutely led to enormous improvements of the customer management systems because developers saw where things were inadequate. It also led to a better understanding across the company of what the customers are like and what they want.

Comment Re:I'll never work in an office again (Score 1) 242

I feel your pain! I've had several employers in the past who cut cost on coffee so it went from bad to worse.

In all honesty, my current employer's coffee flavor isn't that bad. It's a hospitality company so I guess they have something to prove. However, people have to make it themselves in Bunn drippers and it is rarely strong enough.

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