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"Temp agencies are hardcore exploiters, why would you feel guilty about leaving them? Seriously, on first blush my answer to your question is "all of them." However, it sounds more like you're trying to avoid becoming attached to a job,..." [
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"I'm a guy with thick hair about the same length as yours, and upon the advice of multiple hair stylists I stopped washing my own hair about a year ago. It's been perfect! I rinse my head and hair thoroughly in the shower to get the basic dirty stuff..." [
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11 days ago
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"Yes they're all separate processes, typically scripts.
If your overlapping cronjob is a script (or something that can be wrapped in one), another way to deal with this is to write (`touch`) a lockfile to /var/run/mycronjob.lock and check for it at..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"A neighborhood friend and I did something like this, only worse (causing the neighbor family to actually move away), when we were 10 and 11. I don't know if everybody knew we did it or not, but I've regretted it every day since then and I'm 40 now. I..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"I had this happen to me a few weeks ago. I just clicked the "lost password" link and had the password sent to me, which I then changed to lock them out. Then I changed the profile to say "I AM LAME AND DO NOT KNOW WHAT AN EMAIL ADDRESS..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"Putting just one page on SSL and having a form on it submit to an https:// URL is a no-brainer, I've done it tons of times. Their admin is incompetent and you should be going up the chain to ensure that your data is handled securely and..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"I hope you're not inventing a whole raft of drama to justify some kind of "good art comes from suffering" ethos, because that one's a hoax and it's condescending to glorify the miserable existences you see in who you think are your creative..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"Paper trail. Keep a log of everything you think is wrong with dates, times, context and the substance if not verbatim. Then start finding out what the chain of command is for something like this. If you're going to go the whistleblower route you're..." [
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"Having lost my dad last week and just coming home from his memorial service not 15 minutes ago, I'll add some details as to the mechanics involved that aren't about grief or the estate.
1) If they have advanced medical directives (Do Not..." [
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"It's just slang, like referring to the London tube station "St. Pancras" as "St. Pancreas." Like all slang, it's usefulness as communication lies in direct proportion to the listener's familiarity with it...." [
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Non-religious memorial service readings
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2 months ago
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"Since you aren't her boss, you should tell your boss, pushing it back up the chain so it can be communicated laterally from your boss to her boss, or higher up to higher up. Your boss might not appreciate you taking things into your own hands by..." [
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2 months ago
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"Selling out, really? Do you live in a rap album? You might want to think twice about why when you haven't yet started the job that you think of yourself as "now a boring person with a dull job and no integrity." It sounds to me like you use..." [
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2 months ago
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"For what it's worth, I found myself in a similar situation with one of my friends in the last year. I just stopped hanging out with him if it meant that I was going just going to be hanging out with his friends who didn't seem very interested in..." [
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3 months ago
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"Because "how we see" is different than "what we see," and cameras only record "what we see." The ways in which wide-angle stereoscopic vision keeps proportions and geometry correct is as you note, difficult to translate..." [
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3 months ago
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"Well you sound like a nice person, so it comes as no surprise if anything resolute sounds to you to be harsh. I've had this happen to me (sans making out), and the girl just said "You are a nice person but I don't think it's going to work. Good..." [
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4 months ago
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"You told him you were fine with picking up the extra share of the rent, $600. Stick to it and don't renege...he's moving out in a month anyway. His money is none of your business...." [
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4 months ago
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"www.crucial.com. Plop your make/model in their memory finder and they'll dump you to the right information." [
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4 months ago
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"Mice and keyboards should be elbow height, but that's easy enough to make adjustable via a keyboard tray. The two most important parts of any computer setup is the chair and the monitor. The top edge of the screen should be eye height and your feet..." [
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4 months ago
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IT would be nice to work at home
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4 months ago
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"I generally shy away from guys who are forward enough to hit on me
You're too picky, and you only go after guys who do not come after you on a sexual basis. Many many men (I would say "most," but I don't have a cite) who do not display..." [
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4 months ago
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"I get throat burn/prickliness from celery and bananas when I haven't eaten them in a long time." [
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5 months ago
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""What's your favorite painting?" is a stupid question. Just say "I don't know, lots. What's yours?" and ask more questions. One of the secrets of socializing is just to be curious about other people. You sound pretty smart so you..." [
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5 months ago
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"all which seem valuable enough to warrant keeping
OK, this is where I step in. I tend to build my browser up to 20-40 tabs over the week and sometimes the browser crashes and doesn't restore my session. I keep collecting these tabs because the..." [
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5 months ago
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"Upper management probably wants people to think they made it in house or something. As a compromise, they should compensate you for the loss of professional standing by having to shrink your portfolio. 50-200% of the project cost should be fine...." [
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5 months ago
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"Does thinking that other people SHOULD treat you horribly put you way off the chart in terms of what therapists are usually equipped to help with?
The people "off the chart" are some of the ones in prison, morgue, the hospital and so on...." [
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5 months ago
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"I actually had this happen to me recently. Let me tell you what worked: pretext. You're moving, you tell him this, and say it's too bad you two didn't get to know each other better. "Wanna get a drink or dinner sometime before then?" Once..." [
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5 months ago
