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This week I found a book called “let’s go all around the neighborhood” and read it to my 3 & 4 year old sons. It’s from 1982. A girl and her mother walk around doing errands. Maili…

Plane trips and long car rides are screen free with my 4 young kids (3-9) but that’s more about gluttony for punishment than principle.

nuCourse ( http://nuCourse.com/careers ) Garden Grove (Orange County), CA Wholesale distributor of mobile accessories. Hiring developers and non-technical positions. #152 on most r…

Long Beach, Calif.: 2 (meprobamate and phenytoin). [1] I'm drinking an anti-epileptic and an anti-anxiety. That sucks. [1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-10-dru…

The problem isn't the lack of workarounds. The problem is that we have all departments - Purchasing, Marketing, Operations/Warehouse, Sales, Finance, IT - working with sku's in spr…

My company's part numbers are in the form 00-0000. After enough conversations about how to convert back to this format from the date Excel changes it to, we've finally just decided…

Postini setup process and support are a joke. You can call someone who tells you to look at a help file, and the help files point to help files, which have no screenshots, and refe…

Bing Liu is one of the researchers working on this. I've discussed Amazon review fraud detection with him. http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/

I have an iPad 3 and a Chromebook. I like and use the Chromebook much more, because of the built in keyboard. I know plenty of people who would hate using a Chromebook and much pre…

"you can choose the left or the right lane of the conveyor belt to the butcher house." I am going to use this phrase, thanks.

Regarding the unhelpfulness of online reviews, my company has problems with manufacturers/sellers writing 5-star reviews of their own product listings (ASIN's) on Amazon. We've beg…

My friend works for ALEKS. I agree it's a very solid approach.

Amazon review fraud is rampant, and with enough effort, they'll do something about it. I've worked w/teams there who, over time, develop very complex queries on the back end, and u…

Last paragraph: As for what the app will do moving forward: "We will no longer send data from the meeting notes section of your calendar event. There will be a new 'learn more' lin…

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I love that it was "too many times" - how many is too many? After the 3rd time seeing Asshat on a large screen you decided to go clean? ;)

Makes sense, thanks for connecting the dots while my imagination was not working.

I apologize for my lack of imagination, but what does this mean? "We’ll be able to print food for hungry people. We’ll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal."

This part of the final paragraph summarizes it well. "[St] Augustine tells the parable of a pirate captain who is captured and brought before Alexander the Great. The emperor says …

Are there layman-friendly tutorials on these OS-level steps to ensure full control of encryption? If it remains a matter of editing and recompiling an operating system, the masses …

"A stud finder or old man that knows how to knock on the wall and tell where the studs are." Would you just search Craigslist for the old man? Sounds tricky.

"corporate leaders (e.g. You)" I'm honored, and confused, that you would consider me a corporate leader. Like I said, I see your point. And if you look at my comment, it was in the…