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FWIW, I've seen a number of financial systems, and even though accounts in the hierarchy might have names, they often have a hierarchically-oriented number with them. e.g. Accounts…

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Am I the only one who prefers a car to shared trains/rideshare/walking? Knowing I have a portable climate controlled space when the weather isn't to my liking? Knowing I can conven…

With a CC, the money is taken away from your CC company, not your bank account first. So you won't have to deal with the potential cascade of overdrafts, bounced checks, etc. Secon…

> Also, do you really endorse that verse? That is: Do you think we should institute the death penalty for the crime of kidnapping? Let me turn it around: If someone stole you and s…

I've run into what appear to be conflicting views, but after some study, I'm able to resolve them. Usually it's understanding things in their proper context. That is: it's by readi…

> And the Bible never speaks out against slavery. Most people, when speaking about slavery, are only aware of American slavery. Slavery in ancient times was generally a very differ…

The sidecar part of this looks like what is essentially SmartStack[1] but requiring the user be aware of it's existence (due to Micro's proto3 api) whereby users of SS can more or …

"Simple", the thing to change is: we stop giving them (the pundits and the person saying it) attention; since that's what they're after. Either that, or just get over the fact that…

I find it interesting that when the government distorts a market via pricing controls, taxes, or other means, the law of unintended consequences almost inevitably kicks in and it's…

200% yes. I've got better things to do than go through the whole recruiting cycle only to find they're not going to pay what I'm willing to take -- especially when it's wayyyyy out…

Hear, hear! Is Java the right tool for everything? No, but for large code bases, it is miles easier to dive into a codebase, and the tooling is so much better than anything else I'…

Links are not clickable because it's 2015 and I (wrongly) assume you are capable of plunking 'open office plans productivity' into your search engine of choice. But to be helpful, …

When I get these, I use postmaster@domain.of.page. It seems if we can generally agree on which one we all pick (or some small number of choices), we might have a chance of making a…

Study after study show that open distraction office plans are bad for productivity, and increase stress and sick days -- even among those who like open office plans.

FTFY: Creating websites with very light fonts and low contrast is a bad idea. tl;dr: Using the wrong tool for the job makes life difficult. Go figure.

Having inherited much code like this in the past, I can tell you I feel bad for the poor people who inherit this crap. Over extraction is okayyyyy-ish. Over abstraction is rage ind…

It's the old Unix curses library approach applied to the DOM. Everything old is new again :)

For me, it wasn't so much the explicit ageism (though it was there to be sure), but more of not fitting in because since some time in my 30's, my social interests don't revolve aro…

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA I presume. If you're not in the know, it's another tech center in the US

I haven't had the opportunity to tinker with this, but what if the client sends a X-UIDH: header of it's own? Will VZW overwrite the header, or will it pass it through? If it doesn…