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genepope

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    Comment #48957387

    A butthole and a drain hole. Sounds like they are spot on. Give it to society in the butt and drain all societie's resources

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    Comment #33843549

    Amazon has become the absolute worst place to sell or buy things. I try to avoid them if at all possible (disclosure: I worked there for 12 years). Just leave them to the Chinese c…

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    Comment #33261777

    Pretty much spot on post.

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    Comment #33131743

    Pretty much any tech product top search results on Amazon is a fraud (and it can go VERY deep into the results). I have been burned so many times I finally learned: DO NOT BUY TECH…

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    Comment #28759182

    Having lived in the tech software world from the late 1970s through 2012 I can say that age discrimination has always been a part of the software world but it is survivable. See ot…

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    Comment #5832662

    Leave. The org is old enough and established enough that it isn't going to change and you won't change it, it will change you (think Gollum). There are plenty of good and great pla…

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    Comment #1337971

    This is very cool! Great idea, good luck on this. (ditto on the US centric approach but then a shoestring startup can't always go global from day 1. You will get there though.

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    “There is no longer enough mail to sustain six days of delivery.”

    Just one of many signs that say "Yes Martha, the internet really has changed a lot about our lives"

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    Comment #1103943

    step zero: Fire Steve Ballmer

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    Comment #463352

    btw, on Digg too. http://digg.com/programming/GOOGLE_FAIL_Don_t_Be_Evil_Slogan... Digg it and help wake up the google techs asleep at the (off) switch. Still going on after many ho…

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    Comment #463334

    shit happens, but responsible companies do something about it, not just say "shit happens"

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    Google is now officially evil

    A spam storm of SMS replies from the google SMS service is driving people crazy, not to mention running up their cell bills and google is doing nothing to stop it.

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