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jSully24

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    I thought this describes many gamblers: remember the wins, quickly forget the losers, be it pull tabs, blackjack, slots, etc.

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    Comment #39929765

    Car Play will not enable with Siri turned off (at least in my 2019 Subaru).

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    Comment #39755360

    It is VERY worth talking to a professional about this. It's possible to build your savings in a manner they will produce income via dividends, bonds and other methods that give you…

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    Comment #39755284

    The title is misleading, they are referring to "Retirement Savings" just counting 401k and IRA dollars only. Personally my "retirement savings" are over 60% in non-IRA or 401k doll…

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    Comment #39577703

    Pick any industry and this environment we’re experiencing in “CS” is going to occur 3 or 4 times in your working years. No matter if you’re an electrician or a software developer. …

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    Comment #39492577

    You mention not being the person making a purchasing decision, who is? Can you connect with them? I would encourage you to put together a story that illustrates the pain being caus…

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    > The idea that 5 years of experience is enough to solve most problems is crazy to me. 18 years in the industry, and I’m still very aware of things I don’t know and need to get bet…

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    If I go a week or so without some real exercise my anxiety starts to creep up. It does this no matter how good or bad my sleep has been over that time. Edit typo while on my traine…

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    >>> It's always the over-40 who are under suspicion. Because of our (over 40s) years of watching bad policy after bad policy destroying our work places, and speaking up.

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    Comment #39168132

    We’ve switched to only subscribing to a single service at a time. When we get several items to watch on a service and exhausted our current service, we cancel the current and resta…

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    Comment #38711551

    Ah! Thank you. I’d not had this happen before.

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    Comment #38710104

    I am a native English speaker and I’m struggling a bit as well to understand his point. But I believe you are correct in that reducing requirements for car seats could increase the…

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    Comment #38650367

    Yes. But many Sr. Leaders just see a number so it must also be a metric you can use for measurement. They do not understand it’s real use. I picture a construction company counting…

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    Comment #38650310

    We do a similar thing but call it a bug hunt. Not only do we uncover bugs, it’s a great way to get the whole company learning about the new things coming and for the product team t…

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    Seems the tweet has been deleted.

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    Comment #38650156

    I just shared this story earlier today with my team. This was Cobol insurance claims processing system, shortly before the Y2K issues. The claims processing system I worked on used…

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    Comment #38641055

    And they focused on fancy notebooks and pens instead of what had been an amazing and market leading piece of software. It still hurts a little every time I think about it. I really…

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    Goodwill impairment: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/061715/when-and-why... “ If the goodwill asset becomes impaired by a decline in the value of the asset below the purch…

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    Comment #38460536

    5. Your superior has deep previous relationships with other higher level people in your company.

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    Comment #38441246

    In my experience in these situations (I was always being acquired), the acquiring company is at least partially counting on cost saving from getting rid of departments like finance…

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    I think it depends if you see them first or they see you first.