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phillijw

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    Comment #22604179

    I am shadow banned. I think because of one comment I made many years ago that was heavily downvoted? I just don't log in anymore. I emailed PG at the time and he said there's nothi…

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    Comment #10468971

    I don't fully agree with the config thing. In microsoft land you can transform your configs based on a build parameter. And if you're using MS SQL you don't even need to use a pass…

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    Comment #8317069

    Well... does being hellbanned count as a member?

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    Comment #8246659

    You could try emailing them. At their contact address they used for MSN.

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    Comment #8051385

    I just mark mine as Unread if I need to read them again.

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    Comment #7928401

    If they have launches every 2 minutes, people will get bored and not pay any attention to them.

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    Comment #7865622

    This is how I do it too. Rules are only rules because someone said so.

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    Comment #7802765

    Can't you use /* ... */ as comment?

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    Comment #7618964

    I think providing value other than simple "networking" would pay off more in the end. I would rather see software focusing on matching quality candidates with the right jobs.

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    Comment #7571007

    I've been remodelling my bathroom and have had several times when I could've used a truck to deliver 4x8 sheets of whatever from the lumber yards

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    Comment #7494940

    Congrats, Dang! It's a little ironic that you won't even see this message.

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    Comment #7412343

    If he was gay and she was a man, would it still be sexist?

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    Comment #7326158

    I put my own address into GMaps so that people can find my house instead of just the street it's on.

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    Comment #6582442

    And this is a decent example of it being implementation specific.

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    Comment #6450380

    Remember that time when first.name@gmail.com would go to firstname@gmail.com and they were two separate accounts? People still use GMail.

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    Comment #6191109

    I once emailed PG and asked if I could be unbanned. HIs response: > You're not banned in sense of having been banned by a mod or a spam filter. Your karma just got too low.

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    Comment #4876230

    I was going to type out a long explanation of my thoughts on this since I used to work in the market research (survey) industry but I decided it's not worth it since nobody will ev…

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    Comment #4840682

    I got hellbanned a few years ago and it's pretty lonely out here. I sent an email to PG and was basically told to f-off

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    Comment #4620779

    We just did it without too much of a problem. The biggest problems were in the razor syntax

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    Comment #4200096

    I see people recommending pro git but it barely covers anything useful.

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    Comment #3931256

    So... what is git-scm? Is it git?

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    Comment #3901912

    "Let's see... how can we specifically target people who spend money on Saas products? Aha!"

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    Comment #3706556

    We have QA that does testing

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    Comment #3551556

    I don't think a regular employee could possibly know what kind of value they bring to the company. Tell the boss to pay you whatever they value you at. If the value provided at thi…