Viewing profile — pm24601

This statement is true in some US states (California for example) However, it is not universally true. From the FTC rule finding (1/2023): https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/…

I use cash for so so so much. I will bring a couple of thousand USD on a trip and convert it to the local currency to avoid exactly this hassle. Not just for me but for the merchan…

I honestly don't remember the last time I used wikipedia. As a member of a minority community. It doesn't have anything that I care about. My information resources are elsewhere. I…

Tell me you don't know the meaning of a word without telling me.

My experience with companies pulling DIY contract addendums out of their ass is that they forget severability clauses. Or that the contract starts falling apart because they have o…

... or move to the State of California which has laws that make such contracts illegal. I remember one contract I signed which had an addendum that read: "section blah blah does no…

true! in part the expectation for what was a quality webpage was lower. remember how crude the yahoo home page was!

https://www.occ.treas.gov/ - office of the comptroller of the currency. That is the agency that regulates national banks.

I write blog entries when I have to explain the same thing more than once. I just write the "email" as a blog entry and then just send a link to the blog post. So I write blog post…

There are a lot of things that I am o.k. with being "adequate" at. I am just fine with being "adequate" at driving for example. Lots of software I write just has to be "adequate" b…

This is why I don't buy specialty hardware devices anymore. I jumped off the smart device treadmill with the fitbit. The only thing in my house that gets access to the internet are…

Why? I do this stuff all the time as a manager. It really goes exactly that way. Notice that the reddit commenter started with getting buy-in from the higher-up in their org. He di…

Also showed up on hacker news in 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19072850

manager-tools.com : a series of superb podcast. Pay for the personal license; $200/year is worth it. Read "The Alliance" by Reed Hoffman. My best advice: - weekly 1:1s - accept tha…

Sigh. Rebase is very useful: * pre-processing step to a merge. The developer can see that the merge to main will be successful. * when the branch has cherry picked commits from mai…

Lol. I have never been able to use the EZ version. I have always for a variety of reason used the 1040. It is in the interests of Intuit to make the tax forms seem so so scary. In …

I know that this may be a shock to technical types here. Back in the stone age, we filed taxes with paper and pen. For most people, it really isn't that hard to use paper/pen/envel…

I got an ad :-)

Oh gee, you're right. URLs don't work across national boundaries. Seriously?

Every woman cofounder needs to be able to demand that their partner step-up. Period. Every man who has kids needs to be there for the kids even if their spouse is a stay-at-home pa…

This is so important. And the detail in what goes into tracking down the illegal fishers. Sadly, Susi Pudjiastuti, the Indonesian fisheries minister , is now no longer in charge. h…