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I once had a client that paid with a bad check. To make matters worse, the check had arrived several weeks late. Rumor had it that his business was on shaky ground. I knew something was up when the teller at my bank noticed the client's name and said they would have to verify the check (check was drawn on a different bank) And of course it was revealed there were non sufficient funds. Bad check in hand, I went to his…
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What does '"Skolka kilometer Volgograd?" will do. When they answer, nod, smile, shake their hand and say, "Speciba."' mean? I'm having no luck with online translators.
From context, I'm guessing, "How many kilometers to Volgograd?" and "Thanks"
If you did what I did, you first assumed that kilometer was the same in both languages, then that Volgograd was a proper noun (due to being capitalized) and used the context of 'pointing to a map' to infer that it was a place of some kind. That means that Skolka is a question word due to the question mark at the end of the sentence. From there, it's hardly a stretch to assume that Skolka means something like 'how many', because there aren't many questions involving distance and a place that it would make sense to ask.
The context of smiling and shaking their hand means that "Speciba" is a word expressing appreciation, so you can confidently translate it as something like "thanks."
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Doesn't work at the airports where the ticket machine only gives tickets when there's weight of the car on the sensors beneath the roadway.
actually, they don't use weight, the sensors they use are inductive coils - so if you take a strong neodymium magnet and wave it above the coil it should hopefully trip it http://www.wikihow.com/Trigger-Green-Traffic-Lights
Before dropping out of college 25 years ago I took an ASM programming course. The processor was the PDP 11. The official terminals were dec writers to an emulator but I happened to have access to a PDP 11 unix box. I cut my teeth doing Z80 ASM hacking on a Timex Sinclair and had no patience for this required class. I wrote all my assignments in C and dumped the intermediate output. The grader always gave me nice comm…
That said, I did read the manual and figured out how to make my solution call his solution, but I couldn't use that because the TAs were smarter than that and the teacher was very interested in anyone who could beat his solutions by even one byte.
My dad told me a simple hack last year when dealing with calling cell phone companies. When you're first told by voice recognition to vocally describe what you need, say 'cancel service'. You'll be helped much faster than you would if you described the problem accurately, since they care much more about getting people to continue paying that are on the verge of not doing that anymore. The first person that talks to y…
Back when they first started the "Buy a large popcorn and get unlimited refills" thing at the movie theater, I would simply save my bag from previous movies, wipe them down and bring them back the next time. Unfortunately, they changed it to "1 free refill" and then even amended "Same day only" to the promotion. So I stopped doing it at that point. I don't mind hacking the system if I can figure out a way to technica…
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> Probationary statuses are generally considered a bad thing As someone who was almost put on a performance plan for coming to work late, you don't ever want to be put on a PP. Basically, my PP would have been documenting my arrival times for 30 days and if a fair number were out of a 5 minute tolerance range, the PP would be used as a next step for being fired. Basically, a PP is something you sign that is a contrac…
wow! what a fuss over nothing (arriving late). I hope I never work at such company (if it's in IT).
Having worked help desk jobs, usually as the 'overnight' guy, I was personally the person that was screwed over when people showed up late, as I couldn't leave the desk unmanned.
Regardless, showing up late, when you've agreed to show up at a certain time, is rude, at the very best. Not every employer care, or will even tie you to a schedule, but if you're on one, disregarding it as nonsense doesn't sound like the best way to stay employed.
Surfed the zero percent interest rate promos on credit cards: rolled debt onto a zero percent card (thus not really making a payment that month because you just moved the debt around) and had lower payments until the promo ran out. Repeat with new promo on a different card. One I'm proud of but might not be counted as a hack here (not exactly naughty, but good for blowing people's minds, so similarly satisfying to me…
You can have great product idea here. Ebook - how I ... etc.
When lawyers were involved, it was always because the romance had become visceral hatred and one or both parties wanted to antagonize the/each other.
Studying for an engineering dynamics final, the old "when in doubt, pick C" saying popped into my head, so I decided make a frequency plot of answers for the 4 quizzes we had that term. The prof had B as the correct answer ~50% of the time. At the end of the 2 hour final I had only finished 13 of the 20 problems, so I quickly marked B for the 7 remaining. I got the 2nd highest grade in the class, bumping my grade fro…
There's an ancient Excel spreadsheet that lists and categorizes every happy hour here in DC. It gets emailed around like crazy at the start of every intern season.
barry.melton@google's mail service.com
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There's an ancient Excel spreadsheet that lists and categorizes every happy hour here in DC. It gets emailed around like crazy at the start of every intern season.
If you ever run into a copy of it, I'd love to get hands on it. barry.melton@google's mail service.com