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Post by morkalork »

486sx33 wrote: post #2

Some nice nostalgia for me -In high school we walked to that exact KFC for lunch and would discuss the previous nights antics playing StarCraft broodwar. -I used to fix computers (professionally) at a store on the same street as that gas station as an after high school job -In Dec/jan 2010 I worked 18 hours a day laying floors in the new RIM buildings at Philip/Colombia. A friend’s dad did a lot of the furniture movi…

The wild thing about the condo boom in Waterloo is 77% of units are owned by investors. It truly exemplifies the mess that is the housing market. Rentors can't break into it and homeowners are doubling, tripling up on properties.

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Post by dmalik »

Haha I was working there at the time. I don't remember how many emails came in but well over 100.

Emails were so abused there though. I would get over 100 a day that were work related. Think Slack over email.

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Post by philipwhiuk »

ano-ther wrote: post #15

This happens often enough (even MS itself broke their internal Exchange servers). And every story seems to end with admins having to improvise. Am curious: (why) isn’t there a “kill reply-all chain” button as a feature? (The article explains that this didn’t work for RIM because of BB’s architecture, but for Exchange?)

The standard fix is to massively limit who can send emails to DLs - which is an Exchange config option.

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Post by philipwhiuk »

dmalik wrote: post #22

Haha I was working there at the time. I don't remember how many emails came in but well over 100. Emails were so abused there though. I would get over 100 a day that were work related. Think Slack over email.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this isn't the only time it happened - I don't recall Sumit but I do recall others.

I worked in the NOC and you quickly learned to basically ignore every non-personal email sent before you were on shift that you weren't directly copied on. If it wasn't your shift and it wasn't handed over, it wasn't important.

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Post by nazcan »

486sx33 wrote: post #2

Some nice nostalgia for me -In high school we walked to that exact KFC for lunch and would discuss the previous nights antics playing StarCraft broodwar. -I used to fix computers (professionally) at a store on the same street as that gas station as an after high school job -In Dec/jan 2010 I worked 18 hours a day laying floors in the new RIM buildings at Philip/Colombia. A friend’s dad did a lot of the furniture movi…

Density has hurt walkability?

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Post by toast0 »

nazcan wrote: post #26
486sx33 wrote: post #2

Some nice nostalgia for me -In high school we walked to that exact KFC for lunch and would discuss the previous nights antics playing StarCraft broodwar. -I used to fix computers (professionally) at a store on the same street as that gas station as an after high school job -In Dec/jan 2010 I worked 18 hours a day laying floors in the new RIM buildings at Philip/Colombia. A friend’s dad did a lot of the furniture movi…

Density has hurt walkability?

A dense housing boom could hurt walkability if it replaced mixed low density retail and housing and if there was no compensating retail boom near housing.

First floor mixed use retail can address this, but sometimes those spots sit vacant because of cost or other issues with rhe space.

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Post by dmalik »

philipwhiuk wrote: post #25
dmalik wrote: post #22

Haha I was working there at the time. I don't remember how many emails came in but well over 100. Emails were so abused there though. I would get over 100 a day that were work related. Think Slack over email.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this isn't the only time it happened - I don't recall Sumit but I do recall others. I worked in the NOC and you quickly learned to basically ignore every non-personal email sent before you were on shift that you weren't directly copied on. If it wasn't your shift and it wasn't handed over, it wasn't important.

Ya this definitely happened a few times.

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Post by dddddaviddddd »

nazcan wrote: post #26
486sx33 wrote: post #2

Some nice nostalgia for me -In high school we walked to that exact KFC for lunch and would discuss the previous nights antics playing StarCraft broodwar. -I used to fix computers (professionally) at a store on the same street as that gas station as an after high school job -In Dec/jan 2010 I worked 18 hours a day laying floors in the new RIM buildings at Philip/Colombia. A friend’s dad did a lot of the furniture movi…

Density has hurt walkability?

I have no specific experience with Waterloo, but sometimes towers follow a Corbusian ideal of a tower surrounded by nothing; or worse, a tower surrounded by high-speed roads/highway — essentially a stacked bedroom community with no walkable amenities.
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