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3 miesiące temudiscuss

I'd like to reach out and snatch that last apostrophe from your comment for similar reasons.

2 lata temudiscuss

Chickens and other fowl, if allowed to free range for a couple of hours a day, will completely solve the problem.

2 lata temudiscuss

> No guarantees are given, for nothing

This is a double negative. Depending on how you interpret the comma, it could mean "guarantees are given for everything." (Pointing this out in case you intend to protect yourself from liability with this statement.)

xofer

3 lata temudiscuss

There's also a misalignment on the sell side. Since the seller's agent gets paid a percentage of the sale price you'd think they're incentivized to sell at the highest price possible. But they don't make any money at all until the sale actually goes through. They'd much prefer to sell 2 houses at $125,000 than 1 house at $175,000 for roughly the same amount of time and work. Since cost is the only knob they control of the three affecting the time/effort it takes to sell a house (the others being condition and location), they are going to turn it as low as possible.

xofer

4 lata temudiscuss

I'm in the US and for years wrote software for the medical industry. I was contracted by a European company to write an app, and of course filled it with disclaimers and extra clicks asking "Are you sure?" When I demoed it, they asked what all that crap was for. I said something like, "Umm, liability, duh." Their response: "Oh, we don't sue people for honest mistakes here."

xofer

4 lata temudiscuss

Deleting a record causes requests for that record to be negatively cached. The negative cache TTL[1] is often set to 1 day. So, deleting and immediately recreating a record can take your site offline for days. (Source: I made this mistake when changing a Route53 record for a subdomain that was getting about 70Krps. Luckily it was our source code making the requests, so we could change it, but that took an hours or so to roll out.)

[1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2308

xofer

5 lat temudiscuss

IANAL, but I think she absolutely has a legal case. It costs a lot of money to make a case "go nowhere" even with the slightest validity.

The small penis thing doesn't seem relevant here, and even if so, it's a strategy for making it more difficult to make what would be a valid claim.

xofer

5 lat temudiscuss

This is exactly what happens when you optimize for engagement. Usually when I find myself on Reddit, I'm looking for something specific and want to get it as quickly as possible and move on. The increasing level of noise created by "engaged" users makes me more and more hesitant to click on a Reddit link when one comes up in search results.

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7 lat temudiscuss

I've used this technique with a label that said "Leave Blank", also hidden with CSS. Seemed to work great, but now I wonder.

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7 lat temudiscuss

I've found the opposite to be true. Several lawyers I've worked with have asked to see what I've started with, perhaps because they're used to people grabbing stuff off the internet. I really like this idea because the hard part in my mind is the negotiation with the other party, in part because it inevitably becomes more complex as you go. Having something to start with and iterate on is great. At the end, as long as it's a relatively simple matter, having a lawyer review it is probably going to be lots cheaper.

One thought I had for a future version -- why not let both parties access the document on the site and build it together? That's something I'd definitely pay for.

xofer

7 lat temudiscuss

I also was very confused by the pipe, which renders exactly like an uppercase I for me. [EDIT: oh wait.. it is an I? either way...] Replacing with a hyphen or colon would be a quick fix. Additionally consider bolding the main text and/or greying the subtext.

On a positive note, I really like the way prior answers appear below the current question on the survey!

xofer

8 lat temudiscuss

Appreciate the optimism. Just to clarify, I'm saying that he has the skill set, the background, the time and the means to pull this off. That combo is extremely rare, and even with all that, there's one thing without which he'd never been successful at all: a tremendous amount of luck. As I said, I'm sure there's some value in his book, but it's based on a get rich quick story. If you're going to read it, I'd pick up a book by someone who spent 10 years on a side project too.

xofer

8 lat temudiscuss

I haven't read this book, but I have read a lot of posts and watched a presentation by the author, Pieter Levels. While he is a nice guy and certainly very interesting, it's my opinion that he suffers from Survivorship Bias[1]. Not saying don't buy the book; just take it with a grain of salt if you do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

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10 lat temudiscuss

This works if you know you're lost, know that someone will be looking for you and aren't too hard to find. Most people who are lost don't meet these criteria. Because she was an experienced hiker, I'm guessing they thought she was immobile (injury, heart attack, etc.) and this would mean she'd be in a place she would have gone if she wasn't lost.

xofer

10 lat temudiscuss

One article[1] at least suggests that she wasn't able to start a fire.

  She had also tried to make fires using the matches and 
  lighters she kept in her backpack. There was a stream 
  near her camp, but it's unclear whether she was able to 
  find any food.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/2...

xofer

10 lat temudiscuss

A long time ago -- before cell phones -- I was a member of a wilderness search and rescue team. Based on the description of where this person was found, I can tell you it's one of the last places we would have gone. Finding lost people is a game of profiling and math -- certain types of people (e.g. injured, despondent, young, experienced hiker) are more likely to do certain things, but AFAIK going to high ground and setting up camp isn't on anyone's list. I don't know if that's changed as a result of cell phones.

xofer

10 lat temudiscuss

The assumption here is that salary is set by forces beyond the employee's control, and it's either fair or unfair. I would argue that everyone's salary is fair, b/c it's set at what the employee negotiated for. If you accepted a salary offer as-is, then that's what you get. If you feel your salary is unfair, then contact your boss and negotiate for more. I won't get into all the tactics of negotiation, but it works the same for salary as for a used car. It will help to have as much leverage as you can get, for example an open job offer at the salary you want.

xofer

11 lat temudiscuss

Sounds to me like they are primarily measuring the financial performance of doctors.

xofer

11 lat temudiscuss

True. Docker with a "ton of tooling on top of it" is going to be a VM with versioning, which as discussed, has its own set of issues.

xofer

11 lat temudiscuss

Right -- for the right candidate. I don't buy things without vetting them first; why would I expect someone else to? The suggestion that there is some exact figure out there that you are worth is false binary thinking. There are lots of factors that make you a better or worse candidate for any particular job. The better you are at the art of feeling out the situation and presenting yourself in the best light, the better you'll do, and the more you'll realize that starting with, "What are you offering?" isn't a good tactic.

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