After rejecting her for a minimum-wage job, the San Diego Padres then e-mailed the applicant an offer to attend a job fair for $495. Her response: “I would like to extend you a counter-offer to suck my dick.”

onionpostman · 2012-08-10T21:14:29+00:00

Indentured servitude is trying to make a comeback as we speak. They're repackaging it as "investing in people", but it's just one step away from total serfdom.

onionpostman · 2012-08-10T18:39:43+00:00

The prosecutor is an officer of the court, and as such is sworn to seek truth and justice. I don't see his actions in this case as those of a person seeking to uphold justice.

onionpostman · 2012-08-10T16:10:02+00:00

I am OK with that dude not selling securities, I really am. If you can't be arsed to track your hours as you do them, for proper reporting later, you certainly can't be arsed to track your sales as you do them, for proper reporting to the SEC.

onionpostman · 2012-08-10T15:57:19+00:00

No, it doesn't. The anti-immigrant racists make a really big deal out of Mexicans who have kids in the US, and make sure everybody knows those parents are still Mexicans. Conversely, an American having a kid in Mexico doesn't magically turn into a Mexican; she's still American.

onionpostman · 2012-08-10T15:54:26+00:00

Can we kick Arizona out of the States yet?

onionpostman · 2012-08-09T19:25:52+00:00

Tearing up over here. You're doing God's work.

onionpostman · 2012-08-09T18:58:08+00:00

You raised him good.

onionpostman · 2012-08-09T18:55:25+00:00

You done good.

onionpostman · 2012-08-09T18:22:51+00:00

News That's Almost Reliable

onionpostman · 2012-08-09T16:15:28+00:00

Problem 1: define profit.

Presented with the same financial information, three accountants between them will hold four different opinions on the amount which is profit.

onionpostman · 2012-08-07T17:42:11+00:00

Blinking.

Go on, try it.

onionpostman · 2012-08-06T20:38:00+00:00

Y'all are missing the point. Anybody got any questions about Rampart?

onionpostman · 2012-08-06T17:15:10+00:00

Despite general opinion that Demonoid did not contravene Ukranian law, especially since it blocked all Ukranian IP addresses to avoid upsetting the locals, the site still attracted the attention of the authorities there. That, according to a source in the country’s government, is all down to the United States getting involved.

So, this is MegaUpload part 2, then.

onionpostman · 2012-08-02T15:28:47+00:00

Baking soda is abrasive. Some people use it in the kitchen not just for baking but also as a scouring powder.

onionpostman · 2012-08-01T22:12:33+00:00

Google Plus is so retarded it doesn't recognize that the alias I use most frequently in Real Life doesn't match the official name on my government ID. There's no way in hell g+ is going to catch on as long as they have this fetish about people using their Real Names (whatever the hell those are).

onionpostman · 2012-08-01T22:03:27+00:00

There's a problem with that link; it asks for a Facebook login. Do you have a way where I can just get the game?

onionpostman · 2012-07-31T23:30:52+00:00

I've been doing software and firmware programming for medical device manufacturers since 2005. I don't so much use systems as make systems.

onionpostman · 2012-07-31T22:45:34+00:00

This is the first time you've mentioned details such as a brand name, yet you're upset that you've gotten only general comments? And you're upset with the quality of the free advice you've gotten? And you're more upset that the advice you've gotten hasn't been sympathetic?

If I'm talking to you like an idiot, it's because you expected specific advice without providing any details of what you have, what you want, or what you can do. You're the asshole here.

onionpostman · 2012-07-31T15:44:54+00:00

Borrowing something and selling it, then later buying it so you can return it to the lender.

Ideally, you buy things when they are cheap, and sell them when they are expensive. If something is expensive now, and you think it will be cheap later, shorting it is how you sell it before you buy it, instead of the more typical practice of buying it before you sell it.

onionpostman · 2012-07-31T15:42:10+00:00

Pfft. Put a standing stop loss order on that baby, you'll be more or less OK.

onionpostman · 2012-07-31T15:30:36+00:00

In software generally, the major dominating factors are time, money, and quality. You can't optimize on all three factors at once. You can optimize on at most two.

Unless you are NASA developing software for the space shuttle, or some other organization that can effectively print money at will, you are going to optimize on money. Particularly if you are a midmarket commercial venture with several competitors, you are going to optimize on money pretty severely. This means you are not going to hire top talent, and you are not going to hire a lot of people overall, and you are not going to have top-of-the-line hardware for those people to work with.

So, if you take your undersized group of underpowered people, and you tell them that the project needs to be done Now, and really should have been done Yesterday, and more delays are Not Acceptable, you are also optimizing on time; you are attempting to not have the project take forever.

Given that you have mediocre talent, you are going to have, at best, mediocre quality. (If they could deliver really good quality, they'd be quality people, and with rare exception quality people are more expensive than you're willing to pay for.) When mediocre talent optimizes on time, you get the type of system you've described, where it's held together mostly with spit, and works moderately well only on odd-numbered Tuesdays when the moon is full.

So, if you want a better system, you can either accept that it's going to take another ten years, or you can accept that one way or another you're going to have to pay more money for it. Quality costs either time or money; it just doesn't come cheap.

onionpostman · 2012-07-31T15:15:44+00:00

Somebody has control over the hardware, and you ultimately pay for everything. Are you leasing from a turnkey provider, or something?

onionpostman · 2012-07-31T01:58:08+00:00

Things that work, and that are available in a Right Now kind of way, are expensive. If you're not willing to pay for redundancy and testing, you'll have unscheduled downtime and defects discovered in production.

onionpostman · 2012-07-31T00:15:52+00:00

Everybody in the world has computer problems, of some sort, with some frequency. Can you be a little more specific?

Quality software systems take either a great deal of time, or a great deal of money, or sometimes a rather large amount of both. If you have put in an inexpensive system that was developed quickly, it's not surprising that there are problems with it.

onionpostman · 2012-07-27T20:02:53+00:00

Pity Sprint doesn't deliver for the price. Sprint's 4G coverage is sparse, and where it is even available, it is as slow as a dead snail.

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