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Re:General Mills to buy pet food maker Blue Buffalo for $8B on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:55PM (#16449544)
My understanding is that Amazon tags similar products with the same SKU despite their source. This allows someone to ship fake inventory in, have amazon fulfill it, and then those products make their way to customers purchasing direct from Amazon. There are cases of this reported by authors and other products
Re:Hiring without whiteboards on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @03:34PM (#13879067)
You mean collusion like this?

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-job...

It was happening, only more blatantly than is suggested here. Of course they are all motivated to find good candidates, but they are also motivated to keep their existing folks. Decreasing liquidity and mobility serves the latter purpose at the expense of the former.

Nothing other than the fact that it's the slippery slope of "let me search X if you have nothing to hide". For why it's scary, read this comment just below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11683721
It's true though. Engaging speakers use those pauses as breaks to allow the audience to catch up and digest what was just said where as "umm" instills the idea that the speaker isn't prepared and is hunting for what to say next.
Only in his unscripted communications. His reputation as a speaker stems from his delivery of messages that are usually pre-written. He's got plenty of dramatic pauses where normal people would say "ummm".
Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @05:53PM (#11442468)
This is so true. It also explains the revolving door of CIO/CTOs at many places. Every 3-5 years, a new one comes in, makes minor changes and avoids the elephant in the room. On and on we go.
Re:Deployer – A Deployment Tool for PHP on Friday January 22, 2016 @04:34PM (#10955747)
Quantify "git doesn't handle large repos". Large in discrete size or file count?