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"It was an offer like no other offers. The groom asking for Powersoft's hand in marriage was Sybase and the billion dollar dowry offer was very seductive. So a wedding/merger was arranged on February 13, 1995. I hope they took pictures during the wedding ceremony and honeymoon because the "paper valuation" (the deal was done with Sybase stock—worth $904m) didn't last long. The bad news arrived in the form of fabricated (Sybase) sales results. Sybase stock took a tumble, along with the fortune of many Powersoft executives..."

Beautiful. I wonder if a business publication would be interested in an expanded version of this...

Open plan verdict: Too much mayo.

It needs a new name (that isn't "ECMAScript").

http://zty.pe/

12-packs:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEX_Btnpd5GWYCOIXtFpb1g/vid...

Interested parties:

https://www.scribd.com/document/375623623/Call-for-Rule-maki...

"After going about as far as I could go folding planes, I decided I need to study this other field, this art called 'Origami.' So I worked on that for about ten years..."

I could write that series in a weekend.

How about for new startups (with low or no volume)?

Whitelisting might be better...

How about credit card companies, who refuse to allow opting out?

The quote sounds like wishful thinking to me (reminiscent of drum-beating realtor-speak).

100% of this customer wants to hear from 0% of the companies with whom he does business.

Then there's this common unsubscribe strategy: "Okay, we've unsubscribed you from all messages pertaining to (some narrowly-defined topic)."

Web 2.0 killed popups and unders and overs for the most part, but these sprung back to life once Mom and Pop were told they could make money blogging and pimping other peoples' products (the new Amway or Avon).

https://www.eff.org/

Dictionary Attack 1.0

Companies are using this, though? The price (both annual, and the above, especially considering transaction costs) is too low!

The post says: "Abot logo is just an icon from Icons8. I have to pay $19.90/month for a license." That begins to approach professional-level pricing.

I think you pointed this out yourself: everybody is in fact reading the questions, but in the SERPs, not on SO.

(And I'm sure people are scanning the body of the question there, too, if only subconsciously--I know I do.)

"When I told a group of kids my eyes were naturally blue (they thought I wore colored contacts), they backed away and whispered, “Scary.” The first time I went to the grocery store, my appearance alone caused a small child to burst into tears."

Yes, there's an incredible lack of self-awareness and understanding out there, with regard to others.

Not being permitted to do my job.

Yes, I'd love to help you, if only you'd let me. Won't you let me?

But you won't, because you can't seem to control yourself--it's like a compulsion to self-sabotage. (Similar to what happens to creative works in the entertainment industries. Too many cooks...)

And it isn't the CEO, who is typically a practical business guy, enjoyable to speak and deal with. He's never the problem (and it's best to deal with him directly when possible, no matter your role). Instead it's the VPs and CTOs and others in lead or similar roles, who are inherently political creatures. Witness there the worst sort of decisions in everything from hiring to "culture" to technical and business strategies.

Personified, the typical company is a capricious and self-defeating entity.

What was the question again? Oh yes, here's me trying to write an app, up against all that...

"Hello monster/ghost person." Yes, that's me?

Agreed, it's a simple, polite request to a business partner.

George says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usN3rpfFoGA&t=30s

Sad Original Simba. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sWmWM7-fs

Experts (?) with their "sense of excitement" and such, but the parents shopping for this year's Xmas sensation consumer good will be looking at price and availability (with "Getting the hell out of there" likely somewhere in the mix), hence Walmart then, and Amazon now.

"In 2002, she oversaw a secret prison in Thailand that tortured two terrorism suspects. That torture took place within the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program, in which suspected terrorists are sent to US allies, and interrogated in “black sites” on their soil.

One of the men, known as Abu Zubayda, was waterboarded 83 times in one month and was slammed into walls by the head. He was deprived of sleep and kept in a coffin-like box. Interrogators later decided he didn’t have any useful information.

ProPublica found that Haspel personally signed cables to CIA headquarters that detailed Zubayda’s interrogation.

CIA videos of the torture were destroyed in 2005, on the orders of a cable drafted by Haspel. Her then-boss Jose Rodriguez, the CIA’s director of operations for counterterrorism, signed off on the order. “The cable left nothing to chance. It even told them how to get rid of the tapes,” he wrote in his memoir, according to ProPublica. “They were to use an industrial-strength shredder to do the deed.”"

Yeah, it could be a new struct, especially if another parameter or two comes along (though the simplest thing has its benefits, too).

"your time machine is fueled up and ready to go"

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/31/540515367/familiar-looking-nu...

Or under/over-tighten, forget the oil, strip the mount. But you need a garage and jack (curb?), oil disposal, etc.

(It's nice not having a car anymore.)

Yeah, but is that "on purpose" altruism, or an accident of expansive geography?

Regardless, it sounds like a more affordable place (if car-bound).