January 5, 2012 at 11:10 am
Ninja's_RGR'us (1/5/2012)
GilaMonster (1/5/2012)
Ninja's_RGR'us (1/5/2012)
It's almost like they want to punish you for daring asking for money and making sure you NEVER ever want to go through that process ever gain.At least they didn't try telling you it was all your fault that you lost stuff, like my ex-insurers did after the second break-in.
How the hell can it be your fault?
You live somewhere and people come in to take your stuff. It's not like you live in a golden palace with a break in board in flashing lights!
She has one of those - but you can only see it in D-space. If you focus hard enough you can even see her call out sign from D-space while sitting in your own living room in Canada.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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January 5, 2012 at 11:14 am
I don't know if anyone's posted this or not (my memory fails me after working a 22 hour shift):
"Whatta ya mean it's 2012? I'm not done with 2011 yet. Bring it back!"
January 5, 2012 at 11:16 am
Brandie Tarvin (1/5/2012)
I don't know if anyone's posted this or not (my memory fails me after working a 22 hour shift):"Whatta ya mean it's 2012? I'm not done with 2011 yet. Bring it back!"
I thought you had access to dbcc timewarp
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January 5, 2012 at 11:19 am
Jack Corbett (1/5/2012)
jcrawf02 (1/5/2012)
Still, never worth going without health insurance. Go big there.I processed claims for one day before I decided never to go without again.
I have it mainly because I am getting old enough to need it and I have kids so they need it because kids tend to get injuries doing stupid things.
FWIW, don't go without life insurance when you have kids either. We have lost a few friends recently and without insurance, the widow/kids would really be struggling.
January 5, 2012 at 11:25 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/5/2012)
Jack Corbett (1/5/2012)
jcrawf02 (1/5/2012)
Still, never worth going without health insurance. Go big there.I processed claims for one day before I decided never to go without again.
I have it mainly because I am getting old enough to need it and I have kids so they need it because kids tend to get injuries doing stupid things.
FWIW, don't go without life insurance when you have kids either. We have lost a few friends recently and without insurance, the widow/kids would really be struggling.
I agree with Steve on that one. Having life insurance seems to bring a nice piece of mind for just in case. I would not want to put my wife and kids in a bind if something happened to me.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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January 5, 2012 at 11:25 am
jcrawf02 (1/5/2012)
A large part of the healthcare issues are because everything is so disorganized. Doctors don't talk to patients, bill things incorrectly something close to 20% of the time (out of mistakes, not fraud), insurance companies don't talk to patients, people get too many separate bills with no explanation, people don't understand their coverage in the first place, etc. It's a hot mess.And then there are always some people out there trying to screw you, so that doesn't help.
This is an interesting read: http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2012/01/we-dont-know-how-to-make-decision.html
January 5, 2012 at 11:31 am
Gianluca Sartori (1/4/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (1/4/2012)
Allright, I missed a few weeks of the thread because my wife gave birth to a wonderful son. (and thus killing my regular sleeping pattern)Did I miss anything important?
(no, pants jokes are not important)
CONGRATS!!!!!
Congratulations on your new pants!!!
.... errrr... child.
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January 5, 2012 at 11:32 am
Ninja's_RGR'us (1/5/2012)
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Ninja's_RGR'us (1/5/2012)
It's almost like they want to punish you for daring asking for money and making sure you NEVER ever want to go through that process ever gain.At least they didn't try telling you it was all your fault that you lost stuff, like my ex-insurers did after the second break-in.
How the hell can it be your fault?
You live somewhere and people come in to take your stuff. It's not like you live in a golden palace with a break in board in flashing lights!
The police report stated that the intruders gained access through a window (which they did). Insurance claimed that access gained through a window means that I was negligent in securing the property (all insurance policies here require that accessible windows are barred)
The relented when I pointed out to them that the term 'accessible' is defined in the policy to mean ground floor or on a passageway and the window that the intruders gained entry through is a 2nd floor window (2nd floor in UK terms, Americans would call it the 3rd floor). I challenged them to find the clause in the policy that required me to bar a window that is a 10 metre above the ground, a sheer drop to the car park. They couldn't
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January 5, 2012 at 11:37 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/5/2012)
Jack Corbett (1/5/2012)
jcrawf02 (1/5/2012)
Still, never worth going without health insurance. Go big there.I processed claims for one day before I decided never to go without again.
I have it mainly because I am getting old enough to need it and I have kids so they need it because kids tend to get injuries doing stupid things.
FWIW, don't go without life insurance when you have kids either. We have lost a few friends recently and without insurance, the widow/kids would really be struggling.
Good point.
And Jack, "old enough to need it" doesn't exist. Everyone needs it. Things can happen to anyone, anytime.
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January 5, 2012 at 11:43 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/5/2012)
jcrawf02 (1/5/2012)
A large part of the healthcare issues are because everything is so disorganized. Doctors don't talk to patients, bill things incorrectly something close to 20% of the time (out of mistakes, not fraud), insurance companies don't talk to patients, people get too many separate bills with no explanation, people don't understand their coverage in the first place, etc. It's a hot mess.And then there are always some people out there trying to screw you, so that doesn't help.
This is an interesting read: http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2012/01/we-dont-know-how-to-make-decision.html
Yeah, Paul Levy's blog is great. ePatient Dave is also good to pay attention to, and I highly recommend the Society for Participatory Medicine[/url]. Paul is convinced that capitated rates to providers is not the solution, but I'm still struglling to understand why that would be the case. If the primary care provider has all the money, and therefore the power, and their profit margin is based on keeping patients healthy; seems to me this would "bend the cost curve" plus make things a lot better for patients.
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January 5, 2012 at 11:43 am
This is an interesting twist for me. I think I've finally found myself in a freedom of speech vs. responsible employee situation. I've never been here before.
We're having a discussion about a good topic, but I find myself sitting on the sidelines rather than contributing much more than my original response. Even that response I had to edit before I posted because a bell went off in my head that reminded me that I work for in the industry currently under discussion, so I'd better choose my words (and participation in this topic) carefully on the off chance it may come back to haunt me.
I wonder how many people who enter in discussions like this, little discussions that don't mean anything (in the grand scheme of things), but find themselves unemployed because they said one word too far. Or find themselves unemployable because of past things they've said on certain topics. I know that when political appointees go through the vetting process, old position papers they wrote can and are used against them. But papers are harder to find then posts on the internet, and usually require a lot more thought going into them then just 140 characters dashed off on a whim.
Last year, there were a lot of news stories about "bad employees" fired because of rants they posted about their companies. I know many of you have a say in the hiring of new talent, so I wanted to pose this question to you.
Assuming you didn't know any of the participants in this conversation or understand the purpose of The Thread, how many of you would view comments posted by other Threadzians as a reason to NOT hire us? And if that's the case, what particular subject or phrasing would make you think of us as potential "bad employees"?
January 5, 2012 at 11:46 am
When I interview people, I'm after technical ability, eagerness to learn/improve and a fit with the team/position (and a lack of outright dishonesty about their abilities). I couldn't care in the slightest if they've voiced strong opinions related to the industry (in fact, I might count that as a positive, it means they actually have opinions, think for themselves and might come and tell me/their manager if they have problems, objections or suggestions).
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January 5, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Brandie Tarvin (1/5/2012)
Ninja's_RGR'us (1/5/2012)
Brandie, maybe it's time to edit your sig!Come see me at A-Kon 22 for the launch of "The Ladies of Trade Town"! June 11th, 2011
I don't see the problem. Y'all have DBCC Timewarp, don't you? @=)
Does anyone else have issues with the Edit Signature page on the control panel? It only ever shows 1 line of the .sig in the edit window and then I have to always hit UPDATE twice to get the update to take. (Picture attached). I find it really annoying.
It only shows the first line, yes that's irritating. Until you drag the RH bottom corner of the dispay area down.
I think maybe you don't need to hit UPDATE twice, it's just that it doesn't update the display the first time but it does update its data. I got annoyed with it some time ago and messed about to see if I could work out what was happening, and I think that's the conclusion I reached then - but could be misremembering.
edit: having to drag that thing is a real pain; I don't bother, just use the arrow keys to move around - I can see all the lines, but only one at a time.
Tom
January 5, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Cadavre (1/5/2012)
Ninja's_RGR'us (1/5/2012)
The drag trick doesn't work for me.IE 8 all updates.
Sorry, should have said that it doesn't work with IE (well, can't get it to work with 8 or 9). Works in Chrome for definite, and think it worked in Firefox as well but I've uninstalled it so can't check.
Yes, works in Firefox 9.0.1 and used to work in Firefox 8.x.y (and probably earlier ones).
Tom
January 5, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Just had a conversation with a colleague. He was going to name a column "flag" and I suggested he name it the more descriptive "active". He asked if he should name it "ActiveFlag" and I said no, because there's no need to state in the name what kind of data it contains. We wouldn't name the store name field "StoreNameVarchar". Then I realized we do name a field "StoreNumber", granted it isn't "StoreNumberSmallInt", but it did get me thinking about how arbitrary those lines can be.
Fun to find incidents that make you rethink the basics.
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