I had an Oracle cert. Full OCP, back when it was the only cert Oracle offered. I got it because I thought it would be a career changer. But every time I'd apply for a job in MS-SQL server or Crystal Reports they'd look at that and say "well, he's got that cert, he must be good". And it would help me get the job. Years later, still no Oracle job. But that non-related cert mattered over and over. On those very rare occasions when they asked why I didn't have an Oracle career behind me, I'd say that the MS-SQL Server jobs were what was available. On top of that, I've noted when interviewing people that no matter what cert you have IT DOESN'T GET YOU OUT OF THE TECHNICAL INTERVIEW. You still have to stand in front of the whiteboard and go over whatever it is you are supposed to do. You still do the dance. Experience is the big factor, and the ability to get along with others is the second. My advice, based on all that, is to get one that imparts actual knowledge to you that is relevant to your career. My Oracle cert imparted knowledge that became relevant when I'd have to speak to the differences between database systems. If you don't think it will be a respected cert, take the classes for the knowledge and don't bother to pay for testing. A MySQL cert path for a programmer strikes me as an example of value added. Or taking the MongoDB or Cassandra The other issue worth bringing up are the people with too many certs. We used to call them "paper tigers" because they had all the certs and none of the necessary know-how. Some people are good test-takers, and it actually detracts since most of us know it. So if you have a ton of certs, don't put them all on the resume you give to a company. Just put in the few they asked for or one or two that impress managers.

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Back when doing a job as a desktop maintenance monkey, we came in to work at a new client company, went through several machines doing updates, and while there, emptied the trash. Got dragged in front of the boss and told: "never empty the trash, that's where some of those people store their working files". We all looked at each other, he looked at us and said, "I know, I know. I can't fix them. They're idiots. Just don't empty the trash."

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Here's a quora.com answer to your question, maybe one of the answers there has the answer you need. Some of them point to discussion areas. Wear gloves. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-famous-domain-hosting-discussion-forums[^] I'm not sure what is making you cagey about asking the questions you need to ask. My own experience: Got tired of having to give out new emails every time I changed jobs or some email company went out of business. And I was worried about potential clients being able to follow me every time I had to change email addresses. And friends and colleagues as well. This was before Gmail and Linkedin existed. Got a sudden inspiration for a 6 letter domain name. Bought it from GoDaddy and have used them since. My wife and I both have been using webmail since 2001 because it was easier to use while we were doing a lot of contract work and would switch jobs frequently. This was also pre-smartphone and the tendency of people to carry an email client in their pocket. My most heavy use and interaction with GoDaddy and domain use is still around email. I have one full domain dedicated to my job hunting. I send all recruiters and job boards to emails there and that allows me to dedicate a single separate Gmail account to read all the crap that comes down that pipe. I have an account I use for signing up for websites that insist on an account to move forward, which allows me to catch their future "marketing efforts" into a garbage bin. My virtual secretary, Mags. I have a set of forwards and accounts that do dedicated jobs for me. On-call alerts, game sites where they email me my turn, that sort of thing. And any other companies I do business with I hand them their company name as the user and they go to the catchall account. e.g. bestbuy@mydomain.com I never hand out an email that isn't a forwarder. It reduces successful hacking attempts if the hacker tries to log into accounts that don't exist. For domains: I never buy a domain for more than a year at a time. I never agree to have all the domains renew on the same day. I do use auto-renew. The credit card is dedicated to a set of auto-pay accounts, so if it gets compromised my other credit cards are insulated and if we see something inappropriate on the bill it will stick

I have a bazillion food allergies. Probably some environmental ones as well. You have my sympathy. I don't have a solution.

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Next week's Sunday joint will be baked, not roasted.

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A guy I know used to just make the password some phrase, a special character, and the date he changed it. "CaveMan^May102017" for example. It satisfies a lot of the typical requirements.

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It was just some performance art. The speaker was in on it.

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Why clearly it was "digestion". After all board, as in room and board refers to a meal, and digestion comes at the conclusion of a meal. Digest is an analysis, an investigation of sorts. ion is where the couple comes in. That or I'm full of something that comes at the end of digestion. :) :-D :laugh:

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Oldest might possibly be this one: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html[^] Not counting that, I know sometimes websites get moved to servers and just left there. When a company gets big it often can't control it's domain names well enough to know which ones it has to toss. So it keeps paying. When you have thousands, and some are going to require research to determine whether they have value, it usually just is cheaper to pay the registry fee.

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I wouldn't worry about it. Probably someone just pretending to be you. Racking up bills, not paying taxes, missing court dates... Okay, I'd worry about it. But that's the sort of thing I worry about.

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Well, you've got one thing over many would-be writers. You are actually writing. I'm a reader, and have only toyed with the idea of fiction writing. I tell you that so that you understand that I come from the consumer standpoint and not the standpoint of a fellow craftsman. I do know that most writing is rewriting, so please don't take anything I say as discouragement. I appreciate anyone who attempts this task. I think if the death of the man's wife is going to be critical to either the story or his character development and you might want to treat it differently. I personally discard authors who spend time leading up to an event and then slide through it too quickly and then explain on the other side the ramifications of the event. That's as bad as over-describing the event but on the other side. By the end of this set of paragraphs, I don't feel anything for the wife. I feel sorry for the man, sure, but that's just compassion not empathy. I'm sorry he had to go through that and I know I wouldn't want to...however it would be a better book if I felt something less callous toward the woman. If I had met her, in the book, and liked some aspect of her I'd probably feel some loss myself. Maybe that would be bad for a mystery, I don't know. If you wrote it up and didn't like it you could always discard it. But this might as well be a newspaper report rather than a pivotal moment in a man's life. To put it another way: "a drunk had crossed the line and that was that" is telling me that the man is trying to wrap his mind around the meaninglessness of the death and the rest of the paragraphs tell me that he is failing. However that's not really a book I want to read. The man is extremely centered around himself and that's not really the only way people react to such a death. You hold up no moments or qualities of the woman he lost so we can see that he's mourning not just his own loss but her loss. She lost her life. She lost all the moments she was going to have. She lost all that she is ever going to be, and has put finality on all she ever was. She will have no more children, no more parties, no more joy. He might well be mourning what she was robbed of as well as his own loss. If it feels like that is too raw then it might make even more sense to write it. Her last moments were horror filled, knowing that she could do nothing to stop the accident as it happened and knowing that she would never hold her husband again. Maybe she died quickly, and maybe she bled to death hoping

My wife was doing a crossword. She asked, "what's a three letter word for a female sheep?" I said "ewe" And that's when the fight started...

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There is a problem when you don't have face-to-face. You lose some advantages when people spend all their time working from home. Unfortunately this also happens when you have a geographically separated team. My team is currently in six locations/cities around the world. It doesn't matter whether some of us work from home in terms of face-to-face. As for productivity; if they want a rise in productivity there are lots of things they could do at our company to improve productivity. * streamline our change management process to reduce paperwork but maintain accountability * define periods of time every day when no meetings can happen involving line employees * take management offsite one day a week (as a member of this group I can honestly say that we are one of the biggest blocks for employee productivity) * reduce email load of employees. Take them out of the aliases they don't need to be in. * streamline permissions acquisition for employees. (I've seen six week periods when an employee was basically fallow). * stop architecting fragile systems that no one has the ability to map and few have the ability to understand * attack technical debt instead of accruing it. * understand that getting something done by a deadline and getting something done correctly by a deadline are two different things. * change deadlines when workload shifts. Rather than believing that the 40 hours already promised for a week can still be accomplished when 10 more hours of work is put in front of it. I imagine problems like the above exist at HP and Yahoo but management is fundamentally incapable of attacking pervasive cultural problems. So they go after the employees because that's the "low hanging fruit" in their minds. We had a boss push this policy at one of our US East Coast city locations. The cost of coming in to the office was sufficiently high that many employees sent their resumes out and the resignations started. Those employees who left were actually leaving for better jobs (promotion, location and pay). The boss had to back the policy off before the exodus became a real problem. I think the whole process ran a six-week cycle, maybe a little longer. If it had continued it would have made for an interesting study in the general quality of the workers who stayed. After all, if you can't switch jobs there are reasons and there are reasons.

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Transpose is to change a musical score to a higher or lower key. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/transpose?s=t[^]

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I like the word TRANSPOSE for this one. "It went the wrong way and scored!"(9)

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I worked a reprographics job when I was young. They had me running the high tech color laser copier. First one in the city. I got to help all the models who came in to get cheaper copies of their portfolio pix. Film being a lot more expensive. I think of all of them only one looked like a model when she came in. But the photos were spectacular. Nice women, mostly.

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My company supports working from home. However I try to balance the work such that I spend some time in the office and some at home. I'm most functional with both in my life. In general, a company gets what they measure. If they want someone who works 8-5 then they don't care about results, they care about attendance. I move on when a company gets that way around me; based on the theory that anyone could therefore be doing my job. If they think it is important then they have lost their way. And its a pretty good indicator that they don't actually have any idea what people are or are not producing if they push a rule about presence in the office or attendance in general. It seems to mean that as long as you are present your level of work could be any kind of garbage and they won't mind. That's my take. I have seen bosses freak out over the cost of running an office that no one happens to be using because people are working from home a lot. I think they get very narrow vision sometimes and this is one of the ways it expresses itself.

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Nice word. I have been gone a while and thought I'd see if the CCC was still running. I'm glad some institutions endure.

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My comments are always directed at the poor s.o.b. who has to fix it. Inevitably it is me. Fortunately I have a bad memory (at least for my foul coding deeds) and must document.

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pannage - food picked up by swine in woods; right to pasture swine Decry - pan new - n period - age

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