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sinatra··on Why switching jobs is almost always a good idea
Doesn't work in most cases. My wife, after a lot of encouragement from me, tried what you suggested. She told the current employer that she had not gotten a decent raise for the past 4 years. Her peers had gotten much better raises because they showed job-offers from other employers. She was getting a lot of calls from other potential employers too, but she didn't want to play the ransom game (I have this offer, now match it!). The employer told her that they can't offer her a good raise till she does exactly that -- bring an offer from outside. The problem is that when she does bring an offer and they try to match it, she'll not be interested in the match because she'd have made up her mind to leave.

This policy seems to attract and keep the wrong kind of employees -- those you're willing to play the ransom game from time to time.

sinatra··on Swiss reject additional immigration curbs
Just because some crazy people created very offensive posters, we shouldn't assume that the general swiss population is so anti-immigration (and racist).
sinatra··on Amazon Local – Amazon's Competitor to Angie's List, Yelp, Etc.
More details from Yahoo Finance: Starting in 15 cities -- including New York City, Miami, Seattle, San Francisco, among others -- local service providers can sign up for a listing with Amazon, paying 15% to 20% of the revenue they earn back to Amazon for the referrals. The fee covers payment processing, online scheduling and other needed bits and pieces to help the service providers list online. Those listed by Amazon don’t pay for referrals or leads, just the commission on fees for services.
sinatra··on Gmail trick: multiplying your address
Keep in mind that catch-all accounts usually get a lot of random spam. If you're using this domain to signup for various services, at some point, spammers will become aware of it. And, they'll start sending a lot of spam to (random string that spammer comes up with)@your-domain.com.
sinatra··on How I Start: Haskell
Very interesting! Is there something like this for other languages / frameworks? I'd love to see something like this for Ruby + Sintara + MySQL/PostgerSQL for writing a RESTful API setup.
sinatra··on ChartSQL: Create Charts and Dashboards from SQL
Thank you! I'll definitely have to ping you in a day or two. BTW, Geckoboard seems to have most integrations that we would need. I'm wondering if you used any of them and if you'll say that the integration was very straight forward or if it needed to be told a lot to be useful
sinatra··on ChartSQL: Create Charts and Dashboards from SQL
This may be a good place to ask this question -- We are a small startup that has its data in MySQL database and google analytics. We are now focusing a lot more on our marketing/advertising efforts, and would love to have a dashboard on a big screen that can collect, show, and update this data everyday (or better still, real-time). What do people use for something like this?
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