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One where the rules of the lottery might be changed in all sorts of ways after you sign on the dotted line. There is a pattern: Company: We will give you 1% of the company.

Sure, they have dotted lines for the trails, but they're missing names and color coding for difficulty. The real issue is geocoding and business listings.

On the other hand, I just finished my freshman year in economics, and when we draw a dotted line across the X of supply/demand, then there's this little triangle see? Shade it in.

When people use scanned signatures, it's like we're still stuck in the 1800's where if you were illiterate, placing your "X" on the dotted line was good enough for a binding contract. Am I the only one who sees things this way?

I can see how Lisp-1 versus Lisp-2 might be a matter of taste, but I've never heard someone complain that how they missed dotted pairs when working in Scheme or Clojure. They may be a good argument, but I've never heard it.

Just a few comics later, he has this gem about "dotted-line" management. Frightening how relevant Dilbert is to this memo.

I told the headhunter that, especially because this was a public company, in my view the job would have to report either directly to the board, or to the CEO with a dotted line to the board; I explained why. The headhunter said he thought that would be a problem but would check.

For example they are still supporting Windows XP, so when Coca Cola signs at the dotted line they know that the hundreds of millions they spend on developing their specific apps, they will serve them for at least 10 years. That's worth extra to me and apparently to many others.

I don't want or need this, and I don't think it was particularly necessary for the health of the iPad line, but they dotted all the Is and crossed all the Ts when designing this product.

From the perspective of blockbuster, with all these profitable stores dotted all around the country, the "DVD by-mail market" was not at all attractive. but to netflix, which was looking at the market from the perspective of "we don't have any business at all, so any business is great", the margins actually looked pretty good.

Usually you can display the same information in a much more readable format by using a multi-colored or dotted line graph with a legend, and use logarithmic scaling to space out all the crap on the bottom. The main problem with these stacked graphs is spikes/dips on the bottom cause everything stacked on top of it to distort in weird ways, making things very difficult to see.

\n\n In order to switch from one mode to the other, the mode that isn't active needs 75% of votes as indicated by the dotted line, the current percentage of votes is indicated by the black line. \n\n In democracy mode you can compile a sequence of inputs. left2 will move left twice, left2down2 will move left twice and down twice. \n\nThe "dotted" and "solid" line referred to are two indicators moving in a progress bar between "democracy" and "anarchy"

Most importantly, and most relevantly, it completely disrupts their mathematical circuitry; it is amazing how many times I've run into customers that get in a tizzy when you quote them "10 hours at $250/hr" but happily sign on the dotted line when you tell them it's going to be $2500 flat and be done in two days. Even weirder, they'll still sign even if you _tell_ them it's "about 10 hours of implementation time."

I'm not saying that it's impossible to receive some good design advice on HN as there are certainly some experienced design-based folks dotted around, but on the whole it's a bit like asking for database optimization advice on Dribbble.

Many European nations have territories dotted around the globe, many of which are still highly contentious, and the US continues to act on moral principals which fall squarely out of the big book of empire-building. The EU/EC/EEC has achieved plenty - but we humans are not accustomed to understanding accomplishments or progress which occurs on a timescale beyond our own limited lives.

The goal should be to enact a vector of a new paradigm, as proactive team players synergize an out-of-the-box strategy of functionality and infotainment, re-engineering the learning curve framework of your dotted-line relationship.

Verified-by-Visa removes this safeguard by adding an additional layer of authentication which supposedly has the same strength as you being on-premise and signing on the dotted line to authorize your purchase. This will effectively remove a lot of the excuses that you might have had such as 'it wasn't me', 'I wasn't there' and 'I never meant to buy this', which were the most common excuses consumers would come up with after using a service for anywhere up to 6 months and then yanking back all 6 months worth of payments and saddling the merchants with the loss of income, pay-outs to affiliates already made and additional charge-back fees on top of that.

Even a very strict libertarian should agree to the obvious harm here: the compensation package with Google that the employee negotiated in good faith has a covenant which was not disclosed to them and is materially against their interests, namely, that signing on the dotted line forecloses future avenues which you might want to pursue. Not only were employees unaware of that, they would have active reasons to believe it would be impossible, because the laws under which that contract was negotiated say in big bold letters that provisions like that are repugnant to the state's sense of justice and will be voided even if spelled out.