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  2. Fairchild Semiconductor - Wikipedia

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    The building at 844 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto, California, where the first commercially practical integrated circuit was invented. In 1955, William Shockley founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, funded by Beckman Instruments in Mountain View, California; [6] his plan was to develop a new type of "4-layer diode" that would work faster and have more uses than then-current transistors.

  3. Cameron International - Wikipedia

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    Original Cameron Iron Works Building. On the National Register of Historic Places Park Towers South, which was the former headquarters of Cameron. Cameron International Corporation (formerly Cooper Cameron Corporation (CCC) and Cooper Oil Tool, Cameron Iron Works) though now operating under Schlumberger, is a global provider of pressure control, production, processing, and flow control systems ...

  4. Cloud computing - Wikipedia

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    Gartner defines a hybrid cloud service as a cloud computing service that is composed of some combination of private, public and community cloud services, from different service providers. [81] A hybrid cloud service crosses isolation and provider boundaries so that it cannot be simply put in one category of private, public, or community cloud ...

  5. Self-employment - Wikipedia

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    Self-employed persons sometimes declare more deductions than an ordinary employee. Travel, uniforms, computer equipment, cell phones, etc., can be deducted as legitimate business expenses. Self-employed persons report their business income or loss on Schedule C of IRS Form 1040 and calculate the self-employment tax on Schedule SE of IRS Form 1040.

  6. Schedule F appointment - Wikipedia

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    The legal basis for the Schedule F appointment was a section of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978), which exempts from civil service protections federal employees "whose position has been determined to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character".

  7. Self-hosting (web services) - Wikipedia

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    Self-hosting is the practice of running and maintaining a website or service using a private web server, instead of using a service outside of the administrator's own control. Self-hosting allows users to have more control over their data, privacy, and computing infrastructure, as well as potentially saving costs and improving skills. [1] [2]

  8. Leadership - Wikipedia

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    Assume praise is a positive reinforcer for a particular employee. This employee does not show up to work on time every day. The manager decides to praise the employee for showing up on time every day the employee actually shows up to work on time. As a result, the employee comes to work on time more often because the employee likes to be praised.

  9. Employee compensation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Wages adjusted for inflation in the US from 1964 to 2004 Unemployment compared to wages. Wage data (e.g. median wages) for different occupations in the US can be found from the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, [5] broken down into subgroups (e.g. marketing managers, financial managers, etc.) [6] by state, [7] metropolitan areas, [8] and gender.