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Take the better offer. Just tell the first "Never mind."
Sheesh. You think they lose sleep over it?
You think they'll even remember your name in two days?
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If the offer from Company B is the one that right for you and your family, then just be honest and say you've had a better offer. No debate, no discussion, just move along. I wouldn't give it a second thought, but that's just me.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Some say this is unprofessional. I don't think so. It's a dog-eat-dog business world. Most companies have little regard for your convenience when it comes to their needs. If some would sacrifice a higher standard of living and level of happiness to stick with the original offer out of moral obligation, good for them, they are at piece with their conscience. Hopefully, the company would reciprocate such consideration, but this is unlikely.
Anyway, if Company A wanted you bad enough, they could make a better offer.
Just give Company A the truth. The truth will set you free.
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I once had 2 offers at the same time from A & B. I chose A, gave B a chance to barter but they did not. I then started working for A for a month, then B calls me back and wants to offer more money and pleads with me to leave A.
At this point, A had already bought me a laptop, and international plane tickets to attend training.
So I had to tell B, sorry, you took too long.
Company B actually closed shop 3 or 4 years later and I'm still at A. Probably just luck, but I'm going to call it good karma... LOL.
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NEVER, EVER, EVER reconsider. Especially from a company that has already reneged on their original offer.
NEVER, EVER, EVER reconsider.
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Send me 10 bucks through paypal, and i'll write one formal letter to company A for you. Or you can just call company A, talk to the guy in charge as politely as possible about your situation, and your life continues with company B. 
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Hi All,
Bob is dressed as a Ghost, He would be able to wander around with a disguise today kinda like ET!
Makes you wonder... 
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Um ... because it's the 30th, and Halloween is tomorrow?
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Ahh OK, its just with Halloween propaganda (adverts) & the number of Students dressed like extras from The Night of The Living Dead sprawled on the bench this am I got a little confused...
(ET caused the UK to celebrate Halloween in it current fashion anyway!)
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In Maunderland, it's the 31st now.
This space for rent
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There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call Maunderland.
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with your host, Rod Hamsterling.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It wouldn't suit him.
He doesn't look good in stockings.
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No, no, no - if you are going sexy - go sexy and triggering with The Sexy Hand Maids Tale costume
(Although Bob probably can't pull this off too well.)
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Amazing, all this fuss about a little red dress, hard to believe we are living in the 21st century 
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There are quite a few things that were better in the 'good old days', but I wish wish wish wish that the idea of hot slutty costumes for Halloween, an enormous cultural leap forward, had been around when I could have better taken . . .
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I read the thread - didn't have anything to add . . . until . . . until . . .
. . . I realized you never explained how you knew it was Bob. ????
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The Eye's dude, its all in the eyes, or so I am told...
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Because he's got a sheety job?
(Runs away without coat, too damn hot!)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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As I am starting working again on my home project... I sometimes review and rewrite some old class I use. The general theme of most of my rewrite, if not all, is less. Less lines of code, less methods, less parameters....
Now I put that in perspective with how I like to write code and how it impact my coworkers. I like to make as many members of my classes as public.
Why not? That gives everyone more control over my objects at no cost...
But, on the other hand, make my object more complicated to use, I now realise. What are all those public members for, they might wonder? While staring at an object they might need to use...
While, if I make as many members as possible private, that make my object artificial contrived to used (to my eyes at least) but also excessively simple (look this object only has 1 method and 2 readonly properties!)
Remark this post has been brought to you by: Work colleagues complaining about all my public methods and properties. Make them private they say.
What are your thoughts on the topic?
[EDIT] Thanks to your feedback, I found out it's a matter of context
I am too much used to write reusable utility control and library... what the point of a reusable class, say DateTime, if all members are private?
But hey if I am writing things like a MVC Controller, or the DoSomethingFormClass, or DoSomethinService, everything can be private there for all I care. And from now on I should make everything private there by default, so there would be no pointless arguing...
I think I might even go one further and do private utility classes 
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Everything that is not called from the outside should be private. Ie, as much possible.
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I create a set of simple methods with default behavior but also provide methods that allow greater detail.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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To be honest, I've never seen the point of fully private properties : private setters, or private getters yes. But if the property is visible inside the class only, why have it at all - just use a private field instead since the accessibility is the same and you save a bunch of getter and setter calls ...
public /
protected / ... properties protect your fields while making your classes more "generic", more "reusable", more "flexible" to my mind.
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I like private properties for event triggers, and I use them more often than I generally initially expect to.
That said, I pretty much never use a private modifier outside of a sealed class 
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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