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901.
by jobu 13y ago
How is what we have today so different from McCarthyism of the 1950's?
902.
by jobu 13y ago
The change to the policy would have been understandable if Armstrong blamed it on the financial hit the company took for his $200 million blunder with Patch. He could have apologized and taken a pay cut himself, and most people would have
903.
by jobu 13y ago
This seems more like a political statement than an actual explanation. Armstrong pissed away $200 million on Patch, and is still blaming the $7.1 million in Obamacare costs for reducing employee benefits.
904.
by jobu 13y ago
I've noticed lately that texts to people switching from iPhone to Android will fail and require user interaction. When did this change? I recall texting a friend a couple years back, and it automatically failed over to SMS. I remember
905.
by jobu 13y ago
Occam's Razor - Which is more likely? 1) The US government has persuaded major media outlets CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NYT, etc. to bury the interview. 2) The German media company that did the inteview is asking foreign news outlets for more mo
906.
by jobu 13y ago
For anyone else out there that had no idea what this article was talking about, here is the link to the editorial by Tom Perkins that started this: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230454950...
907.
by jobu 13y ago
Great points, but I think #1 is the most important for affecting change (although #2 is the most entertaining). Keeping government shenanigans in the top of the news cycle means that elected officials are constantly under pressure to actua
908.
by jobu 13y ago
What could possibly go wrong... Anonymity + Audience = http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
909.
by jobu 13y ago
It really depends on the context of what you're trying to do. If you're whipping together something as a test, or if it's code that you _know_ will be thrown away in the future, then cowboy it up and get it done quickly. Good
910.
by jobu 13y ago
So look outside your city or your comfort zone and interview with other companies. You may be an exceptionally charismatic person that can get any job you want, and if so, you can ignore the blog post and my responses. Think about it though
911.
by jobu 13y ago
This article strikes really close to home for me. The company I had worked for nearly seven years laid off a bunch of people and I could see where things were headed. Fortunately I've been doing mobile development and it's partic
912.
by jobu 13y ago
I couldn't disagree more. Interviewing is definitely a skill (beyond solving interview problems), and like anything - if you don't do it often you will not be very good at it.
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by jobu 13y ago
Chip-and-pin is actually starting to roll out now, with a deadline for some types of transactions in October 2015: http://www.qsrmagazine.com/exclusives/are-you-ready-emv
914.
by jobu 13y ago
Is there any way for an average working schmuck like myself to capture some of these windfall corporate profits? Invest in stocks with sizable dividends?
915.
by jobu 13y ago
My favorite was the Best Cheat winner: /usr/include; perl -e "@c=\"x\"x(2**16); while(1) {print @c}" 1>&2 "Extra credit for using Perl, which is the only language less readable than C++ temp
916.
by jobu 13y ago
"Wage-fixing" is probably more accurate than "wage theft", but it is most certainly illegal under antitrust law. The key issues I see in the case: 1) they agreed not to do counteroffers 2) some of them shared salary data
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by jobu 13y ago
The title is a little misleading. The story is from one of the scientists targeted in the attack, not an insider from the attacking side (which would be very interesting indeed). Decent article, but not exactly surprising given what I'
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by jobu 13y ago
> Taken out of context, even a single vindictive or poorly composed review can be fatal to an instructor's career. Really? Is this something particular to Yale? Instruction was almost an afterthought at the Universities I attended
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by jobu 13y ago
This is my favorite part of the article: "We have been repeatedly told that these surveillance programs would have been able to stop 9/11, yet the NSA didn't detect the Boston bombings -- even though one of the two terrorists
920.
by jobu 13y ago
According to Amazon: "Even a product with negative reviews sells better than a product with no reviews at all." ( http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/29/241372607/top-revi... )
921.
by jobu 13y ago
The draw to snapchat seems to be the ephemeral nature of the communications. Both Facebook and Google have taken the path that everything you ever put online should be saved forever and shared with everyone. Snapchat is very much the oppos
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by jobu 13y ago
The joke that Google's 20% time is more like 120% time has been around for a long time. There was even a Dilbert strip about it a couple years ago: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19/
923.
by jobu 13y ago
That's a really good point. Its not just the useless people that reduce a team's effectiveness. A few jobs back, I worked with a person that was incredibly brilliant, and a very prolific developer. Unfortunately he made everyone a
924.
by jobu 13y ago
200 people isn't a huge sample size, but the study is still very interesting. This part made me laugh: With regards to sex lives, one of the most fascinating discoveries is that aging liberals have way more sex. Political ideology h
925.
by jobu 13y ago
Love the final statement from McCain: "If you believe that Mr Snowden didn't give the Russians information that he has, then you believe pigs fly." Snowden plans to give up all of the documents publicly, so I can see how this
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by jobu 13y ago
It's not that Facebook is required to have social interactions, but you're effectively cutting yourself off from a majority of society because it has become an expected norm. I have "real friends" that I used to talk to
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by jobu 13y ago
"We have a lot more disposable income than teenagers do." That's arguable. Most people I know with teenagers would say their kids have more influence on family spending than they do. For me personally, years of barely scrapi
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by jobu 13y ago
So is basic hygiene, but you can't expect to be successful in life without that either. That may sound somewhat hyperbolic, but as Facebook increases it's reach it is becoming true. Your personal network is often critical for fin
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by jobu 13y ago
I ran over a metal object on the freeway that punctured the transmission which started pouring transmission fluid onto the exhaust pipe and ignited. The truck was on fire for a few minutes before I was alerted by another driver and pulled o
930.
by jobu 13y ago
Well stated. It's difficult to progress to the management stage without drinking some of the company kool-aid.

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