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How to Escape the Community College Trap(theatlantic.com)
81 points by vellum 13y ago|39 comments
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by vellum 13y ago
"Big companies like Google and Apple have defensible reasons to accumulate lots of patents: they need them for defense ." About that... The Rockstar consortium is an organization backed by Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson
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by vellum 13y ago
Some background: Over the past year, Valleywag has been taking shots at Pando and its editor, Sarah Lacy. Pando decided to return the favor. http://valleywag.gawker.com/search?q=pandodaily
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by vellum 13y ago
The middle classes maintain themselves to an ever increasing extent directly out of revenue, they are a burden weighing heavily on the working base and increase the social security and power of the upper ten thousand. https://w
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by vellum 13y ago
Delta has wifi on some flights, so there's always Skype.
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Study Links Autism and Somalis in Minneapolis(nytimes.com)
1 points by vellum 13y ago|0 comments
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O.E.C.D. Warns West on Education Gaps(nytimes.com)
1 points by vellum 13y ago|0 comments
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by vellum 13y ago
The LAPD started doing this in the 50s-60s, under Bill Parker. Parker's experience with the larger by per capita force of his early career led him to estimate that fewer but more professional officers would mean less corruption. Addit
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Tech Firms Push to Control Web's Pipes(online.wsj.com)
1 points by vellum 13y ago|0 comments
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by vellum 13y ago
This is amazingly short-sighted and dumb. A lot of the cash cows like Spongebob and Scooby Doo make an epic amount of money, and they aren't particularly tailored to one gender or the other. In 2003 alone, Scooby-Doo generated more t
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Should We Toss Our Vitamin Pills?(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by vellum 13y ago|0 comments
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First, Let's Fire All The Managers(archive.harvardbusiness.org)
118 points by vellum 13y ago|79 comments
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by vellum 13y ago
We don't we have ADHD or ADD as a notion in Europe. That's starting to change. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/8b721a20-b8e9-11e2-a6ae-00144...
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by vellum 13y ago
Try some l-theanine. It smooths out the jitters and the comedown effect. Take 100-200 mg every time you take Adderall and also before you go to sleep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine
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by vellum 13y ago
Simply Hired - They have a "Telecommute" filter on the left hand side under "Job Type". Watch out for scams, though. If a company ask you to pay for a credit check or training, run the other way. http://www.
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61.5% of Web Traffic Is Not Human(theatlantic.com)
33 points by vellum 13y ago|29 comments
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by vellum 13y ago
If everyone works on the same project, there's only so much work to go around. If no one wants to work on something, it's probably a sign that it's not worth doing.
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by vellum 13y ago
General comments: -Only a fraction of cases have comments, but your search function pulls up all of them. It would be nice to filter for annotated cases. -The home page should have some categories that people can browse through, instead of
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by vellum 13y ago
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under the bridge, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
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by vellum 13y ago
That's not really "flat" in the sense that the OP is describing it. What he's talking about is restructuring a company to look more like an FOSS project. You have the project maintainers (c-level team) that set the go
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by vellum 13y ago
Github is at 230 people now. They use open allocation for devs and designers. Looking at the new hires section[1] on their blog, they also hire support personnel for teams. "technical writer, focusing on documentation for Github Ente
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by vellum 13y ago
Since most of the jobs are oil-related, they involve long hours of hard labor in a dirty environment. There's also a housing shortage, so you’ll probably have to share a room with a bunch of guys. Also, company towns have horrible ge
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by vellum 13y ago
Get one of those adjustable keyboard trays that allow you to control the angle of the keyboard.
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by vellum 13y ago
EIDM is the consolidated Identity and Access Management System in CMS which is one of the largest Oracle 11gR2 Identity and Access Management deployment in the world ... Services available from EIDM have been grouped into four main service
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by vellum 13y ago
There's an interactive chart here: http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html
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by vellum 13y ago
At SJSU, 33% of the incoming freshmen need remedial math and 49% need remedial English. It's like that in most of the Cal State schools. http://www.calstate.edu/pa/clips2007/march/14march/unprep.sh.
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by vellum 13y ago
There haven’t been any real political consequences to supporting surveillance. Who’s lost an election over it? Until that happens, expect this to continue. It’s like how now one gets fired for buying IBM. The politicians are worried tha
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by vellum 13y ago
I'm not familiar with the Kuwaiti experience, could you elaborate? Kuwait has enough oil money to give their people free health care, free education, housing subsidies, and food subsidies. On top of that, they have guaranteed employ
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by vellum 13y ago
The Woman Problem Cosmo: A wolf in the command key files show how to Start Banning “Servers” Custora (YC S12) Reinvents Transistors Using JSON Ask HN: We Should Read (At Least Pretend to) Know What’s up Guy makes a knife from scratch. He h
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by vellum 13y ago
According to this study, there's an 8.7% unemployment rate for recent CS grads. For experienced CS grads, it's 4.7%. http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/HardTimes....

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