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I've suffered with excess weight most of my life. It doesn't help that sit at a desk for up to twelve hours a day. There's more to losing weight than just calories out are more tha…

Dedicated? It's a job. That's all it is. It's not a 24/7 proposition. You show up for a reasonable amount of time (8-10 hours), work your hardest, then you go home.

The LinkedIn request is ridiculous. Even it would shut his PM up, he shouldn't change it. If he caves on such a stupid request, his PM is going to wonder what else he will cave on.…

Employment is a two way street. Your employer is not doing you a favor. You have an economic benefit to give to your employer. Your employer has an economic benefit to give to you.…

It seems kind of hard to get the west coast to protest against this. Perhaps, a lot of people out here are involved in this one way or another.

Don't create the app to begin with. If you want to create a company, pick one of many problems that don't require your users to hand over their data to you.

There's a lot of big names they have funded: https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/alphabetical.html

There are numerous groups that may have leaked this. For instance, it could very well be that the NSA itself put this material out there. Consider the following. Perhaps the NSA ha…

A third, unstated, option is the most important: domain experience. Work in a field for a few years. Learn its pain points. Learn what drives people crazy. There's tons of broken t…

What about those that go into risk management at a big Wall Street firm because they view this as the best use of their background? Would you rather have someone who didn't underst…

Why does QA not get any respect? This is something I have trouble understanding. I work in QA. I am fully able to read and write code. The engineers I work with have a background i…

It could be that there is a very large disconnect between those promising features and the team that ultimately decides on whether or not something is good enough to ship. Let's sa…

Are they just feeling insecure about the kinds of problems their generation is solving? Yeah! Figuring out the ad you are most likely to click on next is the best way forward for m…

Domain knowledge is important; however, even more important is domain experience. With domain experience, you learn where the bottlenecks and pain points are in your workflows. Dur…

Exactly! Just because you have an idea for changing things doesn't mean that you operate in a vacuum where real-world rules don't apply anymore. This seems like something that's go…

When I was a student at the University of Florida, I had the pleasure of working in the Special Collections department of the university library system. This is the department wher…

These words are so true. Employment is a mutually beneficial economic relationship. Employers want you to believe they hold all of the power; however, this is very far from reality…

It sounds like there are two things at play here: (1) You really want to work at this new offer, and (2) the new offer would net you more money. With respect to (1), your work is g…

I am moving out to Mountain View to start a job on October 22, 2012. I have a place to stay until I find something more permanent; however, I am trying to find something quickly. A…

I'm consistently somewhere between one and two Starbucks ventis per day; however, when I was in grad school (one-year lock-step masters program), my coffee consumption was signific…

That's great to hear. I don't really need a full apartment. I have a one-bedroom here in Cleveland, and everything I have fits nicely in that one bedroom. I am simply looking for a…

I'm here in Cleveland looking at the cost of housing in Mountain View. I've checked Craigslist and some of the apartment websites in the area. I am aware that housing is much more …

What is the probability of Congress actually doing something regarding this? Close to zero! Remember, these are the same fools that brought the US Government within days of not bei…

Does something you use on a daily basis bug the hell out you? Fix it. Here's one based on my persistant annoyance. If you are looking for an idea, look into fixing software in the …

I fly out to Mountain View for an interview on Wednesday (interview is on Thursday). I have been researching housing options in the area, and prices are all over the place. The com…