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What is naive is to assume without evidence that the actions of a handful of companies that employ a tiny percentage of software developers had a significant impact on average sala…

What "wage-fixing" are you talking about? Are you referring to the brief period in which a handful of tech companies colluded to tamp down salaries and cross-recruiting? Because th…

Every problem he mentions, except the timezone difference, is exactly the same when you're outsourcing to large IT consulting companies in the US. The only difference is the US com…

I believe they're attacking the challenge from the opposite direction: Gmail search can be described as "okay" and Google works tirelessly to make the main Google.com search experi…

Is "Stuyvesant High School" the new code name for Madoff Academy? I don't believe this for a second. I considered believing it, for one second, but immediately realized it has to b…

There's quite a lot of disability fraud going on, some of it downright shocking. Example #1: A couple of weeks ago, my brother, an orthopedist, had a 26-year-old man come in for an…

A few things I can recommend: (1) Switch to the Colemak keyboard layout -- it significantly reduces the work your fingers have to do. (2) Vary your mousing devices/behaviors. I lov…

It's a good thing Chris Hughes likes to break things, because he's irreparably broken The New Republic. The people who read TNR (myself included) do so specifically because it's be…

Here's another ideas site you might find useful: http://www.ideaswatch.com/

I'm so tired of whiny babies screaming because they can't have everything their precious little selves desire for free, free, FREE! Now the whiny babies are also developing potty-m…

You can, via Google, but I wouldn't bother — it's an egregiously stupid and shallow piece of link-bait.

The one in the middle is 24", the two on the sides are each 22". I do not limit line length intentionally, but it's quite rare that a line of code would go over 70 characters or so…

>But I guess if you didn't count @mentions in the limit you'd find people adding lots of people to a conversation in a spammy way. I'm not really sure how to fix that. Simple: cap …

You're right. Now that I think about it, the majority of Twitter user probably happens on phones and tablets, where there is no out-of-feed real estate for advertising, and a small…

Yes, but my point is that ads in the empty space around the central feed would not be "overwhelming" to anyone except chronic complainers. Ad blocking is a problem for all ad-suppo…

I've never understood why Twitter doesn't run way more ads than they do. When I view my Twitter timeline in a browser there's an enormous amount of unused space on both sides of th…

I'd pretty much given up on AWS for compute and moved most everything to Linode and some bare metal servers, but this service looks very compelling for discrete compute tasks. The …

Is endvr supposed to be short for Endeavor? I pronounced it as End Over, then instantly converted it to Bend Over, which actually seems like an excellent name for a job-hunting sit…

It's worth noting that Iceland is currently in the midst of a large ongoing volcanic eruption, its largest eruption in centuries. Large numbers of people find themselves having to …

I was attempting sarcasm; I may have failed.

It's great to see Amazon using its huge profits to fund this kind of bleeding edge technology. (Maybe someday engineers will figure out how to squeeze this functionality into handh…

“We envision a system where the programmer writes a few of lines of code, hits a button and the rest of the code appears. And not only that, the rest of the code should work seamle…

It seems extremely odd to me that this author would write an article lamenting the lack of a HyperCard-like development tool without mentioning LiveCode, which is basically exactly…

I didn't think I'd find this kind of site very useful, but after playing with it for a couple minutes I quite like it. Once you've implemented a few more features (e.g., options fo…