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I've come and gone with various vim config changes, but this is the one non-standard one I've stuck with: au! BufRead,BufNewFile * lcd %:p:h This makes it so that when you open a b…

I don't see how this has anything to do with misogyny? Perhaps you mean something else, like stereotyping.

You're not going to change this. Yes, virtually every great programmer or computer scientist is a male. So much so that we're all going to assume they're male, and when we see a fe…

This is an awesome article. Here's an example of the usual non-explanation: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/question1... This is how it was always explained to m…

An interesting article, but built on the assumption that until a certain age you won't have any exposure to software engineering which wasn't true even in 2000. As a middle-schoole…

I'll start out with the classic: "Introduction to Algorithms" a.k.a. "CLRS" http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corme... I think this is all (and probably more t…

Neat idea, although to be fair the examples are straw men. I think most people would indent their LISP much more readably.

1) If you're going to build out an open office, make sure to invest in sound engineering to dampen noise. There is a big difference between hearing distractions in the immediate vi…

Sure, but here are some prejudices people will have about you going into an interview: - You don't want to work enough (~80hr/weeks). - You aren't familiar with new technologies or…

"In their right mind" or "reasonable" is not what "rational" means in discussions of economics. There also isn't as much of an implication of rational=good and irrational=bad.

Here's the main thing that fucks this all up: there are a very limited set of brainteasers out there. This means that if someone gets your brainteaser right in an interview, there'…

I interned at Google back in the day, and when I came back to school, I can only remember raving about one thing -- the food. It was absolutely fucking amazing. I gained 10 pounds …

Thankfully we're nowhere near where intelligence itself is being displaced, only small subsets of work that were previously the domain of highly specialized experts [sidenote: Math…

If it's new and you are pushing its boundaries, you will get screwed. Always. This goes for new major releases of MySQL just as well as MongoDB.

Oof, it's hard to draw conclusions from this. - The stuff the subjects are doing bears only a passing resemblance to the work that most of us have to do. - Surfing the web is proba…