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Letting software engineers use their favourite tools, even if those tools are suboptimal, is a way to make your engineers happier without paying them anymore. it may cost you more …

I, for one, can see what he posts and they aren't hidden in any way.

In vanilla C, exceptions do not exist. Thus goto is the standard (at least for the Linux kernel) statement for handling exceptions.

Inkscape is defiantly software where reading the manual is a good idea. I tried to use it with out doing so, and found it unusable.

Not all markets are superstar markets. Some places the 100th best worker is about just as good as the best worker, like for janitors.

Use boustrophedon for equality!

Many countries are irregular polygons like Chile. Thus a square is very close to a circle, relative to the other shapes.

Less well known languages like Japanese tend to have higher returns on investment than common ones like Spanish. IIRC Spanish has a return on investment of about 3%.

This only works when there are economies of scale. If there are significant dis-economies of scale smaller firms can out-compete the large firms. The large firm can't just buy up a…

Job training by employers doesn't work great, because the worker can get training at an employer that gives training and then switch to one who pays more because that employer does…

The business owner also doesn't have the training to account for the actions of all the other businesses. The economics professor does.

Some employers dislike tipping because they can't control what percentage of the price of food goes towards paying the wait staff.

Having little or no fees was supposed to be one of the big advantages of bitcoin compared to traditional financial transactions.

Note that MySpace still exists.

Woot! I can stop feeling guilty about hosting my hobbist code on sourceforge out of laziness and not understanding git.