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I know it's hard, but stay positive here. You just had someone effectively offer to put in a good word for you with several companies in your country. Instead of 'I ran out of mone…

It's because the organisms get trapped between your clothes and skin, and they only cause a problem in large numbers. Bare skin doesn't trap enough to do anything, usually. Also, w…

Your rant is quite misguided. In this case, the CEO explicitly asked for people to email him: "I discovered that Legere put an emphasis on customer service -- listening to calls an…

Probably because it's split between everyone renting in the building, and while the tax is higher, it's not so much higher that you end up effectively paying the same amount. At le…

Assuming a 40% tax rate (overestimating) and the expenses listed here, that leaves 2700/mo spare, still a good bit, but: That 2k/mo child support payment is what's insanely high(th…

You should check out http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/ It's a blog by Bob Arno, a once stage pickpocket, who now wanders around the world looking for thieves of various sorts (and t…

Would something like the above code be on your interview? (pow = 1 : [ 2*x | x I'd probably fail it even though I do understand recursion. I don't know Haskell, and the above is ra…

This site is broken on an iPad...scrolling doesn't work at all

It would also be good to be able to change the 'expenses' field for ownership. For example, if you live in NYC there's pretty much no chance you'll find a place which doesn't have …

There is, actually, a loss to the provider. Every person's version of pirated movie X will be unique, which means the provider has to pay for more storage space than they would wit…

It read to me more like it was annoying for them. They want to get rid of ads so they can quit spending time writing reports for advertisers/vetting ads, and spend that time workin…

I don't see anything that mentions where he is...it's entirely possible that he's in the middle of nowhere tech-job-wise. If that's the case, the first move should be "go somewhere…

One more issue...if you login with a non-ec2 amazon account there's no logout link. I end up having to clear my cookies.

Just in case it hasn't been considered, this is all stuff that can be negotiated with the original company. With proper legalese (read: talk to a lawyer to get a proper contract) y…

If the employer wants loyalty, then they can pay for it. Maybe not literally, but when I really like my job it takes a hell of a lot more than an extra $10k/year to get me to switc…

Thirding. The "what is freedombox" posted here tells me basically nothing. It sounds closer to marketing fluff than an actual description of what freedombox is and does. Is it a so…

I noticed a bunch of people doing the math on a 100k/year salary for a 3br. Presumably, if you need a 3br it's because you have kids and need to give them each their own room. Is e…

This is something I'm going to have to deal with soon. I'm not looking forward to it, but I know that I'm getting significantly underpaid compared to new hires. I'm also better tha…

Reminds me of my current job. They asked for a potential hire's salary history to determine how much to offer them. They previously made, say, 40k, so an offer was made for 45k. Wh…

I believe OoTheNigerian's point is that he likes it when the sharing functionality is rolled up into another thing that you do. Say, every time you rate a song 5 stars, or mark one…

There's also Joe's impression of how much his employer values him: If Joe is perfectly happy working at 10k/year, but you're paying new people just out of college 20k/year it can c…

This. ;) When I'm mentoring fresh-from-school developers at work I constantly have to try to get them to think for themselves. They seem to want me to lay out the entire problem+so…

Some recruiters I've talked to do actually have a magic wand that tells them when a new job posting has arrived. It's called a personal relationship with the hiring manager at the …

One minor issue: On windows XP/FF 3.6 the font is a little hard to read: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/543/201111041105.png/ I'm not sure exactly what firefox is trying to d…

This isn't as simple as "push for equity". There are plenty of companies where equity makes no sense (say, a private consulting company, or a company with no plans to sell a la 37s…