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Hearing about the C64 always gets me humming "Hey Hey 16k" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28

Being cynical here, but maybe we have to consider whether alienating the US military-industrial complex (and their coterie of owned congresspersons) by purchasing a non-US warplane…

I'm guessing tenure-track positions in the Philosophy faculty are very much a buyer's market. The candidate didn't seem to appreciate this.

At the 71% schedule point, one day after coding on the perfectly designed spec has commenced: Programmer: "@%*#! We didn't think of that, the design will have to change."

The main takeaway here is that large companies have large-company pathologies. If you don't like that, work at smaller companies.

>> ...One example of this is Solaris SVR4 packages... I wonder what Google are using Solaris for, and if it's just legacy stuff.

I think the danger is that you might displace intrinsic motivation (pride in good work) with extrinsic motivation (doin' it for the Woos). It's the same problem as with employee of…

I want my company to use this just so I can write scripts to game the metrics. For bonus points, can it integrate with WooBoard ( http://www.wooboard.com/ ) so we can do ridiculous…

>> Seriously, whitelist only the domains necessary for the job Ok. How _exactly_ do you plan to whitelist the domain of every search result for every query of the form "How do I do…

Isn't it great that stuff like this isn't getting getting built in Flash anymore.

There is another theory that states that this has already happened...

I am uncomfortable with the implied support for out of date hardware copy protection practices.

Precisely. It's a bozo-filter. _You_ know you're not a bozo but the interviewer doesn't (yet). I ask questions like this in interviews because experience shows that a significant p…

Two monitor stories: 1. In my last job I calculated the price of a nice monitor as a percentage of my salary and told my boss that it would only have to make me 0.4% more productiv…

Summit is a verb now?

My workplace recently upgraded all devs to a dual-monitor setup. Now when I walk around the office the most common thing I see is one monitor for the IDE and one for Stack Overflow…

Traditionally, by leaving it on the train tracks.

"solutions tab" - that's almost an anti-pattern right there