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There is no motivation on the defense contractor side to do anything more than satisfy the requirements of the contract. And any R&D spent should result in an interesting demonstra…

I no longer work there, but ~5 years ago you had to get approval per project. I went through the process once and it took over 2 months for them to say "Ok" to working on an open s…

There was a recent article in the Chicago Tribune about bringing dogs to work with the following quote: "What we're trying to create here, it's lofty, open, we bring in lunch, we h…

3 weeks. FYI: Something to be aware of is if the company shuts down at the end of the year. You may have to use 2 - 4 days of vacation around Christmas/New Years or take it those d…

Primarily size. When you have 256k or less to work with, you don't have much choice. Specific to Erlang: http://www.erlang.org/faq/implementations.html (see 8.9)

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Comments from previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5388535

You don't need to preach. Use the workflow that makes you the most productive, mention what you're doing to others, and roll with what happens. As a personal example, I'm not sure …

One of the concerns I've seen mentioned is that while it is illegal to pay less than the median, that median can be shifted by changing the job title. In the CNN article, it is men…

Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717237

Rephrasing a bit: Most people I know get more done when they aren't interrupted I'm a morning person, but unfortunately it is much easier to get an uninterrupted block later in the…

I had a friend who graduated from University of Iowa law school. If I remember correctly, he told me that everyone had their GPA bumped up by a third because graduates weren't meas…