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From Uber to "Uber of dog walking".

Paying MDs to do physicals is as wasteful as paying engineers to install software updates.

In the 1990s, I received mail addressed to CB3 9AJ

I did reputation scrubs for recovering alcoholics who couldn't get jobs because of pre-rehab pictures and social media posts. I was a volunteer. I still think I did the right thing…

Do you really believe anyone has the time to weigh individual performance when told to lay off 10,000 employees? I've been on both sides of layoffs. I've seen functions, groups, or…

Can you suggest a few such agencies?

She lived near me. Now I regret never knocking on her door. This tenderly brutal remembrance reminds me that "obituary" comes from Latin "obiit", which means "s/he went away". Good…

Amanita tortellini

You're right. Failed attempt at humor.

Building a universe one brick at a time, on a foundation of indisputable facts, Knuth is the methodological successor of Euclid and Aquinas.

Definitely alooma. It even uses alooma's semantics for naming variables and staging tables.

All true. But still a work of genius getting those gyro stabilisers into a consumer device.

This sounds like the pitch I got from a friend who drank the Theranos kool-aid.

I interviewed at ring before they were absorbed by Amazon. The hiring manager tried to close the deal with an inspiring story about using ring cameras to scare "gang bangers" who g…

Young, handsome, hungry.

When a friend was doxxed, I helped him get the problematic material excluded from current Internet Archive results. It was easier than I had anticipated. The volunteers who helped …

Positronic brains!

Yes yes yes. Work does not love you back. Scale your love. Allocate it in appropriate increments. Sell your attention _dearly_. And remember you have a life outside of work.

My neighbor gets regular deliveries of live roaches, which he feeds to pet lizards. They come by US mail from a roach farm in Arkansas. Some farmer must be laughing his way to the …

This was the first compiler I paid for as a grad student circa 1986. It was wonderfully useful, well documented. Tech support always responded to my letters and emails. And they se…

If they'll sell our QuickBooks data they'll sell our TurboTax data too.

Many people falsely assume that anything leaked from a lab was made in a lab.

Tips are kept by employers in many industries. Restaurants. Hotels. Spas. My solution is to always tip in cash to the person who provides a service. Never on a card.

Remarkable. Thank you!