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Recently referred a friend for an opening at the company where I work. He didn't even get an interview because someone from HR has decided that all developers should have a four ye…

Many people correctly surmise that the benefits to individuals are temporary and will sunset, after which their taxes will be higher than when they started. Also, provisions such a…

Fair enough, maybe it depends on your definition of "full bust". But consider this... if the price were to go back to where it was just a year ago before the current mania (which i…

Bitcoin absolutely could go full bust. It is not a physical commodity, there is no utility outside of its perceived value. It is not a company, so it doesn't even have book value a…

> About one-third of internet users stream cable TV without paying for it by using credentials of someone they don't live with There is no way this is true. Not saying that it isn'…

> "On the oth­er hand, we still lack a de­cent high-quality JSON Schema lan­guage." This turns data integration with JSON into a total nightmare. And to make matters worse, Swagger…

This should give the big Wall St banks the ability to muck with crypto prices however they choose, just like they can do with gold and silver and other commodities (for example, Go…

That's what the insurance industry is for. Just make the companies liable, and they will seek insurance. Insurance companies will force them to take reasonable measures in order to…

Criminals, on occassion, fail to comply with the law.

It is correct to hesitate to guess ethnicity based on names. Quite sure there are plenty of people of color named Smith and Johnson. Also, even if these were Caucasian names, the a…

Critical thought often requires intentional effort, even by those who value it. And many people that I come across do not even seem to value critical thought, especially when it co…

I find your post to be cynical. The article you attribute to Adafruit is not written by them, they just linked to it from their blog, ostensibly as food for thought and discussion.…

Why are we to assume this is a bad thing, or that it is even something that won't be sorted out by natural selection?

True enough, I just think it is a bit misleading to act as if that is somehow the colloquial Model F Keyboard when really they are recreating a pretty obscure keyboard relative to …

All of your criticisms are kind of superficial and senseless: - type annotations + HTML in comments - it is called javadoc - 80 column limit - lowest common denominator for most pe…

Article is a little misleading... you don't need "extensive modification" to use a Model F keyboard with a modern computer... the Model F AT keyboard can plug directly into a PS/2 …

Would love to see the creative functions y'all can come up with to validate this...

Are you sure it wasn't Jasmin? http://jasmin.sourceforge.net/

His father inherited his money from his own father, who moved to the Klondike in order to dodge the German draft and became wealthy by running brothels catering to gold prospectors…

Tried it out to see the easter egg... not only does it work, but the game is pretty awesome too

This feels like deja vu, except that I can remember that we've heard all this before. Still waiting since 2008 or so for Ruby and Rails to eat Java's lunch. I have no problem with …