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I'm going to have to be the dissenter here. Namecheap also does domain name front running and tasting, so it's not really any different.

Not really, no. Raising the price of gas negatively affects the working poor more than helps the environment. That subset of society may not live in an area accessible by transit, …

Trinity and Beyond narrated by William Shatner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_and_Beyond

This happened to me at Amazon the first time I visited HQ. The interviewer was standing about six feet away intently watching for every mark I made, which made me freeze up and sta…

Having deployed and maintained both Confluence and MediaWiki, users like Confluence better. Going from that to MediaWiki would feel cheap to them, or they just wouldn't use it beca…

As a former devout Fluxbox user, I concur with this comment. I use a pretty bog standard Gnome now. It's not really an active thought so much as something that Mostly Just Works. M…

Coincidentally, some of those same people who would say they don't primarily consider degrees will outright ask about education background when talking to a candidate. The conversa…

> That doesn't make sense to me... I think it's more likely that tech workers get higher salaries because they were/are in high demand, not to prevent unionization. The inverse is …

Sysadmins have guild-style organizations (see: USENIX, LOPSA) but they've not had as much impact on hiring and income as would like to be believed. If anything, they've served as a…

The incentive to come together as a group is not about how much an individual is paid, but to come together over a common ground and influence change that benefits the many over th…

With such a level of cynicism, nobody would ever be hired. People game the system because a system exists to be gamed.

You'd be surprised. :)

I was almost there with you until the bit about the gig economy. This reads more like an advert for Upwork. People giving up leverage with labor just gives 'them' the upper hand. W…

This does not reflect my experience at the >10k employee level of company. I've had a more reasonable work week out of the 150 employee consulting firm than I have the 10k employee…

My last 'coding interview' consisted of a debugging a broken live VM, with a Java app waiting at the end of the rainbow. The job was for working on bare metal provisioning using ya…

Retired In Place is likely what was intended here.

Not long ago, I worked for a brand you can find in every Best Buy in America that also sells direct on Amazon. Returns would come back used/opened/filthy by the crate, and they get…

As a senior-level self-taught, I redacted this post because of my views on whiteboard coding. Downvotes are not cool.

People like to network. Consider it a business card with words.

You're overthinking it a bit, and that's understandable. Records and letters, in my experience, are more doing-motions-to-move than actually doing anything. In general, nobody care…

Looks like we broke it.

Funny enough, this comes up fairly often. The basicish feel of the site belies its true nature, and it's downright intentional. Also, only brainy smarties would intentionally go to…

When I'm in the employee seat, I try to avoid managers that use blanket statements of people. The 'best' workers, where everyone -- including their manager -- goes when they need t…

Ad hominem is the best way to get the point across. Don't ever change, sir/madam.

Loved Austin when I lived there. I went back earlier this year and it just wasn't the same. The hypergrowth over the past few years has turned moderately annoying traffic into a dr…