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I am suprised anyone still gives out take-home coding assignments as part of the interview process. I have been hiring for 15+ years and have tried this approach many times. While …

I can't believe this story ended with a bunch of slogans fit for big corp motivational posters. This was a story of depravity, desperation, starvation and the horrible choices one …

Ukraine has been sounding an alarm about battles happening next to its nuclear reactors. I would think it's very hard to make any nuclear safety guarantees if the power station get…

There are some tools, I think the reason they will never become widespread or high quality is that voice is just not a great medium for conveying that type of info in the first pla…

something like this: https://sdgdata.gov.uk/2-3-1/ look at the table of labour productivity, it has been growing consistently and has almost tripled between 1973 and today

the article is a bit weird, I think it refers to productivity paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox But it is a well studied topic, with much more than 5 poss…

given that the article is about inefficient use of content delivery technology, it is poetically ironic to try (and kinda fail) to post said article on a website that doesn't allow…

Bone conducting headphones for running: Titanium AfterShockz. Love them, and not just because they don't block ambient sounds, but also the sound is almost unaffected by the wind, …

I followed your advice, turned on VPN, went private browsing and searched for "elm list". On DDG the first result was elm-lang homepage but the second was a tutorial on lists in El…

Seriously guys, this belongs on reddit somewhere. Who is upvoting this shit.

Best practice advice used to be "dont leave your commit message empty" and now it seems headed in a direction of some kind of storytelling guide. Up next: the role of character dev…

>> The math is brutal. While perhaps 9 out of 10 startups fail, the one that succeeds will pay the founders more than 10 times what they would have made in an ordinary job. > So ..…

> but is this really a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich? Doesn't most tax revenue in the US come from the rich, meaning they're covering most of the bill? Doesn't matter w…

They said they would build somewhere. The only question was which USA city.

All of that would be true in any other location. One could argue other locations actually need such infrastructure more. Amazon was not hiding the fact that they would build HQ2 an…

I don't know who you are referring to as NYC, but citizens of USA as a whole are worse off. Pitting one USA municipality against another to extract subsidy for what Amazon would do…

Wow when trying to leave that page I was hit with some of the worst adware attacks I have seen. It completely locked my android browser, filled history with dozens of entries of it…

There is a very interesting theory that claims one of the major factors leading to the start of WWI (not II) was that Germans could not change their mobilization plans to anything …

I also found it bizarre to use this term. It's called World War for a reason, on both sides there were multiple countries and nationalities involved. "German" side was also full of…

The article pointed out that couple years earlier the captain did exactly as you suggest and pulled away from the brink because of safety concerns. His company punished him immedia…

If you look around, you will find that info quite easily. Here is just one example of good analysis on that topic: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/11/legato-brexiteers-fa...

By the way, in the case of Dr Dao it was also not overbooking that caused him to get bumped off, but airline's assignment of lower priority to him than someone else. Just like in t…

"Too many humans" is a lazy, negligent argument by those who don't want to make any changes in how we conduct business. Deforestation in Brazil is happening not because humanity re…

That is the truth that is often overlooked. Feedback is not entirely useless, but good managers know that how useful a person ends up being, is not a function of his knowledge at t…

This is idiocy. There is no system in existence that I know of where you will be allowed to sit and try millions of passwords. About the only place I can think of is encrypted part…