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New York uses a graduated rate too.

did the Fifth Avenue address play any role in the winding down of this business

So, in essence, just suck it up. The funny thing is that JavaScript development isn't a goal. It's never the goal. Complex toolsets sometimes assist in the achievement of goals... …

It's not wrong

Learning in other industries is offered in institutional settings as part of the profession. Learning in the dev world consists of aimlessly screwing around with an undocumented, u…

This reads like it's from the original posted article

It is the ventilation building for the Holland Tunnel on the New York side; it's located directly above the tunnel, near the Manhattan portal. It's not accessible directly via the …

True and frightening. There isn't a particularly good reason why a modern middle manager has that much power over their direct reports.

These factors indeed would stress people out. Put poor compensation and poor quality-of-living on this list as well, since we now live in a race-to-the-bottom global labor marketpl…

Are you talking about married couples taking different bedrooms in one apartment? Or single individuals (not living as couples) taking different bedrooms in one apartment? Yes, we …

That IS for a single apartment I'm married & the thought of doing a "house share" with other married couples seems very cramped up & a recipe for disputes. This is aside the fact t…

The average sales price of a home in my county is $2,000,000 The lowest county average sales price within a commuting hour of my workplace is probably $700,000, to live somewhere f…

My comment didn't speak to the pre-WWII era, but going back to the nineteenth century, the U.S. has always had a robust workforce more-often-than-not offering opportunity for upwar…

I really don't see 70+ year old people working staff jobs for 50 hours a week with brutal commutes and skimpy PTO benefits, as is now the average for people holding a single role f…

I'm a supporter of a large transportation advocacy group that strongly believes in this shift in terminology. I believe in it personally, too. Anyone who spends some time observing…

"City Workers Repair Earthquake Fault" give em a bonus this year

Tumblr's founder is strongly involved in the product decisions there. Prior to the Yahoo! acquisition... there were still a ton of head-scratchers in product, marketing, and operat…

It's creating new peaks at previously non-peak times. We don't know precisely what effect that will have on the grid utility business, or what effect that will have on overall grid…

Part of the struggle is to make sure that one subculture of businessmen in SV isn't allowed to position themselves as entirely representing the interactive media industry. There is…

I'm oversimplifying and muddying things by referring to funding, so let's bring this back to what it's supposed to be about: I believe, from what I know, that this is a company wit…

I'm a web producer and developer. I'm an early commenter from Slashdot, Ars Technica, and Gawker. I've been using online communities for 22 years, longer than some people around he…

It's a placement agency so, yeah, don't fully trust those numbers. Then again, you'd have to think that those numbers represent the sort of market that would use staffing agencies.…