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Hah! I've been thinking about this a lot lately ever since watching a documentary on a pretty internet-famous guy with autism (I'm not going to name him, but you probably know who …

Eh, way in the future though. It's a classic tragedy of the commons. Each individual company is better off discriminating, but ultimately it causes a depletion in resources (i.e. e…

> simply because it is so far remove from the actual engineering workflow. Err, what? Fizzbuzz is NOT a riddle. It's intentionally meant to be a stupid simple test, and everyone ha…

Eh, he's not wrong (even if he's being a Walter about it). HR is not a union for employees. HR is there to protect the company: It just turns out that the company's theoretical (ke…

> That means always out looking for great people who are also a cultural fit and bringing them in regardless of whether there is an open position. > I speculate that there is a typ…

Isn't this just eerily reminiscent of what happened with depression babies? Widespread, extended, negative macroeconomic event happens. Those experiencing these events at crucial d…

The article doesn't say that. As an aside, long-term (which is where we really care about "healthy" anyway), you would probably expect body builders to be healthier than some class…

Hm, this article reads like kind of a puff piece for Amplio. > similar efforts to “grade” American schoolteachers, for instance, have perhaps generated more controversy than result…

They're most likely thinking about it from the flipside: grand juries rarely (if ever) vote to indict police officers involved in fatal incidents. Not that it changes the point of …

Unless I misread this, the reason he was incarcerated to begin with: > Asheem was charged with conspiracy in the third degree. The evidence was the gun charge to which he had alrea…

That's seriously insane. Hypothetically (realizing there are numerous practical obstacles), could this be challenged in a federal court? It seems like an egregious violation of the…

Wow. Totally crazy. My takeaways: 1) Don't be born a poor urban youth 2) If #1 is unavoidable, don't have friends (and don't go anywhere because you might get jumped because you do…

Hm. While good advice, this seems like just general life advice not specific to programming. If you're the kind of person who says things like "TextMate is for n00bs" (or some vari…

Hmm. Preface: I do not work at Google. > I would love to see one single company that isn’t dominating a market with no cash cow in-flow that can succeed without strict discipline, …

Yep! Not a cushy job by itself, by any means. Certainly requires two people working full time, all the time. This is in contrast to 30 years ago, where one working spouse was suffi…

> Working in an Amazon warehouse is a pretty average blue-collar job these days. Eek, I hope not. That doesn't bode well for blue-collar work in America. Working at an amazon wareh…

Interesting. The detour at the end about weed is also kind of weird. Not sure how I feel about it. Sure, addiction of any kind is something we should probably investigate and help …

> Most companies provide better benefits than what is legally required Cool, let's just bank on the generosity of companies. > Unlike something like cancer pregnancy is not an acci…

Sorry, just going through I just saw your comment, but I thought you deserved a reply. > apparently the medical system even under such physiologically unhealthy conditions still ha…

I'm not sure I find this article all that compelling because I think it's founded on a faulty premise: > Email is the "dumb pipe" version of communication technology, which is why …

> then potential MDs would stop going through the program seeing that on the other side you are just abused. Not necessarily, for the same reason that people join fraternities/soro…

> Is this just one of those cases where, if you made it through medical school for an obscene number of years, you "don't care about the money" I think it's more like "holy shit I …

It seems like the major gripe is against passwords like "p@assword", not against passwords like "correcthorsebatterystaple". If you truly choose 4 words randomly, the number of pos…

You didn't answer any of my questions.

> I categorically reject the notion that any city which has the longest commute times in the entire country as having a good transportation system By how much? What's the variance …