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The exams and credentials part is certainly murky. One could argue we make it worse in tech. Among the certifications I hold is at least one with "certified engineer" in the title …

I prefer the term "software engineer" for a reason I haven't seen yet in this thread: clarity when speaking to people in other industries. Among many of the people I talk to on a r…

Ask any tech worker in an office about the free snack selection. My coworkers get genuinely outraged when we trade out one brand of prepackaged nuts for another, or when their pref…

Why stay on premise? Cost. On-prem is roughly on-par in an average case, in my experience, but we've got many cases where we've optimized against hardware configurations that are s…

How is that working out? One challenge it seems ever locale is dealing with is a large faction of people who cannot see the forest for the trees, so to speak. It seems everywhere I…

> I am a dropshipper and average margin on products I sell is 60-100%. Name checks out.

This is a good cause, but the headline given to this post threw me. Clearly, it's meant as "make communication between prisoners and their loved ones outside of prison free of cost…

The number of rides is useless in estimating the percentage of the population with high risk for exposure if you don't also have the proportion of the population exposed to that ri…

Cigarette smoking rate is widely studied; no reason to use anecdotal data here. The tobacco smoking rate in New York is 14.1%; it's 11.3% in California. Some difference, yes, but f…

Actually, no they don't. There are 5.6m rides per day. The average trip contains at least two rides: there, and back again. Many trips contain substantially more than two legs, and…

The employer has no legal way to mandate that. That said, if it were consistent with generally accepted recommendations from the government, and my employer was not just allowing b…

Hmm, why _does_ RaspberryPi.org use a Raspberry Pi for this? I guess we'll never know.