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As a (former) team-lead and engineering manager (now back to working as an IC), I can say, to paraphrase Edward Gibbon, that management is seldom of much efficacy except in those h…

After suffering a mass layoff last year, one observation points to explicit and endemic ageism: All my former colleagues and reports 15-20 years younger than me landed jobs within …

Did you also get the uncomfortable bodyload that 2C-E is notorious for?

Refine your way to the Waffle Party

A point that bears repeating is that once your unemployment benefits run out, you no longer factor into the count of the unemployed.

Jean LeRay invented sheaf theory while he was a POW in Austria in WWII.

The New Yorker didn't even get the caption right. From L-R it's Kevin Saunderson (at the mixing board), Juan Atkins, Derrick May.

I'm assuming this is a piss-take.

I too never really grokked some essential points of linear algebra until I (re)learned it from a chapter in Hungerford's Algebra book, part of Springer's yellow GTM series. I was t…