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Doesn't it ever dawn on anyone that employers insist on detailed, accurate information about applicants, in standardized forms, while the information available about employers is a…

http://www.he.net/?a=39098199433&n=g&pos=1t1&p=&t=&m=e&k=hur...

Uh, no. There were once 15,000 ISPs! They were killed off when incumbents flexed their monopoly power. Instead of disrupting telecom, the new ISPs were forced into the old ways of …

Oceania, Eastasia, and/or Eurasia :-)

GPL, and probably other licenses, were constructed to work with copyright law. Such cavalier dismissal (by rxrz) is disrespecting those who created the licenses, the legal system, …

seems pretty subversive; may well be true

Of course, there's still no remedy for the fact that the annoyed are much more likely to speak up than the pleased, AFAIK.

Not every engineering solution survives politics.

How many atrocities have been committed in attempts to make it "not hard"?

Sadly, any developer of a 99 cent app might be sued for patent infringement, with no efficient and cost-effective way to find out ahead of time. Software companies have had this is…

I wonder if this means I can buy a product from someone that, unbeknownst to me, violates a patent, and the patent holder can come after me.

The Republican War on Science goes on.

Let the unintended consequences begin! I always found this change suspect; a frequent rationale was that the rest of the world does it this way.

I agree that glamorizing programming is not particularly helpful, except that coder-entrepreneurs can get more attention from venture capital. Glamorizing programming, along with t…

and don't forget the fact that there is new competition coming on the market everyday that is probably paid a tenth as much as you are.

yet another example of "responsive interface" meaning "designed for a phone or a tablet"

This is the sort of thing that happens when there are 3 or 4 gigantic ISPs instead of 15,000 local ones. Enjoy what the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act has wrought.

I hope this isn't just a rewording of "where are all the girls?"

Like many (any?) new environments, the Internet is rife with fools and charlatans. They make an ecosystem, in their own way.

Someone should explain to these companies how their webservers can modify the response to internal URLs (IE force to different landing pages).

My first thought was: "if Arizona is doing it, what's wrong with it?"

Remember how exercised everyone got about Window's private APIs?

time travel?

I should think the ASN.1 people got into this

and yet, they still get hired..