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I just changed the password to some long random string so I’d never be tempted to log in again. Lack of password recovery isn’t a bug there, it’s a feature. Going to do the same th…

How is the TSA political?

First-generation ethanol Ethanol has been produced for ages. It is ridiculous and unwise to call it "first-generation ethanol" or even "first-generation-process ethanol". The fact …

"Engineers are pretty nice people, and they assume the rest of the world is pretty nice like them," said McAfee. "But that's not the way most people are. And if you build (software…

For those interested: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Theanine and there are supplements available if you don't want to give up coffee.

Sure. If someone took the time to write a book about what s/he thinks, and I don't mean teaching some subject (including their experiences in the subject), or writing some other fi…

I'm against the death penalty also, but this is misleading. Just look at Central America, parts of South America and parts of Africa. There are and have been many, many killings by…

Self-publishing a mini e-book that shares your perspective with the world This would be a definite "minus" in my book in a potential employee, unless I was hiring an editorialist. …

Retry would work for small time differences, but would mean greater delay (and subsequent "I give up"), if the system clock were to be set backwards a substantial amount.

Curious about this in snowflake (mentioned in slides): https://github.com/twitter/snowflake/blob/master/src/main/sc... def nextId(): Long = synchronized { var timestamp = timeGen()…

I'm not sure a kilt would help- they'd just pat you through the kilt. How about some bike pants? That way the TSA can see what they are getting into: http://www.amazon.com/Nike-Ech…

Not legal advice for sure and take it with a grain of salt, but first I'd: - Get all of the evidence you can that you distributed it first. If this requires contacting another comp…

I personally don't think options are usually a good deal unless you believe that you'll be working for the next Google, Facebook, etc. I worked for a company that was hot as pizza …

I can't believe that the interviewer is asking the interviewee to implement a sorting algorithm and is making fun of candidates online. That certainly is not a place that I'd want …

I'd like to have that for my commute.

In GitHub, that's not the case. People often fork Rails, etc. to make a change that they need locally but will push that (easily) back up to the main project for consideration. For…

I'm all for going just what needs to be done, but I think you are not giving good advice about "hiring scrubs". I worked for a successful company that had a younger less experience…

But before doing that, consider if the community you are trying to build already exists: - Lots here: http://area51.stackexchange.com/ - Programming, etc.: http://stackoverflow.com…

but your username is notmyname... oh, we could be here for hours, like Abbott and Costello http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M

Have you done at least 10-15 years of it and are still a coder and not a manager?

I want to find out whose company name was redacted from the post.