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I don't believe that "unemployed" in this sense means "without paycheck." I considered myself unemployed after graduating from college because I was making my money by catering. No…

I'm putting my support behind this interpretation of the complaint. I spent some time at a gov't subcontractor and the copy-paste version of cya was clear as day. Sometimes you'd s…

Oh, that is interesting. It has been a while since I fiddled with... I think it was Fluxus. It is one of those things were I became insanely fascinated and then suddenly found myse…

I've also read of live coding with the language Processing and Python. I think the limiting factor is the existence of a REPL. What you are speaking of with the AST doesn't sound v…

I fall pretty dead on into the Level 1 category, though in certain areas I fall into the 2 and I think I managed a level 3 someplace... But, then I have Hopefully at some point I'l…

You aren't alone. If I had access to the book for my Project Management class, then I could give you exact stats for how terrible most estimates prove to be. The numbers are astoun…

It might cut down on the volumes of resumes, but once culled down to actual potentials, I think the effect of the "niche language" is minimal. I spend my time hopping between a bun…

Sheesh, from the comments you'd think The Register is known for level-headed journalism. It is a snarky, piss-taking, grease-trap that mixes news with commentary with little to no …

Just to be contrary, I actually don't like the Aeron. I sit in one 8+ hrs a day and I don't know if it doesn't fit me correctly (I'm 6'4") or what, but I'd prefer a different chair…

Arguably VB for Applications could come in handy for almost anyone. Though interestingly most farmers, carpenters, and other handy-workers are more capable of performing arithmetic…

I'm currently in a Masters program for Information Systems and one of my peers had the joy of having the professor of the class ask him why his answers and another student's were s…

Kento Cho also should get crazy amounts of respect. He just codes crazy shmups for his own amusement. Seems even someone developing for Wii took notice: http://www.nintendo.com/gam…

Check out PyGame. Also check out the PyWeek game development challenge. Building a game in a week is an invigorating challenge. I learned python during one of the PyWeeks and I'd n…

Interesting question, ultimately I think the answer is yes for three reasons. 1) Sharding helps with more than just performance issues. 2) Even the most efficient write performance…

The problem isn't with Nielsen's recommendations, it is his methods. He presents his findings as being based on scientific research, but unfortunately his methods are deceitful. Ha…

The issue is with false negatives (not finding real problems). It is hard to say that 100% of issues were found, because how can you quantify the number of problems that weren't fo…

Most definitely, otherwise you are really just eye-balling it and you don't want to find out that your small sample-set wasn't representative of your actual user-base. This is impo…

It was the one feature my household used the most, but whatever, I guess we'll just have to manually interleave our movie queues.

I think they just liked the picture and they didn't get exclusive rights to it. http://www.yiyinglu.com/sc/illustration/personal-illustratio...

Having someone who has successfully been published by the journal you are submitting to review your article will greatly help your chances. It will also probably smooth out the pro…

Hmm, I wish there was aggregation for search trends, I'm curious to see Baidu's statistics. I'm a little surprised by the comments lambasting the lack of China's presence in the st…

I wouldn't use it just because the keyphrase is mutable. It is bad enough that TinyURL obscures the destination, but with the possibility for the destination changing without even …

My buddy switched someone's explorer.exe with a Mac OS 7 emulator. It was hilarious.

Isn't being able to easily "get rid of" bodies the whole point of looking for outside help? I guess I come to the same conclusion, but without the cynicism. It isn't exactly profit…

If you go the wxPython route, then there is wxGlade to make designing the interface easier. http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/