Viewing profile — drags

My understanding is that the "testimony" would be in the text of the password: compelling someone to reveal the password could be self-incriminating if _the password itself_ led th…

Race is the theme of the article: "Our national history is rife with examples of black Americans facing exclusion from labor movements, as well as general workforce discrimination.…

I think it's interesting that we're 44 comments in and nobody has commented on how race fits into this. She sees herself as someone working her way up into a freelance writing care…

There's some evidence that a related effect may not be real: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...

If he's the one who can't handle the breakup then shouldn't he be the one to leave? The knee-jerk assumption that _she_ should leave is an example of the implicit sexism that sucks…

>>> VERBA - San Francisco, CA >>> jobs@verbasoftware.com >>> http://staging.verbasoftware.com/ (we're mid-refresh) >>> Senior Rails/JS Product Focus - FULL-TIME or HALF-TIME with b…

If this story piqued your interest in late Communist Poland, give Timothy Garton Ash a read. His "The Polish Revolution" is a great in depth account of the 1980/81 Polish uprising,…

I'm being audited right now (over a $2,500 student loan interest deduction, of all things) and it's totally automated. It seems like they have an internal process that goes "Taxpay…

It doesn't fix the "custom book" problem, but if you're an instructor you should encourage your institution/bookstore to mandate price comparison for textbooks. We run white-labell…

I've mentioned this a couple times before but we hire Rails engineers for 24-40 hours a week + health insurance (in fact we're majority part-time at this point). It's not for every…

This post boils down to one statement: "every 100 days we have a 20-day-long crunch time". I'm all for getting things done, but scheduling arbitrary crunch times is a great way to …

This is where triggering deploys through Jenkins is really helpful. Now you have a record of which SHA was deployed, when it was deployed and a copy of the console log for the depl…

VERBA - San Francisco * Rails/JS Product Focus - HALF-TIME with benefits * Rails/JS Product Focus - FULL-TIME * Product/Infrastructure Reliability/Performance Focus - HALF-TIME wit…

This article makes it sound like an either-or, but JRuby is a mature alternative that allows you to pair Ruby's excellent web tools ecosystem (Rails foremost within it) with the ab…

It's easier to make this work when the company is smaller. One of the big advantages of SF (and especially the financial district) is that it's possible for most people in the city…

Why does it need to access my data on all websites? Shouldn't it only need access to mail.google.com? Same question for the tabs and browsing activity permission.

The federal system of justice doesn't generally work like this. Except where specifically allowed by statute US courts don't issue declaratory judgments, and the fact that LinkedIn…

* SF - Rails/JS Product Focus - HALF-TIME with benefits * SF - Rails/JS Product Focus - FULL-TIME * SF - Product/Infrastructure Reliability/Performance Focus - HALF-TIME with benef…