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I think OP you are on the right track trying to leverage your skills in one area by applying them to another. I'm in the process of transitioning from IT to Law. This obviously tak…

The pop band Devo have been pointing out since the 1970's that people seem to be getting dumber as technology advances.

To paraphrase the epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren - if you seek his monument, log in.

This article sums me up. When I started in my current job I had a really smart guy for a manager who was interested in hearing new ideas from his people and generally championed th…

Facebook's lawyers have dismissed the emails as "fake". If they're not fake Zuckerberg is about to become a lot poorer.

What do you think about the Anthropic Principle? Not only in the sense that the physics of the Universe is just right for complex life to exist, but also in the sense that if alien…

I came in here to make the same point, though I too was pondering the karma hit. Have an upvote. To drag another tangential fantasy/sci-fi reference into the discussion, in an epis…

Two years ago my employer threw out the 12-month old decent chairs my IT department bought for ourselves, and replaced them with spectacularly uncomfortable new cheap ones. So I bo…

Do any of the sites use captcha? That wouldn't stop a human nursing a PC running bots, but it would stop someone starting a bunch of bots, then going to sleep for 8 hours.

Would cloud farms be practical if your assets lived on the cloud as well? That could solve the bandwidth problem both with the render cycle and collaboration with other shops. Or w…

Yeah, if I was an employer (and I have been from time to time) I'd probably read this, smile wryly, and move on. But someone else might not. I don't have a problem with the guy ass…

You could create a text file called alpha2omega.txt, which contains the line: Look at the binary representation of pi; you'll find the sum of all human knowledge encoded there in A…

Digressing for a moment, what about the reverse, i.e., how long would the average HR consultant last as a programmer? They'd have to organize a swap: the programmer hands over thei…

I see you are an undergraduate so I presume you're young. I'm neither old nor young, so let me tell you something (I'm not being condescending, I want you to take this to heart) - …

Yes, it's not just the volume of the noise, it's the nuisance: constant buzzing noises (especially high-frequency ones) are much more annoying than random 'household' noises, even …

Perhaps, but I did point out that I was talking about my direct experience. I must say that all of her colleagues I dealt with appeared to behave in exactly the same way.

Based on my own experience of MBAs I tend to agree with you. My company brought in a US name-brand management consulting firm to assist with a large M&A. One of the MBAs was assign…

No. Have a look at the posting on reddit to see why.

Something that emacs and vi users can agree about then - we're both glad that RMS wrote emacs!

I for one am very glad RMS existed to write emacs and save us all from vi.

I've seen a few bad lawyers and there are a million and one things they'd rather do before worrying about their typography. It'll be a long while before the bad lawyers' typography…

Impressive, yes, but they're not the first self-domesticating species. Cats pulled this stunt 10,000 years ago.

From my own experience, women of above-average intelligence and education tend to seek men who are at least as intelligent and educated as they are. Within that pool they will stil…

I experience the same symptoms. When I get over a difficult hurdle, and realize that successful completion is a 'formality' a wave of pleasure envelops my brain and I stop working.…

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it either, but in the situation you describe couldn't the cheater just raise on the flop? If they get looked up by their opponent, when they catch a luck…