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Perhaps you're getting caught in the labels, like mission & loyalty. It's not about buzz words, or receiving favors. In my experience, there is a substantial difference in the qual…

It depends on your definition of "excess", I guess. If you work out in the cardio section of any gym, you will eventually see regulars who are hitting some machines very hard, with…

That reddit group was just banned, 23 November, 00:01 UTC

I agree, but this is also a management failing, in not noticing the pattern. I've been able to successfully hire good people by noting that some interviewers are never satisfied wi…

No one has publicly said why she was fired. We only know it happened rapidly. It happened shortly after a Jesse Jackson AMA that went way off the rails, but that could be coinciden…

Man who hates Google concludes "Everyone hates Google," writes blog post predicting their demise.

In retrospect, I wonder if there was a better way to report that bug. Clearly the first person didn't get it, at all.

Card counting was hardly top secret until MIT revealed it. Edward Thorpe's "Beat The Dealer" was published in 1962. It did enter a wider phase of popularity in the 80s, especially …

My experience with agile/scrum is that it puts a more important bounding function on the product/biz side, where they place demands. The most effective scrum meetings I've seen hav…

I don't work for Apple or Google, but I can assure you that there is strong upward pressures on salaries for developers in the bay area. Housing prices are a bit more complicated. …