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My first job was at a tech company with a union. Boeing. It was ridiculously bad. I've never worked with less talented people. One of my coworkers did nothing, at all, for 2 years.…

Burry is a hedge fund manager. The most important part of his job is to scare people away from the S&P and entice them to put money into his fund. It's generally a mistake to trust…

Anyone in the country who buys gas benefits from lower gas prices. That includes a lot of poor people. My mom lives in upstate New York, in a low income area. People there are very…

Not a proof. But a useful anecdote. No one is doing large scales studies of how many people meet their partner on FB, so anecdote is all we have for that. Most of the criticisms ar…

The amazing thing here is that rats are intelligent enough to learn to drive, albeit a simple vehicle. That alone is newsworthy, without the experiment on stress reduction.

It's not "literally impossible". The socialized healthcare system could be corrupt, poorly run, or have other serious problems.

You don't understand correctly. That's not even remotely what the article said.

This article significantly misconstrues Buffets investment style. He does invest for value. But he doesn't even think whether a stock has "bottomed in the market price". Predicting…

This is beautiful. Well done. This is the first comment I've made in a year - it's that cool looking.

This is very useful, and to call it disappointing is rude to the creator of the tool. Why would you say something so negative just because it's not perfect? This is the problem wit…

Is Stacker a proprietary 37 Signals thing? It doesn't seem to pop up after several search attempts.

Nope, fast fuzzy search is closer to find than grep since it looks for files. But it requires less keystrokes and precision, allow you to be lazier. It's a much more fluid experien…

The number of lines of codes, in this case, speaks to the amount of features in the framework. Rails is harder to fully understand than Sinatra because there are many, many more fe…

Steve Jobs had an extremely rare form of pancreatic cancer that has a very good 5-yr survival rate if caught and treated early. The article is likely accurate.

Just like all things, both nature and nurture are strong factors. Certainly genetics play a factor in IQ, just as they do with other personality traits such as extroversion, or phy…

I was going to say that Firefox's lack of innovation and quality in the last couple of years, as compared to Chrome, could be due to lack of funding. But it turns out their revenue…

Wow, indistinguishable from java. Statically typed and uses generics. Are you kidding me. Dear Google: seriously? :(

I'm glad to see an outstandingly helpful member of the rails community earn income from what has been a mostly altruistic task that must take a lot of time every week.

What are you talking about? The cost is shown in several areas of the page, and "pro" usually means the pay version.

Not true. If you have investors and two cofounders, both cofounders will have less than 50% even with an even split. And a cofounder coming on after a lot of work has been done doe…

I know Joe personally and he is not condescending or an asshole. He's an extremely nice, personable guy who happens to have done some amazing things that have changed the web (like…

About 80%. Perhaps we're more vigorous with resume screening. Over the last 4 years of interviewing, I've become very good at resume screening.

Rewriting the spec for a feature takes a lot less time than rewriting the code.

Code completion, syntax validation, and built-in API documentation are useful features. To say they're things that only beginners or bad programmers use is absurd. I have much bett…

Regardless of possible testing or analysis concerns, it's pretty clear that Safari 5 has a higher error rate than Safari 4 or 3. Safari is the only browser to go down in quality ov…