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High pay? A really good courier makes maybe $40K. Most make less than that.

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In my family we call this "protective incompetence."

I'm not at all sure that's true. That is, I agree that many people probably understand that mean and median are both things, but suspect that a minority of them understand how and …

Good advice. My first (sometimes only) question when I interview people is: Tell me about your favorite project.

Back in the days when I traveled a lot, I would ask for some sort of on-the-spot compensation - usually, put me in first/business class on the rebooked flight. Sometimes it worked,…

I've looked at this pretty hard and concluded that, inexplicably, it is not an April Fools joke.

You Europeans with your sensibly-designed cities. My shortest commute ever was 12km, and my current one is almost 30km.

There are many hunters who believe that it is wrong to eat meat unless you kill and butcher it yourself.

I was a vegetarian (abruptly) for a couple of years. Eventually I started to feel sort of icky, not properly nourished, though this is probably the fault of my specific dietary hab…

No idea which of us is more typical, but my doctor is awesome. Preventative care is deductible-waived, so there's really no good reason other than laziness for me not to get a regu…

A health problem that you are aware of . You're supposed to see a doctor periodically because they might catch health problems that haven't yet advanced to the point that you know …

About a decade ago, I got a physical after having not set foot in a doctor's office in about 12 years. The doctor asked what made me come to get a physical after so long, and when …

I thought I remembered reading that the average price of the preorders was in the $40K's, in which case that $35k price isn't very realistic.

It's surprisingly difficult to find the median car price. I just spent 15 minutes googling and could find neither the statistic itself nor a source of the data from which I could c…

I'd like to see that math. Highly skeptical.

Please. A shitty, low-paying, long-hour job with a great mission is still a shitty, low-paying, long-hour job.

The best movie I've (finally) seen in recent months was El Mariachi. He made that for like $8K. Assault on Precinct 13 (the original one): $150,000. The list goes on and on. The Wa…

Zaks is one of the best programming books ever.

Starving, no. But making a lot less than you could make elsewhere.

Well, it definitely filtered me out. And BTW, $163K is for a step 10. New government employees almost always start as a step 1.

Totally agree. I'm inspired by what they do, but working there would involve a big pay cut and a punishing commute, so (with some sadness) nope.

Turbo Pascal was also where I wrote my first professional software (not for $$$ - it was an internship - but I'm counting it). It was a program to gather, process, and display ther…

A colleague and good friend of mine was a surveyor before he went to college in CS. He said the surveying was very pleasant, but the job also involves a lot of driving.