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I happened to come across her on 60 Minutes a couple of weeks ago, and that interview seemed awkward and sound-bitey to me. Thinking that she just might not be great at short-form …

Cigna denied my claim for an ER stay for a broken leg because it "wasn't medically necessary". This whole "click and close" thing is so obviously happening that I find it hard to b…

The primary situation where I find this behavior useful is on the web where I find Country drop-down lists. I am trying to find United States. It could be "United States", "USA", "…

In what capacity are you counted in this situation? I have a hard time believing that "asking a friend" somehow makes it into government labor statistics.

I recall that it was either old versions of Solitaire or Freecell that had the same issue. I remember intentionally losing games until my points were -32767ish, and it was the firs…

I find this whole "the division in which you work is no longer profitable, so therefore we're laying off everyone who worked there" mentality that larger companies have is offensiv…

This is a bit of an aside, but I have a question that I'd like to ask the wider community here. How can you do a proper bug-bash when also dealing with Scrum metrics that result in…

> how do they solve it? Release iMessage on Android. If there is a concern that it wouldn't be secure with Google controlling it, then they could put it out on F-Droid, which would…

From everything I've read on the matter, I believe that the UX nightmare when you include a non-apple user is an intentional design choice, rather than an engineering problem that …

Asking candidates to come up with this kind of solution in an interview setting where they are under all kinds of pressure is honestly dehumanizing. There's a lot of good insight i…

My primary phone number is a Google Voice number, and I am entirely legitimate. Just curious, how often are other people filtering with this kind of criteria? I have been consideri…

There's some interesting discussion in this thread about truncated vs winsorized means. For my own part, this is the first time I've come across either of these terms. I tend to be…

Actually, that kind of thing makes a lot of sense to me and I think it's a good idea. I've read so many stories about hardware with bogus ACPI and EDID data causing problems with L…

> How can there be no books published on the subject of Wayland programming in 14 years? Just my personal observation here, but I don't see a lot of value in programming books any …