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Maybe it's more like companies should compete for people, and people should compete for whatever jobs or job titles there are to be had within a company. begin /mini-rant here from…

Hmm. My understanding is that it strips out a bunch of unnecessary (correction: able to be simplified, not necessarily "unnecessary") elements and makes it easier to write leaner J…

Remember that shifts are cyclical, temporary, and not the end of the world. Be happy for other countries which are finally getting a break.

Interesting how so many of them in this list share the characteristic of being fired from one job or another. Most innovative types don't seem to work so well in stringent environm…

I like pcnames: http://www.pcnames.com/ because it utilizes some nifty JavaScript, a kind of "search as you type" method regarding inquiries of domain names. It also (claims that i…

Indeed. http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2005/211008.h... From the first page of the DOJ complaint: "The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division today filed a laws…

Quote from the article: "The business proved extremely profitable for the banks, which earned a fee for each mortgage they sold on. They urged mortgage brokers to sell more and mor…

Skimping on sleep in undergrad and not regretting it, chalking it up as "practice" for life sleeping in a cube? That doesn't sound very fun. I think there's a saying. . . something…

>>5. Starve existing (and possible) social networks of users through network effects and platform lock-in (done) This is what Microsoft did. Maybe not necessarily with "social netw…

It's indeed an industry loaded with pretentiousness. Here's a clip from a related and interesting article about the wine industry: Source: http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/05/news/comp…

One of the more interesting things about web media vs print media is that web media's impressons are actually more documentable than print media's. Hand a person a newspaper, and i…

There's really nothing like a stereotypical "the burbs" on the peninsula -- or anywhere in the Bay area for that matter. Concepts like "the burbs" are perpetuated by the perception…

The peninsula is much nicer than the city, I think. I lived in the city for a little while after moving here, but after my car got broken into TWICE in one month, (even my sunglass…

>>>> ""I'm calling it," Roy sighs, "that's it." And so, at 4:20 in the morning, some 70 miles shy of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Roy puts his turn signal on like some average …

There was an article in Business 2.0 Magazine awhile ago titled: "Escape from Silicon Valley". OK, I just found it for you: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archi…

>> One of the most important things we've been working on standardizing are investment terms. I can see this being very beneficial, both for the VCs and the startups. The standardi…

"Our developer workstations boast 386 Mhz . . . and industry-leading green text graphics. .." This is classic! You people are hilarious. I'm still trying to figure out what that wa…

Wow, even my apology is getting modded down! I must have hit a nerve or something. :) To all who modded me down: way to jump on the bandwagon. Why is everybody so anti-HTML?

>>'If I have to open a browser to read your "plain text"....' If you are able to open a browser to read both plain text (source code) and a rendered page with some text, you can be…

When did it become significantly more difficult to open a web browser vs a text editor? Command-line? [indie@localhost~] $ firefox [indie@localhost~] $ gedit I don't disagree with …

A blogspot-templated blog; how cute. I always find it slightly humorous when people who profess to be "programming gurus" use something like a blogspot (or WordPress or MoveableTyp…

On your feedback page is this sentence: "Your opinion is very important for us since it help us to build a better preZentit for everyone. " Proper grammar would be since it helps u…

Hey, you just can't learn some of this stuff: "Service is always included and tipping can be taken as an insult, as if the recipient helped with the expectation of payment." (notes…