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Sorry, it's not what I think. I am basing my analysis on the many polls I have seen on what government services people expect. For example a large majority of people expect to have…

To me this is a symptom of the twisted politics around taxation in the US. You have one very powerful group that is continually fighting to lower or eliminate taxes and another som…

Thoughtworks using any opportunity to market themselves as usual. I hated working there.

HN needs down votes for crap like this.

I'm sorry but this is a very ignorant assessment. I spent 5 years doing research in academia and none of the professors on our team had as easy of a work life as 99% of the softwar…

There are a lot of very entitled comments to this post. I have a feeling that many of those commenters have never experience true hardship. It's easy for such a person to overlook …

I could not agree more. Great read.

I wonder who was deciding what to do at the bench and how those decision makers were spending their time. I would be willing to bet they spent a lot of work hours reading up on the…

How about life without nonsensical ancient superstitions? I am very much not being purposefully offensive when I say that. The initial premis of needing to fast is highly flawed wh…

A college student should be putting every significant "side"-project on their resume. You need to show that you enjoy programming and problem solving and for a student showing off …

If Kyle is being honest in this article he is a sociopath, no question about it. He obviously has major problems understanding social norms.

Anything that pushes back against the insane gun lobby is great. Let them build their own sites, the more insular and backward they appear the better.

There is one huge factor this article is overlooking: Do Asian-American students take more SAT training than other students. In China and Taiwan there are strong traditions of afte…