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The benefits are great at the USPS. However, salaries aren't great. It's difficult to witness much of the waste of deadbeat full-timers and even some incompetent staffed contractor…

what you describe does sound like it worked out well. my opinion is that there is enough demand for good programmers for the market to determine good wages/benefits. the usps union…

Programmers in the US Postal Service have union representation. This union also represents accountants. Members have the option to join the union or not join the union. Either way,…

Did you have anything lined out as far as a job? Sublet fell through twice in a week! Did you lose any money? My biggest problem is that I would need to sell my house before I can …

Hi, I'm planning to visit Silicon Valley soon as I'd like to check out the startup scene. Are there guides/recruiters or fellow hackers that are available to meet for a few hours t…

Are you tied into one of the online dictionaries via api? I had similar idea before social networking. I can see how this could take off. If not already, make it searchable by scho…

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I'd review the relevant trademark laws before believing a third party. Get an attorney if you still aren't sure. Question everything.

Any variables created in the method are cleaned up when the thread leaves the method. I've never heard of clean up being done after execution leaves a try-catch block. Does anyone …

I wasn't refering to those resources, only what the example showed, cleanup of objects in memory. Of course closing open connections is a must. That's day 1 stuff.

Isn't it obvious that FB wants to control the entire Internet? FB seems to steal ideas from small startups instead of buying them out. As they grow larger every day, they are killi…

I see too many programmers that get in it for the money and not the passion. Having passion removes the need to be formally instructed. Passion gives people the drive to excel and …

Books are good. That's how self-taught programmers learn.

Bubble Smubble. This bubble has a long ways to go before it pops. We're coming out of a recession! We have a few years left before we should be concerned.

What is Scheme? Sounds cake. We used Putty, Pico, and javac. I take it that this school is not an engineering school?

I agree. I'm guessing that the author doesn't even know what his database tables look like. Starting top-down doesn't make sense. As an OO programmer, it's not best practice to sta…

Why not just put the username in the cookie and make the user enter their password each time? If a user doesn't want to enter their password then they must not give that site much …

I like the company, but don't see the big deal. I did this very thing back in 2002-3 calling a DLL to convert Word to HTML. Their implementation is much prettier of course.

This is just a bad idea. Is this going to happen before we all get computer chips implanted in our arms?

This service seems like it could be a privacy nightmare like Facebook. Will joining affect my credit rating? In other words, will this service be validating my identity based on in…

A book that I would recommend for refactoring object oriented code (Java in particular) is Refactoring-Improve the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler (a friend to the Go4). W…

Apple is far behind Android when you look at annual growth. Let's not cherry-pick stats.

This idea of a 'Kill Switch' is nonsense. Lieberman is a pussy as he scares easily. Imagine the propaganda people are going to spread, like "the government wants to control us". Ac…

I am with the author. I deactivated my FB account back in December. I don't trust friend's opinions and don't trust facebook to securely store personal data of mine or prospective …