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The more interesting post was the link to Phil G's blog post about the MIT reunion: "The medical doctor was at the peak of his career and in no danger of being fired. The universit…

> In the construction industry, a contract might not explicitly say that the building has to comply with local building, fire and electrical codes - that's taken as a given. That's…

Does this headline come from the most awesome copywriter we've ever seen?

You can do that with Scala as well. (or groovy or clojure...)

Also have an 8 yo and I can't think of anyone in my peer group that isn't thinking about their child's college. Of course mine attends a private school, so we may have different de…

StackOverflow solved a lot of usenet's problems, while creating an entirely new set of problems.

Yes.. It reminds me of a recent interview with matz: "The ones who do not challenge themselves to create new things are often falling behind - they learn a hip new language today a…

"My experience gave me the feeling that this was more of an interview assembly line than someone really interested in my relevant skills" That's exactly what it is... Effective int…

The fact that this is even a question at all, let alone one that could make it on to forbes, is symptomatic of the tech industry being a giant echo chamber. Are you a bad [lawyer |…

Spammy. But under no conditions could a 100 employee business be defined as a LIFESTYLE business! Wiki: In conventional business terms, lifestyle businesses typically have limited …

This is eerily similar to what happened with seo: people started to realize there was more money to be made teaching people how to make lemonade than there was in actually selling …

Indeed... Why?

in my version the fisherman had a nest-egg and a supportive village, killjoy... ;)

Sounds like the parable of the mexican fisherman: An executive from America was standing at the pier of a Mexican village, taking a much needed vacation. It was his first in more t…

It certainly appeared that way to me as well. Although I don't really use ATMs much today, it used to be a fairly regular occurrence to arrive at an ATM then have to find the "next…

Days since a sizable number of hacker newsers confused java the language with the jvm with the browser plugin: also 0

It's illegal in the US as well.

It is a normal question... I never said it wasn't. It's part of an interview process that includes an in depth review of your projects and roles, a technical screen, some design qu…

Well, around here you need more than just technical skills to get a job. As always YMMV.

True... I much prefer to ask what they have done in the last year to improve as a developer, and what they feel they need to do in the next year. But as an interviewer, you always …

Those are actually good questions. The work history serves as a nice interview warmup and is a good gauge of a candidate's ability to communicate. A bad answer is to mumble out wha…

I agree. When I read this list, my first thought was "I know exactly when you started programming, and the types of apps you were writing".

Some of my most enjoyable programming involved writing high performance multithreaded socket services with a copy of Advanced Windows at my side (back when tech books were relevant…

It's amazing how smug we can be and how we can lose all sight of perspective. When apple released their kit, there were already competitors in the marketplace. What the wright brot…

That's some unfortunate grammar.