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I know that he's not popular around here, but this is damn disturbing and has been ever since last summer. What ever happened to working with talent instead of against it?

If you take a cab from SFO to Palo Alto, get a quoted price before getting in. Cab rates are bad as it is, but there's also a +50% penalty if you go outside of SF. It's ridiculous.…

Sounds like burnout. (My one-year graduate school foray was strikingly similar.) This is why I think it's generally a bad idea to go into grad school straight out of undergrad. Stu…

Alimony is such a perverse fail. If women really want to be seen and treated as equals, they'll come out full-stop in favor of abolishing it.

I worked in finance, where incentive pay is substantial, and it has benefits as well as problems. Salaries in finance are low-average by NYC/Chicago standards, while bonuses are hi…

I'm in New York, where dress is a bit more formal due to the Wall Street sphere of influence. However, the position I have in mind has nothing to do with finance. What defines a go…

Generally, I don't, and my last job was at a hedge fund. (Sailors, I hear, have a reputation for "cursing like a trader".) I get nervous enough about other people reading my code a…

When one is applying to a startup of less than 20 people, is it necessary to use a formal cover letter, or will a simple, polite email do? I dislike cover letters because they feel…

The problem is that drawing energy out of crops is very inefficient. Plants are very good at generating the complex organic molecules we need to ingest in order to survive, but pre…

Hmf. My bugs have created seg-faults, memory leaks, etc., but never oil. I suck.

A lot of great opportunities appear during difficult times. For smart people under 30, the coming "next Great Depression" is a boon. For as long as we've been alive, social connect…

Answering others' phones, with unknown callers, is one of those responsibilities that low-ranking workers always prefer to pass on to someone else. Answering phones sucks. The down…