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Skytap | Full-Time | REMOTE (US/Canada) | Mid/Senior Full Stack Engineer (Ruby/Rails/JS/React) Skytap, a cloud infrastructure startup based in Seattle, seeks a talented, mid-level …

Yep, I've had it for about 2 years. Biggest complaints are that the buttons are on top and easy to press by accident (although there's a lock button on the side), and the lowest se…

If you wanted mobility around the house while avoiding WAN latency and reliability issues, you could buy a server and keep it in your house, rather than renting it and accessing re…

I've heard this many times, but interestingly TurboTax says it's not true. http://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Small-Business...

People who have equity in their homes don't typically foreclose, and owners in NYC typically still do. Two reasons for that. First, property values in NYC haven't dropped as much a…

Also, the fact that they (okay, we) are concentrated in large cities like New York where wages for professional jobs are above national averages could drive the numbers up.

I was looking into this a while back, and I'm curious: does anybody know whether it's even possible to develop a sophisticated add-in for Mac Office? MS added VBA support back to M…

Really? Since when? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html : "FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic" http://www.joelon…

I'm not saying that simultaneous voice/data isn't useful. I'm saying that decent network coverage is more useful.

I'm pretty underwhelmed by that argument, given that my iPhone 3G on AT&T's network in NYC can barely do voice OR data, let alone both at the same time.

You just blew my mind. Thanks!

* Dual-monitor remote desktop! Please??!! * What are you guys doing with Windows Installer (MSI)? You create this installation standard which everyone adopts, then you stop support…

I worked in IT at GS for a couple years. 15-20% was about right for bonuses there, on average. In 2006, I got almost a 50% bonus, but that was an exceptionally good year.

Something like this is required as part of the recently enacted CARD act (in the US): "Credit card issuers must disclose to cardholders the consequences of making only minimum paym…

This is a question that interests me as a Varnish user with a several-hundred-line VCL. We exclude certain URLs from caching altogether, drop certain cookies but not others, drop c…

Moving from car ownership to Zipcar does introduce other burdens, though, especially around scheduling. You have to make a reservation in advance -- in my neighborhood, a couple da…

Also, people don't usually sell their house and buy a similar one in the same place -- they either upgrade or downgrade, or move to a different neighborhood or city, and in either …

27" i7 iMac with 8GB RAM, attached to a 30" Dell display (3007WFP). I switched about a month ago from a MacBook Pro (attached to the same Dell display), and it's phenomenal. It's t…

That's not necessarily true, because the RS Cloud rates don't include any bandwidth while the Slicehost rates do. Depending on your usage, Slicehost can be cheaper.

Yeah, a lot of companies do this. As somebody who went to a mediocre state school, I obviously don't care for this practice, but as somebody who does hiring, I understand. In addit…

I was on site at one of my clients, a top investment bank, and was surprised to see the guy I was visiting was using Google Apps for his work email. Turns out they were piloting it…

I live in Queens, NY and the B&N in my neighborhood has basically zero seating. It's actually the only B&N store I've ever seen like that, and I emailed them to ask why. The respon…

I don't know about this person's specific situation, but state laws do make a difference. In some states, the high-deductible coverage can be obtained by a single 20-something for …

DabbleDB is one of those products that I will probably never get to use despite being potentially very useful. Why? Because my company won't let me store proprietary information on…

Eh, it doesn't really work. I was looking for a book recently, and the B&N web site said that 4 stores nearby had it. I called to confirm, and it turned out only one of them did.