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I have no problem subscribing to Pages without Liking them. (Little drop down to the right of Like and Message buttons on a page; click on Add to Interest Lists...) As per the gran…

Gobekli Tepe is indeed fascinating. There's a good article on it in the latest National Geographic: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/gobekli-tepe/mann-...

Having only recently read Peopleware 2nd Ed., I've been mulling over the audition concept in the "Hiring A Juggler" chapter - effectively having a developer present on a project th…

Great idea, and well stated. I'll add a plus-one for filtering based on shipping territories. It ties in with other peoples' comments regarding personal shoppers, but once you get …

Likewise, but I'm using one of the newer ones (Natural Ergonomic 4000) and I like it. Been meaning to mod it ala tlb ( http://tlb.org/keyboardchop.html ) to get the mouse closer bu…

I'd agree about the insularity of the press and community around the MS ecosystem. I got a job programming blub in VB.Net straight out of college and am writing C# at the moment. I…

There's a lot of good food for thought here. I can empathise; I had similar thoughts in college that I wouldn't stick it. I love programming, sometimes even the Blub code I work on…

I can't speak for m0nty but I'd agree that I don't recognise the Europe of the FP article. I'm in Ireland, historically a very left leaning state until drastic measures were taken …

About a month ago, I was talking to a man that sells hardware and support to small businesses (almost exclusively non-technical ones at that) for a living. He said his company spen…