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You're welcome to question his motives, rather than address the substance of what he's saying, if you'd prefer.

BTW: the point about drug testing applies to the handful of cool, geeky, "Agile" companies that adhere to this ridiculous practice, too. In fact, a certain company by the name of P…

Everyone knows the hours are bullshit, and actually impair productivity and judgement. But they're there to serve a Higher Purpose: to engender classic, Stockholm Syndrome endearme…

It's like so obvious, if you've spent any time at all working for one of these places. Or heck, even interviewing with them. Here's what it all boils down to: aside the quants, the…

Precious. Another instance of the principle that money is, in many ways, like violence: you'd like to think that if it hasn't solved your problem already, if you just keep throwing…

Not a bad analogy (despite the fecal reference). Arguably the U.S. should also have been sanctioned by the world community for the abuses at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bagram and else…

Positive activities like this competition will probably help make an end to this insanity How, exactly?

How'bout a drone to enforce the death penalty for the open practice of homosexuality (UAE being one of 10 countries in the world to do so): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_right…

This makes business ethics a lot more complex. Complex, yes, but not nearly as complex as junior founders tend to think they are. Like as not their definition of a "complex" busine…

Sarcastic it was, I confess. But to the friend of mine this happened to (at the hands of a 25 year-old first-time "founder"), it was anything but. And when they gave their "explana…

What do you mean, "without cause"? There are plenty of good reasons for firing people just after you've hired them: "We really appreciate your strong backend skills (especially bei…

More likely it was an aggregation of events that prompted it. It's amazing the extent to which (what should be) self-evident principles such as this whole "fairness and respect" th…

A couple of remarks: (1) I'm just putting this up there for the picture feed; not because I support the viewpoint in the blogpost (which I declined to translate further, once I cam…

California's right of access to the shoreline does not override the pre-existing property right. I think what you meant to say was: " The defendant's position is that California's …

"Underpowered" would have been damning enough, and a reasonably fair accusation to make. But it wasn't good enough for Horvath: in order to get her point across -- and to play with…

"No investigation" was just another instance of manipulative communication tactics on her part. She knew very well that an investigation was being conducted; it just wasn't an inve…

The patently evasive language of Horvath's non-denial -- contrasted with the very specific language in the (albeit anonymous, but credible-sounding) medium post -- make it increasi…

...for some value of "parsing"

If you've ever watched someone pass -- you'd know how true this is. Tens of thousands of times over, they've desensitized us to the most intimate and intense of experiences. Yet wh…

That's about what I thought. But as it happens, no, I wasn't doubting the claims -- I just wasn't following the story obsessively and wasn't aware of the details.

Thanks.