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TL;DR. PSN is down because Sony is afraid that now that their update servers are running backdoors or trojans.

I do think there is a bubble of people hyping startups. Facebook got a stupid valuation and everyone started reporting that the 1999-2001 bubble was back. But that was just Goldman…

Can you explain why someone would leave that much money in there? Are there tables that you can bring 250k to? Do these sites pay interest? How do you trust these sites? A casino i…

it is unfortunate that they didn't consult you before submitting. :(

I would recommended hiring people that are the best fit for the position. There are plenty of reasons to hire someone that will do a good job, rather than a code ninja that finishe…

You don't know the value of employee X until after he has agreed to compensation and joined the company. If he joins and never completes a single task he is assigned, then yes the …

Is the valuation of FB, Twitter reasonable or is there a lot of money moving in based on self-fulfilling speculation that this is "the next big thing"?

If your perception of offshoring is "lets hire developers in country X and save 40% because developers make 40% less there." Then the answer is NO. Even if you can find the perfect…

I think you misunderstand 'hypothesis'

If you can decode a way to 'beat the market' that means once you start beating the market someone else is loosing. They will adjust their trading techniques and your "algorithms" a…

Attitudes like this are why I did CompE instead of CS. Yes you do learn OO in early CS classes, however you can use procedural programming in the real world to get excellent result…

If the Stock goes down after an IPO, GS will wash their hands and blame FB management. If the stock goes up after the IPO, GS will take credit for "providing liquidity that was ins…

Facebook is very similar to vmware. I expect it would follow a similar path in stock price. Currently vmware is trading at 140 p/e ratio. People are afraid to miss the next Google,…

Returns on stocks do not compound. If you bought a stock at X and sold it at Y your gain/loss percentage is simply Y/X. There is no reason to use the Pert formula.

Is there going to be a time in the next 5 years where most people change their views about the [usefulness/profitability] of [investing/creating/buying] [housing/start-ups/restaura…

They are trying to sell magazines. If they did Assange a "cancel your subscription to terrorist magazine" campaign would be started by Fox News.

I hate to say it but I would use this if my peers were just my Facebook friends. not that I don't trust 1024 bit encryption, I just don't like my info on strangers boxes even thoug…

This sounds great until the spammers get involved.

I wonder if it would be called innovation if we called these 'Products' what they really are. CDO='insurance on loans', Synthetic CDOS = 'making bets on other people's loans' When …

To get rid of the Fake Work, we would have to be honest about our current work. but upper management doesn't want honesty. They want to see consistent numbers always increasing. If…

In my experience these steps have helped me get a higher salary. 1. Say your current salary is 20% higher than it actually is when interviewing. 2. Once you get a job offer say you…

I know a consultant who leaves his dirty underwear at the top of his suitcase so when whey randomly search his bag, they quickly close it back up and send him on his way. The same …

When some congressman's 14 year old grandchild gets felt up by a perv things would change very fast

I heard those body scanners can cause cancer

Is this like 4square?