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I think anything too different from the standard manner of hiring is going to come off creepy to some extent. Much of the way we hire people is probably a deeply ingrained cultural…

I would up-vote this one thousand times over if I could. Blazing ignorance of the most basic verisimilitudes of the human condition is one of the more annoying characteristics of h…

This. And resdency is not the life destroyer people make it out to be anyway. You can find plenty of single residents in the bars of Baltimore. Whatever the demands of their progra…

Yeah... hackers are usually incredibly naive about compensation outside of their own world. For reference: http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2011... Bottom li…

Good stuff, I found it useful info whilst trying to decide between Backbone and Ember for a project.

The problem with this is that the high-end of programming salaries is the low-end of, e.g. medical salaries. Yes, there is more to it than that, but on this axis alone, programming…

Medical school is 4 years after college. Average cost is $100k-$200k. After medical school comes residency, which lasts from 3-6 years depending on speciality. Compensation during …

Intuitively, I would expect MD degrees to be very clearly on top -- the expected salaries are easily the highest, and there is relatively more data available on that (look at the m…

Certainly, but by how much? It's not nature vs. nurture -- it's nature and nurture. They both matter, but a priori, it's not clear how much. Further, their relative weights of impo…

It could use better publicity though. I've been here my whole life, and it's far too easy to get the impression that Baltimore is just a satellite to the fed contracting epicenter …

It could use better publicity though. I've been here my whole life, and it's far too easy to get the impression that Baltimore is just a satellite to the fed contracting epicenter …

I've been unable to beat a plain old notebook, and not for lack of trying. I don't think technology has solved this problem yet. In the digital age, I use a simple "stuff.txt" file…

Really, the OP is complaining that she thinks people want the wrong things. There's nothing here particular to web apps.

Toward the end the author says: "Simplicity" is a relative term, and perhaps inapt; try "convenience", which has more useful connotations. The lifestyle he describes and the progra…

Strong work.

This is cool, though I think it might be late to the party. Doesn't everyone just suspend/resume these days? Not that it's zero value, but it would have been really noteworthy 5-10…

The rub is that apparently the presence of this snake is a result of a human slipup to begin with. Maybe it's just an attempt to clean up after yourself, or maybe it's an attempt t…

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why are they targetting motorola? Don't these patents apply to, well, every smartphone in existence? It can't be a matter of stupidity, so I wond…

This is awesome. I passed along that article to some friends, the consensus was "great idea, never gonna happen." Now I get to pass this link along. That makes me :)

Why not? It's perfectly reasonable to judge the quality of a work by the degree to which it succeeds with its desired audience. To quote Paul Graham: "Art has a purpose, which is t…

I can understand not liking that attitude, but that's as much Jersey Shore as it is anything else. It's not particular to the tech industry, it's not even predominantly in the tech…

I think the title indicates that you are less a member of their target audience than you might have suspected. It was pretty funny and effective to me? And to the poster who called…

the idea of "click here to see what you could get into right nowish" is immensely appealing to me. if it could go out and aggregate all the event thingies out there and show me wha…

Put differently: if the goal is making money, lisp is frequently not the best choice.