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Does anyone have one of these? - I've been thinking about getting one as a slightly "occasional" larger laptop for longer trips - I have an 11' air that I take to work every day th…

+1 to this... on the effects existing on a continuum. There was a great cartoon that the farnam street brain food blog sent out which illustrates this quite well. http://thewireles…

>> Education is irrelevant I partially agree.. I think that one of the challenges is that lots of blue chip firms use a degree as a gating process to get an interview. Faced with t…

as a reasonably seasoned non-scala programmer who was fairly new to scala, I think that it's a combination of 3 things combined together. Implicits combined with non-alphabetic dsl…

agreed - but I guess they tended to choose industries with a higher proportion of casual staff (hotels, catering and cleaning trades), where I guess it's more plausable that not al…

its' kind of like the undercover boss program that they showed in the UK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_Boss Not tech orientated, but lots of CEOs doing 'front line' wor…

Was curious about how Microsoft organize their continuous integration for windows OS. I'm sure I remember reading a blog post about it somewhere, but I can't find it now. Specifica…