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"a small slimy creature" was added after this picture was drawn, in the 1966 edition. Other languages adaptions had larger gollum's also - see some at e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r…

It isn’t. Settings > Privacy & Security > Wired Accessories Set to ask for new accessories or always ask.

I love this idea, and agree the bugs are important and embarrassing, but find the “it should only take Apple 320 hours to fix Mail search” to be so insulting that it ruins it for m…

What was the solution you went with?

Fair source sounds like a really bad idea. The problem is if you let someone else define what reasonable limits to competition are, you end up in court and learn that it can be any…

Nobody will give you an unsecured loan for 100 percent of your salary, but tech companies will happily grant you rsus for that much.

These articles scare my mom and she gets convinced she will be hacked. I wish there was a way to write stories like this to make it clear it's a real, important issue, but not dire…

Related, this is one of my favorite videos ever: Building a classical guitar from scratch (with a pro luthier): https://youtu.be/qmDAIlEGO_Q?si=uLyMOGBMXEGMkIFt Everything about th…

So basically: law intended to encourage domestic industry via economic pressure has intended effect. It's just a one sided argument that any form of trade protectionism is bad.

Going to college is still the most successful route towards landing an interview. My managers generally won’t let me schedule an interview with somebody with no degree, even with p…

I've had it take 80 applications to actually get one on-site interview before (and I have a pretty good resume). I would not be suggesting people consider major life changes based …

it’s weird. The WARN law requires notice, but, the penalty for violating the law is you have to pay people 60 days of pay. So paying instead of providing notice is technically ille…

I have given over 100 on site interviews for a large well regarded company, and I’d say about 20 percent can’t seem to program at all. I have only actually asked FizzBuzz once beca…

Up says they are .1% without the bonus. "Interest rate Up to 1.60% p.a. (base 0.10% p.a. and bonus 1.50% p.a - details below)" from https://up.com.au/pricing/ .1% does indeed sound…

What an awful article. Expensive conclusions are drawn with no apparent consideration for their cost. The experience of a company which appears to have successfully balanced compli…

This "article" appears to be an ad for a license selling business.

Grubhub charges restaurants for phone orders based on some claimed artificial intelligence determining that an order was placed on the phone call + the average price of the last 6 …

This actually isn't the "all your base are belong to us" situation. This is "we will stop employing you if you do [x]", not "we will own [x]". That's a much, much, much lower bar. …

I have an employment agreement which their lawyers believe says otherwise and I like my job.

Monetized: Management must approve. Doubt they do, haven't asked. Hobby: Not allowed to do anything similar to what employer does. Got an official opinion from legal that employer …

Can anyone recommend a good book on becoming a better technical interviewer? I’ve found plenty of books on being a better interview candidate, and a few for hiring ceos or sales pe…

In case you're still curious, I think the reason it isn't included is because auto-increment is a hard problem to do right, ends up being a leaky abstraction for technical reasons,…

I interview programmers. I would love to see a candidate who prepared like this, but it seems like everyone I talk to hasn’t done any practice at all.

The thing that intrigued me the most about Prolog was that true and false are not opposites. True means it could prove it, but false means it couldn’t prove it in time, not strictl…

I find it weird that the responses seem to draw a distinction between whiteboards and coderpad. The assumption seems to be that the problem making the whole thing stressful and unn…