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Blueberries.

What are examples of iOS gaming companies with multiple hits?

In this particular story the answers are easy. The work of a steveadore, one of the examples given, has been vastly automated and unionized. The work is much physically easier than…

We are allowed 45 minutes for cigarettes and internet before Sunday prayers and lights-out.

I agree. I'm 13 and spend over 120 hours per week in the oil mines of North Dakota. I puked when I read the first comment and slammed my laptop shut because I was shaking with disg…

Cal Newport's advice is more along the lines of "Do what you're really good at, rather than only what you love." That's interesting, as other career gurus argue the opposite view. …

As the book is so poorly written, those who enjoy it as literature are indeed in a small club.

"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board" -Mark Twain

Are the murder squads under the same command structure as the death panels? Or are those two different departments?

Ya, just had a flashback to a former paycheck...

Go to Harvey Mudd and major in Econ and EE. http://www.payscale.com/college-education-value-2013

Sadly, in the Bay Area $4166 is almost exactly what an exempt employee making $100K actually takes home every month.

My friend is a high school teacher and her husband is a civil engineer in Albany. They make about $150K total. ($65K+$85K) They have two kids and I'd say they are pretty middle cla…

Everyone I know in Tucson already goes to Nogales for dental work.

US schools usually include sports facilities which are very expensive. My sister moved to Australia, which is about as similar to the US as it gets for a foreign country, and the s…

The extra spending mostly goes to services for special needs students, followed by inflated salaries for administrators, then programs for the poor, like school lunches and school …

Maybe someday one of those consultants will package an approach based on raising the bar on salary and teacher/student performance moderately and call it "Moneyball Education" and …

If people really wanted to spend more on education, why don't they vote to raise their own property taxes? If they think the schools are being run poorly, why don't they get involv…

I'd suggest a VM with Samba mount and Sublime Text. I'd suggest this setup even if you're using a Mac because then you can match your deployment environment.

To be honest, I wish I wouldn't have use that phrase because it adds negativity that is probably unnecessary. In my case, what happened is the failed startup I worked for was "acqu…

I worked with a well known group who paid their instructors $2500 to $4000 per week long class. The classes cost the students $3500 to $4000. The salary variance was due to seniori…