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"You won't make as much as you make in the private sector. You should think of it as a tour of duty" Sounds like a modern day Shackleton job posting

I feel his pain but it's easy to quit when you can cash in your stock options and pay off your mortgage

They took down the link. Appears to be a cheap publicity stunt indeed.

I like the price point about $1/1000records. Just curious to hear how you arrived at this price point.

The point being a referral based system incentivizes people to bring in quantity to stack the odds in their favor. Quality gets sidetracked, not necessarily maliciously.

In other words a system for non-ambitious dinosaurs to get in their cronies and milk the system while almost being assured of a job for the next decade

"On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste…

From the OSM home page: "We started it because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in cre…

I just got an email from a recruiter who's looking for a SQL DBA. The applicant must know (note the lack of mention of DBA skills): Java Script, jQuery, CHTML, CSS I also frequentl…

Like someone else already said, you get a generalized education with colleges, unless you know what you want to do for the rest of your life at 17. The other flip side to apprentic…

Hearing about Poe's law for the first time but in my corner of the woods, we blame it on the lack of a sarcasm font

It would be interesting if the author ever went back and figured out whatever happened to Bill, the horrible boss. People like Bill often don't last long in a swim or sink environm…

I hate articles like these for the sole reason that they go into a laundry list of things to do or avoid. A few examples of blogs doing things the right way would go a long way in …

"kittydar is best at detecting upright cats that are facing forward " Good luck with getting a cat to do that

We look ahead at 3991 AD and find it to be depressing. I've always wondered how past civilizations (Greeks, Egyptians, etc) would find our modern day civilization.

Obviously 37S has built up enough of a trust level with the employees to even experiment with something like this. That in itself is commendable. Dan Pink talks about Atlassian and…

As a techie, what I would love is "A Technical Guy's Guide to Marketing/Sales" that basically talks about the various concept and jargon a techie should know to run a business.

I can empathize with his frustration as my wife, early 30s,is going through similar issues searching for jobs. Most people, wife included, don't realize that job search is not abou…

I run into this all the time at work. I'm the guy who makes "shit" work at our under-manned start-up. Lately I'm finding it to my detriment because a. management releases shit as-i…

This should be titled "The Rapping Dead"

Why the answer to “What’s your biggest weakness?” is NOT “My biggest weakness is I’m a perfectionist”

Here's my wishlist: 1. OS and platform agnostic 2. Easy to use 3. High storage at least on the paid version 4. Secure 5. and above all, an unequivocal guarantee from Google that th…

Good point. I was not necessarily referring to the physicality of books but the notion these book-burners subscribe to, that if they symbolically burn a book, the idea will perish.…

Burning a book (good or bad) is the lowest form of expression humans can stoop to. If people understood the fact that a book is simply a personification of ideas, and ideas good or…