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So was the guy your boss or not? What kind of organization lets someone promote themselves to project manager or the boss of other engineers?

My 12 year old loves it. The 15 year old... Not so much

One thing I took from mythical man month was that having an architect with a clear vision is necessary for success. The architect isn't perfect. He will make mistakes and he will r…

"Linus uses CVS at home". That was the best line. In all seriousness, I don't tell new members of my team about the CLI. We use Visual Studio and the VS UI plugin only supports add…

I was given a non employee poaching contract to sign when I gave my notice at BIGCORP. It had some vague language like "I will not attempt to contact any BIGCORP employees with inf…

Thank you! I was wondering why I couldn't just use post for a function I'm writing right now. It helps to have someone else say out loud what I was thinking.

I'm in the process of moving some of my data storage from oracle to redis. Having already used Linq has made this easier. I had a pretty small data-model though. I think that in a …

I'm sure anyone can come up with specific situations where writing SQL is much better than using ORM. If I had infinite time and dev resources I would never use an ORM. In reality …

I read everything he writes. The only time I have had a problem with anything he said was in "Under the Banner of Heaven" he partially blamed the Mormon church for the kidnap and r…

I left IBM in 2012 because I saw that the division I was working for was never going to be competitive. It is surprising that it took almost 3 years for what was obvious at the bot…

That is only a temporary problem. Eventually employees will quit or die. And when that happens you will hire a replacement at current market rates.

The renter will get a break actually because newly constructed apartments are cheaper than the older apartments so he can move to a newer/nicer/cheaper place. Deflation is a big pr…

"So you get broad based increases in unemployment." I know it sucks to go from making 70k to making 60k but in a world where prices are going lower someone will still be able to ha…

That is because Google has technicians 24/7/365 at their data centers.

It is just so expensive to provide 99% uptime on your own servers. Who is going to go into the office at 2:00AM when an executive can't access his power point presentation?

http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/getnutrition/nutritionfacts.p... A Big Mac is 530 and a Large Fry is 530. Your example is off by about 50%.

When you to try and make someone look bad it does matter. "I didn't see bob on instant messenger, and I called him several times and I left him a voice mail. I'm not able to get my…

The person who eats 2,000 calories in one sitting at burger king is much more likely to make a Frozen Pizza at home than a Arugula salad and Grilled fish.

If Sony can get the hack made into an official terrorist attack they may be eligible for US Government emergency assistance. Also, instead of taking responsibility for their own in…

Two things. 1. An elephant on a flower isn't going to get someone to pay $500-$1000 for this hardware. You need very high quality content to get lots of consumers on board. 2. Movi…

His point is that there is no way to provide statistics on the number of bullshit jobs. For example, I worked at a company where we made networking software for some military radio…

I understand it does suck to have one or two idiot customers that will flip out about something stupid and write a terrible review of your great restaurant. But I think it would be…

There is a small difference in interest rates that you get based on your credit score. When I bought a car from the dealer I told the loan guy that I had a 0.9% rate at my Credit U…

Yes, and you can tell them to never contact you again in any way. Tell them that you refute all of the debt and will sue them if they file inaccurate information with a credit agen…