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If your algorithmic skills are good enough to ace the problems in that book, you can probably get a job at one of the big three software companies (Google, MS, Amazon). The vast ma…

> He's not proscribing a solution. The word you want is "prescribe." To "proscribe" means to make forbidden or illegal. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e…

I liked this article, but, to use journalist lingo, he "buries the lede" a little. "It’s also tough because since breaking the news to our current set of 3 customers, I’ve received…

I'm not sure if English is your first language, but the writing in this article is actually very good. I don't have any problem believing that people are willing to pay Somers for …

> I especially find Maven unreliable in combination with eclipse. Well there's your problem right there. Use Maven with Netbeans, and the integration between the two is so slick yo…

I thought the usual exit plan for models was to use their beauty and talent to attract a wealthy husband. That said, I did know one who used her modelling money to put herself thro…

I have the flip side of this story. I was good friends with two musicians in the early nineties. I went to their rehearsals, hung out with their friends, and saw most of their gigs…

> in fact, [Good Will Hunting] seems intensely concerned with the insufficiency of Will’s education; his lack of formal education is implicated in his inability to engage in suppos…

I completely agree. I was just pointing out that sexism of this nature had gone on for years without apparent protest. I was not defending the practice.

> it is not a accepted selling point of professionals. Rather, it will get you in serious trouble in many professional environments. Not to defend Sqoot at all, but... um... booth …

I worked at Goldman briefly in the 90s, and I remember being pleasantly surprised at how little cynicism, and how much genuine enthusiasm for helping others I found there. It was a…

> But are you really saying that these claims cover a standard linked list? That's exactly what I'm saying. For all the patent's talk of primary, tertiary, and secondary pointers, …

Very clearly my ass. From the patent: > The present invention overcomes the disadvantages and limitations of the prior art by providing a system and method for traversing a list us…

I apologize for doing so. I think my idea of holding your own patent was not for the ability to counter-sue, but (and I am quite obviously not a lawyer) so you have a legal basis t…

Again, the error you're making is mistaking patent law with the insane way patent law is actually enforced. Listen to "When Patents Attack," and you'll understand that non-practici…

> In the end, I doubt owning a patent on something will have any impact on our ultimate success or failure. How I wish that were the case. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of pate…

> we know Wallace Stevens sold insurance No he did not. He was a corporate vice president of two large insurance companies. The man was no Ned Ryerson. The writer of this article n…

Valuation doesn't work the way this guy thinks it does. If I buy a hammer and use it to build a house that I then sell for 300K dollars, it does not stand to reason ipso facto that…

> We could not test the application because we were told about it on tuesday and it had to be ready on sunday. Well there's your problem right there. That is not an appropriate tim…

I have had personal involvement in one outsourcing horror story, the details of which I'm not at liberty to discuss. Suffice it to say that, while what happened at Sapphire is extr…

This is such a shallow mush of generalities, that it's pretty much worthless as a critique of higher education. "these benefits cannot completely justify a system where creativity …

Awesome idea -- I can think of three or four people who would really benefit from this kind of book. One thing: you recommend SciTE for a Windows editor, but the real preference th…

There's a term for these tendencies: the Power Distance Index. ( http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/real-reason-outso... ) The idea behind PDI is that leaders in some cultu…

I think you're missing an important distinction here: Stallman has not, in fact, died. The writer of the article is talking about a living person. That fundamentally changes what y…