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I learned recently that this is similar to what happened in Canada - it started with one province (I can't remember which) and spread from there.

I look forward to the inevitable postmortems/analysis of this process after the election is over. Some interesting research and writing came out of both of Obama's campaigns. It's …

We were just talking about this at the office this week and came to a similar conclusion. However, someone pointed out later that you could have a valid Secret Santa configuration …

Warning: Anecdata follows... When I was a student, I had some great teachers who were tenured and some great teachers who were non-tenured. However, nearly all my awful teachers di…

Interestingly, I found this kind of hard to read. I think there's just too much leading in the body text - I could feel my eye moving as I was reading. Decreasing the line height t…

Agreed. It happens a lot (in all my previous jobs I had mostly non-technical people as leads), but they have to work 10x harder to be effective. I think that even a limited technic…

When I was a college student I worked on the other end of this: a faculty member and I were technical consultants for the University as they were evaluating some software systems. …

Good question. I'd imagine that's part of the logic behind giving you "complete control" :) I'm also interested to see how they associate old photos and other pre-Facebook content …

Looks like a digital, semi-automated scrapbook. From my understanding, it's not an overhaul of the profile, but another view of your online identity. If they pull it off it could b…

I have to say, I think they blew it with this one. Spinning DVD-by-mail off into a separate business might make sense, but I just don't get splitting the ratings/suggestions up by …

My father (who has always been self-employed) once said "the best thing about being self-employed is that I can choose my own hours. I can work whatever 100 hours a week I want."

I usually change mine to "Sent from my mobile" or "Sent from (xxx) xxx-xxxx" I keep a line like this for two reasons, one of which is proofreading related, but the more important i…

I always say Management is taking out the trash.

It's funny you would say that. In my Intro to Software Engineering class my team basically built this (location-based restroom finder with ratings etc.) George Constanza was my ins…

I think "tips" is one of the neatest features of Foursquare, and I see this as the same concept only the information comes to you. When I am in a new city I'll sometimes pull up Fo…

But will you have to buy a full pallet of them from the aisle next to the socks?

I have a close friend who studied Economics. He always said he wasn't cheap, just "opportunity cost aware."

I definitely agree. Introducing the material isn't enough, there have to be quality educators who are also knowledgeable of computing. You mentioned hobbyists and professionals and…

I think this is really , really important. We start teaching students the foundations of chemistry, physics, and various areas of mathematics as early as Sixth grade, but Computer …

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I think before you can convince students of this, you need to convince prospective employers. To a lot of them, GPA is an easy filter.

I think you're both probably right. It's a habit I've wanted to break, but I just haven't gotten around to it. ;) In all seriousness, I think it probably -is- wise to eliminate the…

Looks interesting. I'll bookmark it to read later. I can relate, especially to the bit where he says "I can only seem to accomplish anything when I have far too much to do, for the…