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I have a Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile which I occasionally use to tether my laptop and I have never gotten a warning like that. I have the unlimited voice/data/text plan but don't pay …

Cherry MX Blue switches are similar in feel to the Model M style buckling spring switches but have I think a slightly shorter travel and require a little less force. Cherry MX Brow…

I am a big fan of mechanical key switches; blank keys are partially a gimmick but also can be a useful tool to force you to touch type. I use a Filco tenkeyless board with cherry b…

I started using blank keyboards about three years ago and it did in fact force me to touch type and has increased my typing speed a lot. Even after ten years of programming I was a…

ActiveRecord::Base#delete_all allows you to delete directly in the database. For example: Person.delete_all("created_at will generate the sql command "delete from persons where cre…

I got a lot of value out of it last winter when I was looking for a new job. It helped me learn a lot more about the companies and often the people who I was talking to. Two compan…

Actually it isn't very anonymous at all. From a few minutes of looking at that account I know both of their first names and their address (also the name of their cat).

San Francisco & Washington DC. Engineers, engineers in test, designers (we especially need visual and user experience designers!) OPOWER is an energy efficiency & smart grid compan…

I'm not going to comment on whether you should try to fix things at your current company but I have some good perspective on the job market and some of the options that you are loo…

The idea and the execution are inextricably linked even in the academic case. The ideas that your academic friends are protecting have value because they, with a reputation for exe…

One or two jobs ago this sort of policy was explained to me as: "If you are getting your work done we don't care how much time you take off. If you are not getting your work done w…