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The most productive time I've had has been hobbies that I enjoyed and was passionate about that involved human interaction. I'm an introvert by nature, and thus somewhat disincline…

you don't even have to go to non english, just utf-8 has stuff like mathematic spaces and spaces of different em sizes. http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrecharclass.html has a reasonabl…

21st century C programming, as I recall, will get you set up a dev environment with tooling, which can be hard for an entry level C programmer. It also covers useful tools and libr…

I believe the previous owner, whom the current owner inherited from.

Not if you want your property rights to be enforced or a court of law to uphold your position.

Seems something of a straw man argument. Women have been saying that this is an issue for a long time, across a number of companies and industries, which points to a systemic issue…

Is being conflict adverse inherently "dumb" though, when people's responses to it are gendered? Or think of it this way, is the ability to negotiate aggressively that much of a val…

Correlation finding is still an incredibly important first step towards figuring out what would be a good double blind randomized trial. Science media could definitely report corre…

I feel like reviews really need an A/B test at the very least, because someone comparing and contrasting two products gives you an idea of the relative importance of different feat…

http://www.realtor.com/news/trends/americas-fastest-growing-... Link for those without wsj access.

circulation numbers look at recent circulation, with no consideration of the way certain books may change in popularity. Here we have a Domain expert without financial motive who i…

I've been using bing.com for this, but this will probably replace that.

Lab rats are brown rats, which aren't nocturnal, but active day and night. I'm not sure that's important for a test of damage to the eye, but there you go.

Not a lawyer. Itemize the list and costs. Gather up any emails, letters, contracts, agreements, etc. You can potentially pursue them in small claims court (limits may be higher the…

I am not a lawyer. My understanding is that CA has different laws concerning IP then most states, where is you don't use any company resources or write it for the company, you effe…

Firefox supported way more in the way of extensions and alterations then chrome, things like the zotero citation manager, grease monkey for user scripts, tree tyle tab for modifyin…

I'd start with 10k inflation adjusted personal Series I savings bonds from the US treasury, which pay quote a bit more then any available CD in terms of APY, and have a 3 months in…

Hmm... first this looks pretty, and free is nice. That said as I recall sweepstake/promotional contests laws are a kinda crazy patchwork, both in countries other than the US, but a…

Listen, your hiring process reflects your company culture. The fact that HR is in charge and you have to work to change it, rather then you, the people who will be teaching and sup…

Seems like Pebble is shutting down, only 40% of SEs getting job offers from fitbit,HWE unknown.

Multiple users could collude to determine the top of the range for a position, if that were the case. In any case we are discussing passive job searches. I'm not going to take the …

I think Udacity had a claim like that for a nano degree.

Yep. Not under this name though.

You have depression, and it's warping your thinking whenever you think about yourself. A sample size of 20 is tiny, and you can adjust your CV/resume. It may be helpful for you to …

Combine with the ability to train a neural network to identify typing noises by sound, and they can also read everything you type, including passwords. Sure you are law abiding, bu…