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Given that it's Veteran day, and the term "foobar" is thought to be borrowed from military term "FUBAR," I am guessing that it is Google's attempt to recruit Tech-savvy Veterans.

There is this no nonsense, star faculty in the department where I did my undergrad. Urban Legend in the department says that in one of the offerings of his classes, there was this …

For a second there, I thought it would be about a Command and Control Bot, and was really intrigued ....

Did the Romanians know it ahead of time?

This ...

What was funny to me was that the author claimed, "Ah, those are just silly, throw-away apps I developed for my kids and friends." at the start of the article, and then jumped to, …

Just curious: Is Amy Ousterhout anyway related to John Ousterhout of Stanford?

If I do not know any better, the first thought that would come to my mind would be: "Wow, this company has really messed-up code base, and people here cannot even get linked-list d…

I am sobbing mathematically out of sheer joy !

Of course ! He is THE Jeremy Kun ... :)

It would be hilarious if the seller accept bids for that on eBay ....

It is just to give the "leader" a sense of importance ....

On the next episode, I guess the character Mike will get an offer, and will be asked to move-in to the company house where all 5 employees of the whole company live in the same big…

To me, some important information seems to be missing for it to become a legit brain-teaser: the numbers of rabbits? the number of holes? how does each round work?, etc.

Rabbit Hole and Troll .... :)

Here is a different perspective, all be it in a cynical tone: http://crypto.junod.info/2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-f... And here's another, with much more objective tone: htt…

So how does it differ from Travis or Jenkins (or any other CI build tool really)?

I will take a 24/7 roaring colleague who roars about all of good and bad to you without reservations than a colleague who will put on smiling face, and back-stabs you when the time…

10 years later, those two programmas in that Brazilian small town would still be recounting to their fellow programmas and friends that: - There are male programmas in America (in …

Now, the last reason tying me to Windows is (about to be) gone ....

Good try Facebook, good try ....

It is fully expected, and Gabe probably did not intended this to happen. It is only human nature: to strive for authority, to build little exclusive clubs around it, and to suck up…

Sequel to the article incoming: "OMG! I deleted my Facebook account two months ago, and my friends just told me that they wished me birthday on my timeline last night. OMG! Faceboo…

Let me add in one: [6] Fire Safety and Building Security Systems? Yes

I am not a native speaker, and I learned English from movies and TV shows available to me. It is very interesting to see that this idea is being commercialized only now. It would b…