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Quitting is the easy part if you don't have anything better lined up. Some people just go for it and always seem to fall on their feet. Others hesitate forever.

> (experienced people leaving) This has me curious on how much of the Management style of Andy Grove is still alive inside intel. Do they change the company culture and _want_ thes…

Here's what normal people see and hear when you enter the room: Nerd opens mouth: "Blablabla quibberish, you're all idiots, hear me express your problem way overcomplicated. Also, …

Usually you call them tools. They turn your screw at the command of their superior in whichever way they are told to. They provide great leverage for a weak upper management.

Can you provide an alternate link to the PDF that works worldwide? Some people are getting a 451 error.

I think he meant that he reboots his computer every night.

Try burning dead trees or their derivatives indoors or underground and suddenly you care about zero emission vehicles. Zero emission here means that they don't emit at the place wh…

How would you quantify that?

I did not say that gold backed currency is better for everybody. I'm just amazed at the time span over which the dilution is happening. And I don't think that anybody can deny that…

Zimbabwe did not run out of money. I did not say that a bank can make everybody rich by printing money just that there is no limit to the money that the banks can print, as is evid…

It amazes me how long and how slowly the value of our money can be eroded without casing a hard crash. This has been going on for over 100 years in the US. Money used to pay things…

We can always make more money if we really want to. The economy might run out of oil, sand, gold, land, and willpower but it will never run out of money until the central banks sto…

Money spent = Emissions generated (direct or indirect by further spending) If you want to save CO2, then save as much money as you can in paper form. Don't spend, don't invest. Ins…

"Responsibility" is an abstraction needed for enforcement of the law. It doesn't say much about how things actually are.

What is wrong with those facts? Did they keep copies of those files in other locations? Did they explain the unaccounted money later on? EDIT: According to other comments who expla…

To my knowledge the hard part is writing the input for the software. While in text you have a bit of leeway to glance over some details, with the computer program you must, indeed,…

There is a big grey area between "not 100% correct" and "wrong and harmful". Like a faulty computer program that produces correct results in 99.999% of the cases a wrong mathematic…

It does not change your existing integers or compilation time. Only where you use the new types the compiler will have more work to do. What would be the alternative in those place…

I'm 40 now and I know nothing.

You are already data. Energy is essentially bits. Matter is an arrangement of information. Biological life and your conscious mind is a temporal phenomenon that arises on the gradi…

But the term "under-dosed" suggests an error on the doctor's part. We can't accept that.

"The devils you know vs. the devils you don't." It's been keeping C alive for decades. Now go is an old boy, too. Rust is the new kid that seasoned developers don't trust. It's got…

Selling what?

Does anyone remember "Tides of Blood"?