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The pg apotheosis reminds me of an interesting Google talk by Robert Sutton where he reports that in research with monkeys, the dominant monkey receives a highly disproportionate a…

This is awesome. I can't think of anything it needs except, for your own sake, maybe a visible logo. I'm sold. Questions: (1) Are you using ExtJS, GWT, jQuery? (2) What's on the ba…

"taking the piss" = "making fun of"

If you only permit 20 candidates and 20 jobs, some of the attending candidates will be only be qualified to apply for a fraction of the jobs - perhaps even just one or two. For exa…

"While blogging feuds are common, she believes the campaign against her is more likely to be because she is a woman in the male-dominated technology world."

What kind of threats?

How are they out-innovating American companies?

Maybe you will be as surprised as I was to hear the name Stephen King mentioned in the context of writing advice, but 896 Amazon reviewers can't be wrong: Stephen King - On Writing…

"I'm in the process of getting job descriptions from the attendees." How many attendees have you received commitments from?

Under different conditions this would be an easy backdoor for a recruiter to sneak in for free as a candidate to quietly gather resumes at the event. But since you only permit 20 c…

That's all you should need - it works pretty well from what I've seen in speed dating.

If you only permit 20 candidates and 20 jobs, some of the attending candidates will be only be qualified to apply for a fraction of the jobs - perhaps even just one or two. For exa…

- How will you enforce the 5-minute time limit? Sometimes when people get into a groove and there's some chemistry - as in dating - it's hard to pull them apart. Are you going to u…

It says "Participate in 20 interviews, each 5 minutes long." What if 300 candidates show up and only 10 hiring companies? In that case, will candidates be paired with companies on …