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You're not an employee, and they're a private company. It's a catch-22 situation. They'd probably tell you if you were an employee and option holder. Such information might be held…

It's been done, in several different forms. It depends on your political leaning how you manage to do it. His politics is evident from other writings. Using the name "watchdog" giv…

Podcasting isn't failing. It's not meeting some people's expectations, but it's not failing. FTA I too get news from a podcast, since my commute may not take me through the next ho…

Some corporations made hefty investments in big iron. That doesn't make them economically viable today. I still believe that performance, energy conservation, space utilization, HV…

We have a concept we call our "Bus Number." It's the number of people that know how to do what you do, or have been briefed on what you're doing, so that if you're run over by a bu…

Still, this is a deal killer.

I recently got a "splatter-gram" email from a friend of my father, also slamming Advanta. Sorry, but I'm smelling a pattern here, and it makes me skeptical that something is going …

Ha! good one! cadalac FTW!

Back when I was coding a lot, there were two editors, vi and one other that came with the Unix variant we had. The other "visual" editor had an annoying tendency to convert multipl…

I wish my former employer was willing outsource services. While the customer base grew from two to twenty, the staff size trippled, the IT staff eventually doubled. It takes strate…

Challenging? The problem is getting the entire entity legally registered. It takes more than a weekend, apparently. That said, the barriers to starting a business in the US are not…

Not too young for that. I actually used BBS software, sort of, to run a UUCP node at home and receive low-volume mailing list digests.

Lots of people are Jacks of All Trades, but masters of none. Take, for example, the Ocean's Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen movie franchise. Everybody had skills and roles to play. It wasn'…

Stick with the headhunter. The company that engaged them expects to work with them. It seems odd that they'd also post the position on their own jobs page. It's possible they weren…