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The number of annual H-1B hires by Wipro and Infosys coupled with the corresponding average salary data reveal the extent of abuse in the current system. Indian developers are impo…

Yes, high availability with ACID and 'eventual consistency' on reads. I never understood why an eventually consistent datastore could qualify as ACID because in the real world if y…

Elon's comments have some validity, but there is a bit of grandstanding going on. Thermal runaway with lion batteries isn't a random event. It's very predictable and very preventab…

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: support@basecamp.com Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by th…

It's just as easy to imagine Google getting undercut by a big company. Yahoo, here's your opening. I always thought of free Google Apps as the company's brilliant play to control t…

"I agree, but some of his content will be a barrier for some people. I'm sure if the tone of the post was milder, most of the comments here would be supportive." -- too typical a r…

When you read between the lines, doesn't this story imply that programmers who eschew object-oriented programming practices suffer from mild derangement?

So what- are you saying that any company that builds products with a strong secondary market or longer shelf life than the category norm should be exempt from maximizing recycle-ab…

The spirit of Tim O'Reilly, Steve Jobs, and other great innovators of that generation, whose worldviews were shaped by counterculture values and the human rights movement of the 19…

This may sound counter intuitive, but you have far more to lose by staying than by moving on. In fact you face a couple significant risks that increase the longer you're there. Fir…

More than call centers, this industry reminds me of the meatpacking industry. Warehouse workers fill a crucial step in a larger fulfillment model that unnecessarily imposes harsh c…

It's hard to understand why you're going to such lengths to defend Microsoft in this case. Hejlsberg and a few other Borlanders received justifiably high bonuses, but the absurdly …

I doubt you'll find any authoritative sources on the full extent of the abuse, as the ensuing lawsuit was settled out of court under the typical terms that sequestered the evidence…

Shocking, absolutely shocking to read that MBA students would engage in such behavior. One might imagine, with great difficulty of course, that their sole purpose in entering busin…