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toptalentscout

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    Comment #10475875

    Seeing Android on PCs would be cool. It runs on top of Linux, it would pretty much do away with all current Desktop Linux variants I'm guessing. I could be missing something since …

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    Comment #10472197

    What is an aspiring middle manager? Is that a programmer age reference? What is a rock star? Does not being a rock star mean you're a rock?

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    Comment #10467584

    I read down to the http://netflix.github.io/ link, tried it, the carousel advanced to fast for my slow eyes I guess, I manually selected the radio button, started reading and ... t…

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    Comment #10464996

    I wasn't advocating, just mentioning what I've seen. your message is right, management needs to trust their people more is what it comes down to. Incidentally, it's paid.

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    Comment #10464753

    The problem is, internal people often are afraid to take risks to implement something brand new because they know they will be going through performance reviews. When the internal …

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    Is anyone else experiencing rapidly increasing health care costs?

    If you're over 50, it seems the health insurance companies are raising rates every 2 or 3 months now. For 2 of us, we expect to pay $900 for a PPO plan soon, $800 now.

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    Comment #10458175

    >> but a contractor is nowhere near as productive as a full-time employee I disagree, also speaking as someone who's seen a mix of runs as a contractor, consultant and staff employ…

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    Comment #10458137

    >> To me, it's the top talent of "software PROGRAMMERS" that's the "oil". So does that make all the rest of us plain programmers the grease?