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I think you're missing the point. The jimmies are getting rustled up because someone provides false information about the performance to make his own argument seem better. This is …

Really? I have the exact opposite experience, I feel much more free to study and work on whatever I want now that I graduated. I would always feel bad for working my own stuff inst…

I've heard this before, is there a source for this? It has all the hallmarks of an urban legend...

For me the problem is that the number of sites I'd like to support to some extent. I'd love to donate to The Guardian, but I also frequent The Atlantic, BBC and many other sites. A…

I currently have a thinkpad with ubuntu in it (not preinstalled should it matter), and unfortunately I'm considering switching the other way around. There are just too many things …

How exactly would that premise be different from the Microsoft/Nokia disaster?

What if wage disparity follows the lines in negotiation ability even more strongly, does that make it an issue of negotiation skills then?

I'm the most surprised how LA blows up, I thought it was quite a bit cheaper there than in SF/NY.

A lot of the people commenting on the article seem to be pretty adamant that something like this matters. Personally, I've never been confused by a period (or lack of thereof) at t…

>Finland has a cultural problem: working for a big company is considered good, working for a small one is considered being unsuccessful and failure at founding a startup is conside…

Same goes for Google, but you could argue that it's for a reason. FB/Google have a reputation to uphold and they strive to make sure their name isn't associated with subpar stuff. …

I think most people from those companies (I can't speak about Wall St) would make more money in other companies. The employers those companies usually hire are exceptionally good a…

I'm a big fan of 10MinuteMail, it's saved from a lot of spam. Thanks!

While Google's this year's submission was good, it didn't seem to contain any particularly inspiring ideas, as it was mostly just a collection of small improvements on previous ide…

>This article makes it sound like Spatial Pyramid Pooling is something new and amazing Hardly, the paper specifically states "Spatial pyramid pooling ... is one of the most success…

That's a regional Federal Reserve Bank, not "the Fed". Also, you leave out that those share holders get at most 6% annual return for their investment, since it's capped by law.

>Famous theory from Harvard: The difference of a person’s fate is decided from what a person spends in his free time between 20:00 to 22:00. Anyone know the source for this theory?…

I think it has something to do with the idealistic view of "pure, well-written" code. There's something appealing about a code base consisting of only code, not comments. But in my…

>You don't want to make someone who is editing code stop to think about how it affects the comments. What's the point of comments then if your general rule is that it should be fin…

The programmer who doesn't change the documentation when changing the code is usually the same one who doesn't change the function name when changing its functionality. If a bad pr…

I honestly think public libraries should be allowed to use some of their money to advertise and create a brand for themselves. For a lot of people the thing deterring the usage of …

This makes me think if there might be demand for a consultancy-like startup, which has the business idea of taking over a SaaS service if the company is discontinued, and running i…

Probably all of us agree that being forced to comment everything will lead to some bad/useless comments. But the examples you showed were simply bad comments. Just because there ar…

Lately I've developed a distaste for thinking of math as simply a representation of "something real", I'd rather think of it as a language in its own right. I'll just link this her…

Not strictly economic, but personally I quite like the idea of gross national happiness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness On the more economic side, you have s…