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Proxies like unotelly may send more of your traffic through their service than you would like. You can protect your traffic but still use the tunnel if you only send bbc.co.uk DNS …

Great if stern response. Thanks for taking the time to write it up.

None of us want to work for 60 years, particularly not for someone else. Also, our Bay Area apartments cost $2M.

I lived abroad for years and was double taxed on part of my income. The tax treaties and exclusions are limited to certain dollar amounts. He's likely well above those limits.

@Michaelochurch great response! Where do you work? @HN I've been a hiring manage for years. Take the advice about what to avoid with a grain of salt, and be sure to read some of th…

Anecdotal, but a few of the best software engineers I've known did not have CS degrees. You certainly do not need one to write a CRUD app in Rails/Django.

The same thing happened during one of my upgrades to 12.04. Grub was hosed. Here's the fix: http://askubuntu.com/questions/125428/grub-complains-of-no-s... It's ironic that the top…

The Fed economist Kevin J. Lansing has an excellent paper on asset price bubbles, written in 2007. http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2007/el20... "The market's met…

Hopefully you change your employer more frequently than your spouse, hobbies, family, or friends. :) The vast majority of people in the world do not have the luxury of loving their…

Is it really that easy to hack someones gmail account? I realize phishing and key loggers are easy ways to grab a password, but if you avoid typing your gmail password at public in…

I've lived in SF and Tokyo and spent time in NYC. @potatolicious is spot on with this post. NYC streets and subway cars are, generally, cleaner than the equivalent in SF. Crime's l…

Did Google open a Milwaukee dev office? It's irrelevant if the midwest is cheaper. The tech centers have the jobs and the higher rents. (SF, Boston, NYC, Seattle, Austin, NC)

That's hysterically funny. Only slightly off topic.

Sign of the tech bubble? Financiers jumping to tech companies? The chemists and high school teachers turned ninja hax0r can't be far off. Someone please warn me so I can short XLK.…

@Jon Seriously awesome work. Thank you! People like yourself raising everyone's awareness are one of the few hopes we have of avoiding the dystopian world that @ck2 and others have…

Exercise in the morning, or at least before noon, for 30 minutes or more, and eat a decent meal just after. You'll find that'll give you energy throughout the day, including after …

As an interviewer, to indicate things are going well, you can smile, nod, give happy words of encouragement, get excited, etc. When things are going poorly, you can frown, say "not…

It's tragic that engineering interviewers extrapolate a candidate's mistakes on a whiteboard during a tense, time pressured interview situation to the calm day coding at a keyboard…

Am I off in thinking it's horrible for the interviewers to not provide feedback during the interview? I'd also be curious how much throwawayttt probed for feedback during the inter…

There's often a distinction between APIs intended for general consumption (platform APIs) and APIs optimized for JavaScript and/or mobile clients ("private" APIs). A platform API t…

Googling it says limit user processes via /etc/security/limits.conf http://goo.gl/RJJhN Is it not that simple?

You've described exactly what happens at Google.

Deep corporate hierarchies encourage politics and associated power struggles. Part of moving up in that environment is to have others perceive you as an "air-traffic controller" of…

> PROCESS IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP. Choice quote, though you're quoting yourself. :) Your original write up "enough with the meetings are toxic" was a nice read from 2006…

It would be amazing to have members of Congress who understood forks and pull requests. Given the recent SOPA/DNS fiasco, I'd say we have another 30 - 50 years.