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Peter was doing her a favor the entire time. It's like an M. Night Shyamalan movie with the paradigm shift at the end. She was over-qualified, so he didn't want her to be stuck at a go no-where company. While it does say "She could do Peter's job in a snap." this doesn't mean that he is afraid she will, but that she should be working somewhere more challenging.

He wants to get rid of her to save her.

This is what I thought for a minute after reading the featured comment and justifying his actions. But then I re-read it and realized that Peter is just an asshole and is 90% of the reason Corporate America is a piece of shit that deserves to burn in hell.

He forgot the store where you can buy stuff at that all games are required to have now. And how come you can't send mushrooms to your friends to help them out?

I can vouch for the accuracy of this. I'm an expert voucher, so you can trust me.

I don't know what makes us happy, but I'm happy to have a job that I get paid to do when I would probably do it for free and for fun. (Developer)

What? I thought that was an April Fools joke.

It works for some of the bigger cities in the US though. I was comparing where I live now to where I lived before and it seemed pretty accurate.

Facebook.com is beating Yahoo.com now, but whats more fun is Google...

Well, patents are not products. I gotta say I don't like Apple much at this moment in time.

I did a live version of this kind of site. Very simplistic and anonymous. Haven't done much with it because I've moved on to other projects. http://lovingthat.com and http://complainaboutthat.com

College is the new high school. It's a requirement. Not having a college degree will be a crutch for the rest of your life. To level the playing field, its pretty much required to have a college degree.

Very disturbing. I'm not going on Big Br-... chatroulette again.

It's just geoip though, so it's accuracy is low.

Bill Gates has been giving away his money for the last 5 years to charities...

Cool link, will check out.

Ok, for example, this morning I've gone through: http://zef.me/2913/javascript-oop-style-performance http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2010/02/28/search-trees-are-e.... http://norvig.com/sudoku.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_Algorithm_X http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tutorials... http://www.extjs.tv/index.php/2010/javascript-debugging-tech....

I suggest reddit.com/r/programming, Hacker News obviously, and YourVersion.com for finding new stuff to read based on your interests, and then you can usually find more to read without too much trouble. There is always more!

See my reply to tome.

There are lots of good blogs out there. I think a substantial number of bloggers end up getting published in books, and a lot of good writers blog. There is a lot of information out there, my primary point is that you don't have to consume it on parchment for it to count.

Not necessarily just blogs, but I'd say around 100 articles easily. I'd also include tutorials and discussions that are substantial as part of reading those articles.

tl;dr: Stop visiting hacker news, reddit and other blogs; stop interacting with people; get books from the library for free.

My opinion: seriously, blogs should count as minibooks and everytime I read a particularly good and in depth blog or something that elicits the "I'm smarter for reading that" moment, I'm going to keep a tally. That tally I'll consider a chapter of a book. At 300 chapters, I'll count that as a book. Let's see how many books I have after a year. I think it'll be around 100.

Yes, but its really fucked up so its utility is very questionable.

Sheesh, April 1st isn't for a month and a week.

Thanks so much!

Hmm... might have to build that for my own use.

I think this has to do with how the page handles more friends and not how it handles the actual chat. There is probably a way to fix this... I'll have to look at the code later.

But why would that correlate with "negativity" across a subsection of people?

She probably is, she's just an intern.

I was under the impression that "Silicon Valleys" aren't planned to happen, but that they just happen. It's a mixture of the people and tech happening. It's a vibe. It's a culture. It's people.

I moved to the Valley a couple years ago there are many developers here who are all enterprising, talented, entrepreneurial, and willing to try and fail. It is something that simply doesn't exist where I'm from (Reno) because most people there are more willing to simply work for whoever will hire them and spend the rest of the time doing whatever they want (usually watching TV or playing videogames).

Moral of the story: you can't really teach or wish for this kind of thing to happen. You have to build a community willing to innovate and try and fail.

Also, those who succeed must get fabulously rich and a lot of prestige and respect.

I'm seriously depressed by the number of social networking sites.

It's try to buy, and if that fails, try to compete. At Google's size, it would be very, very, very difficult to spread their peanut butter too thin, and their Superbowl Ad indicates that they are focusing on what everyone knows them best for and only dipping their feet into other pools that they can't buy into.

I can vouch for Twitter-Async.

And now reading this will make you smarter in the future, because you will believe you can become smarter, hence you will.