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prodiklon America's Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree

woah woah woah let's be reasonable here

prodiklon To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls

he touched on that

> the most common complaint being: "Oh, so only rich people can drive?"

> This critique ignores the fact that working Americans often suffer the most severely from the impacts of poor mobility. Working-class parents who are late to pick up their kids from day care, for example, often pay severe financial penalties. Having the option to reach their destination quickly could actually save them money. In fact, experience with dynamic tolling in the United States has shown that people of all income levels use these lanes. This objection also ignores just how inequitable and dysfunctional our current system is. Tolls may disproportionately burden the poor, but so do sales taxes, gas taxes and every other way we pay for roads.

prodiklon Post-Olympic Abandonment

Living in Seoul, I played hockey at the olympic stadium there. There are regular baseball games and the entire area is very developed.

prodiklon Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox

With Mozilla's downward slope in browser share, it seems smart to keep the relationship going for both of them. If Mozilla keeps losing ground to Chrome, Google wins. If Mozilla grows its userbase somehow, Google wins. Not to mention Mozilla keeps getting paid for what they do.

prodiklon Samsung Sold its Hard Drive Business to Seagate for $1.4 Billion

Ah, the good 'ol iPhone bundling tactic. I'm definitely not an opponent of sticking to what you're good at, and doing it best. And with this deal, I guess that's what's happening with both companies!

prodiklon Desingineer – the mythical person every startup is looking for

As a desingineer (not a particularly amazing one), I love the freedom I have to create entire projects front to back on my own and have them look and work great. But I totally agree about the "slotting." If I do one or the either, I feel slighted. If I do both, but get paid the same as if I did one, I feel slighted. I think desingineers are meant to be on their own, not slotted into one or the other in a larger group.

prodiklon All Programmers Are Self-Taught

I took CS101 twice because I hated it. When i found my passion in web, that's all I needed. I learned AS3 and LAMP in a relatively short time; it was just a matter of motivation!

prodiklon Samsung Sold its Hard Drive Business to Seagate for $1.4 Billion

With samsung the world leader in ram I would have thought they could've done some great things in ssd field. Bummer.