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"You won't make as much as you make in the private sector. You should think of it as a tour of duty"

Sounds like a modern day Shackleton job posting

I feel his pain but it's easy to quit when you can cash in your stock options and pay off your mortgage

They took down the link. Appears to be a cheap publicity stunt indeed.

I like the price point about $1/1000records. Just curious to hear how you arrived at this price point.

The point being a referral based system incentivizes people to bring in quantity to stack the odds in their favor. Quality gets sidetracked, not necessarily maliciously.

In other words a system for non-ambitious dinosaurs to get in their cronies and milk the system while almost being assured of a job for the next decade

"On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart."

A similar equivalent in coding interviews would be "what does obscure function/feature do?"

From the OSM home page: "We started it because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways."

To me, this is the biggest issue using other mapping services. T&Cs can be a real pain - API usage restrictions, data usage restrictions, quotas, licensing.

Mind you the restrictions themselves are not the big deal but the fact that most major mapping providers don't make these restrictions clear enough - you have to sift through the terms page in most cases and read vaguely worded "legalese" to figure out if what you're attempting to do violates their terms of use.

I just got an email from a recruiter who's looking for a SQL DBA. The applicant must know (note the lack of mention of DBA skills): Java Script, jQuery, CHTML, CSS

I also frequently get asked by recruiters "how much do you make?". How is my current salary any of their business?

Like someone else already said, you get a generalized education with colleges, unless you know what you want to do for the rest of your life at 17. The other flip side to apprenticeships, particularly in the US, a year into it company management could decide to shut down this cost center and then what?

Hearing about Poe's law for the first time but in my corner of the woods, we blame it on the lack of a sarcasm font

It would be interesting if the author ever went back and figured out whatever happened to Bill, the horrible boss. People like Bill often don't last long in a swim or sink environment like Amazon.

If you're not a superstar, and I'm as un-superstar (sic?) as you can get, and you've been around long enough, chances are you've held a job with shitty pay and shittier boss.

Whether you depart for greener pastures or try to stay put make the best out of your situation and work on improving yourself and the company, says a lot about you also.

I hate articles like these for the sole reason that they go into a laundry list of things to do or avoid. A few examples of blogs doing things the right way would go a long way in educating us, instead of preaching.

"kittydar is best at detecting upright cats that are facing forward "

Good luck with getting a cat to do that

We look ahead at 3991 AD and find it to be depressing. I've always wondered how past civilizations (Greeks, Egyptians, etc) would find our modern day civilization.

Obviously 37S has built up enough of a trust level with the employees to even experiment with something like this. That in itself is commendable. Dan Pink talks about Atlassian and their "FedEx days" in his talks on intrinsic motivators. Seems like he should be using 37S instead.

As a techie, what I would love is "A Technical Guy's Guide to Marketing/Sales" that basically talks about the various concept and jargon a techie should know to run a business.

I can empathize with his frustration as my wife, early 30s,is going through similar issues searching for jobs. Most people, wife included, don't realize that job search is not about blasting a 100 uninspiring resumes on Monster.com and hoping they get noticed. I've tried to explain to her the concept of networking her way through companies to reach individuals in decision making position and also to keep tweaking her resume to align her existing skills with the job description she's applying for, but hey, it's always easier to get frustrated and vent.

I run into this all the time at work. I'm the guy who makes "shit" work at our under-manned start-up. Lately I'm finding it to my detriment because

a. management releases shit as-is instead of using it as a temporary solution and dedicating resources to finding a better permanent solution

b. other developers hit me over the head with their pedantic view of how it should have been implemented, which would probably thrown the project months or even a year off-schedule

It's a thankless job.

This should be titled "The Rapping Dead"

Here's my wishlist:

1. OS and platform agnostic

2. Easy to use

3. High storage at least on the paid version

4. Secure

5. and above all, an unequivocal guarantee from Google that they won't "peek" into my files just to show ads on gmail or search based off this info, even in the free version.

Good point. I was not necessarily referring to the physicality of books but the notion these book-burners subscribe to, that if they symbolically burn a book, the idea will perish. Your point of the Nazis burning the books out of supply only illustrates the point that to burn a book in the hope that the idea will perish, did not necessarily work.

Burning a book (good or bad) is the lowest form of expression humans can stoop to. If people understood the fact that a book is simply a personification of ideas, and ideas good or bad, cannot perish in a fire, the will realize the folly of engaging in a futile act like burning a book.

One of the inevitable consequences of the digital revolution will be that, there will come a time, when a controversial book will be published exclusively in digital format with no physical copies to burn. I don't know if this necessarily good or bad, but the fact that idiots can't burn a book will provide me some amount of pleasure.

> industry best practice

Did he say that with a straight face? Heard a lot of corporate BS in my time but this takes the cake.

This is Apple's fault for allowing all apps access to the address book. But there is a deeper issue here, trust. Just because I leave my office unlocked doesn't mean my colleagues can steal from it.

I love this app and had great hopes for it but trust is a limited commodity and Path just lost mine.

Why just confine this to eating? Even while consuming liquids: coffee (south India) and chai (all over India), you're supposed to hold the cup in your bare hands. My parents and grandparents would tell me "If it's too (temperature) hot for your fingers, it's too hot for your stomach". My parents were almost manic obsessive in making sure my hands and finger nails were clean before I touched any food and I can't remember a single instance of e-coli poisoning in my family.

In later life, in college, when I was slumming with students from the Himalayan regions of India, they carried the same belief with hot soups: cupping a hot soup in your palm before sipping on it, if it's too hot for your palm, it's too hot for your digestive tract.

By contrast, Starbucks puts a sleeve on its cups, because of which I can never tell how hot the coffee is when I'm sipping it.

Not sure, what the scientific basis is behind it, but now that I think about it in later life, it makes sense that I should be able to gauge the temperature of a drink before consuming it.

Hot, muggy, may be liveable. Are we talking about Florida? (disclaimer: I maybe live there)

Oddly enough, Windows' best versions have been ones with simple numbers (3, 7) as opposed to verions with years (95, 98) or names/acronynms (ME/XP). Here's hoping 8 will continue that trend.

One of the reasons Apple fails at social is it's fanboys/gals. If you're walking around telling people to "Get a Mac" when your friends run into minor issues, chances are your social recommendations are not going down well either.

I recently had the "good" fortune of being at the receiving end of a sales pitch from one cloud hosting service (not Amazon). The pitch centered more around flexibility (ability to add CPUs, RAM, storage, network nodes) rather than reliability issues as the one EC2 is facing right now. All questions about reliability were brushed aside with blanket statements like "it's in the cloud" as if that was an end-all-be-all. After much prodding the sales rep admitted that the hosting was all in one location (low lying hurricane prone area) and if we desired redundancy we would have to mirror our apps at a different geographical location. As with any other product, don't believe the sales pitch. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Always use redundancy specially for critical apps.

I think victim mentality just one of the many faults listed in the article others being negativity, over-sensitivity and fatalism.