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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2103480

Manjoo was wrong.

BU_studenton IBM fires small-town workers

It's sad to see IBM gut its workforce in the very place it was founded, just to increase its EPS.

I go to a college that is right next to the village Endicott. The population of the nearby city of Binghamton, a member of the Rust Belt, saw its population decline from a peak of 85,000 to its current total of about 47,000 when the manufacturing jobs left. The decline has taken it's toll on the city. Binghamton is now one of the fattest, most depressed cities in America.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/america_fatte...

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-depressing-cities-in-ame...

BU_studenton Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?

> Fortuitously, AR didn't have all that many customers at the time, so only 15 or so people were affected. Less than fortuitously, those 15 folks had 10 to 100 messages queued, each.

Excuse me for caviling at your post, but "fortuitously" is a synonym for "accidentally", not "fortunately".

BU_studenton Ask HN: How would you teach web development to college students?

Hi, I'm a non-CS major at BU on a throwaway account. Don't worry, you're not alone.

We can SSH onto an Ubuntu server named HARVEY to test Linux versions mySQL, PERL, PHP, Python, Ruby and display our own web pages.

http://harvey2.binghamton.edu/

We also have access to an FTP site for software like Mathematica, Maple, and Matlab, and there is another page for access to a bunch of VMs that have certain software packages on them. Look at ssl.binghamton.edu.