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What is your reasoning? I've never heard of phone companies being sticklers for proper warrants.

Does anyone know where to find the full text that he has leaked? I see so many analyses, but I don't trust any of the people writing them. I'd like to look at the source if possible.

In talking about causality, the article makes two counterfactual claims: had the Soviets not invaded Manchuria, Japan would not have surrendered and had the bombs not been dropped, Japan would have surrendered. (In my opinion, the first claim is well-defended, the second less so). Since the bombs were dropped and the Soviets did invade, any discussion of these possibilities is a little speculative.

When I click "filter" on /companies nothing happens. No javascript errors. Firefox 21.

According to another on-the-ground account http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1fi07t/im_so_conf...

> The military has been handing out gas masks to civilians and there is a video of then getting into verbal arguments with the police. Although the gendarme look as if they are in with the government the majority of the military look as if they're going to sit this one out while quietly supporting the protests.

A physicist comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1fev5e/artificial_m...

The question is whether capable developers in Poland and India work for cheap outsourcing firms. Probably not. It may have been the case once, but the developers have a lot more to gain by simultaneously cutting the middleman and raising their rates. At this point, Google has a large office in Hyderabad and Poles can commute into Germany.

PLEASE STOP THE METAPHORS!!! (shouting justified by how many of these have been written)

They don't add anything to the discussion. Do you need special techniques to work with walnut? I don't know and I bet the author doesn't either.

And where do you draw the analogy? What's the programming tool that's too specialized to be worth asking about? MSVC++? C++? Manual memory management?

This article doesn't make any useful claim about what level of precision interviewers should be looking for, and certainly doesn't make any convincing argument that it is the correct level.

Going one level meta, there's a specific thing that bugs me in this discussion. I'm seeing the words "abuse" and "butthurt" used a lot. Using either word makes a claim that the negativity in the previous thread was or was not excessive. But it doesn't make an argument to that effect. It's just an unsupported, emotion-tugging claim. That's bad debate. Please stop.

I don't think it's all about money.

I live in NYC in large part to avoid driving. If I moved to Kirkland the lower rent would easily pay to lease, fuel, insure and maintain a luxury car, with cash left over. I'm staying here. So are my 8 million neighbours.

Saving money in comparison to what? To spending that extra commute time working for money, no. To spending the extra commute time driving to a gym and riding a stationary bike? Definitely.

Isn't one guy working alone for 6 years how Fermat's Last Theorem got solved?

It did have a flaw that got fixed later in collaboration, but most of the work was one individual's deep focus.

"Killer" bees are africanized. That is, they are european/african crossbreeds. These are simply african bees. Much safer.

This film at least seems to be well-researched, unlike Dan Brown.

> pornography implies objectification

It really doesn't. People can relate to porn in many ways. Unless the definition of "objectification" is so broad as to make the statement meaningless.

Isn't it pretty well established that farming led to an increase in violence?

Thinking in terms of "development" is generally a bad approach. History doesn't have levels. Using generic terms like that implicitly assumes all sorts of correlations that don't actually exist.

> Could it be that schools aren't teaching their students the right stuff, that despite their fancy credentials, today's grads lack the programming chops or logical prowess needed to succeed at a Google or Microsoft? Not so much.

Having done interviews at Google, and given a lot of very low scores to people with impressive degrees, I'm inclined to say yes. The author thinks that this would cause wages to rise, but the argument there looks pretty sketchy.

Draw a map of drug-related violence. Draw a map of poverty. Same map?

While it does produce leet, the "th" sound doesn't exist in the original hebrew, so it's kind of appropriate.

How does the first stage not get damaged by the backblast from the second stage seperating?

No, it just requires the PR person to send the press release to the journalist without posting it publicly.

Default application, yes. A browser tab, no. When I just want to look at an image, firefox is largely preferable to gimp. When I have a bunch of pdfs, firefox tabs are easier to manage than evince windows.

Generally the "open" option opens in some other app, not the browser. Including for formats the browser actually displays better.

Can anyone fill in the geology of this? Geographically, I'd expect an Andes-like volcano from the subduction of the pacific plate, but they're talking about rivers of basalt.

The real question is: why did Americans drive so much? Was it to have larger houses+grounds? Was it to be further from poor neighborhoods? Was it about signaling?

Is that first one valid Excel? I've never seen it before.

> I mean Excel is at its heart a query language. So your logic equally applies to Excel

The least readable query language ever. Instead of names, everything must be addressed as column,row. Imagine a C program that instead of declaring variables with sane names as needed, simply created a large array of each type and used constant numeric indecies. That's what Excel requires.

> It may be hard to swallow but the extra effort and hours that you put into your job as a software developer does not usually amount to someone higher up thinking you should run the company. It has been my experience that good producers are more likely to be asked to continue to produce. If they moved you to a higher position and better pay then who would produce the software?

This is why it's important to have a way to move "up" (greater reward, prestige and technical authority) that doesn't involve becoming management.

This comment really bugs me and I'm not sure why. Somehow I keep hearing in my head "I don't like labeling these gunshot wounds as 'injuries', what's really wrong is the environment full of random gunfire". It's the individual who is suffering, and that's important. Is illness supposed to be a cause, and not a result?

You're also teaching your management chain to provide the minimum reward, fire frequently, and generally be unpleasant to force you to work more. And you turn your daily life into a struggle, as you and the management feel out and try to budge the line.