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I spent a few weeks talking to recruiters while looking for a new job in South-eastern PA and at least half of the jobs that were pitched to me involved at least some amount of AS/400 development.

On that note, if you want to dramatically improve your web browsing experience: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-sna...

I'm very uninformed on these matters, but just out of curiosity, what about the cases where you come up with some way to do it better but your employer isn't interested? Is getting them to sign a waiver saying that you can develop something on your own time on your own equipment the only way to legally create something that falls into the same category as what your employer is doing? So if they refuse to do that, you're effectively barred from writing a certain category of software unless you quit the company and wait X years?

This is pretty cool. The one thing that i noticed is that there are a lot of 'duplicates', in the sense of one event being covered by a ton of different websites and then being shown multiple times.

I'm wondering if would be possible to use some sort of string pattern matching algorithm (perhaps bolstered by comparing article submission times?) to group 'like' stories together to mitigate this effect, perhaps allowing a the user to expand a given group to see all of the stories pertaining to that 'event' in order of popularity.

Is convincing employers to transition technology stacks really something that is generally considered easy (or even doable)? I'm stuck maintaining 'enterprise' software running on VB6 and ColdFusion 9 and the idea of getting my employers to sanction a migration to something newer is laughable.

just for the record, this article is from 2012 and the infographic is from 2011, so this probably isn't entirely accurate anymore (which isn't to say that the general point isn't valid).

No, I'm getting it too.

I knew Ross for a few years in college. I find it almost inconceivable to believe that he tried to have people killed. I also find the sentence completely disproportionate to the 7 charges he was tried and convicted of. This is a sad day.

edit: I also understand the point that his hiring the hitman was an overt act under one of the other charges, but, speaking as someone who is not a lawyer, it seems to me that such a weighty punishment should have to be based on a much more explicit charge than this. I sincerely doubt that they would have been able to make the case for life in prison if not for the murder-for-hire angle, and as such i think it should have been charged. This seems like a dishonest and sneaky way to prosecute someone. Of course, i have my biases.

Wow. It boggles my mind that any contractor working for Facebook would be making anything near that low.

It's possible to create groups of friends and then when you make a post, set it to display to a particular group. For example, I have 'Gamers', 'Close Friends', 'Coworkers', 'Family', 'College Friends', and 'Hometown Friends' groups (with some overlap of course). When I post something I can target it to the appropriate group of people.

As somebody who knew Ross in college, this is rather heartbreaking.