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Sadly I suspect that his son/successor may be even crazier than he was.

I hope that at some point they can find a cross section of sedimentary rock to look at. I imagine it would be much less common on Mars since there is a lot less plate tectonics and certainly no highway systems, mining or construction exposing the rock but still, there might be a shot.

I often find that there is usually one person very invested in the standards and it is more of an extension of their need to control their life and environment rather than making things readable. Often I see things as more than opinion rather than absolutes (although no indentations is probably an absolute no-no).

I once worked at a company where code reviews devolved into stylistic debates. We would spend hours witnessing style arguments without ever noticing that a variable was undeclared or a header file forgotten.

I am so glad I turned down that job with Paypal

Sadly the H1 process is better now than during the dot com era. At the time it was as close as we have come to institutionalized servitude since the 13th Amendment was ratified. I am not saying it is great now, far from it. Rather I get a little nervous any time our Congress starts talking about this.

I am really curious how Google and Facebook will handle this...

Examples make a huge difference. I try to keep a few personal projects around for people to look at so that I do not have to worry about proprietary code issues.

There is one more reason that copying works is that people become disaffected with the original for whatever reason: poor customer service; failure at a crucial moment; finding out the price point of the original was not the best deal, etc. During the mid to late 1990's McAfee software made serious bank on this model.

The value of attention to peoples actions is demonstrated once again

I would like to think that, in some small way, the exposure of this on HN and keeping it on the front page for so long helped them, uh, see the errors in their ways.

Getting this post to the front page of HN will help increase the Streisand Effect for Carrier.

This helps explain why I started looking forward to Anakin killing off the Jedi. Well that or the atrocious acting and characterizations. "I sense much fear in him." Really? A 9 year old boy taken from his home to a strange place to meet a bunch of old losers to have judgement passed on him and he is scared. What an insight there Yoda. Ass.

I wonder how his would work with people on the Autism Spectrum? One issue they have is with not handling abstract thinking yet they are quite prone to depression.

Was he Six Sigma certified? A Black-Belt? These things are important you know!

This is a really cool article. I love the application of the analysis of plane crashes to software development.

I am just starting to learn Web Design and these are good for me too.

For those of us cursed to develop on Windows but deploy to Linux this can be a big deal.

I love it when companies offer insight into their practices like this.

Excellent advice.

I am not opposed to Java as much as I am opposed to the fanatical die-hard proponents of Java who think that anyone not using it is an ignorant savage who needs to be enlightened through repeated arguments.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It was enacted following Enron and Worldcom to prevent corporate malfeasance. Sadly it gave a lot of auditors a lot of power which translated to 'controls' placed on the work environment. Some make sense (e.g. no read/write access to production for development). Others make no sense (e.g. no access to log files from production for developers troubleshooting issues). It really depends on the company and the audit process.

There is that... and of course all Public Companies in the US have the SOX BS baked into the process.

And in the case of Facebook it is strangling them... roughly 2/3 of their 9000+ MySQL servers do nothing but control the servers that actually store data.

I find though that companies often place as much nonsense in my way as they remove so there can be a trade off.

It is amazing the bump in traffic you can get from here

Massive Happy Dance

Sometimes I do it to practice the new implementation and add/improve unit testing.

Thank you. This is coming at a very opportune time for me.

I think the use of Skype is a great idea. I work for a for profit education company and we pour a boat load of money and time into on-line classrooms. Using Skype and/or another framework would have saved us countless hours of labor.

I wish I could help you but the best I can come up with is finding some that work with larger companies that support telecommuting. Most of the smaller companies that support remote work generally use networking, ads or independent recruiters. Telecommuter jobs collects the Craigslist ads that mention telecommuting but the results are spotty. Dice.com might have a better search but I cannot recall if they have a telecommuting filter; if they do you could look for recruiters that post there.