Dear recruiters ( Read more... )

When They do it, it is "the mask slipped" or it is a "Freudian Slip".
When We do it, its a "mistatement" and "allow me to revise my remarks".

When They do it, it is using "code words" and "dogwhistling".
When We do it, it is "speaking to our base".

When We do it, it was a "lighthearted jest".
When They do it, it is Not Funny ( Read more... )

a grim, committed drive to prove that the Peter Principle is wrong, and that, indeed, one can rise beyond one’s level of incompetence, perchance to explore heretofore unknown, virgin realms of incompetence none have ever seen before.
(John Scalzi speaking about Andrew Burt)

A fax of a photocopy of a driver's license apparently suffices for an I-9 Employment Verification Form. So much for all the expensive holographic embossing and special paper and other such anti-counterfeiting anti-tampering document security technology ( Read more... )

Happy Imperialist Conquest of the Peace-Loving Gaia-Worshiping Indiginous Peoples Day!

snerk. I am amused.

( In celebration of Ebay's new firearm parts policy... )

Java: The COBOL of the 21st century.

A fun business idea I occationally mull over is to buy a high quality laminate card printer, the sort of thing that is used to make id cards, and make unofficial IDs. A general purpose ID card, with photo, name, address, number, etc. Press passes for "USENET News Service". "Member of the Right Wing Conspiracy". "Member of the Left Wing ( Read more... )

Someone named Tony Healy in an article referenced here complains that the profession of programmers, especially open source ones, are not following the (wrongheaded, misguided, and evil) examples of older professions like Law and Medicine and selling real estate, in that we're not setting up guilds and unions, that we should impose "labour market ( Read more... )

NASA will of course polish everything anyhow, but that's because NASA is run by rich communists who are quite unclear about basic economics. The Russian space program is run by impoverished captialists, who know the value of a dollar. link