SOX dictates policy, not process. Nothing in SOX requires the process your company has chosen to implement. SOX basically says: do whatever the fuck you want, but it had better be understandable and sane; if you fail at that, but claim you are compliant, we can jail your senior management.

If you are lucky enough to be working for a good company, you hardly notice SOX. If your company sucks, well, senior management doesn't want to get jailed, so they make a process of hierarchical justifications that is understandable, sane, and stupid: they keep their jobs and stay out of jail.

It tends to be for those autodidacts and other weird cases (like young college dropouts or philosophy PhDs looking to write code.)

Then again, I am usually interviewing for $200K-$800K developers, so our experiences may differ.

It's pretty damn simple:

Most college degrees show that you are basically employable in a white-collar or pink-collar job entry-level job paying $40K/year or so: you have proven you can show up, follow simple instructions, get work done on time, understand written material, write a page of text that sort of makes sense, do basic arithmetic, etc.

That's about it for 99% of college graduates. Congrats, you get to sit in a chair at work, and we know you can do the simple job we need filled. Hell, do well, and we'll even promote you to where you can earn more and actually add more value.

You went to MIT or did STEM? Great, we figure you are smart, hard-working, and have an analytical mind. That's worth $80K. We really don't care what you majored in or what courses you took. It's still a fucking entry-level job.

20 year old autodidact? Sorry, just too much uncertainty. Come back when you have a track record or a Github repository that we like.

"Fieryphoenix" and "nutcase who decides that words are not sequences of letters" are not different words. They are different forms of the same word.

The H1-B program is a mess, but when I look around my office:

1. There is a small group of H1-Bs who are actually competent and probably help keeping us profitable
2. There is a bunch of H1-Bs who are useless, underpaid fucks who make the codebase worse
3. There a small group of citizen programmers who are actually competent and probably help keeping us profitable
4. There is a bunch of citizen programmers who are useless, overpaid fucks who make the codebase worse

Revoking for citizenship of group 4 seems the best plan. Then we can work on group 2.

I really don't understand posters who can understand an amortization schedule, even understand how rates change over time, and then just add dollar numbers (e.g. a dollar today plus and a dollar payable in 30 years) to make a big, bad number that is supposed to make sense.

Ah, so we just need to look for player characters who picked a generic white-male avatar, blundered around because they picked "easy mode," but still wound up doing and completing some of the fun missions and sidequests in the game. For example:

1. Started life as a player character with extra gold
2. Flew fighter planes
3. Managed a baseball team
4. Caught fish in the "pond on own private ranch" cliche
5. Became president of USA. Bonus for second term election.

Hmm, someone like that would be unbelievable and stick out like a sore thumb.

It's not the crime, it's the coverup. This is the kind of crap that gets people sent to jail.

It's not about the science, it's about what Exxon did:

If their internal research showed one thing, but they publicly declared something something opposite, that's pretty bad, but probably not criminal.
If they testified in a court that they believed the opposite factoids, and didn't mention the internal research, that's really bad, but if the opposing lawyers didn't find the right person to testify (like someone at Exxon who knew about the research,) they are probably still ok.
If they set up secret email accounts for senior executives, and then didn't provide the emails from those accounts to the opposing lawyers during the discovery process, then that's just fraud on the court. It's like your wife "forgetting" to mention her secret bank account in the Cayman Islands during your divorce trial. Seriously, WTF?

The market solution is to give you a $10 off coupon on healthcare for your service in Houston.

As Paul Ryan explained, if you want cheap healthcare you should have made better life decisions, like becoming a congressman rather than an astronaut.

Actually, the reason is a bit different: round things with excess pressure on the inside respond by getting more round and keeping their shape (think latex balloons being inflated;) round things with excess pressure on the outside respond by getting more oval/ flattish and losing their shape

So, for negative pressure things, you have to design them to avoid collapse, not true for positive pressure things. A spacecraft hull (say a dime's thickness of aluminum) can easily handle 5 atmos of pressure differential. Put it 30 feet underwater, and it will collapse like a cheap suit in the -1 atmo environment.

Bacteria living underground/underwater don't care much about radiation or earthquakes. Of course, it's bacteria, so we aren't going to be swapping porn or MP3s with them anytime soon.

So, about the same as:

1) I have drugs
2) I know where to buy drugs
3) I have a friend who can get me drugs
3a) I have drugs, and my friends don't know I do
4) I have no drugs, and have no idea how to score them

There is a lot of commonality in learning to fly airplanes and masturbate. Unlike the parent, I'll spare you two paragraphs of pointless anecdotes about my life.

Of course, the article says nothing of the kind:

Oh, I actually picked five things true of my own kids. But good to know they are in some book.