If I understand the statistics correctly the average program has 71 lines of code. Those are mickey mouse tests for which scripting languages shine. All the verbosity of imperative languages becomes handy when you have tasks that are a few 100KLC long.

This is a lesson Perl learned the hard way: once your program is long enough you beg in your knees for strong static type checking system.

Fair point, but wouldn't you think that somewhere around 100K deaths from Ebola, people would start to change their customs? It happened before, e.g. during the Spanish flu.

Well just as we write this this came over the news wire:

A high mortality rate works against the spread of the disease. Most lethal diseases in terms of epidemics have a long incubation period and a mortality rate below 30%.

Sure, people Bunny Suits will pick them up, put them in trucks and bury them. So now instead of requiring the entire population to be in bunny suits you only need the funeral brigade to do so.

Your post, while true, is orthogonal to whether companies use linkedin for hiring or not. My sources tell me is presently the channel of choice. Do you have any relevant evidence to the contrary?

Seriously? I've heard several HR people from large companies say that nowadays they almost exclusively hire from linkedin.

...and you think people are going to be handling corpses once the dead toll exceeds the tens of thousands?

Do not hide the PhD rather you need to find the right job match for you.

Additionally make sure you join an open source project to show you are not afraid to get your hands dirty.

Let's face it, if you apply for a job writing HTML you are going to hate it and quit within a month which is why employers hesitate to hire you in the first place. On the other hand if you can prove you can code and you apply to a company where the product is sufficiently non-trivial every company can use one thinking head for every 20 straight-out-of-undergrad programmers.

Make sure you go to the interview with some new developments (last 5-10 years) from academia that the company can use to improve their product. You should have no problem getting hired.

1.2 million? I call BS. When things start to look really bad people will voluntarily stay at home, dramatically reducing transmission. And this is before we consider government action. This already happened during the swine flu scare in Mexico where everyone stayed home for a week and then on top of that the government ordered restaurants, schools and other businesses closed.

A long long time ago Microsoft was able to compete in the open marketplace. Then Digital Research DR-DOS happened, which was technically superior to MS DOS. In a panic upper management authorized the insertion of codes disabling aps from running on DR-DOS.

Microsoft has never looked back from that key moment. Since then the entire game for MS has all been about leveraging market share rather than quality applications. This is why they can't turn the XBox into profitable division, because as successful as it is in terms of market share, it has not yet become a monopoly. Any other half alive company (no Sony doesn't count) would be raking in the billions with this type of market share. Not so Microsoft

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  88% of CO2 travel footprint is generated by cars, 1% by buses.

This is a statement that actually can be statistically tested. We can compare whether he got more or less votes than a fellow white democrat in every state. People have looked into this and Obama mostly less (in the South, obviously) or the same votes as the white democrat. So yes, people would have voted for him if he had been another white guy, and won by an even larger margin had he been white.

Which as I said, makes you a racist. And no, I don't say that lightly, but you've earned it. If you are a good person you will re-evaluate your unwarranted prejudice against the manner he got elected. If you are on the other hand a closeted bigot pretending not to be one you'll simply dig your heels further.

Say what? his father was a multimillionaire.

Of course you won't, a republican choosing ideology over facts, what else is news?

Which is false. He got the job for the same reason he won the coveted Harvard Law Review editorship: he was damn bright one you could tell. The first time I read a speech from him in the early 2000s I knew he would one day be president, because you see, some of us can recognize talent while others like you cannot see past the color of a man's skin.

And sorry, but no, being promoted to VicePresident of dad's company like the Koch Jrs. is not an actual job accomplishment (or promoted to Captain in dad's navy for that matter). You are just reiterating the "born in third base, claim to have worked your way up there" point I was making. Thank you.