the web giant also said the voucher rewards were informal and actually funded out of the pockets of the company's own IT security staff

I don't know how many tshirts they gave out, but I am lead to believe it wasn't many. If someone freely out of their own good will helps you out, at your job! and you can only manage pony up $12.50 that is just an insult, I personally would prefer just a email of thanks than that!! Hell a case of beer maybe!!

I beat these guys aren't first in line to order a round on Friday night

SSDs are for booting. RAM disks are for compiling, and hdd is for long term storage.

RAM disks are for compiling? how small are you projects?

Don't tell the Yanks but that is still the case!!

Any high frequency trader HFT, market marker, derivatives trader etc.... worth it's salt has already co-located with the ALC (ASX/SFE) data center in gore hill, if you are not interested in low latency trading with the ASX then why would you bother paying the extra $$$ for these lines when you can get a fiber line anywhere in sydney for $2K a month from pipe/TPG networks.

I have been waiting for work of a art to be released for years!!

Finally someone presenting both sides of the story

Why would you think that? If you are being tortured you are going to say anything to get them to stop, whether it is true or not.

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This appears to be written by the same guy that wrote this wonderful pile of BS.

That is two articles for the price of one right there, journalism at its best

Stats by themselves will only ever be an indicator what is happening. You really need managers on the ground that are trust worthy to give you feed back on how things are actually going.

Taking humans out of the loop when rating other humans is always a mistake

Ya take that Anonymous Coward!!!