Comment Re:Uh... (Score 1) 535
Yes, that's true. The internet >> WWW.
Damnit, I spent the last 5 minutes trying to figure out what it means to bit-shift the internet by the WWW.
Can we just internet ^ it instead?
Stock Market Sell-Off Might Stem From Trader's Fat Finger 643
s122604 points out a CNBC story according to which "the catalyst for today's extraordinary price swing (at one point the Dow lost almost 9 percent in less than an hour) may have been because a trader entered a 'B' for billions instead of an 'M' for millions on a trade of Procter and Gamble: 'According to multiple sources, a trader entered a "b" for billion instead of an "m" for million in a trade possibly involving Procter & Gamble, a component in the Dow. (CNBC's Jim Cramer noted suspicious price movement in P&G stock on air during the height of the market selloff).' Unbelievable there are no safeguards to protect against this."
Comment Re:All about palm greasing (Score 5, Insightful) 235
Mod parent up. This law is basically saying "You must hit all of these subjective benchmarks." That's code for "You must pay us enough money to agree that you are hitting all of these subjective benchmarks."
Laws are rarely about what's good for the people. They're usually about what's good for the lawmakers. Occasionally the two coincide.
Comment Re:Be smart (Score 1) 485
I totally agree that the interview needs to test skills related to the position. However, if the interviewee can't figure out how to reverse a string, that shows that they have some pretty shitty problem-solving/programming skills. That question is designed to be the one question in an interview that everyone gets right and is usually asked very early on to make the interviewee more relaxed because hey, they got one right.
Not all of the questions asked in an interview intended to test your programming ability.
