My favorite part is that the article is titled "MariaDB vs. MySQL: A Performance Comparison", but since the performance is almost identical they spend most of the summary talking about ideological differences. I guess "MariaDB vs. MySQL: An Ideological Comparison" didn't have the same ring to it.

Good news. But finishing projects on time and precisely to spec does actually not always make the customer happy. And making the customer happy, profitably, is essentially the purpose of all business. On-time and to-spec deliverables are means to that end, but in the end the payer should be happy and the company should make a profit or the deal shouldn't be done.

In the case at hand, it sounds like the PM is trying to make the buyer happy, but that he himself can't be made happy (profitably) by any contractors, in which case his business model is flawed. Either he needs to set expectations better with his customers such that he can pass on an easier set of expectations to the contractors, or he needs to price things such that the contractors can still make a profit while delivering him what he needs to make his customers happy. An example of the former might be setting uptime metrics, and example of the latter is a defined test-fix-test period at a fixed cost.

"I don't pay for bugs" is just a negotiating tactic.

Maybe not for you, but for most people I think it will. Most of the Internet users on the planet have Facebook accounts and it's increasingly the best way to chat or contact anyone. Google is pretty much just driving people back to Facebook with this. As long as it's all proprietary, you might as well go with the one with the biggest available group.

I'll buy that if by "active" you mean "someone said I should try it so I signed up and checked it out for an afternoon" or "I was forced to join Google+ to read the messages of a Groups thread someone pointed me to" or "I have a Google+ account? When did that happen? Oh, I guess I accidentally signed me up yesterday!" then sure.

The poster to which you're replying was talking about a firewall between the Bloomberg financial/market group and the Bloomberg News group.

It's also how Photoshop got popular. Letraset ColorStudio was insanely powerful for the day but priced themselves too high and Photoshop came in as the low-end competitor with the friendly interface that could do most of the common stuff acceptably well. Now you've got Photoshop at the high-end and, at least on the Mac, competitors coming in like Pixelmator. We'll see where it leads...

An obvious explanation is why Americans say "Fall" or "Autumn" but English say only "Autumn". "Fall" was slang for "Autumn" in the late 1500's in England, came to the US, and we stuck with it while it was deprecated in England. If we were to colonize Mars tomorrow, they'd probably fix "Lolz" as a permanent word in their lexicon.

...that they'll tell you about. They know how much they think you're capable of repaying and will start to deny charges when you reach the limit. They just won't tell you what the limit is.

They're also really bad about reporting stuff accurately to credit bureaus. I almost didn't get my first house because AmEx said I owed more than my salary to them when my balance was actually $0. Needless to say I cancelled my card immediately and haven't had a personal one with them since.

Stenographers make more than journalists, on average. You get what you pay for. Now go read some more free internet news with adblocker enabled...

The Hostess situation had nothing to do with the unions. The company was sold to private investors who stole all the retirement accounts and decided to gut the business and sell the brand... but they had contracts to get out of. So they gave themselves huge bonuses and cut worker pay until the workers finally stopped working, figured they'd milked it for what it was worth, and sold the assets. You'll be able to buy Twinkies again soon, because the brand was auctioned off to the highest bidder to repay the investors (who also got paid earlier as owners in the form of retirement money funneled into payouts).

The only way the unions failed in this situation is that they weren't powerful enough.