I agree with you. I would much rather use augmented reality.
I will save the VR for full immersion.

Ok, I liked Clock Boy but this is just dumb. And $15 million? I sure hope he plans on donating a lot of that to science

I hate that I have to agree with this. I have no idea how to do anything on my Macbook from the GUI except open something in the carousel. It took me almost an hour to figure out how to attach XTerm to the damn thing so I could actually work on the damn thing. I will say it is the lightest and most powerful (for the specs) BSD machine I have.

Posting ads internally advertising the job was the norm. The billboards in the break rooms were always full of job ads.

My experience is that they have no sense of resource management.

I started with experience in both networking and database management. I had only basic Perl and BASH experience and two quarters worth of community college VB classes. They of course assigned me to Java development assignment. Where the best Java Dev I was onboarded with, he went to work on a DB project even though he didn't even what it means to normalize a database.

Over the course of two years with the company (including 3 months of technical recruiting) I would see this pattern over and over again. There was anecdotal evidence from many people with similar experience.

Long story short, I am glad to be gone. Given their promotion model, I could see it being near impossible to get promoted with TCS, but most of that is because they are such a flat company. I don't think it has as much to do with bias. It is just that the talented staff bleeds off to find real work that employs their skills and the remainder are all that is left to promote.

While your story is moving, it is very difficult to read.

Slashdot supports HTML.
Not using a simple tag library to communicate your message is probably why you get down-voted.

If you are a dev, simple paragraph and break tags shouldn't be an issue
This kind of inattention to detail might also be why you aren't making the kind of money you want.

Part of the reason you are seeing less spam in your personal email is because it is a smaller target.

I would have to think that spammers start every script with instructions creating as many combinations of addresses with @gmail.com as they can.

Then, there is exposure. How many lists have you included that gmail account in compared to the one you host?

Just a thought.

Even Tesla needed to eat.

The parlor demonstrations Tesla would perform were to fund his theoretical research. Consequently, that research demanded customized machinery and someplace to house the experiments.

If he had focused on commercial products or had any kind of business savvy(as Edison had) he would not have had to be quite the showman.

Tesla was employed by Edison so it is very possible that some of Edison's contributions were, in reality Tesla's

The problem is not that the post isn't about a relevant topic, it is that the information is almost 30 days old. We are talking about technology and not just any technology. This is a web application that affects thousands of people. There has been new information regarding this topic released almost every day. Slashdot touts itself as a news aggregator. "News for Nerds", right? Nobody is saying that the contractors or the IT folks. I think that those of us in this community that are developers have a pretty good understanding of how the government handles buying and implementing tech. What that means, is that we want to understand the meat of the issue. To hell with your politics, talk to me about the tech and how I can help fix it. Just remember that 30 days in tech is like a year in government.

I think this is way over due. Although, I like getting mail on Saturday, I don't see a point. It isn't like we can do business on Saturdays.

Now if only Amazon would start letting us choose USPS over UPS for package delivery. As an apartment dweller, this would make my life much easier.

Did the interns take over polls?
What is up with all these youth-oriented poll questions?

Let's get back to questions that matter like "How many languages can you code in?" or "Can Cowboy Neal tango?"