Agreed. Meeting a table thumping, yelling person in the interview would just cause me to stand up and say "I'm sorry, I'm looking for a position at a professional organisation". If this sort of situation is routine enough to require somebody to do well in it during an interview then I'd say there are some problems there.

In real situations this doesn't happen. At least in the places I've worked. There was an incident of massive negligence by the support team involving one of our biggest customers databases last year. Instead of someone in management hitting the table and yelling, everyone in the development team already knew it needed to be fixed and so we fixed it. A good team doesn't need yelling at.

It seems to me that the type of managers who yell and ask why are usually the ones in the positions who don't need to know. A good manager will be right there with the team putting forward ideas, not simply asking questions. If they're not going to be putting in ideas then they should get away from the problem and let people get on with it.

I don't kick muggers in the balls if I catch them because I would make a significant amount of joy from it and it wouldn't be right.

Does it really matter what the price is?

This is from Google's own help page:

Disabling Buzz

If Buzz isn't for you, you can turn it off it by clicking the turn off buzz link at the bottom of your Gmail (it's near the basic HTML link). Please note that this will only remove the Buzz label from your Gmail account.

To completely stop using Google Buzz, you also need to block all followers and delete your Google profile (which will delete all of your posts and connected sites) before clicking the turn off buzz link.

Did you think that Buzz would be widely adopted? No, it will FAIL. That's why they let it do its thing by default, nomatter whether the user wants it or not.

The "turn off Buzz" link doesn't actually clean everything up and make things private again. It's misleading.

Exactly. I backup the software I write with free tools provided by Microsoft (sync-toy and the built in Windows scheduler), onto a USB hard drive. It's no off-site backup, but it's fine if you're worried about your hard drive crashing.

I hate recursive acronyms. Why is there more than a few in open source software?

Or, what will really happen is that the government will make devices capable of creating images of pages illegal, with an over-the-top prison sentence for those who use them.

Why was this modded offtopic? It's a direct response to a dubious claim made in the parent post

that is the best description of politics I've ever read. it is a permanent truth.

Obviously it depends on the person entirely. For me I coded as a hobby and I ended up getting a job because of the skills I had developed. The challenges I faced at work and solutions I came up with helped inspire me and I found at 5:30 each day I couldn't wait to get back home and develop based on thoughts that I've had during the day. That is, of course, if I get my head out of work mode and don't hang around the office trying to pick up loose ends. I love my job, of course there are downsides and days I don't want to be there, but I wouldn't change it ever. My point is that all people are different. Some people want to keep work and hobbies seperate, while others enjoy an activity so much that they want as much as possible. So don't call things a lie.

You fool! You've just given away a million dollar idea!

There's a pretty much un-ending list of things you could do to the population under the reasoning of "not wanting to get blown the fuck up"