This phenomenon is likely behind the fact that US kids think they are great at math (but they aren't) and Asian kids think they are not good (but they are). This has been well documented in the education literature. Just another consequence of the "trophy for everybody" mentality of the USA.

This is the dumbest article on the internet

I'd add a bottle of good scotch. It will be even better in 25 years (and something to toast your discovery with).

The best passwords are those hiding in plain sight. I like to keep a few pictures of things at my desk that instantly remind me of the password. For example it could be a picture of a big fat guy for password 300#FatGuy. That way you're unlikely to forget and still nobody would ever guess the actual password.

From my office in NYC I can see the World Trade towers being constructed. There's all kinds of safety nets around the unfinished floors, mandated harnesses for staff who work outside, etc. I could see all of that type of safety procedures (which I'm sure is the same across the USA and Europe) ignored in the quest for completing the building on time. No doubt a few of these Chinese speed-building workers would die during the process (though no one would ever hear about it in the news).

What happens if you sleep in late ? Does the auto bed maker tuck you in like a mummy ? Could this be a future excuse of why we didn't come into work - "the automatic bed maker trapped me there all day".

Yes but what about sites with stupid developers that limit password size or don't allow special characters (two of the most important aspects of good passwords) ? I've seen plenty of them. In essence you have to dumb down your base password choice to accommodate them. Or remember that for those particular sites you have a short / no special character version of the password. Which you inevitably forget soon after creating the account.

I look at job boards in Finance and see numerous firms advertising for very specialized combinations of skills and experience. For instance expert level C++ coders with several years of ultra-high frequency trading experience. Basically they want to recruit someone who's already doing the exact job they are advertising for. So it's no wonder these jobs go unfilled.

The big teams spend money as quickly as they possibly can. The goal is not to amass revenue but to have no extra money left over at the end of the year (they are non-profits by law). So there is lavish spending everywhere. They house the entire football team at a hotel the night before home games. They send the entire 200 person band to bowl games with hotels & meals. These teams have incredible practice facilities that are like indoor stadiums. The list is endless.

I used to name all of our servers after famous mathematicians / physicists. Pretty nerdy but a big hit with the PhD's who used them. I've also seen movie stars names - FrankSinatra, GingerRogers, etc. And states / cities.

At my firm we rank-order the projects in terms of priorities. That completely simplifies the resource crunch. If we're out of resources, the last unsupported project just waits.

Just make sure to allocate 10 or 20 % time to support or that will wreck your timelines.