Comment Ask Slashdot: How To Avoid Working? (Score 1) 360
Fixed it for you. Seriously though, carry on being a prima donna. It makes finding work that much easier for me.
Comment Gawker (Score 1) 566
You know you've done wrong when a degenerate from Gawker shambles out of their circuit party to rationalize it.
Knuth Got It Wrong 298
davecb writes "Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again. Poul-Henning Kamp, in an article at ACM Queue, finds an off-by-ten error in btrees, because they fail to take virtual memory into account. And he solves the problem in the open source 'Varnish' HTTP accelerator, for all of us to see and use."
Comment Re:Calling all fanbois! (Score 1) 782
I went for a job interview at Apple last year. I asked the hiring manager about the housing situation in the area. He told me he rents because he can't afford a house. I figured if my manager was renting, I'd have to live in a van down by the river. Needless to say, I didn't take a job there.
