The Non-Programming Programmer – Coding Horror
Three years later, I'm still wondering: why do people who can't write a simple program even entertain the idea they can get jobs as working programmers? Clearly, some of them must be...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – Defining Prosperity Down
The point is that a large part of Congress — large enough to block any action on jobs — cares a lot about taxes on the richest 1 percent of the population, but very little about the plight of Americans...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – German Law Would Limit Facebook’s Use in Hiring
As part of the draft of a law governing workplace privacy, the German government on Wednesday proposed placing restrictions on employers who want to use Facebook profiles when recruiting. The bill...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – O’Donnell’s Magic Turns Loss into Win
“Today marks a lot of tragedy,” Ms. O’Donnell said after headlining a fundraiser for the Northern Virginia Tea Party on Tuesday night. “Tragedy comes in threes: Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards’s...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – Deep Hole Economics
Seriously, what we’re looking at over the next few years, even with pretty good growth, are unemployment rates that not long ago would have been considered catastrophic — because they are. Behind those...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – American Medical Response Settles Facebook Firing Case
An ambulance company that fired an employee after she criticized her supervisor on Facebook agreed on Monday to settle a case brought by the National Labor Relations Board. The plan resolves an Oct. 27...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – Failure to Launch
Here’s the question: of college graduates with a bachelor’s degree who aren’t enrolled in further schooling, how many have full-time jobs? In December 2007, on the eve of recession, the answer was 9083...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – Public Workers in Wisconsin Protest Plan to Cut Benefits
Behind closed doors, Scott Walker, the Republican who has been governor for about six weeks, calmly described his intent to forge ahead with the plans that had set off the uprising: He wants to require...
View ArticleNYTimes.com – The Austerity Delusion
What do these events have in common? They’re all evidence that slashing spending in the face of high unemployment is a mistake. Austerity advocates predicted that spending cuts would bring quick...
View ArticleZach Holman – Scaling GitHub’s Employees
We do things differently at GitHub: we work out of chat rooms, we don’t enforce hours, and we have zero managers. People work on what they want to work on. Product development is driven by whoever...
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