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Joey K says...

I just found out Betty Crocker isn't/wasn't a real person.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

What Would Google Do?

Do people think anymore? My apartment's fire alarm is a lady saying "there is a fire in the building, evacuate," and then a very low pitched "beep, beep, beep." When the alarm went off at 3:45AM, my roommates and I would have been dead if there was really a fire.

theoriginaltyler

You may have heard the song "Fireflies" by Owl City. I love the song because it is so uniquely romantic in that it doesn't actually mention human-to-human love, but the romance is burning with every sound.

Insult: A clerk asked to see my ID when I bought an "M" (17+) rated video game. I'm twenty.

I found an alternative to caffiene. It works as well, but instead of being addictive in the long run, it's addictive in the short run. It is Resident Evil 4; the video game I was IDed for buying.

One of the hardest things for me to do is ask people to do something for free.

I'm definitely buying this for my sisters and I to play over Thanksgiving break.

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nileshbabu says...

Rapp is a menu engineer. He helps restaurants maximize revenue by hacking common flaws in human decision-making. For example, by simply removing “$” signs from prices, people are less intimidated by them. And he advises against listing items from least to most expensive, because that focuses the consumer on price. Instead he mixes up items, making it hard to find their price — thereby encouraging the customer to emotionally commit to something before finding out what it costs. But my favorite strategy of his is that of putting some absurdly expensive item on the menu. Rapp doesn’t expect many consumers to buy it, but having it there makes expensive items appear cheap by comparison. Think about it: How many times have you ordered a bottle of wine in the middle of the price range?

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Choosing the right name is everything. The correct naming of things makes it easier to learn a system, resolves ambiguities, dissolves confusion, promotes insight, freshens your breath and makes you attractive to women.
Coming up with the right name for a function can be just as important as what that function does.

Programmers, this article was one of the most saved articles on Delicious. This guy keeps it simple. Learn how to name, explained by a master in methods, classes and variables. Read more

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mathieu says...

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px says...

They pay to automate at scale for abundant usage; Internet Engineers are to the Internet as the USPS is to their delivery workers

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The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether big tech firms, including Google, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) broke antitrust law by possibly colluding on hiring policies, according to a report in the Washington Post.

 

Read more: 

http://globaldevelopmentnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/justice-department-probes-big-tech-firm.html

 

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U.S. Department of Justice, Google, Yahoo, Apple, Hiring practices, HR, collusion, engineers, silicon valley, Global Best Practice, software, IT, web, coders, computer programmers, 

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