Our coffee machine is connected to an external milk cooler unit using a plastic tube. The machine uses Bluetooth to send milk fetch requests to the dispenser.

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There's a difference between getting paid to do a job, or getting paid to perform tasks. Doing a job to me means to take on responsibilities. Taking on responsibilities requires more flexibility and sometimes do things outside your normal working routine if the situation demands is. It doesn't mean you have to be available 24/7. It's being capable to judge the urgency of the situation yourself and then having the balls to tell people when they can reach you and when they can't. If you're paid for performing tasks, then you can demand to get paid extra for everything you do outside your normal working hours, but then the guy who does the job will decide when they call you; not the other way around. You decide which one is the better deal. :cool:

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https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/443262/Graph_1-1.png?t=1441295836133[^] IT people are generally less happy because they understand statistics and die inside every single time when they are confronted with this kind of nonsense.

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I think an interviewer should not value questions that only take a few minutes to learn, but he should focus on skills that take years to acquire, or are connected to your personality. -Chunk down complex problems. -Think and act methodically. 'How do you use internet'. 'what's the best/worst thing about the job.' 'What are your current goals.' 'What's the last thing you've learned as a programmer.' If someone doesn't know the terminology, doesn't mean he/she doesn't know the pattern. He might have figured out those patterns out by himself without knowing the name, or that there's a name for it.

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Aaaand, it's gone! http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/28/technology/spacex-rocket/[^]

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That's why when solving we apply occam's razor to see if the solution doesn't create more problems than it solves. If we fail to do so, it's human failure, not a technological failure. Technology works, even if it doesn't work. That's something you can have faith in. Human's ability and intentions on the other hand...

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But isn't technology the result of people trying to solve problems?

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Can a goldfish solve a differential equation?

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This is part blasphemy and part true. Microsoft is pretty big.

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The pillars is the iconic Hubble picture, but I think the quadrant of the Andromeda Galaxy is a lot more spectacular. My God, it's full of stars[^]

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Most interesting fact about pi: you only need the first 6 digits to send a spacecraft into orbit of another star, yet some people memorize 100 digits of the number and it makes them feel smart.

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"family friendly" is a euphemism for "place where advertisers can shamelessly target children".

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Well, maybe they are already doing our jobs but we choose not to tell anyone.

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I hear you, but the point was that it's not the advertisers themselves that decided to sue.

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If I rent out billboard space on the wall of my house, it's not really my problem if the advertisements on there aren't well placed. But if someone plants a tree in front the billboard, then it does become my problem.

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Wud liek to work 4 u're company. thnx, Brad -send from my iphone

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Yeah... they should totally have used an unsigned integer.

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http://www.rolandberger.com/media/pdf/Roland_Berger_TAB_Industry_4_0_20140403.pdf[^] This article calls it the "4th industrial revolution". The first three being Steam, electricity and computing...

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Khmer must be a very easy language then...

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No, but if I remember correctly I read about a certain Doctor Lloyd who was the main authority on typing research in the 70's. Based on some experiment he concluded that at least half of the populous didn't even have the dexterity to physically wiggle their fingers fast enough to exceed 50wpm; let alone that they could learn to actually type that fast. This illustrated the ludicrous hiring requirements of companies back then and how much typing speed was overvalued at that time.

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