CELKO (1/31/2011)

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Nice piece! Now let's go one step further. How do you write constraints to prevent cycles (and orphans) in an adjacency list model?

The best I have...

boulang (1/26/2011)

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Assuming all things are equal then, wouldn't you go where the money was best? Of course most people think their companies ofter their employees a better deal than...

kenny-892481 (1/26/2011)

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[p]So, Steve, if one of your employees receives a job offer that pays more than you're paying them, you'd prefer #8 from the list to which you linked than...

I wonder if this article could be followed up with "Eight things your boss shouldn't be heard to say".

For me, it's an incredibly simple equation. The number of times I've trawled the Web to see if someone's already solved the problem I'm encountering is huge. The number of...

There, Steve, I can easily accept common ground. What good is a manager who doesn't encourage his or her employees to improve themselves?

That, I think, is the pivotal point, and certainly the one...

djackson 22568 (1/17/2011)

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ARGGGHHH!!!

Recently Amazon and B&N offered free ebooks from Kaplan. As I frequently am looking to improve my skills, and of course is always, well, free, I decided...

Whilst I agree that large groups of today's society still have surprisingly low levels of literacy, the rules remain the same. Communication doesn't occur unless the recipient of the information...

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, submitting an article to SSC is also an excellent means of testing out one's writing skills, but with the added bonus of...

Anti smart phone? No, I'm not sure that's true.

Anti snake oil? Yes, indeedy. Anti bells and whistles for their own sake? Absolutely. Anti fixing the symptom instead of the cause?...

Joe Johnson-482549 (11/19/2010)

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You know, I agree that they can mess up your work/life ratio, but they can also help it. When my daughter was a toddler (18 now) I...

I will admit that, for all my career is in IT, I'm rather a technical luddite; I want my phone to take and make calls, and precious little else. However,...

Ouch.

Heads-up much appreciated.

Me personally?

Settle down with a good book.

Time with the kids. I'm not too concerned about what we're doing; that time is usually fun irrespective.

Go for a walk (I would have...