One of my friends lost his job this week. He worked in the chem department of a pharmaceutical company, doing something that went completely over my head while he was explaining it to me. Ive been in a similar situation? its not uncommon for companies to just run out of funding or to have massive sweeping layoffs.

My friend was a chem PhD looking for very specific niche working with protein synthesis. I love programming. But I don’t love Java. I don’t love the publishing industry. And I don’t love the OS I’m working…

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Joel Spolsky flames Microsoft's latest service “Microsoft Live Mesh”

I shouldn't really care. What Microsoft's shareholders want to waste their money building, instead of earning nice dividends from two or three fabulous monopolies, is no business of mine. I'm not a shareholder. It sort of bothers me,…

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Two new companies that want to monitor every single site you visit on the Web argue that they are in fact protecting your privacy, because they retain much less information than search engines and other Internet advertising companies.

I don’t understand why people think that technology changes anything regarding your privacy. Would you want someone video taping and noting you and your children coming and going from your house (after all it is a public street -…

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For those of you who think that Linux is terrible and Windows rocks, here are 10 reasons why Linux (Ubuntu) is better than Windows.

I also don’t know why people get so down on Linux because you can’t run every piece of Windows software on it. I don’t see people ragging Windows because you can’t run Mac software on it. I don’t…

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