INQ7.net has an interesting piece on someone who set a new ‘pi’ record by reciting it to 83,431 digits!: TOKYO — A 59-year-old Japanese psychiatric counselor set a world record of sorts Sunday by reciting “pi,” or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83,431 digits. “I thank you all [...]
Entries from July 2nd, 2005
251 Million Dollar Typo
July 2nd, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Humor
In what is almost a comical article, C|Net News has an article on someone who was fired after a typo: A Taiwan stock trader mistakenly bought $251 million worth of shares with a misstroke of her computer keyboard, meaning her company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million and she is [...]
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Why Are You Working For Someone Else Like A Sucker?
July 2nd, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Coding & Web Development, Personal
I just came across this facsinating opinion piece on freshmeat.net about how it just doesn’t make financial sense to work for someone else as a programmer: Common programmers may expect to earn at least $60,000/year, but it is rare for even superstar programmers to command above $150,000, excepting very specialized markets like kernel driver development. [...]
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