BenOfTomorrow

When I was trained as an interviewer at Microsoft (circa 2006), they explicitly warned people against asking questions like that (and had been doing so for some time). There may be older employees who stubbornly persist, though.

I should add that my personal experience contrasts with yours - I did a lot of interviews around 2004 and got asked riddle-type questions by one, maybe two, people. My memory is that they mostly died with the original dot-com boom.

> From a human-memorable standpoint

Not to derail your point, but who needs their WiFi password to human-memorable? Tape it to the bottom of the router like the rest of us.

Yup; recently had my REAR wheel stolen (a large pain to replace tire, tube, wheel, AND cassette). Now I lock both of them.

I bet a lot of people would use the same key to open all those places if it were actually a plausible option.

That said, physical keys are different enough that an analogy breaks down. They're much easier to circumvent (break a window), while their use by a thief is much more impractical (finding the lock and avoiding detection at the location). Criminals in possession of your physical keys will be local (or irrelevant) and limited in numbers. It's easy to get back in your house after a criminal has entered.

Ambiguous. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4286857.

To be boringly practical: The contract would almost certainly be determined when you first signed up for the service (i.e., when you were still alive).

Suspension of belief I something I expect to need for stunts, not social commentary.

"Surely failing to graduate in an environment that places everything on having a paper diploma, including one's own image/self-worth, is more to the point of the suicide."

I can't speak for the parent poster but my criticism of the film is not with the themes, but with the trite way in which they are portrayed. I can't imagine an audience not understanding that this is what the filmmakers intended them to take away from the scene, but I can imagine them being put off by how they went about it.

I read that as potentially firing someone as an expected outcome, not a desired/optimal one. HR is short for CYA.

Clearly the author is hesitant to report it because of that outcome.

While you are correct in this instance, the original article is complaining about subtle inequalities that go unnoticed or tolerated by a much larger portion of the industry than just the "creeps".

And the existence of that behavior is an obstacle to increasing the share of women in the industry.

If it's in an wildly inappropriate context, her perception of you can switch from "like" to "dislike" quickly.

It's a factor, but lots of women have stories about attractive creeps.

Actually, the top comment in your link points out that Buffett has been LOSING the bet since its inception.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/26/the-warren-buffett...

Gravity's Rainbow: recognized, but not recalled, as science fiction. I don't necessarily object to the classification, but it might not come to mind if I were making a list.

Also, Pynchon's prose is very rich - I expect popular lists to be dominated by lighter fare.

> Every single department was more likely to admit a woman than a man

Not quite; you can see several exceptions to this in the table in the article.

The key points of the partitioned data were:

No department was significantly biased against women.

Most departments had a statistically significant bias towards women.

It's interesting to note that the departments that ARE biased towards men have more female applicants; I wonder if being in a minority group for that department is an even more important confounding factor.

They need education most of all; there's a number of articles out there detailing the predatory businesses and people milking money off professional athletes. It's not just that they buy extravagant goods, but they pay for them with horrible loan terms, and the debt runs away on them. Here's an example:

http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201104/tpg-exclusive-cas...

I wouldn't be surprised if the player's associations already sponsor financial training seminars; can't force them to learn, though.

The problem with the filtering is that it isn't transparent. Updates from people I'm actually interested in don't show because Facebook's feed algorithm thinks we don't interact on the site enough, and there's no mechanism to correct it or even let me know I've missed something.

Perhaps it's been fixed more recently, but I found that incredibly annoying.

You can look at history as well. Australian aboriginal homo sapiens were isolated for 40,000-50,000 years or so without any speciation.

You'd need an isolation event and a VERY long period of time; we have much more control over our environment than the aboriginals, which would probably serve to minimize differences in selection pressures between isolated populations to a far greater degree. 50,000-80,000 years doesn't come close to long enough, IMO.

While this is true in theory, I don't maintain a copy of the database on my phone - when I converted to using a pw database I looked into it and didn't feel comfortable with the level of security on iPhone apps. I want to know exactly when and how information is being transported and when something is in memory.

The state of the art is probably more mature now, but this is information I'm not taking any chances with.

I put a copy of the database in cloud storage. There might be a little set-up to open it, but it's very rare that I need to get the contents on a new machine.

The nitpick with pw databases is they don't fully solve the problem; I still need to know the passwords for all my computers, cloud storage account, e-mail, the db master password.

The big advantage is how much more secure lesser used accounts are (and drop in frequency of password reset requests on those accounts).

FYI - GoToMeeting was acquired by Citrix, not Cisco.