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| A Few Tips on Gym Etiquette You've got a dozen sweaty people-maybe more-crammed into a workout room. They're all competing for the same equipment. If you're one of these guys, what can you do to avoid unduly inconveniencing to anyone else? Here are a few pointers.
Keep... ( added 116 days 20 hours ago.) |
| Educating One’s Self: Balancing Breadth and Width in Engineering
I receive way too many technical trade publications at work. Machine
Design, Electronic Design, Information Week, and more. Nevertheless, I do make a
serious effort to read as much of material as I can, knowing full well that I
can't read... ( added 159 days 20 hours ago.) |
| More H-1B Myths and Misconceptions In a previous article, I discussed the H-1B work visa program and all the flak it receives. Defenders of this program claim that it helps US companies acquire the high-tech manpower that they need to give them a competitive edge. Critics maintain... ( added 169 days 11 hours ago.) |
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| Stock Market Investing – Take a Lesson from September 11th On September 11 th , 2001, the whole world watched the news
footage of hijacked airplanes hitting the World Trade
Center .
On the very next day, US airports were a virtual wasteland.
People were scared stiff about flying, and thousand... ( added 180 days 11 hours ago.) |
| Recession Time: How to Invest in Stocks With Minimal Risk Over the past few weeks, I've seen the selling price for my precious stock holdings go down. Sometimes, it gets scary.
Does this worry me, though? Not much. That's because I realize that these drops in the stock market have been precipitated by... ( added 201 days 22 hours ago.) |
| Do H-1B workers drag US salary levels down? Mention H-1B visas within a group of American programmers or engineers and you will probably thear a cry of outrage. H-1B visa holders, it is commonly said, are responsible for taking jobs away from hardworking American high-tech workers. In... ( added 249 days 1 hour ago.) |
| The Challenge of Fostering a Creative Workplace Environment Creativity. A lot of companies say that they want it. ot all of them do a good job of fostering it though, and it's easy to see why.
Creativity often appears unproductive. It requires dissociating one's self from one's normal work, and it... ( added 260 days 19 hours ago.) |
| The High-Tech Manpower Shortage: Is it Real or Mythical? A decade ago, most Americans would have agreed that the USA needed more engineers and programmers. The country needed high-tech workers in order to maintain its worldwide edge in technology, and common wisdom dictated that there jus weren't enough... ( added 263 days 12 hours ago.) |
| Five Time-Saving Ways to Reduce Winter Heating Costs I remember the shock that I received after the first winter gas bill for my house had arrived. I knew that I had to take drastic action to reduce my heating costs. I also knew that I had precious little time to spare, thanks to work pressures, my... ( added 264 days 12 hours ago.) |
| A Few Tips on Social Dance Etiquette The community dance socialits not for the faint of heart. The prospect of dancing with a complete stranger can be daunting, even for experienced dancers. Of course, if youre a relative newbie, that makes the whole experience even more stressful.... ( added 1 year 13 days ago.) |
| How ELISA testing and flow cytometry can complement ELISPOT assays The ELISPOT technique is among the most powerful tools in an immunology researcher’s arsenal. ELISPOT assays are used to determine the number of cells in a blood sample that produce a particular secretion—for example, specific cytokines... ( added 1 year 158 days ago.) |
| Is Smallpox Still a Threat?
Biological terrorism. Germ warfare. These words can strike fear into the hearts of the population, as people wonder when the next terrorist threat will arise. The danger of bioterrorism hangs over our heads like a modern sword of Damocles.
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| Why I Refuse to be a Couch Potato Television. It can be an incredible waste of time.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I enjoy watching television. I enjoy watching Jack Bauer defeat the bad guys. I like watching Adrian Monk unravel the most hopelessly Byzantine mysteries. I even like... ( added 1 year 347 days ago.) |
| Should Ph.D.s be referred to as ‘doctor’? In recent years, I've frequently heard people claim that individuals who hold PhDs are not "real" doctors. These people assert that only physicians can rightfully claim this title, and that it's inappropriate for PhD-holders to use this term.
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| Five Tips For Effective Object-Orientation In C++ Spurgeon’s Law says that 90% of everything is crap. This certainly holds true in the world of software development, and especially when it comes to object-orientation and C++ programming. This is largely due to the pervasiveness and complexity of... ( added 2 years 91 days ago.) |
| The Top Seven Tarantula Species for Beginners Tarantulas can make wonderful pets. They are exotic, fascinating creatures that require much less attention than a dog or a cat, or even a tank of fish. Many species are hardy enough to require minimal care, and they always make great topics of... ( added 2 years 126 days ago.) |
| Listening Techniques For More Effective Meetings, Part I We all know what it’s like when a meeting doesn’t go smoothly. Discussions get derailed, tempers start to fray, and things are seldom resolved to everyone’s satisfaction. In such situation, the problem is often the result of poor communication—and... ( added 3 years 121 days ago.) |
| Listening Techniques For More Effective Meetings, Part II In Part I of this article, we discussed the importance of active listening, and how it is important for smooth and effective meetings. In the process, we touched on the topic of reflective listening. Reflective listening is a valuable means of... ( added 3 years 121 days ago.) |
| Don’t Forget the Internal Software Documentation! Internal documentation. It’s one of the most frequent casualties in software development.
It’s not hard to see why. For most companies, time is money, and they frequently find themselves scrambling to release a product. ( added 3 years 311 days ago.) |
| Five Snake Care Tips for Beginners If you’re looking for an unusual, eye-catching pet, it’s hard to go wrong with a snake. They’re exotic enough to catch people’s interest, yet hardy enough to require minimal care. Nevertheless, uninformed first-time owners tend to make some basic... ( added 4 years 9 days ago.) |
| Need a Low-Maintenance Pet? Try a Tarantula! If you’re like me, then you don’t really have the luxury of keeping a high-maintenance pet such as a dog. Even a less demanding pet such as a cat might be beyond your time constraints. Fish tanks can be difficult too, since it’s easy to... ( added 4 years 9 days ago.) |
| On the Importance of Good User Interface Design It seems obvious, but it’s often ignored. A good user interface design can spell the difference between acceptance of a software product and its failure in the marketplace. If the end-users find the software to be too cumbersome or difficult to... ( added 4 years 13 days ago.) |
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