I supervise a few programmers. I've found they appreciate my describing the outcome I need and letting them mostly solve the problem their own way. That said, I make myself available to brainstorming solutions to problems and for code reviews along the way. I've found if I'm not integrated in the working process to…

#1 - You crack eggs on a flat surface?! Why did no one tell me this before? The putting the eggs into a dish and then pouring them into the pan is a sweet trick to get them to cook evenly. Although I think goal of the true bachelor chef is to minimize the number of dishes he has to do.

Thank you! It's about time someone realized that our fast upload/download speeds have made zipping a time waster.

If you have a distinct name, this is definitely worth using several months before going for a job interview. I had friend who had me strip his name from all our online fantasy football pages about six months before he hit the market. (His trash talk was hilarious, but not so professional.) It took a couple months…

"Fired?! But I wasn't looking at porn! I was just bypassing the company's web filter to check Facebook." A lot of companies will fire you just for installing something like this. It doesn't matter what you use it for. If you have to check FB at work, use your smartphone. If you're a student and now the worst…

In the academic world, your email address definitely matters. Having that ".edu" at the end of your email address means you are part of the academic community. I have grad students that want to keep using their yahoo or hotmail addys instead of switching to the university's email. I teach them if they want to be…