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Monday, May 19, 2014
Filling an open position in your organization is a lot like dating: Once you find the right match, you want to do everything in your power to keep that person around. And just like in the dating world, your perfect candidate has the right to walk away if he or she isn't satisfied with what your company has to offer.
A few years ago, when unemployment was high and job opportunities were scarce, a company didn't have to work as hard to retain its best employees. But the tides have shifted as the economy continues to improve, and employers now must vie for the attention of today's top professionals. Read more...
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Move over, Bazinga. We've found a new television catchphrase for geeks — and it's much funnier: "You're gay for my code."
Destined to be repeated by developers everywhere, it's a soon-to-be classic line that emerges from a hilarious scene in a hilarious episode. "Proof of Concept" follows the Pied Piper team, as they arrive in San Francisco, just one day before competing in startup competition TechCrunch Disrupt. Leading into its June 1 season finale, Silicon Valley's seventh and penultimate episode dishes out big laughs and well-structured storylines.
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Despite being a period drama set 45 years in the past, Sunday night’s episode of Mad Men — titled “The Strategy” — could not have been more timely
With Jill Abramson’s firing from the New York Times still garnering wide media coverage as we head into a fresh work week, and rumors flying around over gender’s part in her departure, “The Strategy’s” focus on women’s roles in the home and workplace strangely echoed current events.
The main episodic arc of “The Strategy” centers on SC&P retooling an ad pitch for Burger Chef, a fast food chain. Peggy led the campaign’s inception, but has grown frustrated and doubtful over her creative angle when Don — on a whim — tosses another concept on the table. Peggy’s concept for the Burger Chef pitch revolves around a family with a matriarch feeding her children and husband, the antithesis to Peggy’s life as a single, 30-year-old working woman in New York City. As she and Don begin to mend their relationship by hashing out Burger Chef ideas, Peggy asks Don, “Does this family [in the ad] even exist anymore?” Read more...
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Getting your foot in the door for an interview at a hot tech startup is no easy task — and once you've scored the interview itself, you may have to prepare for on-the-spot tests to showcase your technical talents.
As a programmer or engineer, you have to deal with quite a bit more than the average candidate: your prospective employer needs to know what you can do, how fast you can do it and how elegant your process is.
Often, they'll discern this by administering hands-on coding challenges, as well as critical thinking and analysis tests. Below, let’s look at a few ways to conquer the startup technical hiring test and land the job of your dreams.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
Fliers expecting to pass through the world's busiest international hub — Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport — may be checking their tickets twice beginning Monday.
In Samsung's latest marketing stunt, Heathrow's T5 will be rebranded as the "Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5" for two weeks.
The terminal will have all of its signage devoted to ads promoting the company's flagship Galaxy S5 Android phone.
"The partnership with Heathrow Airport and JCDecaux Airport was a one-off opportunity to push the boundaries like no other brand has been allowed to do before," said Russell Taylor, vice president of corporate marketing at Samsung Electronics UK & Ireland. Read more...
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This recap contains spoilers from this week's episode of Game of Thrones. Don't read unless you're all caught up, and don't say we didn't we warn you.
If you didn't think that Petyr Baelish was the most evil character in Westeros before, then this week's episode of Game of Thrones — "Mockingbird" — gives you pretty concrete proof.
The most interesting part of this week's episode happen in the Eyrie during the last 10 minutes. We see Sansa taking solace in building a miniature Winterfell in the snow. Sansa has hit rock bottom at this point. She's far from home, thinks her entire family is dead, and is now betrothed to the most annoying kid in the Seven Kingdoms. Read more...
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The still unfolding story of Jill Abramson's dismissal from her post as Executive Editor at the New York Times took another turn on Sunday when one of the paper's reporters, Ravi Somaiya, dished out a series of tweets that refute the narrative that her firing was over pay issues related to sexism.
Somaiya, who has been tasked with writing the New York Times' own account of the high profile departure, used his Twitter account to answer some of the lingering questions being asked by media professionals and the general public alike
"Many have asked why lack of voices from NYT/examples of Jill's management style. I will try to answer, based on conversations this week," wrote Somaiya, in the first of a series of tweets on the subject Read more...
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Your devices already track your location and communication — why not what you're looking at, too? That's the promise of the Tobii Glasses 2, a pair of high-tech glasses that can track your eyes.
Why would you ever want to do such a thing? You probably wouldn't, but researchers of visual systems are clamoring for that kind of information — what, for instance, a person spends the most time looking at when they're watching TV while holding a tablet.
The glasses are designed primarily for those kinds of scenarios: research projects, testing rooms and simulators — where the thing being looked at isn't just a computer or tablet screen, which would be better served by non-wearable eye tracking like Tobii's EyeX. If you want to study what part of a person's face people look at in various social situations, for example, the Tobii Glasses 2 can tell you. Read more...
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed on Saturday that a third case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) virus was found in the United States
An Illinois man who had close contact with the first confirmed case of MERS in the U.S., an Indiana MERS patient, now tests positive for the virus, according a CDC release. The third case comes just one week after a second case was confirmed in Florida. The first case was confirmed two weeks ago.
The Illinois man's illness is the first case of MERS being transmitted from person to person in the U.S., according to NBC News. Read more...
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Police have arrested 18 people, including mining company executives, following the deadly accident that killed 301 miners in western Turkey, according to local media
The Dogan News Agency reported that Ramazan Dogru, general manager of the mine owned by Soma Holding, and its operations manager Akin Celik, were among those detained Sunday, according to multiple reports. Prosecutors were questioning five people at a local courthouse near the site of the disaster.
Approximately 787 miners were inside a coal mine when an explosion and fire occurred last week. The mine is located in Soma, a town in the province of Manisa, around 155 miles south of Istanbul. Most of the victims died from carbon-monoxide poisoning, with some miners 1,378 feet deep inside the mine. Read more...
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After four (or five, or six) years, it's finally happening — you're graduating!
All the papers you stayed up late to write the night before they were due, all the meal plan points you spent on Doritos and Gatorade, and all the beer pong battles you won have actually been worth it.
But the world outside of academics can be a scary place
You'll need a thick skin, good attitude and parents who won't mind the six-month phase in which you "figure things out." We asked some Twitter comedians for their best advice to help guide you through this difficult transition. Read more...
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Mom and Dad: Parenting is tough, we know.
Raising children is a full-time job. On top of that, you still have to bring home the bacon and attempt to sneak in some television after the kids go to bed — if you can stay awake.
We've got you're back. These simple tips and DIY tricks can improve life for you and your child, saving you a little time, money and stress
Now, go finish watching season 2 of House of Cards — it came out months ago. Read more...
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Sometimes you just don’t want to get off the couch. It could be because of an epic Game of Thrones marathon, a blustery storm, an illness. Whatever the reason, the following sites, apps, and services won’t judge you for being lazy – it’s how they make their money
These days you can get just about anything with the click of a button. What makes these sites different is that they’ll bring it right to your door – almost instantly. From dry cleaning to fashion advice to a bottle of wine, you’ll want to bookmark the following sites before your next hibernation (or weekend House of Cards marathon). Read more...
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