> In a 2016 study1 in Scientometrics, Byrne and Labbé reported 48 problematic papers, including the 30 papers that had incorrectly identified nucleotide fragments. These were all written by authors from China.

Right, I'm not denying that the story linked was about fraud in China. But nowhere do they state that the problem is limited to Chinese researchers.

The _degree_ of the Chinese problem is astounding. There are bad apples in all cultures, but the rampant situation in China is something else.

Is it out of line with their proportion of researchers?

> leverage smart development practices into making the job a lot less labor-intensive.

I think we instead do the same amount of labor, but accomplish more.

Says quite a lot more about American police, I'd say.

Had the same experience working a consulting job one time. Awful, dirty rows of terrible monitors and keyboards, fluorescent lighting, chintzy chairs.

Hotdesking sends to me the pretty degrading message that people are entirely fungible (probably also called "resources" at these places). I'm opposed to it.

And yes, everyone just sat in the same spot everyday.

My CS degree program required an ethics course. It was an immense waste of time.

Users and revenue.

User and revenue growth rate.

One bad sign is if the CEO is replaced. Another bad sign is if the company can't figure out how to make money.

Segwit and Lightning Network; agility of Litecoin to evolve and advance. These are the reasons LTC is moving now.

Infragistics is a bespoke software dev shop that does mostly Microsofty line of business web stuff. SharePoint, ASP.Net, Silverlight, SSRS/SSIS, etc.

I think they sell to big companies who are Microsoft vendor-locked (probably also Microsoft itself).

Ignite UI is a component library, like Telerik UI.

Very similar to Telerik.

We reconstruct history from timestamps in Slack and our logging and monitoring systems.

Happy to participate. You're welcome, whoever benefits.