If attorney-client privilege works as you've described it, it doesn't make any sense. The prosecution could summon the attorney to testify and divulge all the information he has.
While some corporations are too big to fail, managers aren't. The article mixes these to things - it's probably ok (given current economic climate) to leave the bank be and fine it, but it's definitely not ok to not prosecute and send to jail people responsible for laundering. Prosecution of high-ranking bank officers would launch a political career, so I guess there just wasn't enough evidence.
> However, often you can learn the most interesting trait from asking a question which the candidate can't answer right off the bat: How does the candidate deal with failure or lack of knowledge.
Some research suggests that tests are much better at predicting performance than informal grading.
Yeah, "real-time" is the big thing now but there no mainstream tools to simplify the development of such apps, so we're pretty much in Perl + CGI era. The ones that exist offer much looser coupling between client and server than required or just plain weird.
It seems that Ruby never won over Python in big tech companies. Probably it has something to do with Python being widespread in science (as far as I understand, tech companies are dominated by graduates from the best colleges) - if you're a graduate, you already know a scripting language, why learn another one?
The ACM's SIGMETRICS[1] are the main group publishing this kind of research. Some of it gets very specialised -- just picking a title from the most recent Performance Evaluation Review[2], I get "YOUQMON: a system for on-line monitoring of YouTube QoE in operational 3G networks".
However, being the ACM, it's basically inaccessible unless you sell a kidney.
An organisation with a slightly more industrial focus is the Computer Measurement Group[3]. Like the ACM ... bring money.
Sorry to go off-topic, but does anyone know if it's possible to get your hands on these pubs/journals for free at the Science, Industry and Business Library [1] in NYC?
