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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT: 5.54-0.48-0.86%) said Thursday that December same-store sales rose 1.7% excluding fuel, falling short of the estimate for an increase of 2.8% in a survey of analysts by Thomson Reuters. In the year-ago period, Wal-Mart said same-store sales rose 2.4%. "Due to the difficult economy and severe winter weather in some regions, the holiday season was more challenging for retailers than expected," said Eduardo Castro-Wright, vice… Continue

Developers were asked what programming skills they planned to learn in 2009:

• A new language
• A new framework or library for a language you already know
• A new technique or platform for languages that you already know (like multithreading, mobile development, etc.)
• More than one of the above
• Other (please specify in the discussion)

As of… Continue

I titled this post to focus on recruiting not politics...I'd like to see more candidates take the suggestions below (in case you don't feel like reading the article):



Use a Modified Name

Using a completely false name is against Facebook's terms of use, and accounts with questionable names are routinely deleted...so something like J.S. McCain is OK, while Little Old Ladys Killer (an actual Facebook listing) might… Continue

[this has nothing to do with recruiting; just used the word recruiter to get the eyeballs]



Saying your fly is open is so old school. So whenever you see a recruiter with their barn door wide open, try some of these:

• Dr. Kimble has escaped!
• I can see the gun of Navarone.
• The cucumber has left the salad.
• Your pod bay door is open, Hal.
• Your soldier ain't so unknown now.
• Elvis Junior has LEFT the…

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Lake Superior State University "maverick" word-watchers, fresh from the holiday "staycation" but without an economic "bailout" even after a "desperate search," have issued their 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. This year's list may be more "green" than any of the previous lists and includes words and phrases that people from "Wall Street to Main Street" say they love "not so much" and wish to have erased from… Continue