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by jw_ 13y ago
Military organizations already spend a lot of time and money on food, given its overwhelming importance in things like fighting wars. I suspect "Valley nerdchow-paste" is not going to do a lot to raise morale.
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by jw_ 13y ago
I'd somehow mistakenly dismissed XFCE as being "too fiddly" years ago, but I've recently switched to it and I love it. It's like a saner, more configurable GNOME 2.6 with pleasant defaults.
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by jw_ 13y ago
For a non-American - what are the reporting requirements for hiring in the US that you're referring to?
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by jw_ 13y ago
I find that meetings kill productive time later, especially ones that are pure bureaucracy/managerial dickwaving. It's certainly the case that I can't grind out code 40 hours per week, but I don't think that sticking mee
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by jw_ 13y ago
Sadly true. I like a turn of phrase from Peopleware - "Status meetings are generally ways for the manager to assert their status as manager." I've had many an inexperienced manager sit there and rotate through talking to eac
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by jw_ 13y ago
The privacy policy linked upthread suggests that they intend to upload very detailed information about your location and usage.
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by jw_ 13y ago
emacs org-mode + dropbox.
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by jw_ 13y ago
And why is that?
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by jw_ 13y ago
I suspect he meant "widowmakers" in the "bits of tree that can suddenly fall and kill you" sense, not spider sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widowmaker_(forestry)
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by jw_ 13y ago
Seriously, this is not an unsolved problem. The US spends more per capita than the rest of the world but has huge swaths of people denied basic care, and poor outcomes overall for an allegedly developed nation. There are a range of options
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by jw_ 13y ago
The "good cop, bad cop" one is pretty transparent and I think will only serve to irritate the person you're trying to deal with. I've been on the receiving end of this several times and it doesn't reflect well on th
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by jw_ 13y ago
I've read hackaday.com on and off over the past while and it's generally interesting. More of a hardware bent than software, but still interesting.
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by jw_ 13y ago
lobste.rs seems like what I'm looking for too. I don't suppose you have an invite handy?
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by jw_ 13y ago
Hadn't thought of it this way - thanks.
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by jw_ 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar Yes, he's Canadian, but still.
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by jw_ 13y ago
This comment really does an excellent job of articulating why this sort of surveillance is a bad thing. I find it really frustrating when people question why we'd want to prevent the government from having unlimited ability to spy on the ci
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by jw_ 13y ago
Well, I suppose that settles that.
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by jw_ 13y ago
Web 2.1b!
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by jw_ 14y ago
You are aware that all the technology you mention was initially produced by government-funded research or research labs in monopolies (Bell), no?
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by jw_ 14y ago
I'll throw another recommendation in for pinboard.in.
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by jw_ 14y ago
All of his other articles for the NYT are about the oil and gas industry - that might explain his motivation for publishing a fraudulent negative review.
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by jw_ 14y ago
I think it's worth noting that seemingly all of Broder's past NYT articles are about the oil and gas industry - http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/peopl... . I think this might go a fair way in explaining why he wrote a
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by jw_ 14y ago
Virtually everything he complains about - the broad range of choice, unfamiliar items, long periods of time spent without electronic distractions, semi-forced interactions with people - are what most would consider positive aspects of fine
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by jw_ 14y ago
I have to agree - I found the title monumentally off-putting as well (and wound up reading it on the Kindle to avoid having the book title displayed to my fellow train passengers, how sad!) but I was glad that I read it. The book seems like
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by jw_ 14y ago
Note that some of the life-saving operations listed above a) cost significantly more than $500k and b) are related to ailments that will likely stop you from working on AwesomeApply.io or whatever it is for a potentially indefinite period o
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by jw_ 14y ago
This is excellent.
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by jw_ 14y ago
Fair enough - work that falls under the umbrella term "development" does have a wide range of technical difficulty. What I was objecting to was the implication that the GP made that people with kids must be one of those "businessy hangers-o
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by jw_ 14y ago
Development is not that hard, really.
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by jw_ 14y ago
Avoid the trainwreck that is Metro by hopping onboard the trainwreck that is Unity! Sorry, that slogan is a bit much given how bad the recent Ubuntu releases have been.
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by jw_ 14y ago
It's unbelievably verbose and the documentation sucks hard. Also, working on remote machines is unreasonably annoying. It is decent at manipulating structured data though.

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