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I've interviewed and failed often enough (with google) to know it is never going to happen.

I have a hard time understanding how this could possibly be seen as bullying. I have heard about his supposed tirades before but if this is the evidence for his tirades, then I am no longer in the camp of Bill was a Bully.

It is good to read that some people are at least trying to take a measured view of things that are happening. I don't know how to handle the "news" these days other than to ignore it completely. People are just too interested in being entertained on a simplistic level I guess. It is really hard to watch.

I am considering starting an LLC but I live and work in Japan. Do you know somebody who might be able to help me understand what my options are in terms of tax implications (the interaction of having income in both places)? This will be a sole proprietorship.

This problem is solved with a couple of simple if statements. Finding a "solution" that is more complex than necessary or introduces knowledge that really isn't needed is the sign of a programmer who... over-engineers and is likely to be a detriment.

In a word? Arrogance. LOC in c required to create systemd and all of its unnecessary processes is astounding.

Deepak Chopra comes to mind. Listening to him weave a tail of why something is because of quantum vibrations always makes me feel slightly ill.

I fail to see how being punched in the face suggests anything other than that the perp is a maladjusted adult.

Yes and they made a conscious decision to not include so much in the language in order to make the compiler fast so your criticism is rather odd. They made a choice. It results in a faster compiler. And yet your comment comes across as if this is somehow unfounded praise. Nonetheless we have all come to love your "get-off-my-lawn" sort of approach to criticising golang at this point, I suppose :)

"As an example, in Islam the recommended practice is to fast two times a week (consistent with the regimen the OP discusses)."

I was simply trying to point out that this sort of phrasing is constantly being used in a religious context to try to create an argument for the whole of the religion rather than to just stop at "here is something about my culture that might work". These things are constantly being conflated as being scientific evidences of the "deeper" truth lying within religion. Before you know it they become yet another thing that people brow beat as they try to convert the people around them. It simply isn't an interesting argument from my point of view.

People have been believing lots of things in religious texts for many, many years. Often enough they are flat out incorrect. Just because something is "believed" doesn't make it necessarily true.

You conveniently left out the individual who does neither. Or the individual who uses some sort of herbal "medication". Or the individual who chooses yet another solution to their mild flu. Your argument for prayer is equivalent to "doing nothing".

Whether or not it is a coincidence mentioning religion adds nothing to the conversation.

This only applies to ASCII (at best). Case insensitivity is very annoying.

How many males actually want to have kids? I sometimes wonder if I am an outlier because I really have no desire to have a child.

Models get ugly with tags? You don't have to have them unless the names are different.

This post is all about familiarity and the degree to which you are interested in using a language (just like every other post of its kind).

As long as it is only about trying to get people to think about what they are saying that seems ok, but I suspect it will only degrade into a pitchfork mob on most occasions.

Really as others have suggested the only required "rule" is: talk about programming.

If you don't understand set theory, you cannot possibly be a programmer. That is to say, whether or not you realize you are applying set theory, it is the heart of programming.

You might want to vet your list. Witcher 2 is not a native linux game. I cannot comment on the other games.

Sadly I think that UBI supporters tend to the false impression that everybody would be:

1) Frugal. 2) Responsible.

I just don't have that much faith in (roughly) half the population. What happens when people have too many kids and are still too impoverished? Is there going to be a "reasonable limit" to the number of kids you can have? Women could have as many as 20 kids or more. Is that really going to work? What happens when they are drug addicts (or worse free-to-play video games addicts) who cannot control their spending?

For me personally I love the idea of UBI, but I just don't think that it can work on a practical level. The examples that explain how to generate the required money to pay for it don't seem very feasible to me. You cannot add VAT. That is borderline "perpetual motion machine" logic right there. At the most basic level you will just have to tax the wealthy more one way or another. That is it. The only option. The question is: are they ok with that?

The questioner really meant to say "Return as the volume exceeding a litre." Even saying "over a litre" will probably make anybody familiar with physics wonder just exactly what they are asking. "Volume over litres" is what it made me think initially which is very confusing as I don't know what that would actually be in the physical world (other than a nonsensical scalar).

Protect your hearing and your vision.

Good to see he is back on his feet, but most certainly I am really amazed that he was so irresponsible about his situation. Is this how most Americans operate?

That this system is working elsewhere is evidence that it could work in the USA as well.

It may well be a pipe dream, but I am simply waiting for the day when open sourced 3d printable goods are being designed and improved by more and more "consumers". It may not ever happen on the scale I would like to see it happen, but that model of pull (rather than the current pushing of new goods on people followed by a sales cycle) is much more appealing to me. Maybe people don't really know what they want and are more slaves to advertising that I would like to believe.

Summary: No generics. No versioning. The author said they wanted to bring more to the conversation, but it seems that they really didn't after all.

I was responding to somebody who made the claim that installing software leaves things "scattered all over the system". I simply pointed out that that is not true if you plan carefully. Additionally you can ensure that all users on a system have a basic set of paths enabeled in their profile (is the default PATH any more invasive than a default path + "/opt/bin"? These things are not insurmountable if you actually know what you are talking about and know the scope of your problem. These complaints are coming from people who are not actually interested in managing a system, but would rather be able to click a button in a gui and not have to understand anything of what is actually going on.

That being said compiling your own stuff in and of itself is not guaranteed to be a simple or "fun" task. It takes work and can lead to unexpected results: you immediately own anything that is custom on your system and become your own testing, debugging, and troubleshooting team. It isn't ideal.

People can call these things whatever they like: there is a difference between passion and indifference that cannot be overcome by any process.

Install to your own custom path? /opt ... /local ... /myfolder ... etc. Add the path to your user's $PATH. If you are familiar with linux this isn't really much harder to do. If it is a library that you are then compiling against it does get a bit more difficult, of course, but it is only a good thing to become familiar with these things. If you are ok with "polluting" your path, you can install each new binary + libs to its own custom path. You simply delete the folder in the future when you no longer need it anymore.

As you find yourself not pursuing things, you are also potentially finding focus by letting go of goals that are not important to you. In order to master something however, you will have to do boring, repetitive feeling tasks mentally and physically. You just have to figure out how to push through those moments of pain. What Red_Tarsius said is excellent advice. It isn't about the end goal so much as it is about the process.