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This is approximately the dumbest thing I've seen since the "no www" movement.

This works a lot better if you're actually friends with most of your coworkers. Then it's pretty awesome.

I have these at work and home. They work well, but I wish they were built a little more solidly.

What can you say, though? Ikea.

I come from Montana, and I hate this dichotomy.

The fundamental law of resources in this world is: if you can't farm it, you must mine it. They're a yin and yang. I come from Montana, a state which basically has only two industries: farming and mining. When you live that close to the land, it becomes very apparent who the actual producers are.

Everything else is wanking. Productive wanking, but wanking nonetheless. The welder is nothing without the miner. Without the farmer, he can't even eat. Me, as a software engineer, I'm so far removed from those who are actually producing things that what I do is as ephemeral as the wind. I change states on a magnetic disk all day. I lift weights, run, and have a stand-up desk so my body doesn't decay while I do this ludicrously minimal amount of work each day, but because I know how to shape those bits in a certain way, society values me much more than the guy who feeds me, or the guy who mines the rare earths that make my job possible.

After doing Rails for about 4 years, and Django for about 2 months (but I've been doing python for 10 years now) ... save yourself some pain and learn Django instead, if you can at all help it.

Ruby's documentation culture is hair-tearingly frustrating. Half a paragraph, 3 examples covering the barest functionality of your module, and pages of badly-interfaced mechanically-extracted documentation made me want to punch the monitor several times a day. Oh, but it's got a pretty web-2.0tard design-minded web site, and of course gitardhub, which is especially a joy if it goes down during a deploy.

Think I'm exaggerating?

http://code.macournoyer.com/thin/doc/files/README.html

Well, it is different in that the propellant doesn't work as good and so the inhalers tend to fucking clog.

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

Not that I would ever suggest that the EPA and environmentalists prefer their CFC purity to be 100% at the expense of asthmatics.

Well gee. It's been a while since I've used Digital UNIX, Irix, SCO, or VMS.

Because they've become totally irrelevant.

Seems like a waste of resources when there are more pressing things to do than worry about the 5 people who (a) use VMS and (b) demand a bleeding-edge Apache.

"Research into stem cell therapies, cloning, and gene therapy technology have also been greatly slowed by psychosocial concerns."

Dear humanity: you are simply too dumb to have nice things.

1) live in San Francisco and code for a few years. 2) there is no step 2.

2a) on St Patrick's day, despair that you've already paid more in rent this year than your father in Montana will pay all year.

This dude is ranting about the wrong thing. There are parts of Avatar and Transformers, etc, that look like you're running a game on an overloaded computer.

The problem here isn't televisions running at a high rate. The problem is film adhering to the bleeding edge of what was possible 100 years ago. 24fps is not adequate to handle lots of motion.

That's funny. Just about every HR person I've ever worked with has (a) been convinced that they're Doing The Most Important Job In The World and (b) completely incompetent and unable to deal with geeks.

I use emacs and vi every day.

There's no better python environment than a properly-configured emacs.

(I use TextMate, too, but only when I'm doing something disgusting like Rails.)

You know, every day I look at websites on my iPhone, and I think to myself, "You know what would make this phone better? If the screen were smaller! Yeah!"

I think JWZ put it best when he said "Dear Japanese people ..."

You mean code that was interesting to write, and not just another fucking web template?

Some punk skript kiddie who broke the internet in 1988.

Read C10K? Both select() and poll() have this problem internally. You have to use one of the more advanced techniques available if you really want to scale. epoll(), kqueue() or friends.

You've never met any neurotic, therapy-prone Jews?

Goddamnit, rickrolled again!

I really don't think I've ever seen a company that doesn't give a shit about its public reputation as much as Oracle. Maybe Blackwater.

"We don't have to care, we're the database vendor."

Also June, July, August, and about half of September.

Really, Boston is only tolerable for that one glorious week each in the spring and fall.

I do miss Boston. But not the weather. It'd be nice if we got an occasional thunder storm out here, though.

I really don't know why this is being downvoted so harshly.

Kevin J. Anderson's writing is horrific. He's an absolute hack. Brian Herbert should be ashamed at what he's doing to his father's good name, allowing this incompetent fuckwit to befoul his legacy.

I bought the first of the Butlerian Jihad books, even knowing how horrible a writer KJA is, because the topic interested me so. I couldn't make it more than about 15 pages.

It's a minor literary tragedy.

I dunno about you, but I barely type when I'm coding. I'd guess about 90% of my day is reading and thinking.

Reading monospace text sucks.

It's only good for coding for alignment issues. But reading monospace characters for long blocks of text is hard on the eyes. (Not to mention that proportional spacing is more efficient -- you can get more text on a line with roughly the same letter forms.)

I suppose things could have changed since I left, but they weren't really rigged for that sort of thing when I was there, and I was in two groups who would have been very close to that sort of thing.

Wait, so this idiot was trying to sell information to the Israeli government from Akamai?

There is no information that Israel could possibly want that Akamai wouldn't be more than happy to simply hand over, I'm fairly certain. Given how many people who work at that company are Israeli citizens ...

This kind of reminds me of the beginning of the Ninth Gate, a rather under-appreciated Johnny Depp movie from about 10 years ago.

Without, of course, the hot woman who turns out to be Satan.

I had a very promising interview at Yelp right around that time last year. I have a feel for this sort of thing, and I was damned sure I got the job. Great fit for my experience and skills.

Never heard anything back from them.

I'm gonna guess that this was at least partially related.

There's a positive review if I've ever heard it: "Enterprise thinks it sucks".

If I live a dozen lifetimes, I hope to never write another line of "enterprise" code again.

I avoided going to a tech interview there, because I knew they'd never have me no matter how sharp my Unix chops are.

No degree.

But I was laughing a couple months later when I was working across the hall at Akamai ...