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Another paper showing the open office is garbage for any work that requires focus, another paper business people will roundly ignore because they don't actually care about productivity enough to spend money.

From some browsing through the patches they apply to the packages it appears they are making extensive use of function multi versioning. Instead of compiling for the lowest common denominator for the target arch they are shipping pre-compiled versions for each generation and using run-time detection to figure out which to load.

Nothing stopping any other distro from copying the approach other than detail work and increased package sizes.

I go for walks and let my mind wander aimlessly for an hour or so, heading back when the thoughts in my head finally start turning towards work related stuff and I want to engage with it.

I also tend to keep a few tasks on top of the stack and try to keep enough room before deadlines to let my self switch to something else when I feel blocked or unmotivated.

Also helps having a boss that is well aware of ADD tendencies and can work with them.

It looks like their help site is a skinned version of zendesk and imgur hasn't given them a cert to host instead of serving their default *.zendesk.com cert. Not compromised, just not intended to be used over https.

There is a partial_search available with chef server 11 that makes this problem much less painful. Search returns the entire node object for each match, which can be a ton of data as the node count rises. With partial_search you specify just the attributes that you to be returned.

We've been doing this with mikrotik boxes with either wifi or usb gsm modems depending on the what is available in the location.

Wikia was in San Mateo for a few years before moving to SF. Cheap place to bootstrap, easy access to SF and the valley. Not convenient for people in the east bay, but otherwise not bad.