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Django/Python/HPC, used to do Java/Oracle/DB2 in another life.

I'd like to start my own company and/or try out for Ycombinator (if they'd restart on the East coast).

I've an avid photographer, like hiking whenever I can get to the country, and try and walk everywhere I go (to counteract sitting at my desktop/laptop/workstation all day).

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There does appear to be a lot of negativity around systemd, such as people giving out about binary logging. I'm sure there's got to be a way to enable text logging along with binary logging.

This lad seems really enthusiastic about systemd logging and systemctl:

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/journalctl.html

There are a lot of interesting features, but personally I'd prefer to have both binary and text logging. Text logging is in cases where a system goes tits up and you may only have access to some basic tools such as grep, vi etc.

Location: Boston, MA USA

Remote: Depends on salary/location.

Willing to relocate: Depends on salary/location.

Technologies: Django+Python, Java, Linux+*NIX, Ansible, HPC.

Skills: Programmer, Devops, Problem Solver.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pOgXw_tGM7v2NI-XVU7T1_9E...

Email: jobs@timony.com

No phone calls please, please don't contact me about roles in Boston that are not accessible via the MBTA (unless your offering $$$$$$+). :)

If you're an employee you spend money where you live, not where you work

During the work day most of these people are 40 miles outside SF on self-sufficient campuses, often with free food. That means that during the week they're not in downtown SF supporting local cafes, coffee shops etc. But the same argument can be used for any commuter community, in this case it's reverse of many cities where people commute into a city.

Or the UK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2006#Extending_th...

Laws written originally to thwart the IRA were used to detain suspects and in many cases innocent people, who happened to be Irish, where convicted after confessions were cohered out of them. Can you imagine being jailed for 90 days and being interrogated for that length of time?

It seems plausible that the same thing will happen to innocent Arabs and Muslims whom are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I heard similar stories at a US financial company; lads would work for 6 months, get trained and up to speed, then they would either get head-hunted or look for a better paying job and leave. New people would have to be hired and then be trained and then leave etc

The US based staff would get grief if the projects weren't completed on time or had issues.

I don't blame the Indian lads, they were getting paid crap. Also, many of them weren't great, as the pay was crap and good programmers in India wouldn't work for the company.

It's the first thing I thought of, and it could be a clue as to where MS may lead Skype. Are they going to come out with some killer VOIP app for Windows 7 mobiles phones that will cause us all to drop our iPhones & 'droids?

Unity reminds me a bit of Afterstep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfterStep

However, after using regular E/Gnome/KDE/OS X/Windows for so long I feel handicapped with it; for example I can't right click on Unity bar to customise it and it doesn't seem to behave as I expect it to. I guess part of this is because of learned behaviours over the years and I've gotten used to UI's working in certain ways.

I'm not willing to rule Unity out, yet. But, I'm not going to upgrade my main Ubuntu system to 11.04 unless I can be guaranteed I can move to regular Gnome and back to Unity without problems. At the moment, I believe that, Ubuntu 11.04 only supports Unity and the Gnome 3 packages are in a PPA (Personal Package Archive) that isn't fully supported, yet, and might be quiet buggy.

I've also been thinking about going back to using Debian as I'm finding some of the ease that Ubuntu is bringing to Linux is at odds to a long-time *nix user like myself.

It's also quite possible that you have a more fulfilling life. Just because people are gallivanting hither and thither does make their lives better.

Also, the hard work your doing now may aid you in later years with a work ethic your friends might not have. Which will instill you to work 3 years straight with-out a break on your amazing startup and retire at the age of 29. ;)

"some motherboards are not capable of supplying enough power to their usb ports."

That's just lovely. At work someone ordered 2 western digital passports harddrives. They wouldn't work with any Apple laptops that we had (2 15in MBP, a 13in MBP, a Air) and would only work with desktops (2 iMacs). The box, WD's website, Apple's website all said these were compatible with any MacBook ... I suspected the problem was with underpowered USB ports. I even phoned WD's support (who were unprofessional) and couldn't get straight answer out of them, nor any useful info from Apple website.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions!

I never used a Mac until 1.5 years ago and I've been impressed with the quality and finish of the hardware, the overall smoothness of the UI, suspend & hibernate that work, AND a bash shell. And the ease in which non-Computer literate can use one is impressive (unless they've used other OS's for a long time).

But, the way Apple obfuscate information, and Bill Gates ... er I mean Steve Jobs apparent desire to lock users into Apple is disturbing.

Old KDE fan where, moved from KDE to Gnome, then back and using Gnome for about 4 or 5 years now.

Last week I tried KDE 4.5.1 that comes with Ubuntu (I do so every now and then to see if I'll move back). After 30 minutes of trying to get Network Manager to start a VPN connection, and Googling for answers and reading the docs, I gave up and started the VPN connection from the command-line.

Now, I'm confused, how hard can it be to start a VPN connection? I clicked, I right-clicked, I reapplied the settings. Or it so simple that this long-time user can't figure it out?