yoblin

I think in some ways programmers have brought this low status upon ourselves. If you want to be taken seriously in a business setting, like it or not how you dress affects your credibility. When a coder complains that the executives at the company are not taking their ideas seriously, maybe they should switch out of the t-shirt that says "talk nerdy to me" on the front. Dressing professionally isn't just about corporate conformity, it also signals that you take your job seriously.

I did the same thing but had remotely SSH mounted some of our production servers.

Won't make that mistake again.

Performance actually seems to be much better in the new version! My standard test is to open a split-screen tmux session and try scrolling man pages.. New version doesn't jump around the page.

I think there is some confusion in this paper about laundering vs transferring money.

$6.99 to register your bike? What a joke.

Very true. Your first job isn't going to make or break you, but you'd be surprised how many new grads stumble into an industry and are still working in it 5 years down the road. I was a programmer at a brokerage firm out of college, and after recently getting out of the industry a few jobs later, it'll take a while before my resume is really attractive to non-finance gigs.

Signup captcha appears to be case sensitive (or something??). After try number 6 I give up. Nice work, Microsoft.

One upside of this is that it looks like they're really pushing the one-click installs. It isn't apt or yum, but it's certainly better than what Windows has now..

Looks like it's fixed in cyanogenmod, at least on my phone. The app clocksync can show you how off you are.

Current (and past) experience in this field, if you're looking for someone to do some contracting I'd be interested in hearing more about what you guys do. I'm local. yoblin -at- gmail dot com

I found this to be a better article on the subject:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_...

Valid. If everyone else is using the same news, doesn't matter if it makes sense or not.

Same here... but mostly just brings back the feeling of dread when I heard about the lawsuits :)

Hard drive failure the week the RIAA scanned the network == lucky break for broke college student

Can someone with experience point out the major gnome vs xfce differences? Other than performance, I haven't really had too much of an issue with that.