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Thanks for your work on Grim. It's the reason I learned Lua (via LuaDec and extracting code out of the .LAB files), and I play it at least once a year.

I literally did get my car washed last week, and the next evening, we had water 10 feet past the doors at work. Willie Nelson never should've built this place below the parking lot.

This is the worst superpower.

Announced the day after I signed a contract on a house outside the service area. It was clearly me holding you back the whole time, Austin. I'm so sorry.

Agreed. Plus, I think the only people who worry that they're going to look like kids for enjoying it are kids.

Grim Fandango is at the top of my short list of games I replay once a year, at least. Followed closely by Mega Man 2 and Wind Waker.

There aren't any surprises to it, just a good story, style, music, and humor. Some people like to watch certain movies over and over. I like going back to Rubacava and feeling like an ace detective when I remember Tuesday is Kitty Hat Day.

This, Grim Fandango, and Full Throttle.

> Your life is hardly over, it hasn't even begun. Justin Bieber is 19 and has quite a few #1 albums already, should every 20-something singer feel bad about themselves as a result? You need a new yardstick to measure yourself by.

Some of the best advice I ever got was "Never measure yourself by someone else's ruler."

Especially not Beiber's.

If you're not dead yet, you have all the time left.

We were actually talking about your company in our sprint planning meeting a few minutes ago, since we're doing in-house Python analytics. You might be getting a call.

The content of the article was great, but I had to remove the font-family style from the body tag with Firebug due to the way Firefox was handling aliasing on the font.

Aside from that minor nitpick, I learned something new and valuable, so it's worth reading if you don't already know about git rebase.

Gamers with Jobs has an incredible community, editorials, and a games discussion podcast.

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com

Thanks! Very happily employed now at a former startup that I also interviewed with back then. Decided not to go with them at the time because their 5-year plan was to sell the company within a year and move on to something else. They got bought out, I found another job, and when I got sick of that, got an interview here through a friend, and wished I'd started 6 years sooner.

Somewhat back on topic, since my current company was built on RSS initially, I doubt I'd even have this job without Aaron Swartz.

From the file:

"PACER normally carries an eight cents per page fee, however, by accessing from one of the seventeen libraries, users may search and download data for free."

And:

"The two accounts were responsible for downloading more than eighteen million pages with an approximate value of $1.5 million."

~18MM pages at $0.08/page ~= $1.5 million

So downloading a document is stealing printing fees from the courts, apparently.

My personal favorite part of the file so far:

"The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts reported that the PACER system was being inundated with requests. One request was being made every three seconds."

I actually applied for a programming job with the Federal Courts in San Antonio about a decade ago when I was desperate for work. Cattle-call interview with ~100 easy questions, then they'd call you back that afternoon for a panel interview if you did well. I was criticized for dressing "too casual", despite wearing $400 worth of new clothes I couldn't afford. Apparently, suits are needed for programming, which also involves crawling around courtrooms installing equipment. Got the job offer a few days later for $55K/year. I mentioned that the newspaper ad said the position paid $78K, and politely attempted to negotiate. Five minutes later, I got an email saying they were rescinding the offer. Classy folks.

"He sold fireworks in a county where it's illegal to set off fireworks."

Bought it myself off Amazon for $25 for a Secret Santa gift, and it's well worth it.

I did see this on reddit, I believe from someone who paid $0. I really hope it's real.

http://i.imgur.com/8v2vc.jpg

I actually had an anonymous secrets site at too-many-secrets.com, which was originally cootysratsemen.com. Users in beta loved the name, but didn't tell me until it went live that they didn't want it in their employers' logs.

Thanks!

I also just realized that my second version, which was free, but ad-supported, probably entitled those 300 users to free upgrades forever.

The current version has an unlimited, ad-supported trial, or you can pay $0.99 to get rid of the ads.