I agree. Even if it's in the video, they should have the price front and center. Standing desks are nothing new, although publicizing them has been difficult. Part of that is the high price, usually around 800-1000 USD. To put one out around 400 USD would be worthwhile.
Founders are, more often than not and perhaps even as-written, passionate people. People who have drive, focus, and a vision. For some people, their drive comes from their families. For others, it doesn't. All I am seeing in this thread is parents speaking up about how their children are their drive. That's really cool, but to also turn around and state that people without families walk an inevitable path to burnout is ridiculous to me. This thread is little more than an echo chamber.
I absolutely love the prime service, and it has not become worse for me here in California. They had to start charging us tax but all it really meant was that we had closer and closer distribution centers. My overall service, in that regard, has only become better in the last few years. I use AP at least once a week between work and home purchases... can't say I have ever used the video stuff, though.
I am actively against Windows 8 in a Domain environment as the system has severe permissions issues for workstations with multiple users. It seems that the first user to install items, create directories, etc. becomes the overall master of them and this makes even basic SysPrep difficult. I am tearing my hair out trying to get terminal servers and cloning projects done, stuff that was a breeze on Windows 7 in comparison. I wish Microsoft was smart enough to differentiate between their home consumers and their business consumers.
This truly is not reddit. I've noticed so many humor-less posts (not that every site needs a sense of humor) and so many grammatical errors that it really paints a picture; reddit is for bored, out of work english majors and this place seems to be for enlightened, snooty programmers.
Agreed! Such little substance, it's almost like a small dollop of tuna on top of three pounds of lettuce garnish. That's a salad, they tell you, eat it up.
Bill Gates fights incredibly hard to try to prove that aid is incredibly effective and considers this a "myth" to be dispelled. What do you think about the concept?
Well we share a ton of interests, have an extremely long common history, his humor isn't too terribly far from my own (I laugh more than he does, but then he'll surprise me and enjoy some extremely low-brow stuff), and most of all we put up with each other's quirks/bullshit without too much hassle.
We're excited for better service at lower prices, and if you think Google would be (or is) the only one snooping traffic, well I think you're giving a lot of trust to people like Comcast.
My boyfriend is actually someone I met 10+ years ago online through a video game. At the time, I did not like him as he was considered a pretty nasty troll. Now that I know him intimately, I am not entirely convinced the teasing/bullying aspect of his personality isn't entirely just his own choice. He doesn't seem very miserable (go me!) but I can't help but think his behavior extends well past him trying to make up for something.
I was ready to go when I signed up to be a beta tester. I was ready to transform my entire, dull life just to seem more active for the beta phase (We want active testers!) but then Google called my bluff and asked me to fork over $1,500. Ouch! I was expecting maybe a third of that.
Did you feel disappointed with losing out on the money, or did that aspect not factor into your afterthoughts much?
I don't remember a single class or even a single conversation with a parent, pastor, other kind of leader figure, from my youth about "how to deal with friends or people who have problems." Sometimes you're lucky and get the, "How to find help if you feel like you're in trouble" resources but how in the hell does someone know how to handle this situation? I don't feel qualified to help anyone other than my immediate closest friends and family regarding the topic of suicide, and even then I feel overwhelmed just thinking about it. There are professionals out there who know what to say, when the saying is important to be done, as I know for sure that listening is a big component of help. I just have no words other than to share my own struggles, and oftentimes people don't want to hear about anything other than their own pit.
"This site is pretty good, not as good as what the other guy whipped up, but he seems like a jerk to work with and we may need additional support afterwards. Let's go with option B."
A very well-written reply. I think you got to the core of the issue: just more ammunition for guns that are used to firing off on the social justice issue several times a day.
What bothers me is that our CDN gets a lot of downtime whenever CloudFire gets hit. They're totally separate services, or at least they should be, but I always know to watch out when I see articles like these.
$400 is such chump change compared to the PR disaster that can come from exploited, or even just leaked, vulnerabilities. I honestly think any SaaS needs to have this somewhere in their budget once a year.
I believe the TL;DR is simply, live for your own goals and health first and then help others after, instead of trying to conform to some idea of a chivalrous person.
It isn't some strange P.U.A. take on the "friendzone" issue, either. I think a lot of people are turned away from the book because of its title and connotations. I think that was a clever move on the author's point, to be honest.
So from what I understand, it's more of a self-help/self-confidence book than anything.
I'm glad you have concerns about programming as a field and I feel as though they are valid. It's not my fight, though, so I wish you luck. I agree it isn't equal, in many definitions of the word, but I wouldn't necessarily associate it with manly or womanly in terms of sexuality/identity. It's simply a field. A field that has, up until now, been primarily men and perhaps even primarily negative men and perhaps, again, men who are negative towards women because they are insecure about it. I think it says more about them than the field, but I could be wrong. I still stand by the thought that programming is inherently nothing other than a field, ripe for societies to use or abuse as they will. I could say the same about any field, teaching children I guess is the opposite at least in terms of number by gender.
Not sure what the large, burly man colleague of yours has to do with my point, though. He could be a four foot tall waif and I wouldn't think any differently of the field. I work with many said waifs and I make no distinction.
Sexuality, as I've found, can be fluid even within the boundaries of something like being straight. Your bottom line is interesting, but mine is more or less, "Don't feel bad about falling short of something you have complete control of." There's no reason to feel as though you need to live up to some definition of sexuality when it involves identity. Carve your own identity. It isn't easy, and it isn't straightforward, but I trust humans to be more than simple creatures.
Some would argue that your programming position is too manly, that the programming field itself is too insulated with the male gender and that it should be seen as less of a boy's club and more of an equal ground for all.
Weird, when you think about it. Clicking and typing. I suppose there's some rhetoric about "X is better at math than Y and programming is based on math" but at the end of the day it just seems like bologna. And it doesn't address any insecurities you may have as an individual who is also a man.
My solution, though, as a man is to simply not care about being a man. I'm a person. I've got all the skills of all genders because I believe all skills are, unto themselves, genderless. Mannerisms, fashion, hair-styles, etc. can follow as well but really, they don't bug me. I've got other interests in mind. I think we, as a society of computer users and consumers, have all these other worlds to fancy ourselves with nowadays. Sometimes I catch myself in the mirror and have to realize I am not just some running narrative but a person with "roles" and "definitions" It can be a bit jarring. Still, that passes and I'm back to being me, my little identity, not caring about gender roles and other hang-ups like that.
I hope some day that everyone can be happy being themselves and not have to question "What does it mean to be X, and how do I follow that rulebook?" Instead we should ask, "What does it mean to be me?"
100% unrelated but I noticed you put "we don't make the big money you seem to think we do?" with a question mark at the end. It's not really a question, now is it? I've noticed this typing behavior a lot online lately and I am not sure if I missed a crucial lesson in English or if it's a new-age kind of thing, or what. Not trying to be a prick, it just stuck out. I agree with your point on HP laptops in more ways than I can count.