ShirtlessRod

Assuming he is flying to Hawaii, that would set him back at least $600. That's 12% of his yearly budget. Not to mention the fact that actually living in Hawaii is not cheap, and the article said he does this all winter.

I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I'll just assume you are and move on.

I can understand that as a reason. In this case it sounds like there is a newer, more efficient format that has superseded the old one. (I'm no expert in circuits, so I'll take your word for it.)

If some new technique/workflow/whatever is newer and more efficient, then I'm all for it. I just don't like the attitude that "newer == better" that has seemed to become more and more prevalent in recent years. (I'm not saying you were doing that, but the phrasing you used is something I typically see in that situation.)

Like I said, maybe I was just really lucky, but I never had to deal with Word for grad school. Of course, this was also 9 years ago, so maybe a lot has changed since then. Do journals in the engineering/sciences world really not accept LaTeX anymore?

Maybe I had a unique experience, but when I was in grad school (chemical engineering) we exclusively used LaTeX for thesis work. The journals we worked with also required it, if I recall correctly.

> avoided using LaTeX because the workflow is _so_ 80's.

I've never understood this way of thinking. Either it works or it doesn't work -- the age should have nothing to do with it.

Then shouldn't he be far more mad at his industry, not the tool?

Yes, but it's equally ludicrous to say that the stopwatch "didn't give the visual feedback". It started incrementing those huge numbers, didn't it?

It absolutely is. If you want to argue it's not as large, that's fine, but it is definitely present.

http://imgur.com/DzrFAZU

Considering that the placement of the words in the two examples is exactly the same, the "river" is present in both.

> Just because you haven't been (consciously) chauvinistic to a woman...

The implication of your parenthetical being that all men have been unconsciously chauvinistic at some point?

Do you have the source available for this?

Was anyone doing that here? Seemed like it was more of "good for you, here's some things to improve".

You got me. My elitist comment was much much worse than another elitist comment.

"You did a very good job of making it sound as though it is someone else's fault, even intention, when someone fails."

Do you think it is always the fault of the person for failure?

aka "Some people just have more style." What would we do without our shiny status symbols?

Well, obviously you don't hang around with the cool kids, then. :)

> "If you're going out of your way to create a new account to voice your opinion, chances are your opinion is shit."

That's a bit of a stretch, isn't it? Some opinions are more unpopular than others, and sometimes recipients of said opinion aren't as restrained as one would hope when they encounter an opinion they don't like.

> But for most of the industry it is a cost of doing business.

That's the part that is disconcerting. It's a despicable way to conduct your business.

Your lawyerly response notwithstanding (it's not illegal if they're under 40!), you don't fire someone because they are old. You fire them because they are underperforming, whether they are old or young.

This philosophy is just another extension of the fetishization of youth. Just because someone is young doesn't mean they'll be better than an older employee (and vice versa, of course).

Judge people on their merits and what they actually achieve, not on what their birthday happens to be.

TV Tropes has an endless supply of these: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NintendoHard

Great for nostalgia. :)

The point being that not thinking about the future is in fact a lack of priorities. The party is not going to last forever and not planning for that in the slightest is very short-sighted.

You can have an active social life without completely disregarding the future.

It's not difficult, it's just one more thing to have to do.

Like most things, I think it really just boils down to an aesthetic preference, and it's usually up to whoever actually maintains the code anyway. :)

> Also if the editor is scriptable editor, it should be possible to create a simple script to semi-automate the task.

True, but why do it in the first place?

Note that I'm not supporting proportional fonts here -- I much prefer fixed-width -- but I also don't like formatting function signatures like that.

Not sure where I said what he achieved was easy, but feel free to keep putting words in my mouth.

Your comment was insinuating that the success of Pixar's portfolio was somehow a testament to Jobs. Would it really have been any different had they gotten funding from a completely different source? You even said he didn't "meddle", so other than a financial investment, any credit awarded him for the quality of their work should be minimal.

There are plenty of things he can and should get credit for -- we don't need to retroactively add more.

So even when he doesn't do anything he still gets credit for the end result?

Just like this statement that he was replying to: "The last 35 years of technology history is unfathomable without Steve Jobs."

>> "I don't find a community where some people can say immensely hateful things as all that great. Sure, they can regulate and ban the user, but there is absolutely no responsibility taken for the aggravator's actions."

But what action would be taken if you actually knew who they were in real life? You mentioned "hateful" comments, but assuming that isn't actual threats to someone, there is no accountability beyond banning the user, pseudonym or not.

This of course also assumes people aren't faking out the "real name" restriction to begin with...

So why not make ijkl the new standard? It has all the benefits of the "traditional" arrow key layout without losing the speed of staying on the home row.

"You know what would really be great, and would almost certainly save money? If prescriptions could be done electronically."

This can be done today, and frequently is (depending on the organization). Schedule II is a bit nastier since there are regulations about electronic delivery, but the vast majority of medications can be sent electronically in exactly the manner you describe. Just two weeks ago I was in for a follow-up and they ordered some meds that were automatically sent to the pharmacy, where I simply picked them up. Easy.