Tomis

At my current work place (which I'm looking to change, by the way) I work remotely but with a horrible twist.

First of all I have to come into the office and stay there for 8 hours a day -which is normal- but then I have to login to another computer via remote desktop and work on that environment, even though I have a perfectly functional computer right in front of me.

Things wouldn't be so bad if the remote server wouldn't be a few thousand kilometers away and the lag weren't so noticeable that it induced regular urges to go take a nap and took away most of the desire to write any kind of code.

I think most of you agree that anything less than instant response when you type a word or scroll a page is practically torture when done for 8 hours a day. I would have never imagined that it would be possible to have better working conditions at home than at work, but nevertheless here I am, living the horror.

One of the things I've learned from this experience is that I still tremendously enjoy programming stuff at home and that when I have a good working environment I can become more productive by orders of magnitude.

This site is great, been following it for a while. Good job, don't worry about the downvotes.

I have a better one. Project manager replaced enums with strings and instead of the switch statement he put a long list of if-s (without the else-s, too), and a lot of obfuscated crap between the braces.. Guess who had to sort out that mess? Also, the motivation for that horror was related to how those string parameters were visible in intellisense (because they were made static members in a class). Don't even ask.

24 hours sounds about right.

Man gets 18 years in prison for hacking account and inflicting unfathomable psychic damage, making his victim feel vulnerable in their own home.

So basically the American justice system admits that it is incapable of rehabilitation and that its only purpose is punishing and/or isolating offenders from society. Got it.

"He threatened the life of the Vice President,"

Oh my. The poor defenseless president. Besides, you're missing the point - he was impersonating a fictional character threatening the life of the Vice President.

"He distributed child pornography". Come on.

I'm from Europe and I agree with you.

This McNamara individual is trying to steal the "massive douchebag" achievement from Bobby Kotick. I'd say he's on the right track.

This is how you can customize the speed dial using extensions and whatnot - http://imgur.com/UaAfE

Indeed, that seems very likely. Thanks.

Why not take the money and leave to form a new studio? After all the key resource in any game development company are the people, not the IP or existing software..

In other news, I've been waiting for Opera support for years and I still don't see it in the list of supported browsers.

Alt+Tab. Ctrl+F. Ctrl+Home/End. Page Up/page down. Ctrl + F5 (or whatever your build/execute key combo is). And so on.

I ctrl+f-ed for "Goldstein". I am very dissapoint.

Please stand by. An agent will be with you shortly to answer all your terrorism-related questions.

This "Iranian hackers" thing is complete bollocks if you ask me.

The article's title should sound the same regardless of the hacker's nationality but if it doesn't (there may be a more menacing feel to it) then that's probably thanks to the media's propaganda which would like to put the words "Iranian", "nazi" and "pedophile" on the same level.

Are we going to fall back to the same silly "we're the good guys, they're the bad guys" cold war rhetoric? Come on.

Now you've ruined it.

As I said - "more importantly, exposure". Not that Opera is poor but they can't compete with Google's brand awareness.

I agree, if you go for dedicated clients (irc, mail, rss) you will get more power/functionality if you need them; but I feel that in Opera I get the optimal balance between functionality and complexity. To each his own.

Still, I don't understand what benefits are to explicitly disabling Opera's built-in torrent client; why not use something else?

Hardly a behemoth since I can run more tabs on Opera at the same time than on any other browser. Granted, I have quite an old computer but it's perfect for spotting differences between browsers. For others this is probably not an issue.

I use the mail client for my GMail and RSS feeds. Try it and tell me if you notice anything wrong with it. Actually I've been using the integrated client for so long that my perception about stand-alone mail clients is that they're a thing of the past. I guess it's just a matter of perspective, but for me it's far more convenient to open my browser and not think about checking my mail (it lets me know if new mail has arrived).

I don't use Opera Unite and nobody is forcing me to. It just stays out of my way, and so do the other features. Keep only what you like; just because they're there if you need them doesn't mean they slow you down.

Google has a lot of money (and more importantly, exposure) to push their browser forward and make ridiculously huge marketing campaigns. Opera does not.

I haven't used 1password so I don't know all the features it has but Opera's Wand has password storage (fills username/password for the pages you want). Not sure if that's all you need.

@ugh - nevermind, it's a miscommunication issue; I'm sorry for my harsh tone. Whatever browser you use try mouse gestures.

Here is a quick tutorial for Opera - http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/gestures/

And also in Opera you can go back/forward by using the following combos:

1. press right mouse button 2. left click 3. release right button (back)

1. press left mb 2. right click 3. release left mb (forward)

How am I aggressive? Sorry for the slang I used, too much reddit in my system; I did not mean it to be offensive. Other than that, I am asking an honest question. If you don't know that a feature exists (and Opera has a lot of features but it doesn't shove them in your face) how exactly do you know you don't need it.

Obviously Opera has crap marketing but that's because it assumes intelligent users that will bother to take 10 seconds and read about its features.

Here, if you want a quick fix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_browser_features

You say you prefer something lean and minimal. How exactly is Opera slow and bloated by comparison? If you haven't used it for a couple of weeks and learned what it can do I think you're passing judgment too easily. Opera has a lot of great stuff other browser don't have, you just need to be a bit curios and not wait the information to be spoon-fed to you.

I don't have a problem with you or anyone else using another browser but I don't like people saying things without full knowledge of the facts.

You know what the greatest common divisor of Firefox, Chrome and Safari is? Internet Explorer 6.

That's right Jack, all the functionality you're using in a browser is the one Internet Explorer 6 has. Sadly, most of the people using the browsers you mentioned do the same.

The world you live in is the cave mentioned by Plato. You have never went outside and see there's so much things a browser can do, you're content in your small little world thinking "meh, my browser already has anything I would ever need".

Wrong. You could use a better interaction with the browser, you could use some extra features to make your life easier and stop checking your webmail when you have pop3 and smtp. You could have a lot of things if you would just come out of the cave.

Sure thing, Firefox has the extensions, but Chrome does not. You're missing out on a lot of functionality that you never knew existed.

How are you supposed to know that there is such a thing since you usually search for an extension when you KNOW you need (such as ad-block) but it never occurs to you that you might use a neat clever feature? You're stuck in the dark because you don't know light exists.

Well instead of using two browsers (Fx and Chrome), mail/rss/chat client, a (very simple) torrent client and a note tracker (and some other software), you can simply use the unified package - Opera.

Firefox is dead slow if you add all the needed functionality build in Opera and Chrome doesn't have much going for it (speed-wise check the benchmarks; and Opera is very responsive when I keep my 50+ tabs open, whereas Chrome cannot handle the load, freezes the computer and uses a huge amount of memory).

Oh, by the way, the Opera default is "restore previous session" and it does not close all your tabs when you close the browser so you are encouraged to have one continuous browsing experience; I've been keeping some tabs open for years.

Just a sneak peek.

I call bullshit. Which stuff are you referring to, exactly? How long have you used Opera for, and what features can you name/describe off the top of your head?

Useless for anything except media exposure. Opera already has all the functionality you would need in a browser (as a regular user, at least). This is probably a move for bonus point with Firefox users who can't do sh*t without extensions - again, not the case in Opera.

Sorry, that's the harsh truth. Might be good news for advanced users that need to do some esoteric stuff but most people using Opera already have all they will ever need, out of the box.