cgore

In general, freedom of speech is one of the places where conservatives tend to do a lot better than liberals. You are making a really good example of that.

I don't see me ever wanting to buy Google Glass, but this is really cool.

Bach was deeply religious, and not just because of some lap-dog sense of "that's who's paying the bills." He signed most of his works as "SDG", short for "Soli Deo Gloria", which roughly translates as "to God alone belongs all glory. His meaning being that any ability Bach thought he had was solely just God showing off: Bach made beautiful music, but God made Bach, and he knew it.

I'm in a similar situation. My new job is an all-mac shop, which is funny because we are mostly writing software for Linux boxes out in the Internet. I didn't mind though, because they bought me about $5,200 worth of mac equipment to keep. I've been using BSD and then later Linux since 1999, and that was about the last time I used a mac, OS 7. I was expecting to somewhat dislike it, but they do Clojure and I wanted to go that way. I really have enjoyed the change though, and even bought an iPhone.

And that has got to be the most irritating thing about Google these days, they mangle the URLs in their search results to the point where I can't get a clean URL sometimes, at least not without some real work.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

Instead of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator

Is really irritating.

The seven-day week, yes, the rest of it is Roman in origin: the solar nature, the months, their names, their order, etc.

One of the weird ones is our (English) weekday names: Sunday, Monday, etc. Those are apparently from German, but after their contact with the Romans, and after the Romans adopted the 7-day week. Which means it is after the Christianization of Rome, but before the Christianization of the Germanic tribes. They took the Roman week and put their gods' names in place instead.

Our current calendar has absolutely nothing to do with Judaism, it is the calendar of Rome with some very minor tweaks.

http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm

We went to the moon in the 60's. Then in the 70's they started pushing metric. Never been back. Coincidence? :)

Grey's Law:

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/08/21/magic-stupidity-mal...

"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

Where did you get the idea that software developers are the very definition of moral paragons?

That's a better way to see it. It's hard to see good management and its effects, but good management really does make a major difference. But it is so hard to see, that people sometimes don't even realize they need it. But to see the ability management has to change the outcome, look at bad management: they can totally destroy a company, no matter how good the engineers are. That people can see.

I suspect a lot of the original bitcoin folks, typically being some variant of libertarian or anarchist, couldn't care less what some random unelected multinational organization says.

Less Buddhist-specific: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/meditation-does-it-...

I learned my lesson a long time ago, back when WordStar died. I never moved to WordPerfect, and I never moved to Microsoft Word. I do anything I really care about in LaTeX or HTML these days. I can still get to my WordStar documents though, thanks to DOSbox.

I used to think managers were worthless ... And then I had a bad one, and figured out the hard way how much bullshit a good manager insulates his developers from.

To the best of my knowledge you can make GPL clojure code, and include clojure.jar too.

http://osdir.com/ml/clojure/2010-03/msg01337.html

Nationwide data if you are interested.

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer...

Has anybody used these? A 1,000-year DVD/Blu-Ray sounds good. I would use it if it is actually reliable. (Actually just want decades, but centuries is better.)

Right. The whole SpaceX/Armadillo Aerospace/etc. situation that is developing now is almost definitionally Libertarian.

The "science-hating religious person" is just a straw man for Dawkins and the like. Most religious people have no problem with science, and see no contradiction between the two. Many of them even are engineers, scientists, and doctors, often some of the most renowned of their fields.

The groups who actually do see a contradiction typically aren't hypocritical at all about it, to the point of not getting blood transfusions even if it means their death, to use the example of the Jehovah's Witnesses.

I think a lot of people seem to be confusing Libertarianism with Anarchism. Libertarians typically do see roles for SOME government, and those roles are typically the military, judges, roads, police, and the like.

Not other things though, so no Social Security, no Obamacare, no National Endowment for the Arts, and no space program (other than for space weapons, so get rid of NASA and establish some sort of "US Star Force.")

So with that world view, working at a defense contractor isn't a conflict at all, instead, it is the one "true and legitimate" reason for government in their eyes.

$90k is an "average" developer in the US (not the Valley, the US: you can easily make that here in St Louis where I am.)

A multiplier of 1.5 - 2.0 is common when you bill out, to account for offices, chairs, electricity, health insurance, etc. And it isn't just software, actually it is often higher in other fields: an auto mechanic might make $25/hour and be billed out at $75/hour.

So $100k will get you ONE run-of-the-mill Java programmer for 6-9 months tops.

This accelerator is just looking for idiots.

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer...

I don't think most people really care for snuff films either.

I appreciate the coding standard at a previous employer (http://www.astronautics.com/) a little bit more now, that INSISTED that braces always happen, even for one line conditionals like these. It was kind of irritating at the time though.

Emacs Magit Mode:

[F2] g l l

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Magit

By "real", I mean native and multi-core. Does that exist now? I think it exists in JRuby, but in MRI?

Real threads ... and ... that's probably it.

Whoever wrote this is probably going to be quite despondent and inconsolable whenever someone they actually care about dies.

I did a similar thing too. I wrote a lot of bad adventure fiction in Runic around that same age, around 10-12. I still have most of it.