davidroberts

When I was working as a Japanese to English translator, I started getting carpal. Switching to Dvorak keyboard solved the problem, with the added bonus that I could type 10 WPM faster after six months of getting used to it.

I can vouch for 'easy to learn': if you can already program in another language, learning Python is like being reintroduced to an old friend who has grown up quite a bit since you last met him.

You're right. I'm going to delete the submission. I thought they authorized it being on the internet, but I don't know for sure.

That would make sense if they had any chance of getting that money with Windows 8.

I wonder, since Apple is obviously abandoning this market, why is Microsoft trying so hard to alienate the power desktop user market with Windows 8 instead of aggressively trying to bring this group of Mac Pro users over to them. Of course they would have to improve Windows into a high-quality OS that works for them and find OEM's to partner with who are willing to find out what hardware these users want and provide it. Maybe it's a forlorn hope, but it's better than flailing after the tablet ship that sailed past them two years ago.

It makes sense for Costco, because they pay above minimum wage anyway, and any increase in the minimum wage will hurt their competitors more than them.

My daughter had an itchy eye. I took her to the doctor at a children's clinic affiliated with a well-known children's hospital. They asked for $150 upfront which I paid. The doctor came, examined her for five minutes and wrote a prescription for an allergy medicine that cost over a hundred dollars. Two weeks later we got the bill. They tacked on another $175 for moving us from one room to another. I forgot how they expressed it, but that seemed to be the reason. Over $400 and the medicine didn't really help.

A good friend of mine was earning a decent salary as a tech blogger for CNET. In 2009, they let him go, and now he is barely making ends meet with some sort of deal with another site where he earns commission based on page views. I think it's a general trend.

Another supply and demand aspect of the problem is the glut of interesting reading on the Internet, coupled with the lack of any clear way for a large general interest publication to be profitable online.

I already stopped subscribing. About three years ago. Probably around the time they started paying $100 an article.

I've noticed an apparent decline in the quality of Atlantic recently. Maybe this has something to do with it. When you go from putting high-quality writers on retainer for $125,000 a year to trying to get them to work for free, naturally quality suffers.

What good is exposure if it just exposes you to more people who will want you to work for free?

I think in five years, the idea of using credit or debit cards for electronic transactions will seem slightly ridiculous, sort of the way using snail mail to pay bills by check seems now.

God. If only the US had something like this instead of the stupid everybody go to college, everyone spend years studying vapid idiocy after already wasting years doing the same in high school. I'm not anti-college. I'm anti no choice, one size fits all, we don't care if you actually can do anything as long as you were able to put up with enough wasted time to prove you are not the type to buck the system and maybe cause problems.

And by the way, I do have a degree.

It's an incredibly fun plaything for geeky people like me, but also educational. I'm learning Python, and I have mine always running and set up so I can ssh to it anywhere from my cellphone. I fire up emacs through ssh and work on my Python programs when I'm commuting by bus or train. I also have it set up with CLISP and Scheme for when I want to mess around with those.

But the funnest thing is that I used samba to mount the music directory on my desktop, so that I can ssh in and play music from my cellphone from anywhere (it's connected to the speakers and TV in my living room). I also use it to play videos from the video library on my desktop.

Yeah, I believe it. The fleas in that hotel in Miami had obviously been instructed on my preferred places and times for donating blood.

Luddite: "You just don't go and reshuffle the rights that have been in existence 40 years, just in the name of technology," Kabessa says.

The best comment: "Thank you compiler, but perhaps if you weren't commenting on StackOverflow, you could get me a drink and play some nice music while you're working?"

I don't think you have become stupider. Maybe more in need of the mindless relaxation that a predictable yet entertaining film can provide. I'd think if it had been depression, but there would certainly be other signs then film watching habits, right?

I don't even bother watching about 95% percent of the films available, just because they are so predictable, but predictability isn't everything. If you've watched a Lord of the Rings or Star Wars film more than once, it wasn't because you were wondering how it would end. I think unexpected plot twists are a relatively minor tool in the filmmaker's bag, compared with great acting, great storytelling, wonderful cinematography, etc.

Could it be that when you were vegetating in front of the TV, you were slightly depressed or indulging in some kind of escapism? Then you latched on to something exciting to spend your time on that erased your need for dodging reality? And now the raw peak of that excitement has faded a bit, leaving you some time and mental energy to enjoy the subset of films that are good, even when predictable. Could that be it?

The Founding Fathers commented anonymously!

http://www.carolinajournal.com/articles/display_story.html?i...

Here is his website: http://crunchcreations.com/

Sounds like human nature.

Although I have grey hair, and it does seem to reduce the number of job offers, I think a lot of those couch-surfing engineers have other issues besides hair color.

Capt Crunch would likely do better if he bathed regularly, washed his clothes, and stopped shouting at people whose behavior he doesn't like (and hapless waiters who bring him substandard bacon). And then there's that pesky criminal record.

This passage really strikes me, because he is happy, though his life seems so tragic, so emblematic of the dark side of technological obsession. It's a bittersweet mixture of a "there but for the grace of God, go I" feeling and a simultaneous admiration for the purity of his life's focus. It makes me reflect on my own life:

"Mr. Draper's unusual behavior, such as shouting at anyone smoking anywhere near him, could wear on fellow workers and employers. 'He was not a self-starter, or associated with all the companies springing up back then,' says Mr. Wozniak. 'But, actually, John is one of the happiest guys I know, no matter what his situation seems.'"

I suggest starting from the beginning: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00001.htm

My question is: why is he selling? lf he is wealthy enough to have accumulated all these games and consoles in the first place and not care about probably making twice as much by selling piece-by-piece, I don't think it's for the money. Maybe his SO said it's either me or the video games. The fact that he spent literally months of eight hour days lovingly cataloging and photographing everything seems to show that the flame still burns that led him to collect them in the first place.

Well, they don't know what 'hack' means.

So the ultimate point is the futility of spending any time optimizing a solution to a problem that at most requires 2 seconds to run.

Basically, there is no way to keep children from accessing adult content on the internet. No software or age-restricted registration system will absolve parents of their responsibility to directly monitor and if needed personally restrict their children's access as appropriate to their age and maturity.

Yes, but that is not what people mean when they say 'race' today.