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NYC is actually seeing an uptick in companies abandoning the insanity of Silicon Valley and the West coast and moving to NYC and places east. And, what with NY state's recent incentives to start a company there, I would rather be based in NYC than SF Bay. IMO, NYC has a much better overall culture than SF and proximity. There is also the echo chamber of the SF tech area, which I abhor.

I have, over the years, toyed with -- and still do -- the notion of moving to Brooklyn or perhaps further out into Long Island. Love the place. Home of the best pizza outside of Naples to be sure.

I'm dubious myself. What about their Mermaid special? Someone would have some concrete evidence by now of giant sharks and/or mermaids besides grainy footage. I take this stuff with the same grain of salt I take extraterrestrials: I doubt it.

To be honest, I've never desired to be well off. I'm a minimalist by nature and the less I have to worry about, the better. I make enough to do what I need and want to do. I'm content with what I have. I am fortunate enough to have marries a woman with the same sentiments, so we neither want nor need much beyond the basics -- and decent espresso and interesting travel.

Facebook failing or never existing? How could this be a bad thing? Google not being as dominant or Yahoo getting their technology and yet also not being dominant? I fail to see how these are bad. I use technology from neither company myself.

I think the majority of these companies suck at so much because they try and be all things to all people. In unity there is strength, but when you try to do it all, you fail.

I don't trust Google because they have their fingers in every pie on the Internet. They want to make money, money, money with little thought of anything else or what it takes to get there or how much privacy is looted. Yahoo is an also ran with little hope of being anything more than what it was and is.

My wife and I worked out a plan: we moved very close to her parents who agreed to watch our children for three days a week. I work M-F days only, no nights, no weekends. My wife works Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Together we make enough to pays the bills, save a little, and have a bit of fun. The children are taken care of first and foremost.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice to make do for your family by moving, whatever. It's always better to sacrifice money than time from your children. As long as you are making it and saving a little and have a bit for holidays, nothing else really matters. Getting rich should never be the goal.

I'm referring to employers requiring more than 40 hours, not valid personal choice. I'm all for you "choosing" to work extra, with the caveat of double time on the paycheck.

I agree with deleting the emails. The US is woefully behind Europe in this regard. I would like to see a French-style work week, with the added goodness of France's recent email/phone call law forbidding employers from contacting employees after a certain time.

I would like, at the very least, to see a federal law forbidding more than 40 hours max. The world has really deteriorated in regard to family life since the 80s. When everything started becoming 24-7, that's when the decline began. I remember the sanity of the 80s whilst living in a couple of countries in western Europe at the time. The pace of life was better, more family time, the fun challenge of getting a popular restaurant reservation before they closed at a sane hour. It wasn't all about profit then like it is now.

I make it clear to my current employer that I don't do nights and weekends. When I leave the office at 1700, I'm unemployed. My wife and children come first.

Funny you should mention GNUStep/WindowMaker... absolutely my favourite WM. I agree most of the rest are bloated and wonky. Gnome has removed almost all of its menus and bells and whistles and it's largely unusable now. KDE is the kitchen sink inside the kitchen sink. It's overly complicated for a DE. Sadly, there is no real focus on WM now, although last year, Window Maker Live, a Debian-based live ISO was released. It hasn't gained a real foothold among aficionados.

There was an attempt to get Window Maker back in the limelight last year. Not sure where this has gone...

I have toyed with the idea of using hosts files instead, but what bothers me is the lack of daily updates. Granted, there is so much bad crap out there that it's impossible to avoid it all.

Another thing I want to do is find a router that allows host files and script regular updates. It would be great to never have to install extensions or tinker with hosts file for every box on the network. I've also said I'd be interested in seeing a proxy server that strips out all of this stuff so no maintenance on the user end is required.

Care to elaborate on your claim? It's one thing to claim it's FUD, but yet another to refute it.

I like... good for this dad. I have three kids and while I won't be traveling to Syria anytime soon, it's nice to see positive reinforcement of non-violence today.

Most parents simply turn their children loose with whatever device and hope for the best. Having worked for many years in IT security and knowing what's out there, any Internet-connected device the kids use must be used within the presence of an adult at all times. No mobile phones or connected devices in their bedrooms -- ever. When they leave home, they can have them, but until then, I err on the side of caution.

Ghostery is owned by a company that has ties to ad networks. I am, by principle, opposed to ads in Web content, so I want to use a product that loathes the idea as much as I do.

I have the right to browse the Internet without being tracked, my data sold without my permissions, have targeted ads delivered my way, you name it.

I've often thought about setting up a colo proxy server for people that strips out all ads, beacons, tracking cookies, you name it -- and give it away for free. With cheap hosting and unlimited bandwidth, this could be a good thing.

One word: webrtc

Can have security issues if not done correctly.

http://techpageone.dell.com/technology/open-source-webrtc-cr...

If this guy is guilty, and it can be definitively proven, hang him, but this situation is worrying on a number of levels. What if someone hates you, has access to your mobile whilst you sleep, takes it, commits a crime with it, and then returns it? You're on the effing hook.

Mobile devices are really going to usher in a whole new look at crime and potential guilt. The fact that police can now take your mobile and dump its contents during routine traffic stops in many countries is hugely alarming.

For me, the Internet is largely unusable without adblock at the very least. I removed Ghostery and started using Disconnect instead. It does a much better job methinks.

In addition to this on Firefox at least I invoke about:config and make several settings changes:

- I disable prefetch.

- I disable media.peerconnect.

- I disable geo tracking.

- I disable HTTP/S referer.

- I disable DOM storage.

- I disable visited link tracking.

I also use EasyList, EasyPrivacy, and Malware domains adblock subscriptions.

In addition, as a Linux user, I want to use Flash on those sites that use it, but I don't want to deal with LSOs tracking me, so I take advantage of Flash by sending those LSOs to /dev/null. The Website is none the wiser and I get the benefit of the Website.

rm -rf .adobe

rm -rf .macromedia

ln -s /dev/null .adobe

ln -s /dev/null .macromedia

Surf with relative comfort knowing that you've already paid for your Internet connection with cash, no need to give away more of your privacy than needed. Blocking ads is great if you use any social media, as you don't have to see the sodden ads.

Not this tripe again...

Please, no one really cares about the makeup of companies except those people who will never work for them anyway. It's like what's happening in the UK at the moment. Everything is so politically correct. My cousin is a detective just south of London, and he now has to treat suspects with kid gloves unlike just a few years ago. He actually has to knock on doors if the suspect is a muslim and wait for their prayers to finish before proceeding. If diversity insistence and this PC tripe that makes life more difficult. Companies should NOT be even percentages of this colour or that gender "just because". It's stupid and most people agree it's stupid. Unless of course your're PC...

The man who brought the camera. The monkey cannot legally own things, copyrights or other, so the man owns the photos. 10 years ago this would not even come up. Why have we gotten so "feel good" of late? Life is not unicorns and glitter and nor should it be.

I don't think so. The Libertarians are too "hands off" for my liking. In my lifetime I would like to see:

- Universal, socialised medicine - Universal, Scandinavian-style free secondary education - Mandatory military or social service for two years to mature people and get them to see life in a different way - A radical shift towards solving human problems instead of pursuing greed

Big data is nothing more than greed in the making. Full stop.

For over a decade, I have blocked all ads, beacons, filtered cookies to just what I use and delete on logoff, disallow all tracking, disallow HTTP/S referrer, disallow visited links history, use a proxy server, you name it.

I have a right to not be traded like raw info. I tend to pay cash at the supermarket (Aldi), use a credit union instead of a for-profit bank, anything to piss off marketers, money grubbers, and capitalist thieves who see me as nothing more than a money-making opportunity.

Indeed.

Some free advice I learned the hard way -- for whatever it's worth...

Never, ever feel guilty about taking time off, especially if you have a wife and children. It's your moral duty not only to them, but to yourself as well. If you're single, you still need to spend more time away from work than you do at work.

The American notion of the American dream is just that -- a dream. Spend more time with family and friends than you do at work. Limit yourself to 40 hours only. If you can't do it in 40, it doesn't need doing. Don't work nights or weekends unless your business is geared to those hours, e.g. restaurant-based IT, hotels, you get it.

When you go home at night, you're unemployed. Set up emails and texts to reply you are busy. I set the expectation with my bosses that I am unavailable nights and weekends. My family come first. Full stop. Money can be made anywhere, my family is more important. I have one family and one life. I cannot hit the rewind button. You choose your legacy: time spent with loved ones or time making money for people that don't love you. You choose. This is not an attack on hard work, it's an attack on obsessiveness to get ahead. It's not required to have a good life. France is right. Work after 35 hours sucks, as do unwanted email and text missives after COB.

I get a free SSL cert, right?

Thank you, Tea Party (yes, I'm being sarcastic).

The far right in this country have driven home their stupid Ayn Rand message and too many people have listened. We now have the most polarized government since the Civil War.

The right believe that their way is the only way. To them everything is a zero sum game.

I would settle for a Scandinavian or Swiss-style system. The older I get, the less I like capitalism as described by the right.

Not attacking Google here, but why can't a company with the insanely vast resources as Google, prevent something like this? I can understand a small provider going down occasionally, but Google should have enough engineers on this to have redundancy and robustness across their networks.

Looks really nice and simple in an elegant way; I'll be interested in trying this.

Why pay for this when there are OSS/Libre tools that do this for the proper cost of $0?

You are right. My bad. I'm showing my age :)

He did the right thing. Kudos. Money means nothing in the long run when family takes a back seat.

You cannot hit the rewind button. Ever. Once you miss your children's youth because you're chasing the money, you are failing them morally. Get a 9-5 like other people and call it good. Children don't care that daddy and mommy are rich -- they care about you being there. Full stop.

I dislike crypto currencies and agree with the countries banning them. All "money" trading should be regulated and taxed for the benefit of society. Russia does need to go after their oligarchs, though, like Putin did to the one guy several years ago, and use the money to further society. I dislike when people get filthy rich off the backs of others, and I doubly dislike when people play shell games and other BS loophole nonsense to avoid paying Ceasar what he's owed.

Great points in the article. I agree 100%. I have long thought we were treading water.

I agree with making progress, but there is just so much NIH syndrome out there when it comes to new languages, development practices, you name it. I honestly miss the older days when I was doing simpler Perl stuff. The expectation was for me to solve a discreet problem, not enable a group of people to ramp up to a billion dollar company in less than a year.

Startups that focus on the money always do worse than those who focus on delivering good software, services, whatever. Solve a problem and the money will come naturally. There is really nothing new under the sun, just different ways to do things. Lately, I just want to solve problems, not come up with "new" things.