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There is PowerShell (which I use) but if you thought cmd.exe was slow, its got nothing on PowerShell, which takes slow text rendering to a new level.

On a Core i7 clocked at 3.5Ghz with SSD :)

Getting home to work on a Linux terminal or Terminal.app is like heaven.

I wonder how many of these we will see before people started using anonymous prepaid VISA credit cards to purchase non-logging VPN subscriptions from internet cafes, and then used these VPNs to do downloading.

I imagine trying to track that down would be placed into the too-hard basket.

Yes, please appeal.

I use one of the existing (paid) HN apps, it has less functionality than yours, and, bonus, yours includes source code, so if something annoys me I can fix it myself.

I started writing my own, but now that seems kind of redundant :)

Check out some of Gary Bernhardt's videos (also a play by play on Peepcode).

I stole a whole lot of things from his VIM setup (red/green bar for test runs in VIM just rocks).

If you take the time to read the recently passed legislation in NZ, it's big media's wet dream. Presumption of guilt: check. Bypassing of due process: check (fucking kangaroo court tribunals). Three strikes and termination of Internet access: check. Passed via "emergency" Christchurch earthquake session. The whole thing stinks of Washington arm twisting.

> Is there somewhere else where immigration is much easier than the United States?

Yes. The rest of the Western world.

> Have you ever thought of living there?

Currently in New Zealand, was in Australia.

Got citizenship after being a resident for 3 years.

No limbo either, residence was not tied to a particular employer.

JAXA's pie in the sky SSPS project avoids the problem of variability of supply.

Emplaced at a Lagrange point, one could imagine a potential 24/7 source of energy.

Also, one of the proposed ways to transmit the energy back to earth is via lasers. Could be fun if there are issues with the targeting subsystems :)

A bonus of limiting your caffeine intake is the quality of sleep you get.

I get a solid 8 hours since quitting caffeine, and it's really good sleep, too. I'm almost 100% ready to go as soon as I wake up.

And I get a lot less of the "you look tired" comments from my partner.

Sometimes they are promises. To customers. Who've already paid for it. :S

I used Linux for six years as my primary OS, on OS X for a while now.

On OS X, the biggest annoyance for me, coming from Linux, is the lack of a consistent packaging system.

I don't like the MacPorts style of compiling everything on my own system, but being a Ruby programmer, I'm kind of stuck with it as well due to that being the way any Gem native extensions like to work too.

But really, that's about it.

It's a UNIX. It works. I never have to muck around with my config files, and pray that the next drop of the OS doesn't break my wireless / sleep / wake / sound card.

Play to win.

Before internet came to our parts I would make long distance calls to BBS's with a 2400baud modem, spending hours downloading classics like WinZip :)

My parents got a $900 phone bill once (a lot of money in South Africa). I mowed many lawns to pay that one off.

Being online via Trumpet Winsock was how I downloaded my first Linux distribution.

Knowing Linux at the right time (1998) was how I got my first job.

Donated.

Caching!

Thanks, I wasn't even aware of iTunes U. Looks great.

Well, it was a bit of a kick in the pants to fail so spectacularly, believe me, I'm not trying to protect whatever fragile ego I do have left, after that intro the technical parts of the interview were brutal, the interviewer decided to hammer it into me that I wasn't good enough, and basically threw the book at me :)

What I learned was that I am woefully unprepared to interview at such a place, but not that I'm not going to try again (I am, I refuse to give up).

Question for you though, how did you develop a math intuition and the ability to enjoy math? I used to enjoy math in school, but I'm 31 now, and I find it tough to slog through the very basics again, so I find it hard not to skim over things I think I know. I think a part of the reason I enjoyed it at school was that it was basic, plugging numbers into memorized formulas, using pattern matching to detect the type of problem, simple stuff if you've been programming, so it was easy to pull off the straight As.

Time to really learn now though.

From what I have read on HN in other post, it seems there was a "light going on" time for a lot of you? When did it happen? What did you do to get to that stage where you started revelling in mathematics?

I think I have the substrate for math, it doesn't take too long for me to grasp concepts, but solidifying them is what I have a problem with. Without doing that, it's like anything in programming that I haven't written a program for. I lose it and forget it quickly.

What is the equivalent of writing programs, but for math, for you?

Thanks

So what would you recommend someone self-taught who just bombed his past couple of interviews do?

Nothing like failing on elementary math questions to make you feel like a class A idiot, especially if your title is 'Senior Software Engineer', and here I go, bombing on freaking word problems in a numeracy test.

I feel like a total fraud, like I'm in the wrong field, I could have done those easily straight out of high school.

If you've been to the South, the comparison is stark, and it's hard to believe the two were one country a few decades ago.

That said, if re-unification, happens I imagine the progress in the North will be rapid, and the country as a whole will become an even stronger regional power.

(Sorry, I missed this reply).

For me, it was the best decision, as I enjoy programming much more than sysadmin work. I get my kicks out of creating new things.

Valuable experience though.

Workflow systems for defense contractors (awfully vague, sorry).

TPS?

Our company charges $250k. Per CPU.

Yes, I didn't believe it either.

And this is just one of the many line items.

According to VC, some of our bigger customers didn't take us seriously until we charged the money they were used to paying.

Great addon, but I wonder how long it will be able to hide all of the advertisement elements.

Then again, Chrome allows AdBlock in its extension gallery.

Probably best career decision I ever made, was in 1999, 1 year into my career, to switch from system administration to programming as my focus.

Where "engaging with the ACM" means entering my credit card number into their website to access any content?

If you explain in terms of what it actually means, a large subset of people will and do care. "Huh? Farmville wants my phone number? What the heck for?"

I use iTunes on Windows and Mac to manage a 300GB music collection. Never lost data, speed fine after first import and sync (to iPod an iPhone) works fine. I have auto sync off though, obviously.

I'd be worried if the carrier has this info. I bought the iPhone 4 from Apple, the micro SIM from vodafone, two separate unconnected transactions.

There is something to be said for not taking DRY to extremes. This appears to be one of those extremes.

I think you're more likely to stick to and maintain todos on a mobile device that syncs to the cloud.

Maybe that's just how I'm wired, but I never could stick to any one system until I got a smartphone, now I run my life out of it.