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Marvin purports to fight distractions and procrastination.

And yet it lets you customize and tweak things to get it "just how you want." Sounds like a dream and a nightmare in one for OCPD people like moi.

For some of the large clients I have, they require (and pay for) an independent company to come and audit my home office to make sure it meets their standards. The auditing company was provided with a litany of requirements from our shared client.

The first time it was a little odd, but it's routine for those companies who have sensitive IP.

Just to make sure I am understanding you, are you stating that the top 30% of employees have 3-5 years of savings socked away that they can get to easily?

If that’s true, well, I guess I am not in the top 30% of employees of big tech firms.

Effectively, yes.

I run a two-person development company that contracts for tech companies.

Out of the five projects we had in February, two have been canceled, two have been put on hold indefinitely, and the remaining contract project is only part-time.

Yes, I'm negligent about sales and marketing. I am the epitome of the "technician" (in "E-Myth" parlance). I don't expect things to dramatically turn around very soon.

It sounds like you're looking for something like distributed tracing (vs. vanilla logging).

Zipkin (https://github.com/openzipkin) and OpenTracing (https://github.com/opentracing) purport to be vendor/platform agnostic tracing frameworks and have support with various servers/systems/etc.

X-Ray was pretty trivial to use in AWS land w/ Java as a client.

I'm only half joking when I suggest you might consider re-shooting and/or re-editing the video to elide the human hand strangling (er, "steadying") the dummy. It doesn't elicit confidence or a positive connotation.

That aside, as an introvert, but even as a beardless one, I have nothing but admiration for such efforts to remove human interaction! (Still only half joking.)

As a homeowner, I don't want home prices to be high.

High home prices mean I can't move my family without incurring a substantial jump in property taxes (even if it's to downsize once the kids move out).

I'd also like my kids to have the option to live here without too much financial difficulty.

I've taken a look at that same desk. Are the surface and edges smooth, or are there rough patches that could snag/splinter? Can you write on paper on the desk surface smoothly?

Say what you will about SWT, but Eclipse's font rendering (use of hints, etc.) on Linux is great. As much as I tried to look past it (and tweak settings ad infinitum), the inferior font rendering of Java-based IDEs is intolerable for me :(

This fills a very important void in my family being that my kids can't really type (well or at all) but they love using Scratch. We just got an Arduino but the environment is a bit daunting for them. I haven't had the chance to download the Scratch for Arduino environment, but if this works, I don't know who will be more excited, me or the kids.

Thanks for the work that went into this!

Awesome. Thanks.

As the owner of a consultancy I have to acknowledge that FTEs are often appropriate, for good reasons:

FTEs are available in perpetuity (theoretically), contractors can be flighty

Manageability of FTEs is assumed, while freelancers often multiplex

Overall lower cost

IP/knowledge remains in-house with FTEs (talent acquisitions show this is a big deal)

Of course, there are some bad reasons too (trust issues, etc.).

Also a very non-obtrusive way to market your availability ;)

Great work. Would be nice to keep the regex active as I click different months (presently my regex is ignored).

Bookmarked.

Thanks!

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I'm the lead developer at Mustard Grain, a development shop in the San Francisco Bay Area. We handle scalability and back-end architecture and implementation. We're always on the lookout for solid, back-end engineers, regardless of location.

We're looking for people who possess a good understanding of a mix the following:

- Java/Ruby/Python/etc. (bonus points for Erlang, Scala, Clojure, etc.) - Distributed systems principles - Postgres, MySQL, etc. - Hadoop and its ecosystem - Cassandra/HBase/Riak/etc. - EC2

Find our contact information on our web site (http://www.mustardgrain.com) and shoot us an email.

Yes, the array bounds checks are inefficient, but IIRC, they're there to prevent buffer overflows that are/were prevalent in C applications.

Can you elaborate on how stating that a "business plan exists for a reason" is illogical or arrogant?

There's a bit of caution to be given here. My tax person said that switching between W2 and 1099 work throws up a red flag with regard to the IRS willingness to consider you as truly independent.