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Yeah, I got to about the third para...zzzz and popped over to the HN comments to see if it's worth steeling myself for the rest.

However, it looks like the biggest mistake was made by the submitter. Just go to the site root, and it's a pretty good thumbnail, or at least a teaser, of what the thing does. The "about" that was submitted is intended for someone who saw the root, got interested there, and now wants to know more.

The about could definitely have been better written though.

They certainly have the capability, and they probably use it on some percentage of electronic communication between 0 and 100%.

What they're trying to do here is make more of it admissible in court.

Meaningful to them and to most of the rest of us.

Life is much more than utility.

It's a common way of describing that shared experience. There's no need to restrict our speech or feelings to the strictly literal. If you don't like the phrase you don't have to use it, but to many couples the experience is meaningful enough that the phrase is also meaningful.

Very nice counter to my brief rant (not that you intended it to be). Well said. Except for the language and particular rate, my experience was essentially similar to what you describe.

I would add, though, that it doesn't necessarily go the way the recruiter describes. Yeah, if you take the tests and sign the six years, it will likely go that way, but it is the military, they do own you, and if they want to they can have you do anything because they said so. And you don't get to quit.

The military was a positive experience for me, and it is for many people. But I stand by my rant.

I'd leave the military as a last resort, just above stealing. Not unless serving your country is your undeniable calling. And if you've got any doubt, then it isn't.

I say that, having joined the military after high school because I had no clue what to do with myself. And for me, at that time, it turned out well.

However, the US hasn't used its military for anything good or honorable since World War II, except possibly the first six to nine months of Afghanistan. If you join the military you'll likely have to kill someone for no worthy reason, or you'll have to order someone to do it. For fucking Wall Street, and so whoever's President at the time doesn't have to take Viagra.

Fuck. That. Shit.

Don't waste your soul.

(Apologies to any veterans or family.)

"In its 14-page complaint, Hispalinux said Windows 8 contained an "obstruction mechanism" called UEFI Secure Boot that controls the start-up of the computer and means users must seek keys from Microsoft to install another operating system.

"The group said it was "a de facto technological jail for computer booting systems ... making Microsoft's Windows platform less neutral than ever".

Wouldn't it make more sense to go after the hardware manufacturers? They're the ones that put Win8 on the machines, they could have put something less obstructive.

I would think manufacturers not being able to sell in Europe would have much wider reaching results.

Seattle is the most beautiful place I've ever lived (and I've lived in Hawaii). Been through Portland, it's nice too.

I've heard Chattanooga is an option for tech jobs, and Tennessee is supposed to be pretty. Cost of living should be relatively low, if you can get there. Once you get there, or anywhere, do what you would do anywhere: find anyjob and work on moving up from there.

Consider local government for work.

Good suggestions here already.

You might look for jobs on Craigslist. It sounds like right now you're looking for anyjob, for cash/rent. Be willing to do about anything, you're not choosing a career right now you're just taking money from people without stealing. Depending on who you work for, some of them might have interesting ideas or contacts.

If you can get to North Dakota you might work in the oil fields, but I hear it's hard to find a place to stay; boom times and all.

I don't know the producer business, I'm guessing there's much more opportunity programming. Don't know your experience. Pick a language, start making stupid little things and put them on github. The first stuff doesn't have to be impressive, doesn't have to be web whiz bang, just anything that gets you thinking in the language. If you get far enough along before you get an interview you can take the earlier ones down. If you're lucky enough for someone to consider you earlier, for the type of job you might be talking about, you can point to even your small silly projects and say "hey, this is what I've been doing to build my skills."

Whatever language you pick, learn the debugger, it will teach you more than the debugger.

Read something enjoyable, it's a cheap way to do something good for yourself and to get your mind off your troubles. Make it non-career oriented at least some of the time. You can get things at the library, or a used book store. Finding a good, old, funky used book store is a delight.

Your health matters. Exercise as well as you're able. Challenge yourself to eat as well as you can on the least amount of money. Beans and such go a long way for very cheap. These two things can be some of your reading. Learn as much as you can practically use about them.

Help someone.

Let's give them an opportunity to lie, where a lie would otherwise be all but impossible. Then we get to put some of them in jail. Yay!

When you become your own parody, that's ... success?

I'd like an email client that I can recommend to my stereotypical mom without reservation, and that means a gui on top of solid functionality.

Yeah, what kind of a tree is a Geary anyway?

It may not be fair, but that was my first thought.

From a readability or operational perspective? Yes, it was done much too early to take advantage of eventually emerged common ways of doing things (I would never guess in ftp, there's no rhyme and little reason), but files seem to go back and forth pretty reliably once you've properly asked for what you want.

"I'm not dead yet."

I don't currently block ads, I just block flash. But if this does come to pass I'll obviously have to block ads, and I'll have to show all my non-technical friends how to block ads.

60 characters? Why, that's just not done.

The most definite thing that should be taken from a thread like this is that it usually boils down to personal preference. In fact I'd say that personal preference in these matters should take at least as much preference as any available emperical studies. If you're in a group, and you don't get your way in the coding standards meeting, accept it and move on. You can do it! :)

I don't quite like the loop split, but that's because I've never like "continue the next line under the first argument of the series." It makes next lines start at inconsistent places and makes it harder to read. I usually bend that rule and follow the four space indent 90% of the time.

But I do like the loop split better than the non-split, despite the above.

I like the smatch split too. It looks like how you'd arrange bullets in a bullet list, one below the other, so you can see/scan them at a glance, without having to labor over where the next item is in a single line.

I think the three file views side by side image is one of the best arguments I've seen for 80 chars. But I'm predisposed to like that image, because I like 80 chars.

Yeah, I wouldn't want my unit under or around whatever space was reserved for the roots. Nor would I want my unit next to or under any of those units. After enough years a root will break through just about anything, or at least stress it. Then comes the water. And the critters.

And certainly it's ATT's fault for making this publicly accessible.

The address isn't the private bit, it's the association of the address with the leaking organization that's private.

Google swing back? I doubt it. Once they crossed over into a billion+ company, their mission became to be a billion+ company. That they still organize the world's information, or claim to do whatever they did in the past, is just momentum that will bleed off.

They make money. That's all they do. Nothing wrong with that, but they're never going to be what they were. Their future is to be General Electric, or Comcast, or HP in their declining years. The difference between HP and Google is acceleration; the days of Bill and Dave are remembered wistfully, as they were not there for the decline and destruction.

The days of Page Rank and Labs and excitement are dead and gone, as are the human days of Lestat, never to return.

So they'll tailor search results for you personally based on what they think you'll want (or, eventually on what they want you to want), but they won't let you declare what you don't want?

I agree with you, but honesty can be expressed in different ways.

"I'd never heard of you guys, but when I was searching around your thing seemed a lot more interesting than some of the other things."

And on the employer side, unless you've actually got tanks out back from having turned water into wine you might notch the erection down a few degrees. There's smart people everywhere, that's not special.

Like all things, there's a balance, and like all good balances it should be flexible.

"No" is not acceptable, at least not to me. I have no disabilites, but I think that there should be accommodation for disabilities in society. Perhaps below a certain business income or traffic the requirements are reduced or go away, and that's where we're not very good at balance.

As commerce, government and social interaction move online, it becomes imperative (yes) that we make accommodations for disabilities. The more we are, the better we are, so it's good for "the rest of us" as much as for "them."

In the end, it's likely an "eat your spinach" issue as said in the article: you bring more people and benefit in by your accommodation than the accommodations cost. Where that falls down is the micro-operations, and that's where I think we need some balance. Big ops can afford all this and more, but you won't get more big ops unless you let the small ops grow through that stage.

A small png. Download one of those things, they're five times the size of what gets displayed, but you have to download the whole thing anyway. A little responsibility would have been good.

Yep, daily, and then we recite the same thing at our daily morning standup.

Don't think I'll share a real one, they're probably proprietary and no upside for me in that. But I can give you a fake one.

Below is the top of my file. The last entry, the dated one, gets pushed down every day under a fresh one, and I update it as I go during the day.

The markup syntax is vimwiki http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2226, but it could be any markup. Years ago I used to use markup something like this without transforming it, before there was anything like markdown or reST.

At the end of the day I run Vimwiki2HTML from within vim, and my daily status html page is updated; it's just a local page, I don't serve it. I copy today's entry from that and email my boss. Ten years ago I would have just copied the plain text from the vim file.

Every once in awhile I email the ever growing file to myself at home.

Scripts that generate the daily template after the example.

  =Status=
  
  ==Long term ToDo==
  * Some long term thing that currently doesn't have any tasks:
  
  * Some slightly more interesting long term thing:
      * practice elocution
      * study needed inventions
      * study electricity
  
  
  ==Immediate ToDo==
  * Follow up on that thing by end of the week.
  * See if that other thing is ready.
  
  
  ==2013.03.22 Friday==
  
  ===Today===
  * Wrote test ABC.
  * Reviewed test BCD.
  * Passed test CDE.
  * Failed test DEF.
  * Wrote bug ticket 234 describing test DEF failure.
  * Cleared ticket 345.
  
  ===Tomorrow===
  * Write test XYZ
  * Run tests MNO, PQR. 
  
  ===Roadblocks===
  * My cube mate keeps looking at me.

This generates a date:

  $ cat bin/adate
  #! /usr/bin/env bash
  
  dt="$1" || "today"
  date --date="$dt" +"%Y.%m.%d %A"

  $ adate
  2013.03.22 Friday

  $ adate Monday
  2013.03.25 Monday

  $ adate "last Monday"
  2013.03.18 Monday

  $ adate "next Friday"
  2013.03.29 Friday

And this generates a daily entry skeleton:

  $ cat bin/edate
  #! /usr/bin/env bash
   
  dt="$1" || "today"
  echo "==$(adate $dt)=="
  echo ""
  echo "===Today==="
  echo "*"
  echo ""
  echo "===Tomorrow==="
  echo "*"
  echo ""
  echo "===Roadblocks==="
  echo "*"
  echo ""
  echo ""

  $ edate
  ==2013.03.22 Friday==
   
  ===Today===
  *
   
  ===Tomorrow===
  *
   
  ===Roadblocks===
  *

Then in vim, put your cursor above the previous day's entry, and:

  :r!edate

which creates a new blank entry with one empty bullet per section.