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Agreed. Cat on lap + scotch + good book is the key a stress-free evening

Here is the discussion thread started by netflix on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2fui0k/hey_guys_...

VBScript (classic ASP), SQL, C#, Javascript, Powershell

Most productive when working in the SQL/C#/JS parts of our stack and then need a warm-up period whenever I delve into the VBScript areas.

It attitude of the gaming community changes based on which game's community you are focusing on. The communities that usually fit the negative connotations often mentioned, in my mind, are League of Legends and CoD (most FPS games, especially on consoles, for that matter), which seem to be filled with people who are vitriolic assholes for the sake of being assholes. However, this is just my experience with these communities in the past and may be different for others. I know a fair majority of gamers aren't your GTA/CoD dudebros and screaming 12 year olds, but I feel that many people outside of gaming culture see it as such, which seems to be the biggest problem with "gamer" culture.

Continue reading HN and Reddit.

Finishing up "Ready Player One" on Audible right now and just started "Neuromancer" the other day.

The company I work for puts every engineering hire through "the U", a 3-9 month training program (depending on developer aptitude), geared towards bringing all engineering hires up to a relative even ground, with regards to the necessary skills to be a software engineer here.

The training is always in flux and adapting based on feedback, and has pretty consistently turned out developers that are able to jump in and start developing in any given team. Developers then gain further domain specific knowledge through mentorships and regular 1-on-1 meetings with team leaders and mentors about goals and progress.

Overall, it works pretty well based on my interactions with other developers here.

If you use MS SQL Server, Red Gate has a solution for that [0]. I don't know if there is something similar for other RDBMSs.

[0]: http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-source-...

> Is anyone surprised that so many of those are payed services instead of OSS projects?

Not surprised, as developer time is expensive. At the same tie, I find it funny and contradictory that many on HN complain about Microsoft's stuff not being OSS.

> On the one hand, increased awareness has made gluten-free food more available, on the other, the stigma against people eating gluten-free has risen.

I have a friend who was diagnosed with celiac disease in high school and remember how hard it was for her to find more than a few things she could eat at the time (this was around 2006-2007). Now she has very little issue walking into a store or restaurant and ordering something that won't give her severe pain and require some vicodin for a bit. She's said that she is happy that gluten-free diets became a fad and would rather be lumped into this group of fad dieters, than have hard time surviving on the smaller selection of things that were available for her to eat previously. The only difference now is that she really has to make sure that the people taking her food orders at restaurants really know she is severely allergic (clean cooking surface, check the dressings/glazes/etc... to make sure they are GF, etc...). All in all, a fair trade off for those that didn't choose this diet.

I switched to KBT Pure Pro (http://imgur.com/CWHD5g2) about 6 months ago and am not turning back. Larger keyboards just feel wrong now.

> Perhaps one day providing the develop environment's definition in the form of a Vagrant VM (or, probably better, a Dockerfile) will be as common sense as providing README and LICENSE files.

I would hope this becomes a trend. I was very happy when Discourse first went open source and included a Vagrantfile for development in their git repo, made getting up and running much easier (especially since I'm running on windows a majority of the time and certain libraries don't always play nice).

> Teaching kids from an early age that their gender doesn't limit the career they pursue will make this more the norm than not.

I believe this is one of the main issues. We tell kids they can "be whatever you want to be", and then look at a girl funny when she wants to be an engineer or make fun of a boy for wanting to be a nurse. Society has ingrained certain ideas into what a person in a given career looks like that people are deterred (consciously or subconsciously) from that career if they don't fit the norm.

For example, what is the first image that pop's into your head when you think of a nurse? This seems to be one of the fields that has been pushed so hard into a female career in our societal consciousness, that an entire genre of porn exists around this single occupation (I want my male naughty nurse Halloween costume, damn it!).

It's at a point where societal norms would need to be broken down from the ground up, with regards to gender roles and careers, starting with kids.

I've been using posh-git[0] with powershell for some time now and it works pretty well after the initial setup (requires a git for windows download[1]).

[0]:https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git

[1]:http://git-scm.com/downloads

> The xbox made you buy a subscription just to watch netflix, even if you never wanted to play any video games online.

This is exactly why I got my Roku player. No turning back now.

Additionally, they released the reference source code for .NET[0] a while back, so there is always that to dig through as well.

[0]: http://referencesource.microsoft.com/

I've never had much luck with laptop power adapters over the years (had to replace every dell adapter I've ever had and a couple of aftermarket ones). Had to replace the magsafe for my late 2008 macbook once, but I bought the macbook and power adapter used, so I can't quite vouch for how well it was treated prior to me owning it. Bought a cheap aftermarket magsafe adapter and it's been running well for over a year now.

For me, my eyes were slightly crossed as a kid. Had a couple of eye surgeries to align my eyes correctly, but the pupils were not aligned vertically perfectly, causing slightly conflicting images from each eye, and thus causing the brain to use the image from one of the eyes as opposed to fusing the two images as those with stereo-vision do. Both eyes still work all the time, the non-dominant eye at any given time just provides peripheral vision.

> then suddenly having the opportunity to open both eyes, and how surprising it would be to realize that you have depth perception

As someone who is stereoblind, I really wish opening both eyes leading to depth perception were true for all of us...

I did not know this was a thing I wanted until now...

Pretty sure it is sort of there already without any extra extensions. Place cursor on line, alt+shift+up/down arrow to duplicate cursor up or down

> all you're doing is working every day for an hour for free

That also depends on how HR defines your time. For instance, we can bank hours as flex time and use them to take personal time (separate from our paid vacation), as needed, as long as it doesn't interfere with delivering what we have scheduled. Good example, at one point the company had a couple of months where we all worked saturdays for a big release. All of that saturday time was banked as flex time and many of us took 4 day weeks for the following month or two. I'm sure my company might be in the minority of valuing employee time like this, but they aren't all like everyone in this thread is making them out to be.

While what she is stating might not be the case for all law school grads, it isn't as far fetched to come out of school easily making 2-3 times what a starting teacher is making, depepnding on the degree you choose. As a software engineer in michigan, you can come out of uni with a BS in computer science and easily find a job paying $55k+ and make 2-3 times as much as a starting teacher ($35k if you're lucky and find a good school that has funding) in the same state after a year or two of experience.

I have a few friends that are teachers and most of their schools wouldn't allow for this sort of thing to happen. Teachers aren't allowed to sit at their desk while a class is in session, they must be instructing or walking around (during a test, video, etc...). They get a planning period, where they might have a chance to do some grading or lesson planning, if they don't need to meet with a parent or something. This means they need to either stick around school several hours after it lets out to grade work and do lesson plans, or bring it home and work on it that night.

Directly from the "Taking the web native" section on the page:

>Atom is a desktop application based on web technologies.

And free when it came out in 2009

> (Hopefully they get again in fashion)

Windows Phone and Windows 8 allow developers to provide a trial mode for their apps, to give users a chance to decide if they like it.

It is everywhere, and its name is AB InBev...One look at AB InBev's brands page[0] makes me glad I live in Michigan, where the craft brewing scene is amazing.

[0]: http://www.ab-inbev.com/go/brands/brand_portfolio/local_bran...

> Not in my experience. People buy them because they are dirt cheap.

My experiences are similar. Your average person in Michigan wants to walk into Best Buy/Wal-Mart and buy a $300 computer that does everything they want. Any more than that and the think you are trying to rip them off.

> the option in IExplorer doesn't work.

That's very odd, just tested on my lumia with Google set as default and it searched using google in IE. Not being able to set the search provider for the search button does annoy me a bit though.