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Text on the link you provided reads like theoretical benefits of working in pair programming rather than actual anecdotal experience.

I occasionally do pair programming in order to debug issues or solve problems, but anything more than that and it will drive me crazy. Whoever came up with pair programming never experienced pair programming themselves.

Even a doctor won't diagnose without having a look at the patient in question. You are asking laymen to come up with a medical cure/prevention. There are so many factors involved. All the life long choices contribute to the chronic conditions. You should go ask a doctor/specialist/diagnostician.

I don't get it. Huawei reportedly stole the technology from Samsung and still their phone is more expensive.

I think Google is the culprit here. Not just for wifi scanning, but also for Bluetooth, Google demands location permissions.

In last 5 years or so, I have had a Garmin, a Fitbit and now a Garmin watch. I never used to have to enable location with my first Garmin tracker untill I upgraded Android os. After that point onward all my fitness trackers now ask to enable location in order to connect to my phone.

I had such a job. I was getting paid more than 75% over the previous job. I was so bored in that job that I quit after three weeks, took a huge pay cut and moved to more interesting work.

I still regret it sometimes. YMMV.

No. At work I run both chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu simultaneously with multiple tabs open. At home with Firefox on Debian. Never had problems.

Although both computers have 16gb ram.

I can sit through stand ups like Dave Chappelle, Chris rock, Peter Russell or any number of Adam Sandler/Ben Stiller movies without even cracking a smile, but can roll on the floor laughing after looking at silliest of stuff that not many find funny. I could never figure out what and more importantly why a certain situation/picture/pun makes me laugh.

I keep passwords in a text file encrypted using gpg. I also don't write the entire password in the file, just enough digits/alphabets to remind me what the password would be.

I never exercised before I turned 31. I also got fat after I turned 30. Not obese, but 20 lbs north of normal bmi range.

I quickly turned around after a friend of mine shamed me for looking like a over inflated balloon. Here's my advice:

1. You can't run in front of bad diet. Unless you are exercising as much as Michael Phelps does and losing 10,000 calories, don't look at exercise at weight reducing instrument.

2. Learn to eat slow. Really slow. Wait for few seconds between bites and chew longer. Give your body a chance to send a full signal.

3. Aim to eat only a small portion at a time. If you are eating out, divide food into smaller partitions and only eat one partition at at time.

4. Don't be afraid of throwing food away. It's unfortunate that there are kids in africa starving, but that doesn't mean you have a get a diabetes for them.

5. If you feel like it, start exercising. But just because you walked for 30 mins, doesn't mean you are entitled to can of coke, a cookie, or a piece of pie. No. Walking 30 mins doesn't even burn 1/2 can of coke.

6. Remember it's not what you eat, it's how much you eat. Don't start a fucking buzz word diet to lose weight, just eat little bit less and let you body adjust and tighten your stomach so you will be less and less hungry as time passes.

7. One last thing, eat only when you are hungry. Learn to say no to food. Just because there's a cookie or a candy or a piece of pizza lying around, doesn't mean you have to shove it down your throat. Just because it's noon, doesn't mean you have eat lunch. Just because it's 6PM doesn't mean you have to eat dinner. If you have to wake up at 1AM and eat a sandwich, but don't eat dinner if you are not hungry.

First time I used vim more than a decade ago, I got stuck too. Kill vim from other console and then googled it for future reference.

Agree. That's how we are using it. However teams webclient can't do some of the things like desktop sharing and conferences like we could do in hipchat.

These achievements are like pro-bowl selection in NFL. If you are on a losing team, it doesn't matter how hard you worked or what you achieved.

Good luck with that. My girlfriend works at a German airport and she told me that even the shops and cafes in the airport are closed.

I am not sure how unions would help in tech sector, but I would like to see European style laws to protect labor from management.

This is just Amazon looking for welfare. This is not new. Cabela's was doing it for many years. Asking for tax breaks because they bring "jobs and prosperity" to the town. It turned out to be a plain lie. NFL teams are doing it to many cities. Making few hundred millions in profit while offloading stadium to tax payers. Sears, cboe and cme among other did it to Illinois for millions of dollars in tax breaks.

Pure and simple corporate greed.

>if it takes me x years longer to find love/dream job/etc. than other people, then that is x years I will never get back

Sorry, but this doesn't make any sense to me. You will not get back any of the time you spent doing anything. You sat on toilet for 2 mins longer than other people everyday, then you spent months more than other people on toilet over years of your life. This doesn't mean you are going to hurry up and get out of the bathroom faster than you should.

You get what you get in your life. It's nothing to do with what you deserve or what's fair.

If you stop believing in the all powerful entity that will make it fair for everyone and start believing everything happens by a random chance, you would be better off.

The car is last place I want targeted advertisements and distractions. I live and breathe tech, but I drive a manual car with no GPS, no Bluetooth and no remote connectivity. I turn on local NPR or connect phone using aux cable to listen to podcasts. I never found any use of tech in my car.

It's amazing to look back and see how the public support built up for this over last 40 something years. I am not sure how many more years before this country follows Canada or Uruguay.

That's right, still not ALL US Citizens can vote.

Not all. Felons don't, either in theory or in practice.

How about BP and their atrocities in Iran. How about United Fruit and banana republics? I could dig up more examples. There are very few ethical companies, if any.

This wouldn't stop people being dishonest in their reviews. Nothing does so far.

Consolas and Inconsolata. Unfortunately, I use Intellij idea currently and Inconsolata is rendered horribly in that ide even with infinality and intellij Specific configs.

Ubuntu mono is also not bad.

Assuming the same salary, I would opt for more interesting/challenging work. Besides that being able to work on projects that mean something to the business, having good work correctly attributed and recognized for is also a big factor. In short, being able to do something meaningful is a way to retain me.

I don't think I would agree to that model. I wouldn't like my money being held hostage for a review. If they give me a dollar discount, on the other hand, I would be much inclined to leave a review.

Let me co-host your party. We will split the costs 50/50

As a person who worked on an exchange and knew about the fees being charged by exchanges to the trading companies for connectivity, data usage per kb etc, I was dumbfounded to find out about Robinhood. I just couldn't understand how they can execute trades for free.

Now that I know, it works for me. Although MMs with lot more money get to make even more money, I get to trade without fees. That 15-20 I save on every pair of buy/sell, is valuable when I am making bunch of trades every day.

Not work related, but I am working on my body. Trying to run faster marathon at the same time building muscles to look good. It's hard after 40, but I was a 123 lb weakling at 24, now a 145 lb with good muscle tone.

Hopefully this act of deception gets punished. Not just a slap on the wrist few million dollar fine, but the criminal indictment of the head honchos.

Everything is so black and white nowadays or it always was, I dont know. Gandhi had his failings, but if you aggregate his life, he was definitely a positive force in the world.