tbourdon

I've got no time to invest in this. I'm too busy finding an alternative for Reader and seriously looking at alternatives for Gmail because I'm just plain torqued at Google right now.

Also, you can make a one time rollover from a 401K or IRA to an HSA account. So if they switched to the HSA they could start it off by rolling over the amount of their deductible from their retirement account to their HSA account.

Me too! Kubuntu hits a real sweetspot for me in terms of a desktop environment.

Best part about this is the link to my home town newspaper. I used to deliver the Enterprise Record every afternoon on my bike after school. Yes, in the 70s the Enterprise Record was an afternoon paper.

Eclipse's Maven support is not great. IntelliJ's is better but Netbean's is the best in my opinion. The problem with IntelliJ's Maven support is it doesn't handle multiple non-nested projects well.

If I were able to set up global Maven build configurations without having to jin up a dummy parent project, I'd make the switch. IntelliJ has superior support for running and debugging individual JUnit tests and application debugging in general.

I also like the ability to set up a variety of "runners" in IntelliJ and then execute them with a fuzzy find as if I were on the command line.

I guess "The Cloud" got rained on in this case.

Fabulous book. The commentary on the west rings truer the older I get.

This paradigm is very powerful. The only thing I see missing from these types of interfaces is the ability to select part or all of the output and use it as input for a new command.

Think of it as an intermediate step of piping where the user has the ability to manually filter content. This UI concept would cover the vast majority of UI needs as almost any workflow could be captured with the following...

1.) Issue command that produces 0..N results. 2.) View results in list format. 3.) Select individual results for details view. 4.) Select 0..N results as input to a subsequent command.

Yes, yes, yes. I've been fighting photo management software for years when all I want is the ability to tag files.

I want the other way around so I can put a piece over my license plate.

Been watching them for months on Roku... No subscription fee required.

I've been thinking about a user interface for a long time. One that, leverages the graphical capabilities of the browser and the linguistic capabilities of the command line.

The two enhancements over the command line that I envision are the discoverability of commands and the ability to select the output of commands. So what you'd is an Enso/Vimperator like command interface where the output would be rendered as an 'object' or list of 'objects'. Each output object would be selectable and able to be used as input for other commands able to digest them.

You can sort of do this now with the command line but there are a few issues. The first is the inability to render graphical results in a terminal. The second is having to now something about the output of a command apriori before piping to the next command. Finally, it is difficult to know the commands available to your fingertips on the $PATH.

The more I meditate on a system like this the more I think it would be wildly productive because a wide host of problems can be solved with this single workflow.

COMMAND -> RENDER OBJECT(S) -> SELECT OBJECT(S) -> COMMAND -> ...

This has been my dream for years. Netflix is satisfying part of my content needs with its streaming option. I can only hope that more company's will follow suite.

What I'd really like to see is a "real" news website that supplies non-biased news written by real investigative journalists with no advertisements. I'd pay handsomely for that.

Here, here.

I just hope Jeff realizes that the amount of work per child is exponential not linear. So having twins will be about four times the work of just one child.

Also, I'm sure Jeff has already done the math on this but at at roughly seven diapers per day, 40 diapers per week, 2000 diapers per year, your average child goes through about 5000 diapers. 5K down, 10K to go :)

Much worse will be written about RMS when he dies and many will applaud what is written, never mind their contributions to technology had the same scale of impact on society... It's all in the perspective.

Or try out the usernames and passwords on say BofA?

And a non-existant QA department apparently?

Maybe 37 Signals should have gotten RMS and the FSF to patent their software.

Where does education and personal responsibility come into play? Just because one qualifies for a loan doesn't mean one should enter into a loan, no matter what the means of qualification. It doesn't really matter if one qualifies by some government mandate or by the lender's willingness to accept more risk, responsibility still lies with the borrower to honestly analyze whether or not they will be able to make good. In my mind, the real failure lies with our nation's inability to educate it's citizens on how to manage their own finances effectively.

I usually take PG with a grain of salt but he hit the nail on the head with this one. Another phenomenon I've seen when working in larger groups/organizations is the predatory ways developers will pursue the core/api/library work so as to expand their freedom and limit their dependence on others. The essay's comments about the programmer at Google reminded me of this as I've seen it time and time again in my career. Whereas in the smaller groups/companies I've worked, all the developers were responsible for the entire stack. It felt more communal and I think the groups were healthier and more productive.

It's all about time, time, time. I'm not suggesting there aren't extremes at both ends of the intelligence spectrum. But for the bulk of us in the middle of the curve, it all comes down to time. The problem is society pulls for our time on one end and family pulls for our time on the other. Unless your independently wealthy you can't be uber effective at both. I've actually known a number of men who have tried to advance there careers or get advanced degrees after they were married and had children only to end up getting divorced. I'm not advocating one path as superior to the other but having a family myself I know something has to give. Over time I've learned to value my accomplishments as a husband and father over those of intellect and career.