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This isn't a story representative of a generation, this is a story about one messed-up 30 year old. I can't think of anyone I know who can't figure out how to do laundry and homework in one day, and I don't think it's because I'm in a circle of particularly self-sufficient Gen-Yers.

Honestly, if the Onion were stuck for content they could publish this article word-for-word and I'd gladly believe it was supposed to be satire.

Reading this I had to repeatedly scroll up to make absolutely sure I wasn't just reading a Jolla press release... I'd love for this to be as great as it's described here, but I'll be waiting for an actual impartial review.

Oh cmon. There are thousands of tech jobs that don't pay that well and require all those skills. The difference is that when those companies go to find someone, they lie in the ad. How is being honest insulting?

I'll bet there's plenty of young developers out there who don't mind working long hours and would love to spend their time flying around with the Penny-Arcade crew keeping everything running - admittedly they won't be hiring the best applicants in the industry with the rates and conditions that they're offering, but I doubt they'll have much trouble finding someone who fits the bill.

They didn't absolutely need to, but the alternative would be finding a user with the latest commit in their local git for every single repository, which could be 150 different people, then getting them all to push those changes... it's a bit more involved than just getting a github admin to put the repos back the way they were.

I can see why he's annoyed, but at the end of the day he's got a reasonably well-reviewed app for the cost of $800 and a few hours arguing over email... still a pretty good deal.

Having worked on big government projects with big consulting companies, that's pretty unlikely. Government projects are usually undersold in order to win the tender and are subsequently delivered late and to a low standard, the difference is that they're rarely high-profile enough to get noticed by anyone who makes procurement decisions, and so the consulting companies' salespeople get to bid for the next one.

I've seen program managers getting pretty nervous when senior bureaucrats start breathing down their neck - I'd have to admire the balls on one who intentionally fucks up a project while being personally scrutinised by the President of the United States.

So a valid warrant with a judge's oversight on the public record? Isn't this what we're arguing should be happening for internet searches?

There's another page that explains what happened after - they offered him a job after he'd finished college but the video game crash ended up stopping that.

I'm not sure if I missed something, but the top answer says:

The question is what happens here. The theory behind it is pretty easy and the good thing is, it explains what you have to do from any (meaningful) viewpoint. Let's use a simple cylinder graphic as example to explain what I mean

I'm pretty sure his example is at a contorted sideways angle because it demonstrates that you can line it up from any angle. The OP in the question could reasonably expect that the customer will be facing the handle from directly behind it when they push the trolley, and adjust his maths accordingly.

I strongly recommend Robbaz' Viking Space Program (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD1262982675D497A) for those looking to see what the game's about - particularly seeing as the game is not just about building the best rocket ever, it's about resolving to build something ridiculous and having fun failing to do so.

It's reasonable to take the speed hit in order to make it more useful to more people, but the UI seems to be designed with fast searches in mind (for which it'd be perfect), rather than for the necessarily slow searches that actually happen. It'd be a lot nicer to use if you typed your query and something happened to reflect the immense amount of stuff going on behind the scenes rather than just sitting there for a few seconds...

Finally a good non-ideological reason to use Firefox :)