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I reluctantly upvoted. The content is wonderful and that ought to be enough, but the cartoon professor makes me feel a bit angry for some reason. Is this the application of Spolsky's[1] (among other's) recommendation of avoiding walls of text because nobody likes to read?

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000033.html

If someone can crack the code on a buttery smooth track pad experience like that of Apple's track pads, I'm in. Until then, any mobile computing experience for me that involves interacting with a gui and mousing device will be a jaw-clenching experience at best. Same goes for their iPhones.

Is it merely genetics that make the Apple touch experience so much more intuitive than the competing products, or is it truly superior?

OK. Just kicked off the download for Sierra. Thank you!

How do you achieve this with just System Preferences? On 10.11.6, I see the System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys allows re-mapping to Nothing, Control, Option, and Command, but not Escape. Is this a macOS Sierra thing? Tell me your secrets!

I can't help but laugh at these—is there something the matter with me? "ofisuredii" is particularly humorous.

Containerization gives me a lot of anxiety. When will a clear winner emerge?

It started off innocently enough. "I'll work just a few more hours on this project, because once these changes are in place, I'm going to save so much time when the client changes their mind again." That quickly turned into the normal amount of work on a daily basis, and then weekends started getting gobbled up. I also knew that I had a baby on the way, and I thought I'd put in yet more hours then, so now wouldn't be so bad. Now has come, and it is far worse than I could have imagines.

A little of both, actually. There was never a requirement to work more than 40 hours. In fact, last Friday I talked about how I'd probably work through the weekend to make the deadlines they set for the beginning of this week. They took pity on me and said I shouldn't even be checking my email over the weekend. I reluctantly agreed, and didn't work on the projects. But, guess who everyone was angry with come early this week for not having the deliverables to the clients?

Just put in my two week's notice yesterday. I've been putting in a stupid amount of hours (80+) while my colleagues in other departments barely hit the 40 hour mark. This is a good omen.

I could see that being a reasonable objection -- It would be really easy to provide evidence of effective deployment of open source in my network if there I had a support contract, right? But, that's not the objection she made. I wish I could have recorded her making her case against Firefox.

We also maintain a premium OpenDNS account, integrated with Active Directory to assist in web content filtering. Because the word 'Open' appears in the product's name, she assumed that the solution was FOSS, and determined that it was insufficient in the context of the audit she was conducting.

Sound advice. I've got some more work to do. Thank you.

I admit that I'm not a great manager and more of a technician. I just happen to have the authority to make hiring and firing decisions for my tiny engineering team.

I prefer on-site employees to remote for two reasons:

1 - I find that on-site employees are a bit easier to manage. The bar to communication is lower when they're so accessible. Also, I'm working with legacy hardware and software, and there is so much to understand in order to get started on many projects, and it can be a lot easier to sit side saddle with a junior engineer to help them through the first steps.

2 - I don't have a lot of great confidence in my hiring practices and the owners of the company are a little more conservative. As such, I make the safer choice to hire candidates willing to work on-site instead -- I can see when they come in, I can task and re-task on a whim, and I have a much better sense of when they begin down rabbit holes.

Tough crowd, arguing whether or not this is a good open source swift (implementation) vs good open source swift (software). Or is this just how we get more... what do we call it here, karma?

Is it just me, or do you think that Nintendo acquiring a company like Mojang seems more appropriate? I shudder at the thought of Microsoft stripping Minecraft of its creative and inspiring qualities and turning it into a simple FPS.

...Who is Nikki Durbin?

Oh, that's fantastic. Even more information at http://modern.ie/

Very cool. I'll take a look into this now. Thanks for the suggestion.