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I still have a bunch of VHS tapes of 120 minutes

I little bit of footnote history: back in 2003, in conjunction with the 1st International Moblogging Conference in Tokyo, a group of people (who being armed with pretty much the planets first camphones connected to the internet were also arguably the pioneers of instagram culture) held the 1st International Love Hotel Moblogging Conference.

http://www.tokyotidbits.com/lovehotel/

aka we were overexposing on the internet before it was cool ;)

Did she actually still have the same hat and scarf? I didn't notice that mentioned in the text.

Well, you could put LiveNation on your resume to hide the fact ;)

I'm going to give that a listen this afternoon, thanks!

I did some contract work for an online “payday loan” company for a bit. It didn’t take me long to realize I was ashamed of working with such a terrible industry, but my professionalism kept me there until I finished the job. Definitely a low point.

From the article, it seems the game is an in-house product that the Scout team must conduct with trained facilitators and some special software. It doesn't sound like something you can download or sign in to play.

I'm nowhere near Stewart's level of success, but I've done well enough in tech to own a home in SF, and I grew up in the 70's/80's quite poor in rural North Carolina with an alcoholic ne'er-do-well father and mother who worked a paper route. We were poor enough that for a year or two we lived without electricity and indoor plumbing. I did homework by oil lamp. Our house was little more than a shack, for a long time the interior walls were cardboard staple gunned to the 2x4 studs.

By the time I reached high school we had electricity though, and I managed to scrounge together enough to get a commodore 64 and learn to code, so what I lacked in luck in childhood economic and parenting circumstances got more than balanced out with luck of timing of computer access and obsession.

But the main contributor to my rags-to-(feels-like)-riches story was government loans that largely put me through college leading to a job at IBM. The relatively inexpensive public university tuition costs were a factor as well.

The thing is, their flavor of Agile development absolutely does work in practice, and it is hands down the most reliable way to build great software I have ever seen. However it only works if it is pretty much 100% adhered to, hence the stubbornness.

I find myself with a somewhat similar problem, if not as dangerous, at four way stops often in San Francisco. When coming to a stop at an intersection where the slopes of the roads involved match certain configurations, most commonly on a road that has descended a slope to meet the intersection, my rear view mirror almost perfectly obscures the space that a car stopped at the road to my right occupies. I glance left, glance right, and see nothing, then suddenly stop short after starting to proceed as the movement reveals a vehicle that was there all along.

Their inability to use the key card at the end of the clip is a uncomfortably surreal thing to watch moments after watching a person being murdered.

Those fixed wings people are unflappable.

I built a simple system for some of our repos that fails the build if you don't have the shared team git hooks set up properly, and on failure directs the new engineers on how to fix the situation.

Combine the two: I always leave a link to a ticket with my TODOs. An improvement would be to also use a commit hook or linter to enforce it.

Exactly! Sounds like Usenet.

Getting better at interviewing is cynical and not good advice.

The OP isn't looking for how to land a job, they are looking for how to actually become a better software engineer. People that are better at interviewing than they are at engineering are not doing anyone a favor.

It takes a lot of courage and insight for the OP to recognize their predicament and come to the solution of applying for a junior position.

I have over two decades professional experience across many organizations and I contend that is an absolute truth that one can spend years (even seven) with little to no mentoring and advance in skills less than an equally adept person who had one or two years on a team that really helped them grow. I've seen it happen and I've had it happen to me early on when I saw an engineer I used to mentor (but I had none myself at the time) leap frog me in capabilities when he went to another job that had even better mentors.

Getting better at interviewing is not going to help as much as getting a job at a company that gives them better support. If it takes a junior position to find that environment, so be it. But expect to advance extremely quickly, so set that expectation with the employer that they will support the promotions as they are earned.

Oh man, sorry to hear that. I was part of that group too, but I got one. I feel like I lucked out getting something at all, even though the long term value is in some question now. What a mess.

> Honestly who wants to sysadmin their helmet?

You sound like someone at the advent of the smart phone who says "who would want to sysadmin their phone?"

I really don't think the HMD would be a problem in a crash. If it somehow came into contact with my face, it would basically mean the helmet caved in, in which case I already am in plenty of trouble so who cares about the HMD.

The helmet is actually very nice. The HUD (actually technically a HMD not a HUD) is not distracting at all. it's the size and position of a typical right hand rear view mirror, and hardly anything visual happens on it except the rear camera display, which is has been a fantastic enhancement to my riding safety, although it does take some getting used to.

I'm a Skully helmet owner. I've had it about six weeks (although only three weeks of usage as I was on a long vacation). I picked up my helmet directly from employees at a Skully HQ BBQ release event for the first batch of non beta testers, so I met a lot of them. They are a good bunch, and obviously put in a lot of effort, and found success, on a difficult and audacious endeavor. I feel sad for them.

I'm still quite happy with my helmet. The battery life seems to not be as good as I hoped (maybe 2-3 hours) but not a big deal as my commute is under 15 minutes.

The software is definitely beta level, but not too surprising, and software is relatively easy to improve. I had very early on figured out a vector to load my own firmware onto the helmet (it's basically request with a response that points to a tarball of an android system that the helmet will download and install). I hadn't actually tried it yet, but I suppose now that's the only way to get improvements.

If any other hackers would like to collaborate on improving the software, or other owners would like to commiserate, I created a face book group Skully Owners:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/269680180066362/

Man I'd Like to Fire

You are technically misusing the word random, and that is the crux of the matter.

I am an engineering manager and I am explicit about telling my team that they should expect and pursue personal career growth during their employment at any company. My challenge is to figure out how keep this aligned with the company's needs.

Is Swift not under the usual Apple beta NDA terms?

They actually -are- a substitute for the lightbulb they would otherwise have to be using during the daytime. It's just not a substitute for the lightbulb at night.

Very sad. A close friend of mine was an acquaintance of Seth's. He pointed out this video of Seth talking about biking around Durham:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wE3gi...

I came to iOS development after five years doing TDD and Ruby on Rails. It was a shocking change. The early iOS testing tools were pretty bad or just plain missing, but what really got me was that no one seemed to care at all. It really was just a different culture.

Bingo

He mentions past thoughts of suicide in this piece.

I'm having a hard time reconciling this with the strong, happy young man I would see at conferences a decade ago. First Ilya, now Aaron.