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If you're in NYC or can relocate, the company I work for is on a major hiring push. Very stable and a great place to work — no crazy anti-family startup hours. Feel free to contact me.

You can just barely see the tip of a finger coming in from the right in that one.

Coincidentally (or maybe not), FX and AMC don't really offer streaming of their shows either. FX used to be great about it, but they've clamped down in the last year or so. AMC has always been uninterested.

Sunnyside is beautiful and green and convenient (my in-laws live there), but it is more family-oriented. LIC is very pricey these days, but is much more hip. Astoria is right between the other two in terms of price and atmosphere.

Another New Yorker here. Just sell the car in Austin. You can get a bed & mattress at the Ikea in Brooklyn for $500 or less and they'll deliver it. You're not going to want the added hassle of trying to sell a car in a new and huge city while you're trying to get settled. Plus, you will get parking tickets. It's almost unavoidable.

It's this kind of thing that makes it extremely difficult to learn programming in your spare time. Getting the dev environment set up for someone who isn't well-versed in the process is almost frustrating enough to make you quit before you even write a line of code. I think that's why I'm enjoying and sticking with the CodeYear project where other efforts have fizzled out.

I'm having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that the MPAA gets to decide what's "off the table" in legislation. Is there no longer even a pretense of separation of corporations and the government?

You have to have a minimum karma score to be able to downvote. I'm not sure what that score is though.

That did it. I thought I was being dense since I couldn't find the Theme setting anywhere. Thanks!

Meanwhile, my Google Apps account design is stuck 3 or 4 iterations ago.

I felt _exactly_ the same way as you before we had our son 15 months ago. In fact, I felt _exactly_ the same way as you until he was about 6 months old. I'm not exaggerating — it's painful for me to say, but I cursed myself every day for not being able to bring myself to tell my wife that I didn't think I wanted kids. He was just a helpless baby, but I was convinced I'd never feel any kind of strong connection other than a sense of duty to him.

However, around six months, when he started to be able to actually do things for himself, like hold his own bottle, I started to feel a shift. Now he's 15 months old and I completely understand what everyone means when they say "you'll never love anything more." Being with him is the most heart-breakingly beautiful part of my life and I wouldn't have it any other way.

All that said, I firmly believe that kids aren't the only, or even best, path to fulfillment for everyone. In fact, I still don't really get the same sense of accomplishment from raising him that I do from my work. And I'm sure if we didn't have him, I would be able to do some other amazingly beautiful thing that helped other people or just made me happy.

This is all to say, don't write anything off, even if it feels like a mistake for far longer than you think it should. Sometimes doing something just because someone you love wants it so much more than you can turn out better than you expect. On the other hand, finding someone who wants the same things as you can turn out just as good. Be open, that's all I'm trying to say.

That was the line that got me. At the end, after everything he had accomplished and all the billions of dollars he had made, all he wanted to do was spend time with his family.

I might never be anything more than someone who's pretty good at his job and is appreciated by the people he works for, but I get to do the exact same thing that Steve Jobs held most dear — spend time with my wife and son.

This is fantastic! Perfectly simple and useful.

Only glitch I've run into so far is that the search function doesn't work. As far as I can tell, there's no type="submit" for the form.

I'm out of contract on AT&T with a 3GS. The exclusive 5 on Sprint would be available and very attractive to me. Granted, that doesn't make it a good idea, but going exclusive with Sprint doesn't eliminate EVERY current iphone owner from upgrading.

I'm with you. Nothing under Adobe's tent remains as perfectly simple as Typekit. That said, there appears to be hope that Typekit will be the exception: https://twitter.com/#!/jasonsantamaria/status/12090794772648...

Generally good, though short, advice. I think the author slightly misunderstands the point about smalltalk, though. The point isn't to "talk about the other person," the point is to ask questions. That doesn't preclude you from talking about yourself, it actually makes it easier. Ask questions until you find something in common or that you can relate to.

The cold email advice at the bottom is spot on too. In the last couple months, I've had lunch with two rather well-known people in my field who I have tons of respect for. In both cases, I cold emailed them and asked to get together.

It's still almost 3x as much as dnsmadeeasy.com. I pay $60/year to manage up to 25 domains with 10mil queries. Looks like Route 53 would make sense if you need an order of magnitude more queries, though.

He says "will need a Facebook account to access Spotify…" That sounds even 10x worse than requiring it to sign up.

I just checked and I can still access my account without a Facebook account linked to it, but I wonder if they're going to pull that out as well.

I tried them both and settled on Rdio. Spotify has slightly more songs, but it was the focus that Rdio put on discovery that sold me. They didn't just outsource the social to Facebook, which is a huge plus to me. The whole service/design just seems more considered overall.

I don't get how Old Man's War makes all these best of lists either. It's simple, and not in a good way. It's the literary equivalent of Red Dawn—awesome to 14 year olds, but lacking in anything deeper than "Old man gets new body and has lots of sex."

Does iMessage automatically determine if the receiver is on an iOS device and then send your SMS without using your phone plan? Or do you have to know beforehand and then use a different app/route for your message?

Don't they treat seeding the same as uploading?

In this post, yes (though he does insinuate that the NY Times has too strong of an editorial bias). In others, no:

https://twitter.com/#!/andyrutledge/status/95664717669994496

https://twitter.com/#!/andyrutledge/status/94536441488621569

http://www.andyrutledge.com/how-to-join-aiga.php

Again, if it works for him, great. It just makes it harder for me personally to be objective about him and his work.

While I disagree with most or all of his political opinions, I wouldn't necessarily call them inappropriate. I find it strange that he consistently chooses to combine business and politics, but it's his company so it's really not my problem. Maybe it works really well for him.

Andy Rutledge has very strong right-wing/libertarian opinions and has long hated the New York Times. I think that's why he chose it to dissect, when there are more obvious choices with a clearly strong editorial bias that need a "re-design"

I wonder if the people crying that the internet killed Borders are the same people that cried that Borders killed the independent bookstore.

"Now, one may separately question whether there is anybody in the target market, who wants these clothes but won't drop the funds to just buy them, but I can't speak to that either way;"

I think that's going to be the problem. My wife used to work for families to whom money was pretty much no object. $42 and $16 are equivalent in their mind, and equal to about $0.25 to a family on a budget. I don't see them wanting the hassle of having to remember to return clothes within 3 months when it's effectively the same % of their income to buy them.

I've noticed Twitter spam bots have started to pull random quotes/text off the internet. Funny to see a tweet of a Machiavelli quote followed by a cheap viagra tweet.

Yeah, and I agree to an extent. It just seems weird to me, as a donation usually goes towards something that you believe in and want to help flourish. There's not even an indication of what the donations would be used for.

I certainly don't want to make a crusade out of it, but it just felt a little misplaced to me.

I don't want to be a curmudgeon, but why would anyone donate to that? Especially with no info about who is behind the site and why they did it.