grangerg

I've been working from home for 10 years; our entire company is a virtual office. For me, there's far more positives than negatives, but every personality is different. Some people can't handle it. Sometimes work invades personal/family time, and sometimes it's the other way around.

I miss the social, in-person part, but I spend more time with my family. And we have enough calls, IM's, and occasional in-person meetings that I'm satisfied. But then again, I've also been known to not go outside for a full week and it doesn't phase me. ...which reminds me, it's Spring. I'm going to go take 5 to lie down in the grass in the backyard and watch the clouds until my next meeting starts. :)

They should just hire a psychometrician. They have PhDs specifically for this sort of analysis.

The best motivation I've heard is here: http://security.stackexchange.com/a/17088/77002

Essentially, blowfish (Bcrypt) doesn't appear to be FIPS-compliant, so if you have to be FIPS-compliant, you use PBKDF2.

And, considering the rest of the comments about why Bcrypt is preferred over PBKDF2, it appears it's all about how a GPU gives a significant speed-up for PBKDF2 but not Bcrypt. But now there are FPGAs that significantly speed up Bcrypt in similar fashion, so it could all be a wash depending on who you talk to.

Seems dust-size is appropriate.

Though 1 cubic millimeter is significantly more volume than something 300 microns long (1000 microns = 1mm)

At this point, there is a 100% chance that this is the coolest Spring/Summer in the last 15 years. It has broken 90F ~four times, and rained at least once a week in a place that normally rains once a month and is lucky to see a high be only 90F by the end of April.

Climate change is pretty nice this year. If it wasn't obviously bad, I'd be cheering China and other "developing" countries on. The "West" has nothing on them.

Umm... so you're saying that homosexuality is at the end of a civilization and religious vultures are at the beginning?

It's past the study phase. My friend's daughter just "graduated" from her treatment a short while ago. They went to Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) at Rocky Mountain Allergy in Layton, Utah. She used to be on the "smell a peanut and you might die" side of the spectrum. Yes, she has to eat a handful of peanut M&M's every day for the rest of her life to keep from regressing.

I've also used both, and I agree: Quicken sucks. The easiest way to explain the difference in fundamental approach between Quicken and YNAB is this: Quicken looks backward, and YNAB looks forward.