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I wonder if you would mind if your boss got burned out writing pay checks and decided he/she needed a break from writing them for a while? Meeting payroll is a stress that can be so huge, it will make you yearn for the day when you could just write code and wait for your paycheck to come from the magical paycheck tree.

Obviously no middle manager is feeling that specific stress at Google, but the higher up you go the more your issues and stresses involve keeping the company afloat.

Not sure what point you could be attempting to prove? That there is nothing more meaningful in this world than writing code?

Wow, super depressing. Don't forget that there's more to this life than writing code, folks.

Proximity to a particular repair shop is obviously a factor, that's fair.

Where I'm at I can be at an Apple store talking to a tech within 30 minutes. For a major problem, I can be walking out of the store with a brand new laptop within an hour. Apple does all the same stuff with your registration, as long as you bother to register it, unlike the author.

Getting a PC fixed, on the other hand, it's pretty much going to the retail store where you bought it (which has a tech team that's barely qualified to install anti-virus software) or calling up the company and finding some mom-n-pop repair shop that services their warranty repairs.

The configs for .net I would definitely consider part of the code - they can have some really intense setup for the project!

If I was forced to put credentials in there, then I would ignore web.config, but commit a web.config.default file without the credentials. Part of the setup instructions would include copying the file after cloning the repo and putting in your own machine-specific credentials.

The biggest reason is in case the original source goes away (the author removes a particular version for example). A lesser reason is to make it easier for others to get up and running without needing the build tools.

I tend to leave them out if it's a personal, open-source project. For a commercial project I tend to check them in.

There's a trade off to having a laptop that seemingly defies the capabilities of the day - they have to glue parts and remove coverings. Apple has been shedding ports & user-serviceable parts in laptops for years to get them thinner and lighter.

Almost every complaint in the article has a counterpoint. Bought AppleCare but didn't register it. Complains about the Genius Bar repair time - try finding somebody to even speak to you in person for free about your PC laptop.

It requires the original license text to be included somewhere, nowhere does it say you have to give a credit or thanks. The author says specifically in his article that what the other person did was perfectly legit within the terms of MIT, so I can only assume the license was there somewhere. I take the Author at his word since he's the one ranting about not getting credit.

I agree it is a jerk move, but I also think it's a good lesson in choosing the appropriate license for your work. MIT is clearly not the right license if you feel that others should give you a courtesy credit. Regardless of how rude it is to do so, the MIT license tells people that it's OK to use your work without attribution. There's some CC licenses that would probably be more appropriate.

It seems to me that they focused really hard on the consumers, but perhaps it was the cleaners who were their true customers? Of course that becomes a niche business model which isn't that desirable for investors.

The fear of looking stupid is probably what stops most people from ever doing anything interesting.

I do see an occasional startup fumblebrag and think to myself "that was a stupid idea." But I rarely think anybody is stupid for trying.

The private area of the site does go into just about every option you could imagine - various drug combinations, creating hoods for inhaling gas, jumping off a bridge, etc.

It pretty much comes down to the amount of risk the person wants to take that their attempt is a) successful b) quick and c) painless. Most people are afraid that they'll end up in a coma or severely brain damaged. Or if it is successful, people don't want their final moments to be gory with their head in a bag, vomiting profusely, thrashing around, etc.

Oh, I'm not sad for this guy at all - he's doing this by choice. The sadness is the fact that housing is so unaffordable. The irony is that these successful companies have driven up the price, but the average worker there can barely afford to live there and still have a life. If this is a viable choice for somebody working as a software developer at one of the most successful companies in the world, what hope is there for the ordinary working person?!

This is unfortunately not true. If you do some research into it, you'll discover that it's not easy for terminally ill patients to end their life. Contrary to what most people think, sleeping pills are not reliable, nor are many legal drugs. In many cases overdoses of these drugs leaves the person in an even worse state because they can cause severe distress, the body rejects them and vomits them out, they don't act quickly enough before the person is discovered and resuscitated. They can cause brain damage or physical damage without death. Terminally ill patients often aren't in good enough shape to even climb to the top of a building and throw themselves off. Like you said, it is extremely sad.

The drugs required for execution, on the other hand, are used because they appear to be the most reliable, peaceful and expedient method.

You can read more about it at http://www.peacefulpillhandbook.com/ - there are many terminally ill people who are trying to get their hands on these drugs.

I don't really know how to feel about this. I certainly respect the guy for being thrifty. At the same time it seems sad that an employee of one of the most successful companies on earth is living in a truck. I know this is a choice he has made and probably isn't technically necessary.

Can anyone who knows more than me say - is this the beginning of the end of the SSL cert selling business? Is there still value to buying an expensive cert from another vendor?

I don't see how that would destroy the clipboard any more than having a permission dialog when an app wants to access my camera? Every social app out there wants to access my contact list in the name of "cooperation and interoperability." I like having the choice of whether or not they get to access that data.

I wouldn't mind if I opened an app and got a one-time dialog "This app is trying to access your clipboard. Do you want to allow it?"

I'm a guy. I feel perfectly comfortable saying that guys can be absolute pigs.

Simple. Because the guy can be gone the next day, never to be seen again.

I would not be surprised at this scenario - her: do you have protection? him: um, sure. I'm taking that, uh, that pill thing.

I can't help but think a male contraceptive that is not visually verifiable by the women is not entirely trustworthy. Perhaps in committed relationships, but not for casual sex. I'm sure we're all nice guys here, but men in general are not exactly known for being trustworthy when they're drunk and about to have sex.

Except the perl kids weren't cool (I was one of them) because they didn't write c++, and they weren't cool because they didn't write assembly, and on on!

UPS does the same thing, scanning for tracking numbers. I don't find it particularly creepy, but it probably should be a privacy setting just like location, camera, etc.

These really de-focused images are interesting for the article but if you can take a slightly out of focus image and make is laser-sharp then it is extremely useful for all kinds of photo and video applications. It's really tough to fix a shot that was slightly off when you're going for professional quality where you can't tell it was sharpened.

Hehe, perhaps! Ideally whoever leads the team knows how to give customers what they want, even when they don't know exactly what it is that they do want!

Apple seems to favor apps with a good design, or simply a good use of some new feature in iOS. I'd guess it was something along those lines.

Obviously design was a high priority, as they said, even inter-office documents had a high standard.

I think when you have a designer leading the team, design becomes the most important thing. When you have a programmer leading the team, the code becomes the most important thing. When you have a business person leading the team, it's the metrics, etc, etc. in reality the customer is the most important thing.

I think you give us guys way too much credit!

That seems to be the case as far back as medical history goes. New discoveries are sometimes dismissed or even laughed at by the establishment. Perhaps the skepticism is for good reason because there's so much quackery out there. But it seems that new medical ideas take a huge amount of effort to gain acceptance - even today.

Wow that's quite interesting. I've never gotten one if those so I don't know if it's new or I just never post anything interesting?!

"No shit. Are you any different?"

In fact, that is exactly the difference. Men want sex so much that they will even sleep with someone to whom they have zero attraction. And afterwards, not only will they feel no shame or disgust, but they might even brag about it to their friends.

Sure, some women want sex that much. But, most do not - as you say they value the attraction. So, it's only logical that it's easier for women to have sex. The problem is that sex alone is not enough. So it's not any easier for them to get what they desire.

Shameless plug, I released a simple GUI for youtube-dl written in the ancient language of Flex - https://github.com/jasonhinkle/Tube-DL/releases/tag/0.1.0

If anybody want's to make a build for Windows, I'll add it to the release.