kellishaver

Maybe you just have a different set of priorities.

I feel much the same way. The bills are paid, there's some money going into savings, there's time to spend with the family, and I'm doing work that's fun.

OK, I'll ride that for a while. Could I make more? Maybe. Probably. Do I need to? Nope. Sometimes going with the flow is worth it for the amount of stress it saves you (and your family). As long as you are not stagnating and feeling unfulfilled and poorly compensated, I see nothing wrong with leaving well enough alone until one of those criteria changes or a great opportunity happens along.

If it ain't broke....

They also appear to have an apple-specific model (unless this is the one you're talking about): http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/onthestick.html

The one pictured is hideously ugly, though.

I switched from a Model M to the default iMac keyboard (the wired one with the number pad) back in August when I switched to from linux to an iMac and it's taken me until just recently, to get used to it. I still don't like the feel of the keyboard quite as much and have been tempted to buy the Unicomp keyboard many times. That said, I do find it more comfortable than most other non-mechanical keyboards out there.

I've had several offers from people wanting to buy the Model M, but I refuse to part with it, even if I'm not using it at this very moment. I found it years ago, in the back of a storage shed, covered in about a decade of dust, grease, and cob webs, cleaned it up, and it looks practically new and works perfectly. I do so love that keyboard.

I actually think this will do better than a total outage, anyway. Many people go to Google several times a day. Now, each time they go, they'll see this message and be reminded of it, rather than seeing it once, getting annoyed, and moving on to another search engine.

This is actually what I'm using, though I've modified it some to work outside of vintage mode, which also seems to have eliminated most of the problem (I may have done more to it as well, I can't really remember now). The only time the "block" disappears now is when the cursor is at the end of the file, because there's no white space after it to highlight (which is logical).

Still no block cursor. :(

I've found/modified a little plug-in to simulate it, but it's not ideal.

I love Sublime, and I'm sure it seems trivial to most folks, but as a developer with poor eyesight, this is the one feature I want the most.

At least fonts can be larger now.

Not only is it good for your energy level and mental focus, a 20 minute nap mid-day is a nice break for the eyes.

I downloaded this a while ago with the intention of installing a few games and then got sidetracked with work (or perhaps unsidetracked) and forgot all about it. Thanks for the reminder! It does indeed look nicely done.

Rest well this night, for tomorrow you sail for the kingdom of Daggerfall.

I've been a Site5 customer for about 9yrs now, and that's by far the longest I've stayed with any web host. I had a few email exchanges with him back in the early days and he always left me with a great impression - very friendly, very smart, very dedicated to taking care of customers and providing a great service.

I noticed the other day that .DS_Store was already ignored globally, but I don't remember ever telling Git to do that. Is this perhaps just something that OS X Git installer is doing by default now?

I did. I've been meaning to for a while, anyway, just hadn't gotten around to doing it. This seemed like good motivation to go ahead and do so.

I just transferred 17 myself. I'd been meaning to for a while and, as you said, this was just kind of the final straw. I moved them to NameCheap, where I ready had another 32 domains registered.

> On the other hand, you could be myopic and under-corrected - and so suffer more when the pupils are relaxed (similar to the Night Myopia effect).

This is really interesting. I am severely myopic and have always preferred a black background.

However, last week I had cataract surgery and now with a +27.5D (!!) IOL implant in my right eye - the only eye I have, I'm not so nearsighted as I used to be (20/80 now instead of 20/200), but I am still experiencing eye strain when looking at the computer for any length of time. After switching my editor to a white background, things got a lot easier to see.

Mind you, I am only a few days post-surgery and I haven't yet gotten new glasses. I was also having a lot of issues with colorblindness and contrast sensitivity, as well as a lot of "double" vision (which was more accurately "I see 8 of those things" vision). These are now resolved, as well. All of those will factor into the equation a great deal, I'm sure, but I do find that after the cataract surgery, the light background makes for less eye strain.

I switched color schemes from "Blackboard" to "Dawn" but my Blackboard theme may have been modified a bit. I've been using it for so long, I can't remember. It almost seemed as though there were too much contrast with the dark background.

I'm still not at a point where I can use the computer for more than about an hour at a stretch. It's amazing how mentally and physically taxing adjusting to better vision can be.

I was bored/tinkering a while back and wrote a couple little generators for creating favicons and/or 16x16px PNG icons, and one for creating CSS sprites from multiple images. They're nowhere near as polished, but functional.

PNG/Favicon maker: http://ico.orng.us/

CSS sprite generator: http://spritebuilder.orng.us/

It was my first job out of college. I was, however, a fair bit older when I graduated and did have a few years of experience freelancing, but this was my first time working in a corporate environment.

The whole company culture was one of distrust. We would be told in meetings, for example, that the we were to lie to the sales team about product details and were regularly encouraged to infringe on copyrights when doing design work.

The ethics were a huge part of why I left the company as well, but it wasn't a battle I was going to win. I'd tried before and failed, so at that point, I just didn't bring it up.

My own "never have I been so glad to leave a job" story:

Me: I think it's time for me to move on. To be quite honest, I see no potential for advancement here and I'm being expected to work dozens of hours of unpaid overtime each month. As we've discussed previously, my hourly rate is already low compared to industry standards and my experience level, and you've told me that the funds simply aren't available to rectify that. I sympathize with your position, and I wish everyone here nothing but the best, but that still doesn't change the fact that this job simply isn't paying well enough to cover my expenses.

Boss: I wish I could talk you out of it, but if that's really what you want to do, I can't stop you... but honestly, I don't think you're good enough to make it anywhere else.

The top items on my daughter's (she's 9) Christmas list this year are the LEGO Space Center and LEGO Space Shuttle, both from the City collection. Other items on the list included some of the Alien Conquest sets.

The kid's got a ton of LEGO. The last thing she needs is more LEGO, but it's hands-down her favorite toy. She builds the sets and will play with/admire them for a while, then eventually all of the pieces get dumped into the Giant Bucket of LEGO, which is a huge 30gal bucket overflowing with bricks from sets we've bought her, and from my childhood and my husband's childhood (though oddly lacking in wheels). That's the beauty of LEGO and that huge mish-mash of a dozen sets works for any gender.

Maybe it's the fact that I already have a geek child who's into geek things (She's also getting a D&D red box this Christmas, per her request), but the marketing doesn't seem to have any effect on her. She just sees sets that she thinks looks cool and wants to buy them. I don't think that list would include veterinary clinics and pet spas from this new pinkification effort, either.... but even if it does, so what? You still end up with a bucket of mixed pieces for hours of endless, free-form creativity and building.

I do think that there are more sets available these days that are targeted toward boys, but I don't know that it's come at the expense of other options. You can still buy basic brick sets. There are still several items in the City series that aren't "cops and robbers" and things like the Mars Mission and Pharaoh's sets, or even the Harry Potter sets are no more boy-centric than the old LEGO space stuff used to be.

Re: No. 5: I know some people hate taking on the phone, but when you are working remotely and are trying to work through a problem with someone, there's no substitute (at least for me) to getting on the phone (or voice chat via Skype, etc.) and talking through the things you're trying to figure out. IM works to a degree, and email is better for larger exchanges that you'll need to reference back to, but for brainstorming and group problem-solving, I still feel like an actual spoken conversation is still the most effective way to go.

With the exception of the last example, the two versions of each painting look identical to me. Of course, I am looking at them through a 4+NS cataract, in an eye (the only one I have) that also has a damaged macula and other significant retina damage - but I suspect the cataract plays a bigger role.

I'm having said cataract removed this Friday, so I'll have to check this again next week and see how things have changed. I'm very curious to see what the difference will be. The progressive worsening of my vision over the past year has been so gradual that it's sometimes hard to quantify just how much things like my ability to see color and contrast has changed.

I like Sublime Text, I paid for it, and it's cross-platform. No going back for me.

As an overweight parent, I know I'm overweight and am working to change that, with slow, but steady results.

I've always been very conscious of my child's weight, because I don't want her dealing with the same feelings of shame, discomfort, lack of energy, etc. that I went through as a kid, or to face the medical problems later in life that I'm now working hard to avoid. This is, for me, a Really Big Deal. Being overweight sucks. I want better for my kid.

If anything, having a kid has helped me, because teaching healthy lifestyle and eating habits by example is far better than telling her one thing and doing something totally different, myself.

On the other hand, I have an overweight friend with a 100+lb, average height, 9yr olds who will argue all day that the kid "isn't fat."

7-8 on a good night, 6 on average, 1-2 if I forget to take the melatonin.

I just used it and it worked for me.

I understand, I think, what you're saying - that a lot of what is perceived as "wrong" with a person with Asperger's is simply a matter of differing perspective and differing levels/types of comprehension.

In some ways, I agree. I think a lot of the quirks in these cases aren't problems, just differences. However, that doesn't explain all of it.

For instance, what about the problems that many on the autism spectrum have with various types of sensory integration? It is often not simply a dislike of loud noises or certain textures of foods, but a physiological response to them, and one that can't always be re-trained.

Or, taking it one step further, I've heard from several people who have or whose children have Turette's Syndrome that it shares so many symptoms and similarities with Asperger's that it feels like it should be on the autism spectrum, itself - though it's currently not.

Sensory processing issues, tics, stimming, etc. can often be controlled to an extent, but not overcome.

Should a healthy brain that just works a bit differently still have these issues? Should it be able to adapt and cope with them? Should a more highly functional brain be more flexible in this regard, or less? I honestly don't know. Maybe our flexibility can be attributed more to our lack of perception rather than an abundance of it.

> Note that it's very easy to opt out of this: turn the phone off. You click one button.

I agree with you on the first part, and I really see this as no different and no worse than online visitor tracking. It's a trivial thing to worry about and I don't think people should be concerned over it.

That said, though, for the folks that are, it's not always that easy to just turn off the phone. Sure, most people have their cell phones on as a convenience and it wouldn't hurt them a bit to turn it off for a few minutes while in the store, but if you have the phone on because your kids are home alone, or your ailing parent may need you at any moment, etc. it becomes much more problematic.

So, in this case, while the opt-out option is simple and trivial for most people, it's practically outright unavailable, or at least perceived as unavailable, to a particular segment of the customers. Even in those instances, the cell phone is often as much or more about peace of mind than actual emergency, but I'd argue that's just as valid a reason to keep the phone on for someone in those situations.

Hmm, yeah, I hadn't thought of it, but that would be a more valuable statistic.

You can submit it. There's a 'Calculate Score' button at the end that does just that.

26 - I remember taking this several years ago and getting a 26 then, as well. Apparently I'm consistent.

> Why would I pay ~$13 for a brand-new, often terrible-quality ebook (and a DRM'd one at that), when I could buy two print books for the same price, and get Amazon to ship them free to my door?

I buy ebooks because they're easier to see... The lousy formatting makes them less enjoyable to read in some cases, but seeing is a prerequisite to reading. I need the inverted screen and the ability to enlarge the text and view the book on a back-lit display.

I've also noticed that my daughter, age 9, has an easier time reading ebooks with the text size bumped up than she does printed books. In her case, it's not about eyesight, but the fact that larger text and fewer words on the page makes it easier for her to focus - she retains what she's read better. There may be a slight tendency toward dyslexia or something there. It's not sever enough to get a diagnosis, but there is some sort of little "glitch" there that both we and her teachers have noticed it.

Instant delivery is another nice feature. If I decide at 10pm that I want to start a new novel, I can have it in my possession by 10:02.

So ebooks offer many advantages in the realm of accessibility, and there are certainly many more books available in ebook format than there are large print editions, but the poor typography and high price are certainly annoying.

What effect would the extra required processing over the course of an entire book have on battery life of the device?

Oh, I agree. It would be better to have .delegate() than .live(). I'm not bothered by the lack of .live()'s presence. I just meant that .delegate() didn't exist, and .live() wasn't there in lieu of it.