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azio_m, What company do you work for? I want to make sure I never send my resume there.

Contacts aren't an option for people with very dry eyes. My spouse and I both have the same problem, so contacts can only be used sparingly (once a week or less). It has nothing to do with computer use either, as my spouse doesn't stare at a screen all day.

I've had both jobs where I could mostly work when I wanted to and also where I had to be in the office basically the entire day. I found that at the job where I had flexibility, I produced better output, and I didn't have a lot of time where I would surf the net to overcome boredom.

In the inflexible environment, surfing net locations that were somewhat work related was the only thing I could do to pass by time when I knew I wasn't going to write quality code or when I was too mentally tired to accomplish the task that was at hand. I had many times where going home and returning in the morning was the best thing for trying to solve a difficult problem.

Unfortunately, many employers don't care and want to fit development staff into the typical 9-5 mold even if it means reduced productivity.

I'd pay $2/month, if that's what the price really was. I thought about purchasing Madden, but decided not to do so. I have to have cable at the moment though to watch college football.

It's still not worth the money. I watch a small amount of NFL during the season. Occasional I might sit down to watch a portion of a good game. However, I'm not willing to spend much more than a few dollars a month (that's how it sounds from the comments) to watch a few out-of-market games on Sunday. NFL charges too much. I guess it's OK though because obviously some people are willing to pay for it.

What about the fact that the weather in Texas is too hot and that, from what I read online at least, public transportation stinks? It'd be nice to live in a city where a car isn't required for every trip. Maybe there are places in Texas like that. I currently live in a hot and humid part of the country with no public transportation. It would be nice to get away from that.

Why is Boston depressing?

I also use SciTE. It's extremely lightweight and easy to use.

I agree it would be nice if the gaps in his primers were filled in, but it's to have a resource like this that can help give an understanding of at least some of the topics related to math and programming.

I know from my experiences that trying to read a discrete math or algorithms and data structures textbook can be very daunting. I've also tried viewing the lectures of the algorithms class on Coursera and usually give up because of the difficulty of trying to learn these things after spending 8 hours coding at work. Not having a background in computer science makes this into an uphill battle. Any resource to make this struggle easier is greatly encouraging to me.

Problems like this will never get fixed. Too many Americans are too concerned with watching American Idol to pay attention to the fact that most politicians (on either side of the fence) are trying their best to destroy the middle class by padding the pockets of business executives and high net worth investors. Citizens United, H-1B visas, and many other examples show this.

Thanks for posting this, tosseraccount.

What about someone who has a job where they code full-time (or close to it) but they don't enjoy what they're coding or they don't feel like they're getting better in their current position? Sometimes you're not in a position where you can leave at the moment and find a better coding position or you're not yet good enough at coding to get a job where you actually learn. It's incredibly hard to code for 30-40 hours a week and then try to do it for 5-10 hours a week extra after work to get better.

I'm worn out after 40 hours of work, so creating my own projects and/or working on open source projects is difficult. However, without doing that, I don't feel that I can move on to a more challenging development position because I have no code I can show.

It has nothing to do with entitlement. It has to do with the fact that there's apparently a shortage of developers in the world which means that one can be more "picky" about what they expect from an employer. Also, I want a job where my responsibility is to get work done, not be required to follow unnecessary policies or accomplish things that have nothing to do with the task at hand. A lot of companies implement policies "just because" even if they hinder getting actual work done.

Do banks have a monopoly on sociapathic culture? I wouldn't disagree with anything in the article, but there are probably companies in other industries that are just as bad as banking, they just don't pay their employees as much. At least if you're going to work with crap get paid reasonably for it.

Contrary to popular belief, game companies have salaries to pay and are interested in protecting their IP so they can continue to pay those salaries.

I thought I was the only person who ever had these nightmares. I almost always put my phone in my pocket before stepping in and out of an elevator.