scarpino

My company doesn't allow Linux machines, and I prefer a Unix-like environment for the work we do, so it's Mac for me. I could do most of what I need on Windows, but I feel like doing my work on Windows takes ten more steps than it does on the Mac.

I prefer using Windows at home, and I can write software on it just fine.

I really wish Literate Programming had taken off. I loved that style.

We've had this happen as well, with that same company.

A different company tried to pull a bait and switch on us: excellent screening interview, but they sent an entirely different person to the second round.

It's crazy out there.

But its MOST common use is for furthering the hilarious feud between Stuart Semple and Anish Kapoor.

I agree with you.

I would like to have a double-sided badge, one with and one without my name, and be allowed to decide which to display.

Totally agree with a lot of this, especially the part about making it harder for badges to flip. I went to re:Invent this year and if the security drones are going to yell at you to turn your badge over as you're walking through their nonsense gates to nowhere, and they ARE going to yell at you, then the badges shouldn't flip over in the first place.

This is how I worked as an undergraduate back in the day when we had to fight for computer time.

It's just not tenable now for anything longer than a handful of methods. It adds no value.