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> According to wikipedia CVS has been around for 26 years.

Not to mention SCCS for 44 years, and RCS for 34.

You mean how they're removing encryption support from all their firmwares?

> Unless I missed your sarcasm?

Ohh yes.

Nowadays I work in medical devices. It's nice because you're actually legally required to spend 5 minutes making sure your product does what you say it will before you're allowed to sell it, in contrast with what's happened to the rest of the industry.

Q...A?

It sounds like you want those to be steps that come after each other, like some sort of waterfall.

If you want to get with the times, you, the developer, should write a unit test for each file you think shouldn't be deleted on running the application.

Not in today's Agile world.

Really the problem is just there wasn't a user story saying:

  As a user having a directory .AAAAA 
  When I run an Adobe application 
  The directory should still be there

On the other hand, the long list of terms and conditions on the Toys R Us gift card actually makes it feel more legit somehow. ("Ahh, there's the catch"?) Maybe have the front page end with that list, or the intersection of all terms, or a similar terms and conditions for muxme itself, rather than "many pages of EVEN MORE PRIZES".

Yeah the giant table of "win this! win that!" seems enormously scammy. Maybe because scam ads just display something so similar. And, key thing with yours and theirs, no context and leaves me wondering "what's the catch?".

Even if you just added a short paragraph explaining the concept (since otherwise when I get to your site I look around to see what it does, and see nothing but scam ads all over = scam site; if you actually say what the site's for the prizes have context) and how it works (otherwise I'm like, "sure, effectively free cash, yeah right" = scam site), and then have the prize list, it would make a big difference in first impressions. Maybe have any list of prizes on the front page not be a countdown of upcoming prizes, but a list of selected featured prizes ("including these brands!").

> Actually, after thinking about it, I'd use a GET

Why? Using it to change state seems precisely wrong. PUT seems more appropriate.

I'll always call the ISA "amd64".

Just don't force the background to bright white please.

> I have seen this sort of styling on several sites which excel in material provided.

Maybe it's not a coincidence.

I have no idea what you're on about with what decade it looks like it belongs in.

Cookie manager works fine for me.

For the development stuff, I use Firebug.

He works in a university. Maybe he can tell me how to get a chemistry degree without any test-tube bullshittery, or a biology degree without any microscope bullshittery.

> In a lawsuit dismissed in March, Access Funding accused Blumenfeld of interference with business practices and unjust enrichment.

Wow.

> And really, the Emacs bindings aren't any harder than the CUA bindings; they're just different, and can be easily gleaned

Not only that, they're older (i.e., Emacs was there first).

Do you have separate (client- and server-side) user accounts or browser profiles?

Paper doesn't shine into your eyes.

We also try to avoid staring into the sun, for the same reason.

I hope SeaMonkey will still work normally.

These are the minimum questions.

That someone would be "taken aback" by someone asking whether the air castles you're painting pictures of are literally worthless says a lot about this whole scene.

> The candidate presumably “worked somewhere where he discovered that these things matter,” says the founder, who asked not to be named in this story.

i.e., someone else screwed this guy before you got to him.

> “There are just so many complications involved” in sharing the nitty gritty of [how the employee is going to be paid last, if at all] in the event of a sale or a public offering. “We’re still thinking through all these things.”

Yeah, I bet you are.

> The company didn't grow fast enough.

Even with everyone working through Christmas?!

Well, programmers historically have tended to stereotypically prefer a dimmer milieu. Not to mention there are a number of simple physical injuries that can cause photophobia: <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophobia#Causes >

Overillumination has been known for some time to cause various other deleterious health effects anyway, and flicker aside fluorescents just put out plain terrible light. It completely baffles me why so many establishments install it (well, workplaces; retailers like it because it makes you buy more apparently).

> Interesting read, but I don't like the fact that I am a mercenary if I go elsewhere. There are plenty of reasons for moving to another company, money could be one aspect.

There's nothing wrong with money being the reason. You're at your job to make your employer money, after all.

Prioritize whatever you like -- it's your life -- and don't let anyone make you feel guilty about it, especially during salary negotiations. Just like they're selecting you for the unique combination of benefits you bring them, it's their job to come up with whatever terms will make the offer attractive to you personally.

Many people have lots of mental inertia when it comes to their career. If they leave, it's likely that they finally received an offer with a combination of benefits to them that really overwhelms what you're currently offering.

The way to ensure loyalty is to stay competitive, plain and simple; the way to do that is to be generous with compensation, flexible with work conditions (but never quality), and most importantly to be aware of what's important to the individual employee and actively watch the person's progress so you can increase the scope of their responsibilities as they gain experience. As you do so, make make sure their salary stays competitive with the market and also reward them with those little things that are important to them personally, not what you imagine employees like.

It takes hard work and financial resources to stay competitive. But if you do so, you'll be rewarded with decreased employee attrition and increased engagement while they're with you.

> But there was one startup who posted on here a while ago that had to shut down, and they seemed super proactive about trying to find their team new positions. Even going to the extent of speaking to other founders trying to place team members.

On the other hand, you have companies like Teespring.

Heachaches caused by fluorescent lights are an entirely separate issue, considering they produce flickery light at odd color temperatures with weird peaks across the spectrum. Never mind that lots of establishments have things way too bright, and probably failing sockets causing extra fluctuations as well. I don't think it's disputed that anyone can see visible light.

Soylent has proven to be exceptionally filling for me, more so than any other food. It actually gets rid of that ever-present background hunger for up to half a day.

I've lost a ton of weight on it, enough that I've gone down 3+ inches in pant size in a few months. Of course, being in a stressful situation such that I lost interest in eating, then getting out of said stressful situation so I didn't have as much of an urge to binge and stretch my normal appetite again, probably helped.

A great talk touching on this topic is "Law of the locust: a tale of swarms, cannibals, ageing and human obesity" <URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rV7zAGdbyA> (though I saw Dr. Simpson speak at Harvard, rather). He mentioned how the body craves protein and will over-consume carbohydrates to get enough; less so the reverse. It really messes things up when you have a starchy food laced with MSG so your body thinks from the savory umami flavor it's getting protein, but never does, so desperately eats more.... according to him Doritos are pretty much evil incarnate.

Speaking of Doritos I just noticed they finally came out with the Roulette ones near me. May have to risk the evil.

Which is why the appeals court decision was so shocking.

> I’d have just put a link to the Microsoft Knowledge Base and the Apple Support site there

Links to separate Web sites?! Better brush up on your Google policies. That'll get you banned.

Gave a talk to this effect 5 years ago, to an audience including enthusiastic developers aspiring to found this new breed of startups. I expected my comments might be polarizing but instead of arguments got questions which seemed to indicate this was the first time they'd considered the question. It's not necessarily that people think it's a sane idea per se, but that they've become accustomed to the idea that writing code naturally requires approval of these gatekeepers as a starting point. I hope the ecosystem recovers.