weirdkid

Exactly. I was a fan; now... not as much.

I want to print this on cards to hand out every time I hear some jackass equate poor with lazy.

What about the return flight?

...and others just pick the phone they can get for free.

Wow. I'd love for someone to do this with luggage on a flight.

This reminds me of Zoe. http://zoe.sourceforge.net

Back in 2001 or 2002, I was following the progress of Zoe, what I thought to be a very promising new approach to email archives. It kept your email in mbox or eml files, used Lucene for indexing and search and then provided a web interface on an embedded web server.

The Zoe project is no longer active (the homepage is dead and the files are gone), but this MailPile sounds very much like it. Almost exactly like it. I hope it does better.

Same could be said for Google.

I learned the lattice method in the 5th grade in 1981 here in a US public school. I loved it and used it for years afterward. I didn't realize until I was in high school that it wasn't part of the curriculum but only something my teacher thought was useful.

It's true. I remember just before Empire Strikes Back was released the Detroit Free Press had a full-color section insert with movie artwork and interviews with the movie creators. George Lucas said the cadence was to be episodes 4-6, then 7-9, and then 1-3. If anyone has that newspaper section I'd love to see it again.

Oh, THOSE garbage collectors. I was rather hoping this would be an exposé on the secret tech employed by curbside trash collection companies.

"Shortage of (cheap) tech workers in the US..."

or...

"Shortage of tech workers who don't have kids or a mortgage in the US..."

Yeah, I'll get downvoted for this, but it's true.

The office is tiny -- like a closet with 3 desks against the walls. I've been by it a few times during business hours and I haven't seen anyone in it yet.

The Birmingham location is ad sales

There is a Java port of Stella -- I converted it to an applet for a buddy of mine back in 1999. Get it here: http://weirdkid.com/jstella

It's a good start, but it doesn't consider device diversity even within an identical version number of Android. Is may not be a factor for simple apps, but trust me, if you are doing things that interface with the underlying hardware it's a big problem. Apps that do things with Bluetooth and capturing audio, for example, really expose the fragmentation. I know some folks building something that records and plays audio over the Bluetooth SCO channel and even though they have standardized on Gingerbread, they still have to test every model from the major manufacturers due to different firmware builds.

Can't wait to see what happens to people wearing these while they drive. And the laws that follow.

And that hits the nail on the head for why even BigCorps are moving to open floor plans. Walls cost. Tables are cheaper than ergonomic desks.

I'll tell you what, though. Working at a table on a laptop all day is really bad for neck and eyes. I miss my big, eye-level monitor.

HTML5Boilerplate Mobile?

Did the component tear-down price justify the Chromebook's low price, or was Google subsidizing them?

Cool, except that humans don't always invent words from random syllables. This is symbology, not language. Words often represent the sound of an action or are derived from mutating or combining other words for related concepts or names.

I wonder if this will fit on a Valentines Day card...

Oh boo hoo. Really. Sounds exactly like every programming job back in the 90's, except these lucky bastards somehow found the time to meet girls, date them and get married.