xenoterracide

change their keyboard setting to dvorak. make sure they don't have to type a passwd. it's more funny to watch them type gibberish and know it.

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feel free to give me a shout. I may or may not be responsive over the next week. I've been in the middle of moving and it's finals week. After wednesday I'll hopefully be in the free and clear. Then it's pound out my startup time.

I like it. Get a Favicon. I bookmark all my sites using those images.

you need more karma. I'm not sure but you may have to have more karma than the person you are wanting to down vote. The only way to get karma is to post.

see my anti-biotics comment. They don't do a damn thing for the common cold. I don't know what I need all the time. But I'm starting to get pretty good at learning what I don't need. But they still like giving me that stuff.

A second opinion? can't afford the first. I've gotten pretty good at knowing what's gone wrong with my own body over the years.

I'm no pharmacist for sure, or a doctor. But every time (that I recall) going to a doctor I get a prescription. Why is it I get a prescription for the common cold? or the flu. No prescription can cure those (at least that I'm aware of). Better to tough it out.

why is it exactly that you trust MD's so much? I don't trust them any more than I trust mechanics, and my body is more important than my car, and more complex.

I'm just tired of being prescribed meds for things when I obviosly don't need them or as much as they give. Or they won't give me what I need. I can't sleep here's and anti-depressant with a side effect of making you tired.

me: I'm sick doctor: here's some anti-biotics.

repeat for 20 years.

me: realizes doctor prescribes anti-biotics for allergies, the flu, and the common cold.

just to find out what's wrong. Doctor's tend to over-prescribe.

github. has varible size cheap pay for accounts. if it's open source the account is free, but if you can't make your code public you have to pay for it.

to a degree I did. Maybe not to the degree you desired.

My point was is that even though it filters out many of the worst programmers it would also filter out all of the really great programmers. I'd rather have my search take longer and cost more to have those great programmers on my team than end up with just good programmers.

#1 exception. You seriously injure/kill another human being on accident or on purpose. Then please call the cops on yourself.

I use noscript to prevent malicious and crappy js. (I've had js that locked my browser) I allow on an as needed basis.

I think the UI version one is the best (not generic html). the new ui they've done is slow and bloated, and seems to have little improvements.

seems like every job (CS or Sys Admin) I see requires a Bachelors, here in the US which means that almost everyone else I'm competing with has one.

they are generic and poor filters. for example do you read person x. If person X isn't a household name (e.g. Bill Gates) Then it says nothing about them other than none ever introduced them to that person. I'm willing to bet there are a significant number of good C++ programmers that don't/can't care or know who Bjarne Stroustrup is. I had to look up the spelling of his name (although I don't consider myself a good c++ programmer).

The ability to write blogs is irrelevant here too as what we most likely care about is the ability to program. Hence, the programming test.

Linus Torvalds - best programmer I've heard of doesn't write a blog.

You still haven't told us who Ayn Rand is.

Normal is not easily defined. Average is. you are confusing the average person with the average hacker. which most likely the average type of person in your circle of acquaintences.

I have suggested self-teaching to many non-hacker types and they are completely opposed to it. Even those going into programming.

who's Ayn Rand? and why must you be a blogger to be a programmer? These are silly questions imho.

the only thing that was quicker 'maybe' about the touchpad was speed of learning, and ease of use. The 'nipple' is much faster and more precise if you invest more time in it. much like linux ;).

oh this I'm aware of. mine has this feature. I still think touchpads (all that I have encountered) suck.

and infact on linux you can modify the area of the touchpad that does this. I think you can even add horizontal scroll if your touchpad didn't previously support it (not 100% on this).

just remember. In the long scheme of history corporations aren't that old. None of 'modern society' is.

Thinkpad++ I do believe some models come with linux preinstalled.

I believe thinkpad is one of the few laptops left that has what's called a stick? you know the little nub on the keyboard that you can use instead of a touch pad, and in reality it's way better than a touch pad. god I hate touch pads.

I wish I had bought a thinkpad.

I like gentoo's versoning system which is based on the year.number. less confusing. you could use the full date too.

my parent's are in their 70s. I don't think they have much faith in my ability to pull this off, and they certainly don't understand the internet or even computers. They support me as much as they can.

linus is too far down and rms is not on there. As if GNU and the GPL have't made an impact. Bad list.

you can get help writing a blog? :P

I know a lot of native english speakers whos english on their blog is crap. I wouldn't worry about it.

login to read ftl.

well hopefully it's worth it to you.

my first mockup takes inspiration from http://last.fm and http://digg.com

yay for you... um... can we help you? this almost reads like a blog entry, and a not so important one at that.