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That, over time, you lose the fulfillment your felt when first achieving your ambitions. Or, put otherwise, the further you are in time from an achievement, the less fulfilling it …

For the first 10 years of my job, I never used them. In my current job (working on hydrologically modelling software), every now and then I wish I could remember highschool maths.

Light weight compared to VS proper, which on my mid-sized solution is sitting at 1.2GB, and 250MB with no files open.

He was dropping his son off at school. There's a limit to how early you can do that. Leaving home 5 minutes early won't help if the "issue" is the commute between school and work.

IME, children (I have 4 of them) have extremely high concentration levels, if they choose the thing they're concentrating on. My 8yo will read for hours, uninterrupted. My 6yo read…

Not MS hardware, but you are forced to use Win 8

Out of the box, ctrl-[ is mapped to escape. It took me about a week to un-learn Esc, but it is one of the better vim decisions I've made (along with mapping j to gj and k to gk, an…

Installing VsVim was thing that really helped me get comfortable with vim. I'd use it at home, but I write way more code in the ~40hrs/week I'm at work. VsVim doesn't cover everyth…

That would be almost anyone who's automated a build for, say, a CI server. I also use it to compile outside of VS, because 1) it's often quicker on large solutions and 2) it mirror…

I completely agree. It's not surprising though: Discourses and The Enchiridion were delivered as lectures; Meditations is a personal diary. Marcus was obviously heavily influenced …

While that's true, I think it's possible to find your own corner of the world that's not obsessing over the issues du jour and generally worrying themselves to death. After trying …

Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels blogs pretty regularly at http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/

I'm Australian and thought it was in fairly common usage.

Interesting, again because of the parallels to autism. My son's therapist recommended a book called All Cats Have Aspergers[0] as a way to help him relate to how he sees the world.…

You're conflating freedom from government suppression and freedom from social consequences. Free speech refers to, and only to, the former.

I'm not sure it's bigotry when people are held accountable for their public opinions. Free speech cuts both ways.

I'm not sure people are being snarky - more pointing out that there are much cheaper ways to create an alternative. Plus, it's often a whole lot easier to add a DIY platform to an …

A couple of crates and a 1800mm sheet of melamine worked well for me: https://www.flickr.com/x/t/0094009/photos/benrhughes/1082833... . Cost all of about AU$40. Because I have a co…

Although I'm very, very sympathetic to the idea that class hierarchies often cause more pain than they're worth, using JS to make that point is a bad idea. In most actual OO langua…

We just have a company supplied expresso machine and try to convince the team leader to put work lunches on his company credit card. Much simpler :-)

I went from CS at Uni into a full time dev job for a government agency. Since then I've worked for a mature micro ISV and now an environmental not for profit. I have a paid android…

I really dislike his transformation of the dichotomy into a trichotomy. It takes a simple, deep insight and muddies it. The middle category is just a subset of "things not complete…

Wow, that was a brilliant lecture, thanks! Part 1 is one of the best summaries of stoicism that I've heard.

IME there's a massive but not that often discussed overlap with Stoicism and Buddhism. I'll have to look into Taoism a bit too now.