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I wish :-( My laptop is the IT standard bastardized version of XP so I can run outlook. Though perhaps it'd be easier to crack it open, up the RAM, and run ubuntu in a VM on it..

At the day job I need to use the standard Linux install that is on all our machines. Upside: its standard and supported by IT. Downside: it uses pretty old tools. "old" relatively …

Holy crap, you need to get out more if you think that the Bay area is somehow magical because you can have a variety of foods, work with smart people and take day trips to fun plac…

We're running C# code, and increasingly some F#, but not at all interested in taking desktop or web applications from Windows and dropping them onto Macs or Linux. We're historical…

I lead a dev team in the real world, using mono for all our work, and I don't need them to do any such thing. Your definition of the "ONLY" goal for them is utter claptrap and cert…

I have plenty of interactions with some of the best in my field; I work as an engineer with some guys who have done groundbreaking work. However, I have personal reasons why I wish…

There seem to be various options to do part-time PhD studies in Computer Science available; UNISA and Open University being the most obvious. Does anyone have recommendations or an…

Mental note: ask for 6% raise tomorrow.

As a first approximation, that's a good metric :-) And yes, it does make the valley an epic fail in general. You can caltrain/vta both ways to a certain extent. Or else its cabs. B…

Marriage isn't an option really as I'm already married. Even as a thought experiment, it'd mean my family having to leave the country while I remarry and so forth. If it comes to t…

My lawyers are making pessimistic noises about my chances to move smoothly through the pipeline to permanent residence givent he current climate. 4 more years has taken on an even …