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I'm wondering when a government is going to decide that clearly it knows best and take over parenting entirely.

Well, yes. This is like saying you're screwed if you pull a perfect bank heist and then spraypaint on the wall "My name is jrdn and I robbed this bank. My social security number is…

I've been pretty happy with newsblur.

I have always wanted to do this, but my group is in open plan space and I think the noise would be a bit much. Maybe one day I can find some more people who'd like this and we can …

It's $49.99 a year, though. As a fairly heavy flickr user I could easily see spending $4.16/month to remove ads.

I used to hand write notes, or use emacs org-mode. I now believe that my notes are in many cases substituting for poor procedures or documentation. As such I've given up entirely k…

I had so many professors that just read me the powerpoints. I would literally miss nothing from the lecture if I just downloaded the slides after every class, but no, attendance wa…

"Or to put it another way, more crime is being committed with guns than before." Um... no.

Yup. It's also really kinda entertaining how offended founders get when you ask for more money instead when you're employee #53 and they offer a number of options but refuse to dis…

The developer is considered to be a senior and I'm paying a little over $20 per hour. Heh.

I really, really want to be able to lose some history sometimes. Like if someone checks in sensitive user data by accident. Rolling it back is insufficient, I want that expunged . …

The startup options game is a funny one. It's fairly unlikely the startup you're in is really going to explode. I mean sure it happens and if you're holding a big pile of options w…

That sounds about right to me, or just barely on the low side of right. Asking for a raise is something you can consider, but I'm not really going to say if it's a good or bad thin…

eshell interfaces pretty well with tramp (well, not over FTP obviously, but ssh) so if you're editing a file over tramp and start eshell, it'll be in the directory of the file on t…

No, she didn't. The Internet hate machine went out of control as it has a tendency to do. The fact that gaooened afterwards, however, doesn't make her initial reaction to name and …