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"if you're working outside the job, then you're not fully committed to me". And if you're not working outside the job, then you're not fully committed to your career. And for that …

http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11467

"if the name is an acronym, you should spell out the acronym" (I did not downvote you BTW) Someone else replied that the project is now just referred to as LLVM. That's fine, but p…

I can think of a couple ways to approach this. 1. Pick a very small project, something useful to you but borderline under-ambitious. Anything that bugs you. Nothing that you would …

Off topic suggestion: When you have a home page for a project, if the name is an acronym, you should spell out the acronym in the first paragraph, if not the first sentence or the …

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." —Tanenbaum, Andrew S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet#In_media

Exactly. It's like asking Smith & Wesson to explain itself after an armed robbery.

Make an RSS feed for the discussions (what you're reading right now), not the articles. You can always get to the articles from the discussions. If the RSS feed linked to the discu…

The ONLY reason I still use Firefox is tagged bookmarks. Every time I use Chrome to test something I'm reminded how much of a turtle-pig is Firefox. Despite claimed improvements in…

It is to some, and it's not to others, and either attitude is fine if mutually agreed to. Spying and control is a big deal.

"Andrew: What you were doing was, you were buying ads online and running affiliate advertising against them. The profit was the revenue that you were making from the affiliate prog…

I though Microsoft was going to, or might abandon Silverlight? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=silverlight+microsoft+abandon "Streams for sure."

I'm guessing that where you post has a lot to do with what gets posted, for example my guess would be that if you could do this on IRC you'd get C and Perl higher up.

Good suggestions for any career, not just design. Even the first suggestion, "Learn your graphic design theory and history," when translated to your specialty is valuable. There ar…

1. "Since term limits seem to be a sticking point (how can you get someone to vote for firing themselves?) ..." Indeed. 2. "... I think that we should have a mandatory retirement a…

The normal, regular post about this very thing will come around tomorrow, the first of the month.

The problem is the copyrighted material, like songs. If the songs weren't there, then people wouldn't be able to use them illegally. You know, like the war on drugs. We need a war …

I wonder if North Korea is open to sister city treaties?

I'm not a good source of investing advice (other than "do it"). In general you need to treat it like any other skill you need in your day job, including deciding which skill(s) to …

Post all three pieces somewhere (your letter, his non-response, and your severe response), then call it to the attention of everyone who has the slightest interest in his embarrass…

"I've been working for startups for the past 12 years. I won't be a millionaire even if my current company sells for $.5b" I am the pot calling the kettle black here, but I'd like …

The Brief addon to Firefox is working well for me. It's local, not cloud, and not social, but I don't care about either of those. I like the interface much better than GReader's. I…

Having watched and helped someone new to programming with this (anecdote of one), I think it's a fair introduction to Python, but not a good introduction to programming. Best if yo…

Python 3 is still an "eyes open" choice. Python.org all but comes out and says that 2 is still the safer choice. http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 tl;dr "If 3 does every…

The way these things get written is by keeping notes as you figure out the bits and pieces ...