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Almost any salaried position in a big enterprise involves very little real work. It's mostly email, meetings and power point.

Switched to SES.

I switched to FF after Prism was publicized. It's good. Go for it.

Hi Matt, have you read Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" yet? It has an interesting perspective on what drives the trend to minimize pay for writers.

Here are the first 3 paragraphs of the section on Duct-tapers from Chapter 2. https://monosnap.com/file/L41lTePrEn3wAJxD4sMZxeIYacxDqK This was striking for me because I immediatel…

cweagans is right. PHP is deeply unfashionable, ridiculous even to some programmers using other langauges. But quietly, somewhere out of sight, it has been enjoying something of a …

It appears those with a vote regard adoption of PHP 7 as the higher priority and therefore compat with existing code using mcrypt must be ensured. http://news.php.net/php.internals…

This is hilarious: "Web 2.0 took over, yielding big buttons, less text, more images, and happier users." See also: http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler

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isn't this basically what Jaron Lanier was getting at in You Are Not a Gadget?

it's mostly good. NIST abolished their algo for pasword entropy estimation some time ago. i do not much like any password strength tests, most of which rate any number of terrible …