I make it a rule to never accept a counter. I was recently given one that included a 40% pay increase. But it was completely transparent that the CEO (who called me from his vacation in Utah within an hour of me submitting my resignation to HR) was only trying to stabilize the company in the midst of a mass exodus,…

As a developer I keep configuration settings, code snippets, handy utility scripts and lists of tool one-liners in there that I use quite often.

I do both actually, I have a "Receipts" label in Gmail, and an IFTTT rule that when something gets tagged with that, it gets forwarded to Evernote as well.

Too bad Truecrypt is no longer supported and the developers have basically said stop using it as we can't verify security any longer.

Regarding non-compete clauses, always check into local labor laws regarding them. For example here in New York State, it's very easy for the employer to overstep what is allowed and run into that situation where the courts will throw out an attempt to enforce an "Overly Broad" non-compete. Typically it's fine for…

The further north you get, the better off that 50-60K will leave you. I'm from St. Lawrence County (way up there), and the median household income is hovering in the low 40's up here (and I'm willing to bet based on personal experience that a large percentage of those are 2 income households).

It also helps the freehand stuff if you have an expensive circular saw with the laser guide on it.

I don't get people who feel it's their place to say things like that to a pregnant woman. According to today's "common knowledge" both my sister and I should be drooling, malformed, sub-moron trolls because our mother smoked, drank coffee and had the occasional glass of wine while pregnant.

This sounds like an issue where the company needs to set, and enforce, expectations on the remote employees. For the better part of the last decade I've worked as a full time remote programmer for several companies. Rule one is to make sure that you have an office extension somehow. Rule two, everyone needs to be…

I think it's safe to say that if you use terms like "circumaural cans" you are more audiophile than most. Nice rec though, I'll have to check that one out.

I use these as well, I really like the multi-point capability they have, they pair to my work phone for conference calls and to my tablet for media. So I listen to GPAA all day on the tablet, but when the phone rings it still pauses the music and lets me talk. I've had zero complaints on the microphone quality as…

This, so much this.

Because too many people believe that if you show your support for the police (DARE, paying for a Fraternal Brotherhood sticker etc..) proudly on your car, you will get preferential treatment from an officer pulling you over. So people try to put those on their cars as if they were some sort of get-out-of-jail-free…

But it's hard to "socialize" when you've drunk enough to put you in the position of hugging the toilet. I can be quite social, engage in interesting conversations, be fit to drive at the party's end, not make an ass out of myself, and NOT feel like I was snacking on the cat's litter box the next morning. It's…

I'm the same way, I'm there to *DO* something with the phone, not just stare at it. I prefer the widgets and icons to be the focus of the screen.

If they try to play that card (The well, why is it only NOW a problem) then in reality it's not a company worth working for.

I was under the impression that secure settings plugin required root. My bad.

You missed the point. No one is getting anything for free there. Everyone is paying, and everyone can make use of it. As everyone is paying, each share of it is smaller than if only a few or one person was paying.

I use my Nook simpletouch for reading. When I'm having to fly cross country I can drain the tablet battery doing that, rendering it useless when I arrive, but the nook, with the e-ink display will go weeks of use without needing a charge.

I split them to two lines to ensure there are no questions about me deducting my work phone as a non-reimbursed business expense on my taxes. It is for work, and only for work, and never used for personal use.