I work from home and this is equally important — perhaps even more so. It doubles up as giving me a specific, concrete reason to “leave” work. So unless something urgent is happening, at 5pm I shut down, close the door to the office, and do my piano practice.

I wonder if it’s going to support Mods? That’s a key part of the Minecraft experience for many people, but unfortunately is so brittle.

The office of the Director of National Intelligence explicitly disagrees with you: In October 2008 the Office issued Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) Number 704.2. Appendix A to ICPG 704.2 is identified as the Adjudicative Guidelines as approved by the President and issued by the Assistant for National…

Thank you. I’ve been trying to kill these myths for years, with little success. The “eight glasses” one has even been repeated elsewhere on Gawker in the not-so-distant past!

Any medication or nutritional-supplement type product, especially the Kirkland private label. We save a ton on stuff like allergy medication, iron supplements (my wife actually needs them), generic-for-Prilosec... All that stuff is ridiculously expensive in brand-name form, much cheaper in generic and bulk form.

The best thing to do with “fitspiration” is to put the quotes over pictures of drunk people

I believe you may be confusing the expressions “sucking up” and “sucking it up”. Very different things.

Yep, that’s why I don’t get uptight about it. Usually I reply that “I mostly grew up in England” which both answers the question and avoids putting them in an awkward position with their HR department.

By the way, I’ve routinely been asked “where is your accent from?” and I’ve always treated it as friendly small-talk rather than a devious attempt to find out where I was born.

An even smaller point: there is such a thing as dual citizenship. So while there are certainly clearances only available to US citizens, it would not be legal to assume that somebody with Irish citizenship would not get clearance. I am a naturalized US citizen, but the answer to the question “are you a citizen of…

A lot of commenters seem to be making the mistake of thinking that the choices are between sucking it up or failing the interview, which really misses the point of the article. Sometimes the interviewers are trying to get at something valid and asking it in a clumsy way; sometimes they are just being friendly and…

They may ask if you can perform the basic functions of the position without accommodation

I did something similar, except instead of custom electronics I used a basic room thermostat (that I had swapped out for a programmable one). It turns out that the operation of a thermostat is pretty basic: when it’s above the setpoint, you get a +5V signal on one of the wires. BONUS: thermostats typically have a…

Tony Stark orders a dirty, extra dry martini in Iron Man 2 (I think?), maybe that’s why people suddenly started doing it? And yes, it is a travesty.

Strictly for amusement (I like my martini dry, but not this dry):

I like my vodka martini very dry with a twist of lime but — bar etiquette! — I’ll only specify lime if I see that the bartender already has one on the cutting board. Otherwise, lemon is fine

So... Mitsubishi Goofus?

Still no explanation for the VW Polo, a car once described by Jeremy Clarkson as what you would get if you went into a VW dealership and asked for something “extremely similar to a Golf, except slightly shittier in almost every possible way”.

Next article please: “Don’t just DIY to save money, do it for the sheer pleasure of achieving something”. That’s where the “feel accomplished after a challenge” part comes in, and to me that’s more valuable than money. Surely the end goal of life hacking is not to have more time or more money, but the things you get…

Bonus: it looks really nice, much classier than a typical store-bought clip.