Aren't #1 and #7 the same thing?

Also, often, one story can fulfill multiple categories here... "The time I volunteered to save the day by thinking outside the box, causing me to turn on a dime/change course midstream, while I went the extra mile dealing with a difficult person and an extremely complicated problem…

As an interviewer, that would be a poor assumption. As an interviewee? Of COURSE! :D

Many people are confused by directionality.

I've got a pair of those Samsung 256Gb SSDs in my Mac Pro, striped, and they've been working really well and very fast for almost a year. Highly recommended - I paid almost twice that much for them.

I've got a pair of those Samsung 256Gb SSDs in my Mac Pro, striped, and they've been working really well and very…

I *never* delay sleep just to avoid sleeping. I sometimes stay up too late because I'm doing something engrossing, whether it's watching a movie or working through the trigonometry to try and get the goddamned hexapod foot to move in a straight line, or whether it's just because someone is wrong on the internet ....

Also, these are statistical results. Individual results vary widely. I have so many projects I want to do that dropping a few million in VC on me would make me ecstatic for a long, long time, even if it didn't change my lifestyle outside the "job".

Every product I buy from these guys pushes me that much closer to being a fanboy. Everything I've gotten from Anker has been great.

So we agree about lots of stuff here; I see no reason to snipe at you. I would only add a couple of things.

I think your advice is a necessary part of 'getting ahead', but it's not sufficient. People's choices are limited by their experience in a profound fashion. We're made up of only two things: our genetics and our…

... with hardcoded JVM paths! LOL... shudder.

I already allowed as your advice was good for people who can take advantage of it. Reading your other comments, you have a lot to say that I agree with. The problem I have is that the tone in your post and the trend among people that talk like you (conservative douchebags among them) is that people who aren't…

LOL, my bad, maybe you DID mean to sound that way, cuz that's what this is. The certainty with which you evaluate an entire class of people's lives and find them wanting is what makes a conservative talk show douche a douche. Your personal experience (and mine, of course ) are fucking irrelevant in the face of a…

When you're talking to people who have a living wage, this is not bad advice. If you were talking to people who lost their $18/hr job in 2008 when the factory closed down and have been reduced to working for $8.50 an hour because, well, that's all they could GET, which pays their mortgage and not much else, I would…

Not only that, but if you have the necessary discipline (I know a couple of people who do) using your credit card for literally everything and paying it off each paycheck can rack up quite a chunk of change in rewards and bonuses. And, if you're an orderly person, buying things with credit cards often doubles the…

Sweet! I wonder if it's snappy/rt enough to run servo PWM on those pins? If so, it might become the brain of my Hexapod - using the Parallax Propeller right now. Thanks for the heads up, Alan!

I'm with you. I've never had an out-of-town interview that wasn't 100% paid for by the employer. Of course, the last two jobs I was hired sight unseen. Which I found slightly surreal.

I've gotta look into this. My company has a plan where you pay $1500/year into your HSA account, they match $1500 (for a total of $3k), and they pay the rest of your health insurance, which has a deductible of $3k. I've been thinking of it as an FSA (use it or lose it). I need to check with our benefits dept.

Last time I looked online (about a year ago) I couldn't find online providers that provided all the things I want (progressive lenses, ultralight lenses, transitions extra-active, etc) that cost any less than my optometrist. My daughter got some great glasses from Warby Parker, and they had great customer service, and…

I cannot recommend this comment enough. As a systems engineer that implements and supports many enterprise level, mission critical, java-based products, I can vouch for the fact that most of them have started shipping their canned versions of java, because changing the local java version breaks the application. Most…

I might try Costco next time. We just got done as a family getting new glasses for all three of us (wife, me, 13 yo daughter) and with a $300/person allowance from insurance it was still $900 out of the FSA. I mean, we all got new frames, ultralight lenses, antireflective coating, anti-scratch coating, Transitions…

I do like this wide-format monitor. Lots of fun!