No doubt.

It's pretty rare any more that I'm playing a video game. But it would usually mean that it was too late at night or the weather sucked.

When I'm watching pr0n, I wish I was with a woman. When I'm playing video games, I wish I was outside doing something.

Sometimes you need to be prepared to move to a new career. I've been working on purchasing rental properties (one down, next one should be in about a year). I want to be in the same position as some of my friends: working because the work is interesting, not because the bills are due.

Amen to that. Somebody looking for the 23 year old who will work through the weekend regularly, or thinks 11 hour days should be the norm, isn't going to be very happy working with me. Because there's a simple calculus: money is just a means to an end, and that end is a warm bed with my wife in it. What are they going to offer that's more compelling than my goal?

Sounds like important warnings were heeded there. If they can't afford a second PC, they can't afford my salary, so I'd be good with not landing there.

That's a perfectly legitimate requirement, and if you don't do those things, you'll be an antiquated fossil anyway. I've got grand kids and I meet that qualification.

I'm sure that will be very helpful for running my vehicle information system. Harvesters love offloading their real time data gathering to EC2 instances.

The book Woodworking With Your Kids http://www.amazon.com/Woodwork... has a misleading title. The kids in question are actually kids in his community and his school. The author set up a community and school workshop back in 1970 on a shoestring budget. He was teaching kids to make some pretty impressive furniture before they were old enough to drive.

We have additional tools now, but the same approach to setting up a maker space would still work.

My workshop isn't for socialization at all. It's my space. Just mine. Occasionally my wife sticks her head in. Mostly it's me, the cats, and a lot of wood shavings.

Amen. The thing holding people back from making things isn't usually lack of access to equipment, but lack of access to the knowledge.

Good catch. He might not get on well with his neighbors.

Not sure how he thinks he's going to come out on top in the public eye for attacking the clergy. Sure, he'll be the hero of his hacker friends, but most of the world has a pretty low opinion of people who attack the clergy.

Amen Brother! If I wanted to sit through a few hours of bad powerpoint every week, I wouldn't have gone into engineering.

After getting burned on a couple of online courses, I discovered the affordable and approachable Dover books on mathematics and computing. They seem to fit my attention span and learning style better, where I might have to spend a lot of time thinking about a short passage or an equation to understand what's important about it. They're also easier to read when I'm on a plane or at the gym.

And this, my friend, is why it's a bad idea to subcontract your software development to undergrads in Sri Lanka.