This is very true.

My experience has generally been positive with standing desks. I have the 'IKEA' solution at home and in the winter months I turn my work desk into a standing desk. This helps keep my core and back strong enough for biking in the constructions months. But I can't do it for eight hours, I usually end up sitting on a tall stool at the end of the day. Remember that a lot of people HAVE to stand all day at work and have a myriad of problems from doing so. Damaged knees and joints are probably at the top of the list of problems you might incur. Make sure you have a gel standing mat, good shoes, and a way to turn your desk back into a sitting desk quickly or a tall stool.

I can find some common ground with this opinion. The rights of social robots would depend heavily on the context of the treatment. For example, if you decide you want to dissect your robot and see how it works, you would do so in a controlled manner similar with the way a scientist might dissect a dog or rabbit. Smashing it apart with a baseball bat and laughing at it's artificial misery might be synonymous with doing the same to a pet, something modern society heavily frowns upon.

I hope I'm not secretly a cibopath

I am excited to see valve putting resources behind opengl and linux.

Hopefully the distro de jour can keep up with increased attention and excitement.

Nope. It's actually Silicon Valley 2, NV. Sorry Phoenix.

I'm always happy to see an attempt at making good cross platform frameworks. Good luck to the team.

I have a similar background. More Java then c however. The one thing that makes JavaScript semi readable and maintainable across people and time, is a good framework like jQuery.

ActionScript 3 supports static typing, objects, and function pointers. It's honestly a nice language compared to JavaScript.

I was in a similar spot for quite a while. During the last couple of years at my unhappy job, I found some other programmers who were already passionate about programming and involved in at home projects. Talking to them about their projects made me want to program at-home projects myself. Every day became a treat as we compared war stories and talked about the challenges we were dealing with. Passion can be just as contagious as negativity, the company you keep can make all the difference.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/03/17/how-much-big-tech-companies-have-in-the-bank/

oracle is worth more then google on paper.

The article forgot to mention the key ingredient to the substance, Tiberium.

"Saying, "We'll try" means that you, or your team, isn't already giving it their best"

In my experience, it means "We don't know, let us go off and research it more."

On a side note. I'm sick of the attitude that programming process and dogma is the one true way to make yourself a better programmer. Just attend one more conference or buy one more book to acquire your true path to coding nirvana from someone else.

The edge cases that aren't covered by pre-ordained process are REAL LIFE, and you are often the only person who has enough context to make good calls about process and procedure. Spending your whole life fine-tuning your work flow to imitate the sub-deities of agile seems wasteful and quite UN-JOYFUL. I wish more folks would just pick and choose the things that work for their group based of of honest experimentation, and go about their life BUILDING COOL THINGS.

Good, next time I need to shut down a magic/magnetic time volcano to keep an unspeakable evil from escaping the island me and my friends have been stranded on for 3 years, then this should keep me immune from the effects of aforementioned time volcano.

Cancelled my card last night. I hope sony gets the q's sued of it for this.