Yeah but in a summary of the Oscars, you list "Best Picture" (last of the night) FIRST, not "Most improved key-grip in a documentary less than 5 minutes", or whatever the first Oscar of the night is.

I love that a 30 year old computer is doing the job just fine.

I love that a kid wrote the code ages ago, and presumably it has never even been patched.

I love that the Amiga was so damn rock solid that it has not had an emergent failure in 30 years.

I love that it uses walkie talkie beeps as a protocol

I love that somehow it is going to cost 2 million dollars to reproduce something a kid did in his spare time, presumably simply for the privilege of getting to play with a $1300 dollar computer.

Getting a new computer to stop malware is like getting a new car because you refuse to buckle your seatbelt.

When I was a kid I always thought I wanted to be a game programmer. Turns out, I fucking love writing boring enterprise software. I write lots of code, solve lots of problems, make lots of money.

The average game developer makes crap money writing spongebob or dora the explorer or some other licensed character crapware 16 hours a day for years in hopes they will be on one of the teams that gets to write the one good game their studio puts out each year/decade.

The average enterprise software developer spends years working 8 hours a day fattening his 401k and, since you get to go home at 5pm, could spend the other 8 hours a day he would be working at the game company writing his own games... or more likely just playing games or having a family.

I love games. I wish making games for a job wasn't the programming equivalent to grinding it out as an extra in Hollywood for years trying to be an actor, but that is exactly what it is.

I am a team lead, and If you want to get hired at the company I work for.. all you have to be is smart and not too socially toxic.

Sure, we give a programming test that basically asks "have you ever written any code in any language?" 90% of applicants fail this test (Think Fibonacci or leap year level difficulty, not 9 queens or tower of Hanoi hard). Any applicant that passes the "have you ever written a line of code" test, we just talk.

I don't care if you know node.js or angular.js or Knockout or whatever. Angular and node are both 6 years old. If I required every developer to know everything about a 6 year old framework, what happens when something better comes along? How hard will it be to get them to use the new thing, or learn it. If I hire a smart person who can learn whatever, then when something new comes along they can learn that too.

Encyclopedic knowledge is not a selling point by itself. FAQs are free, brains are expensive. Hire the brains and feed them FAQs, not the other way around.

Be prepared for the church of Rand to down mod you. but what about my freeeeedom! Unions are for commies because I have a good job.

prepare to be downmodded by connoisseurs of turn based tactical games.

There is no place for FUN in video games, they must be ever faithful and must not progress past 1997 tech.

I turned an old shopvac motor into a ping-pong ball cannon for, uh, cubicle defense.

Life in prison was well-earned.

He ordered and paid for at least 5 murders (which makes him a murderer).
Regardless of your beliefs on drugs, commerce, privacy, and free enterprise; a murder is a murder.

Rule 1 - YOU are probably the only person you will ever meet who can write code.

You may land in a team with many good coders, this is a lucky break. Most of the time any vendor, customer, or co-worker you work with won't know anything at all. You are just going to have to do their coding too. Vendors will give you broken XML documents that you have to parse, customers don't understand SSL, data center employees don't know how to ps -e | grep

Customers cannot possibly be expected to get off IE6

Nobody but you can do anything. Just accept it and deal with it, you will be much happier.

It is annoying to write down everything, but when PHB gets off the phone with you, they immediately start morphing everything that was said into their version of what they think you said. If you don't do this, you will find that you over-committed even when you didn't and you will hear all sorts of things that everyone else thinks that you promised.

At the end of each call COVER YOUR ASS. Eventually, if you are lucky, they will stop calling you altogether and will simply START with email, since you aren't letting them get away with the famous "I thought you understood what we discussed" reality bending mechanism. You probably won't have to re-forward it PHB when they lose their mind in 3 weeks, but if you do, you will have it.

To: PHB
cc:team
June 2015 Release
Thanks for talking this through with me, I will go forward with A, B, and C as discussed and I appreciate that you agreed to delay D, E, F until after the milestone build is stable for the June 2015 release.

As a PSPlus subscriber and a Steam fanboy, I can tell you they don't even compare. In summer sale I can get all the AAA titles I missed for 50-75% off, and catch up on DLC for exceptional games for pennies. Now, I do get occasional "free" casual/sega genesis/old arcade ports for my $5.99 PS+ monthly subscription, and sometimes big name games are cheap, but it can't even compare to the 2x a year discount salepocalypse that happens on Steam.

If you want a smartphone that isn't a smartphone, I am assuming you want to avoid the app infrastructure of apple and google? I have no idea what your actual goal is, but blackberry solved this ages ago. What you really seem to want is a smartphone from before iPhones ruined the market for practical smartphones.

I submit to you: Blackberry Bold
insane battery life (remember BB was competing with dumb phones not smartphones, so the charge every 8 hours thing hadn't started yet) - 12 days standby 6 hours talk, 50 hours audio playback
camera, sure it has a decent camera
Insanely good Keyboard that openly laughs at "swipe" keyboards.
Podcasts, sure
costs about 80 dollars now.

I am having trouble with my billiards table, could you please tell me the best way to keep my football bat sharp so that my chlorine levels stay consistent?

When your only hammer is Microsoft, every problem looks like a thumb.