this is just a bunch of community knob-slobbery

Are you crazy??? Now she's going to sue you for sexual harassment!

Thanks for the link. I'm not sure if that would help or not.

One of the problems I have with the various, potentially valid ideas people are floating about good chair / table configurations, is that I really don't have the budget to try more than one. So, for example, it's hard for me to drop a few hundred on a chair / table combo, only to find out it didn't work.

That's an interesting idea, but I think the problem with a drafting stool is that it pinpoints too much of my body weight on my rear end, rather than distributing it over the entire back of my thighs. That seems to cause problems with sciatica. A decent office chair with a large seat pan seems to be necessary to avoid that problem, at least in my case.

I worked for one year at a company which offers standing desks. I found them to be pretty nice. It was hard to gauge productivity, because it was also my only time in an open office, so there were lots of other distractions I wasn't used to.

I'm in my early 40's, and I'm starting to run into a variety of back problems from poor posture / poor back muscle tone, as well as carpal tunnel and medial nerve (funny bone) problems from the way I rest my arms on the desk when coding. A standing desk helps with pretty much all of those things, if it can be easily readjusted over the course of the day to accommodate you need to both sit and stand.

The biggest problem is that decent standing desks aren't cheap, and companies treat them like a luxury. I seriously think there's a case for OSHA forcing companies to offer adjustable desks to office workers. Unfortunately, national politics don't currently favor such actions becoming reality.

If I have enough negotiating power, I'll make a standing desk a requirement for any future job I take.

Any theories for why Tesla's stock price didn't pop on this news?

I agree - Apple products are unseemly.

sue them.

You've somehow managed to originate two insanely useful pieces of software: Linux, and Git.

Do you think there's anything in your work habits, your approach to choosing projects, etc., that have helped you achieve that level of productivity? Or is it just the traditional combination of talent, effort, and luck?

I started playing with C++ when I when into college in 1991. At one point I probably would have qualified as more or less a C++ expert. Then, as the language grew more and more insanely complex with each revision, I stopped trying to keep up on the whole language.

Nowadays I'm content to just make sure I understand the subset I normally use, read up when I come across a part I don't use, and ignore the rest. For my own programming, at least, the language has simply become too complex to be worth mastering.

Usually many/(most?) Slashdoters are very "sensitive" with my (Greek) Nationalism ...

I don't think a little pride in one's country is a problem. Just resist the urge to invade Poland because of it, and we're good ;)

Thanks for the link! That's pretty cool.

Love it. , .

It's funny that you're a Greek repeating a Latin quote. Glad to see someone remembers who won in the Battle of Corinth!

Good Heavans, man, are you trying to make us all deaf with the sound of that whoosh???

You could have an account with Santander but simply fail to install their app on your phone or tablet.

I don't think "fail" means what you think it means. I would call not installing their app a "success".