Warner wouldn't steal a car, would they?

Free of drunk people, or homeless people who smell so bad it's unpleasant to be near them?

Free of limitations in when I can depart, or how much longer the ride takes than driving?

Free of the inability to easily stop to grab a coffee or use the bathroom?

So they're promising a cap on their maximum quality of service, but not on their minimum quality of service?

Yeah, flying's really gotten worse over the years. Back then, kids got free milkshakes!

You may want to go a little more up stream. How about, "Fuck the corrupt U.S. Congresses and Presidents. Fuck the psychopath lawyers and business people who want to infringe upon our freedom so they can make more money. Fuck the SCOTUS for not recognizing software as math. (And frown at Donald Knuth who also thinks software should be patentable, but is otherwise a swell guy.)"

I managed to do it, but it took almost a year of looking, even in a job market supposedly favorable to programmers.

My strategy was to basically scour the job boards, looking for remote jobs, and apply when it looked like a good fit. Some boards I found helpful for remote, non-contract work:

• https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote
• http://www.indeed.com/l-Remote-jobs.html
• https://weworkremotely.com/
• http://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/telecommuting-remote-jobs

Job sites which don't have a specific category for "remote" tended to produce a lot of noise, because searching on "remote" would get hits for things like "remote work not allowed".

Two other things which seemed very helpful in landing a job:

• Experience with using Github
• Having been involved in open-source development.

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.