I typed in "douchebag" and it showed me a picture of some guy driving an Audi A4.

I want radio buttons I can use to drill down my search...

sort by what permissions they're after.
sort by what percentage of people are still using the app after having downloaded it.
sort by price
sort by in-app purchases or not
etc ...

mmm, USB Inverter! I'll be able to plug my iron into my laptop USB port while at sea!

I don't interview well but I never really have to interview... Open Source cred goes a long way...

In my experience, this is not true. For 3 of the large corporations (1000+ employees) I've worked for, a senior director wanted to hire me and we negotiated my rate/salary/etc. He told someone in HR to hire me and I dictated my terms. When HR balked, I received a call from the senior director, re-iterated my terms, and then promptly received a followup call from HR agreeing to my terms.

I was recently given a resume to review prior to interviewing the candidate... The resume was chock full of keywords... ie: on one job, it was clear they'd used ssh as part of some administrative interface they'd built... He included keywords: "Openssh", "Blowfish", "RSA", "DSA", "Public Key", etc ... The resume was 9 pages long and most of it was useless keywords... Clearly intended to bypass automated resume filters... When it came to the interview, I found myself less than impressed with the candidate so I started asking technical questions about Blowfish, RSA, DSA, and he clearly didn't know anything about them. If you're going to put something on your resume, you had better damn well know about it.

He was not hired.

Frankly, I'm not sure I know how to get a job these days... I'm fortunate to have work come looking for me these days.

Mine was the reverse. Still is. I suggest spending some money on a psych-ed assessment. You'll learn a lot about your child's learning and mind... Plus you'll have the information handy should you find the need to send your child to a school more suited to his/her needs...

Both of us had issues at school but our child was reasonably bright, we always thought... It wasn't until we watched our son play with other kids that we realized he was brighter than your average kid... It wasn't until the beginning of 4th grade that we were alerted to there being a problem... He was acting up in class, not finishing his work, and not focusing... We had a Psych-ed assessmennt done and, long story short, is technically 'gifted'... He was bored at school and was trying to find ways to amuse himself... Because of that, and some issues with bullies, we pulled him from that school and put him in a local school for the gifted, and on being picked up from his first day, proudly proclaimed "Mom! I've found my people!"

Now that we know how his mind works, where he needs help, etc... We see a lot of the same in ourselves but never understood it to be unusual.

root@ like everyone else?

I quit smoking lots of times... I only quit smoking for good, once... As such, I only have one data point. I've been clean for 9 years.

My overriding reason to quit was that I didn't want my son to know me as a smoker.

What helped me along the way, encountering the situations you describe, were the negative aspects of what it was like as a smoker. The disgusting cough in the morning, the stench on my clothes, the blandness of my food... If I walked past a smoker, I just brought forth the memory of those negative effects and it was enough to bridge me back to normalcy. It took about 2 years before I no longer craved a cigarette... I have friends who smoke and don't even have the slightest tinge of a craving..

I dread think of how difficult it is to quit heroine...

I've been doing this for years when I paint in my garage ... I'm not saying I'm brilliant but not everyone thinks of things as being this easy so some people need to be told.

I was refilling the refrigerant in my truck A/C with Propane last night... My neighbor came out with an "ummm, what are you doing?" look...

Gigafactory is kind of a lame name... I think they should call it "Area 52"...

As an uneducated outsider, my observation is that there's no point going down the rabbit hole of "this action was in response to that action".... It's endless. This is a feud started by people who are long since dead.. Both sides are engaged in incitement ensuring that the children of today will become 'the freedom fighters' of tomorrow. This will never end by negotiation. I don't think it will ever end. Both sides are evil.

Until your well collapses one day and you need to get approval to drill a new one and that approval is not forth-coming because there's now a water-coop that you need to join instead; paying them lots of money to run a pipe to your house and charging you per cubic meter...

Seen it happen; it's coming.

My well collapsed and fortunately a permit to drill a new one was a rubber stamp and I have a nice clean (albeit very hard) 10gpm well. Hopefully this well will last until I'm too old to care...

(1) worn glasses all my life. Don't even think about them anymore.
(2) I have dark rings under my eyes. They're very noticeable when I'm not wearing glasses; but not noticeable with my glasses.
(3) My eyes stopped changing in my 30's and then were static until my mid-40's whereupon things started to go downhill. My distance vision hasn't changed but my low-light vision and close-up vision have deteriorated. I have to wear bifocals now and turn lights on. My Optometrist assures me this is a normal aging thing.. If I had Lasik, I think I'd still have to wear glasses to read or work on cars; so what's the point?

Depending on the environment in which you work. Where I work, there are source code auditing tools you are required to run against your code to meet various customer-imposed requirements; there are code-review tools... There are hardware debuggers that are tied to irritating IDE's like Eclipse... There is a veritable cornucopia of mandated tools, none of which actually help me to write code, but exist to make some manager or customer happy.

I think what the submitter wants is to be able to 'hack' like the old days. Either find a different job or sign up with some open source gig and hack to your heart's desire.