Judging by some of the replies to your comment, it is working as promised...
http://xkcd.com/1215/

The only people that need character based date sorting are programmers using non-date data types. Almost all (good programming) you are using a date data type that sorts anyway. I'm surprised this was marked informative on a site with so many programmers.

I've started learning Origami during my mini work breaks. Origami is quick to learn, only takes a few minutes to create a single item, I'm exercising my brain, and my kids love them. It also helps that post-it notes are square and office environments are full of them. For really quick breaks (2-3 minutes), I'll solve a Rubik's Cube just to loosen up by brain a bit.

Yet oddly enough, it is one of the most discussed articles of the day. As well as one of the more interesting in terms of "nerd stuff". Call this article a conversation starter about home vs hosted servers.

This quote really loses it's effectiveness up north in the dead of winter. That is, unless you consider that lovely three foot snow drift "wet".

On y'all as singular... I noticed when visiting some parts of the south that they say "y'all" to a single person and say "all y'all" to a group of people. I kid you not.

As I see it, e-mailing involves:
1) enter/select recipient
2) type message
3) hit send

Can someone explain to me what makes SMS less involved than those three steps? I've never done it, and I honestly can't imagine what could make it simpler.

I'd say anyone who calls a weapon a "toy" is completely unfit to own one.

The only thing I haven't seen brought up yet is that this is really about personal liberty instead of religious belief. Attacking religious belief on Slashdot is trivial, but what about attacking personal liberty?

Either way, it seems to me that the employer has a right to fire someone that doesn't want to follow certain reasonable policies.

From my experience as well, you are the exception and not the rule. And it doesn't even matter if your immediate manager is good at this kind of thing (mine is, just like you). If it is the upper management putting the hammer down on our manager, then their hands are tied. Sorry, but if I've put in a full day and have to choose between getting something out the door before I'm comfortable with all my testing or seeing my kids for an hour, that is a pretty easy choice for any good parent.

"Banning guns" could mean that he is favor of amending the constitution.

I think strong words do work with some people. But it is never ok to do it in public. Humiliation is a childish bully's tool.

Figure out some questions to get an honest feel for what they enjoy besides their job. Do they "live to work" or "work to live"? Figure out which of those options applies to you and determine which you'd like more in a boss.

My current boss is way better of a technical manager than my last, but has no life outside of work. So while I have a much easier time agreeing on technical solutions than I did with my previous manager, my previous manager and I had the same feeling of "get out of work ASAP and enjoy life". While my new boss does everything she can to keep me at work to get as much out of me as possible.

To go along with this, Netflix has made more money from me because they have no (effective) DRM on DVDs. If I'm heading off on a big trip, I'll increase my Netflix subscription for a while so I can rip a couple extra dvds for on the road. If they had effective DRM, they wouldn't have made that extra money from me.

I've been using iTunes for a while now and am probably too used to it. What are some alternatives to managing media files and such to be synced with your devices? Anyone have any recommendations?