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Submission + - Lunch, Anyone?

Submitted by theodp on Friday April 29, 2011 @03:26AM

theodp writes: 'I've been on teams that eat together every day,' writes Joel-on-Software Spolsky, and it's awesome. I've been on teams that don't, and lunch every day is, at best, lonely.' Spolsky is firmly in the camp that believes where and with whom we eat lunch is a much bigger deal than most people care to admit. 'There's a lot of stuff that's accidental about Fog Creek and Stack Exchange,' he concludes, 'but lunch is not one of them. Ten years ago Michael and I set out with the rather ambitious goal of making a great place to work. Eating together is a critical part of what it means to be human and what it means to have a humane workplace, and that’s been a part of our values from day one.'

Submission + - What do you do with a personal domain? 2

Submitted by bmerr71 on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @04:05PM

bmerr71 writes: I bought my own domain name to use as a self-promotion tool. I use a subdomain, "profile.mydomain.com", which I selectively put on my email signatures to link to my linkedin profile. I also loaded up Google Apps to use for email. But when you go directly to my domain name, there is nothing there. I didn't want GoDaddy getting ad revenue off my name (and it doesn't look very professional), so I killed the ad page, but it seems like I should be able to put something up on my main page. But, I am not interesting in blogging, I do not want too much personal information up there, and I do not want to spend a lot of money (none, if possible). Are there any free apps that I can load up on my domain to fill the blank space? What do non-bloggers do with their personal domains?

Comment Is this the wrong time to extend our lives? (Score 1) 639

by bmerr71 on Thursday July 10, 2008 @08:34AM (#24132157) Attached to: Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research

My impression is that the world is not ready for people to live 200-1,000 years longer. Especially if you consider that a certain percentage of these people will not be healthy for their extended years and will need considerable Government support. Our current society cannot support unhealthy individuals living for hundreds of years. Not to mention the fact that we're running out of room and running out of planetary resources with even our current global population. And we're really not close to spreading out beyond planet Earth. My question... Is this the wrong time to start trying to lengthen our lives?

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