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I was assuming the OP was talking about the daily standup meeting?

You talk about what you did yesterday, and what you're going to do today. The meeting shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. Assuming you're going 'by the book'.

I came from a scrum team that consistently pushed the limits of a scrum meeting by talking about way too much and taking way too long. Thats a people and process issue though.

Attempted to make a PDF from the makefile. I don't have some of the fonts needed - am I out of luck?

Mobile or desktop?

Do you have any examples of sites that allow display customization? I'd be interested to see this in action.

Browsers give you limited options, but how many people use or know about them?

You can't please everyone. If you try, you're doing it wrong.

I agree to an extent. You can add comments to your code. Harder to do in a home.

> Anything that happens before your content gets to the browser is back-end by definition.

Huh? I didn't think that was in question.

> If you control the blogging software and/or the template, it would be trivial to replace the last space with   when rendering the page.

No disagreements here.

> I wouldn't be surprised if somebody already wrote a WordPress plugin to do this

I'm sure there is too[1].

[1] http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-typography/

Start small, decide what it is you really want to accomplish, and use a realistic timeline. Things I always forget when starting any (side) project.

I only allow myself an hour or so per day to write code on the side, or to play with a new technology or library. If I don't put boundaries around whatever I'm doing (and have an end-game in mind), I end up wasting a lot of time and don't get anything out of it.

The company I work for has been going through the metamorphosis of startup to medium sized over the last few years.

I firmly believe that there needs to be more structure (policies, procedures, documentation) as you get bigger and add employees. If those are lacking, you'll get a lot of uninformed employees making poor decisions and a product that looks and feels disjointed.

I'd like to think so. I go through phases, where NOT having my face in electronics feels new (and good) - doing things with my hands, like painting a room or putting in a sink faucet. (And I used to have extreme aversions to handy-man type work.)

I'd have to agree on the gender role issue. I'm a father of two daughters and want them to be whatever they want to be. I don't agree with the statement that everyone needs to learn how to code, or the fact that language and art are a waste of time. If everyone knew and did the same things, the world would kinda suck (and finding a good paying job would be impossible.)