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"stress"

Being the engineer on-call when the website/service/app is down and the company is losing $xMM/minute while you debug the problem is the very definition of stress.

Some companies like Google cordon this responsibility off to SREs. While Amazon has started developing a similar job family, the burden of supporting critical services still largely falls to software engineers.

While software engineering is certainly not the worst job from a stress perspective, my experience (particularly with operations at Amazon) is far from the zen-like state the author describes. It can also be pretty exciting.

The CYP1A2 gene affects how quickly you metabolize caffeine. Stopping at 3pm may not be enough.

Better title: "To stay in love, communicate honestly and openly" | these guys just happened to find a way to do that in writing

If you're experiencing any sort of pain, do not attempt to power through it. It's your body trying to tell you something's wrong. Step away from the keyboard and get some rest.

Especially when the author could actually do an apple-to-apples comparison. The shoe organizer that cost $18 at Google (with shipping) is $16 at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001M2D9D0

Wealthier states do more global travel? It's expensive.

Similar idea: http://code.google.com/p/recordstream/

"If you live in Cambridge and neighboring communities, you can order online and get any book delivered the same day by an eco-friendly Metroped “pedal-truck,” or a bicycle, as I like to call them. Beat that Amazon."

Here's how: any book, ever published, in 60 seconds or less. Kindle.

I love that this is on the front page of HN -- which is to me, what Slashdot was 10 years ago.

Wondering how much cheaper this makes hydrogen relative to traditional fossil fuels...

... and what does not come up as the first result for "decision"?

"We can be productive members of society without submitting to academic or corporate institutions." -- says the guy writing for .... CNN.com

With a 2006 MBP, it works in FF4, but not in Chrome 11 (just a blank screen). Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I wonder if Google gets a cake too...

Too little, too late. Github has won.

"so Google set up a honeypot – some made up words like [hiybbprqag] linking to random unrelated sites."

That's not my understanding of what Google did at all. Google fed back search results for keywords that didn't exist on the Internet -- period, and they started eventually showing up in Bing.

I'd love to see some demo apps.

eco-consciousness

These descriptions reminded me of horoscopes... I saw characteristics of myself in each one.

No, it's Jeff Barr - AWS evangelist type person.

If science gets credit for healing the sick, does it also take the blame for deaths caused by nuclear weapons? Blatant, public, and verifiable. Praise worthy? Not in my book.

I'm a fan of Programmer's Notepad. http://www.pnotepad.org/

"As a side note, I am in no way bashing the cs program at UNCW... and the CS program is awesome."

At a top 10 CS school, your experience would probably have been very, very different.

The distribution of Amazon web sites seem to be heavily weighted towards those countries with the highest GDP. Maybe not a coincidence.

1. www.amazon.com 2. www.amazon.co.jp 3. www.joyo.com 4. www.amazon.de 5. www.amazon.fr 6. www.amazon.co.uk

Wouldn't it be great if we could get to the point where the opinion of others didn't matter so much?

This article is random, I don't see any purpose

But it is more tasty.

When you move to Mono, many of the auxiliary arguments for C# fall apart. (no VS.NET on Linux, "enterprise support," yadda yadda)