httpitis

I don't use it myself, but could the technology behind the tor network [1] (or the product itself) be used to counter this?

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

My stomach protested after being feed copious amounts of coffee during the late 90's. Since then I only drink coffee involuntarily (like if someone already made me a cup before asking so I sip just out of courtesy). Today I stick to drinking mostly red teas. Which are not actually tea I hear. Anyways, my point is did you try to get off caffeine altogether at some point?

And then again, if people need to write c/o they could actually write... c/o.

> how to deal with the burden of this

Maybe I don't understand your situation well enought but is this really what you want to do?

I got interested in software development when I was 13 years old. Since then I''ve done software devlopoment both as a hobby and professionally. Now, in my mid 40's I work as a software developer and I'm having the time of my life!

My $.02 would be (as others in the thread has recommended) to take it slow. Also, try different things and focus on the things you find exciting!

>Making life good for 100% of the people is an incredibly hard problem to solve.

The 90's problem in Sweden started with politicians believing that this was a solvable problem. It's actually counter productive for the population having a state with this delusion.

Try this: Sit in a relaxing posture. As you inhale, think "1". Exhale and think "2". Inhale and think "3" and so on up to "10". Then start over. In the beginning you will often end up counting 11, 12, 13, 14 and then realize you counted to far. Just start over with inhaling and counting "1" and so on. In my experience, after 30-45 minutes, the mind and body will come to rest in a profound manner. For details check out "Mediation for dummies", this is where I leared the technique. Best of luck.

I'm impressed by your vast experience with different languages! I'm also curious to learn why one language contrasted with another language have no necessary relationship to how speakers of each language think. The authors post seem to prove the opposite:

>An Australian Aboriginal tribe, The Guugu Yimithirr, famously have no words for left, right, in front of or behind. They use north, east, west, and south instead. And as a result: they develop an internal compass—always knowing which way is north, even if you blindfold them and spin them around.

I for sure don't know the direction after being spun blindfolded :)

(edit: grammar)

Well said. Upvote on me, Sir.

Sorry man, it makes me sad to hear about your store. Hope everything works out for you. Edit: hear about your story

Found your post during a search for another post about favorite programming languages. I read another post suggesting going to the local library to work a couple of hours. I've contemplated this but never got around to it yet. I wish you the best of luck on finding tools and habits to keep things moving.

Supporting Wayland?

Being able to follow what you type using the display instead of having to watch the keyboard instills a certain calmness. It's actually not so much about typing speed, more about adopting a less tiresome work process.

A tad surprised to see Scott use an iPhone. C'mon Scott, give Nokia a call, I'm sure they'll be happy to give you a nice 800. Or, maybe a 900 even? :)

Read somewhere that you should be doing the work you find funny/rewarding/explorative instead of the boring work.

...or "buy off-the-shelf solutions" as brc suggested?

thanx for the laugh, made my day!

Why would anyone even begin to think about developing this sort of thing?

What would make Google release the source?

Installed the beta2 the other day. Built the usual hello world app so can't tell much about building larger apps. What I can say is I find the IDE and Emulator really snappy. Visual design is really smooth, much better imo than for example Android development using Eclipse. My $.02

I have several projects atm and feel a bit stressed. In my experience, laughter will help in these situations and reading about Joe's first experience with IE really made my day:

Joe: “I don’t know what anything means.” (Joe reads the text on IE and clicks on “Suggested Sites”)

Me: “Why did you click on that?”

Joe: “I don’t really know what to do, so I thought this would suggest something to me.”

(Joe reads a notification that there are no suggestions because the current site is private)

Joe: “I guess not.”

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To clarify: I was laughing at our industry as a whole that expects users to be computer literate to the point where ppl like Joe have to struggle really hard to get even the most basic thing done.

To me, the article comes across as a request to the linux community for solving the linux desktop problem. In other words, when given a viable chioce, the author wants linux on his desktop.

The author's complaints seems confirmed when looking at the trends [1] in market share for contemporary os's.

>Desktop Linux has to be made somehow profitable for companies to start investing more heavily in it...

I also believe that this is the major issue when trying to make linux successful on the desktop. So, what to do about it?

[1] http://www.netmarketshare.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9

oh man, thursday evening, a couple of glasses of wine, and here I thought I was the grammar nazi :)

...my co-workers using windows

ftfy.

Anyone opposed to supporting windows can go on their merry way using linux/osx. Don't forget the potential for creation of new modules (and possibly the evolution of nodejs itself) from the massive legion of windows developers out there.

Been full time remote for 10 years. So true, and I second your questioning as to why onsite is so important to many ppl.

Adapting nodejs for windows probably means less required work if it is done now rather than later.

Guess it's a matter of different levels of empathy. ...and also, how do you feel about firing ppl?