andyhnj's comments

For what it's worth, I haven't been able to get it to download my bookmarks, using either my username/password or API key. And I tried it on both my iPhone and iPad.

This looks promising. I've been looking for a new Pinboard iOS client, since Pushpin started flaking out on me recently. (I have over 17,000 bookmarks, so maybe I'm an edge case, but Pushpin has been timing out on me a lot. Maybe I should just clean up my bookmarks...)

Interesting. I just started reading this (the original version) last week. Since I'm already a pretty experienced programmer, I'm not getting that much out of it, but it's been fun to read.

I'm not sure if I should abandon it now, and wait for the new version, or just keep reading the old version and enjoying all the dated references to 56k modems and all that stuff.

I used to buy both print and ebook format books from O'Reilly from time to time. I now have a Safari subscription (via my ACM membership), so I've stopped buying computer books almost entirely. Safari isn't perfect, but it's got a lot of books, covering most of the computing-related subjects that I'm interested in. I'd rather have DRM-free PDFs, but Safari is good enough for now.

I use DDG everywhere except at work, where (for some reason) it's blocked.

The one silly thing I miss about not having DDG at work: in DDG, I can type "new guid" and it gives me a new random guid. If there's a way to do that in Google, I haven't figured it out. (And yes I know there are a million other ways to get random guids. It's just convenient for me to get them this way.)

I love f.lux, but it disappeared from my work computer recently, and the f.lux site is blocked on our network now. I'm not sure why we would have flagged the program and/or site as bad. It seems like a pretty harmless utility to me, and I don't recall there ever being any issues with it. Oh well. At least I can still use it on my home PCs.

>There's a reason why MS Excel has keyboard shortcuts that make no sense - they match to menu entries from old versions, and they've kept them in so people who have been using it for decades don't have a reason to switch.

Yep. I've been typing "/edr" to delete a row in a spreadsheet for 25 years, and I'm not going to stop now. :-)

I drink Mount Hagen too, whenever the coffee machine at work is broken. It's not bad.

I canceled my WSJ sub years ago, because I could see it going downhill after Murdoch took over.

I've heard of Epsilon, but never used it.

Back in the days when I actually paid for text editors, my favorite was Multi-Edit (http://multieditsoftware.com/). I remember UltraEdit (http://www.ultraedit.com/) being pretty popular too.

Nowadays, whatever work I'm not doing in Visual Studio is being done in Notepad++.

I migrated my personal blog from Blogger to WordPress a couple of years ago. I'm pretty happy with it.

I had originally wanted to migrate it to Drupal, but I couldn't find a good solution for Blogger-to-Drupal import that worked for me. (At the time, I was doing a fair amount of Drupal work at my day job, so it seemed like a good idea, but in retrospect, I'm glad it didn't work out.)

I know there's a lot of stuff out there that's "cooler" than WordPress, but I like it. The ecosystem for plugins and themes is huge. You can find most anything you want, usually for free.

I'm hosting my blog on a plain vanilla shared Linux host, rather than on WordPress.com or another managed host. I like the flexibility of doing it that way. It's a little bit of work to keep up with plugin updates, but not much.

Oh, this must be why the company I work for is finally pushing out IE11. (I upgraded my own machine a long time ago, but many people here are still on IE8.)

I'm curious about the antenna you're using. I'm also approximately equidistant from NYC and Philly, but I tried a digital antenna once, and could only pick up one NJ station, and none of the NYC or Philly ones. I'd love to find an antenna that works!

Sedgewick's course on Algorithms, through Coursera, is pretty good, for anyone who wants to learn more about basic algorithms, or (like me) needs a refresher.

https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI

I'd love to be able to shift into this mode temporarily, assuming I could keep my health insurance. Maybe for a few months, just to give myself some breathing room, maybe make progress on some side projects, or do some volunteer work.

I need one of these in a Twin XL size.

(I can't be the only nerd who needs an 80" long bed, but doesn't have enough room for anything wider than a twin.)

I'm an RPI alum also, having graduated well before Jackson became president. The few people I know who are still actively involved with RPI don't like her much, and I think the inflated salary is a big part of the reason why. (Of course, most of the people I knew at RPI were malcontents to begin with, so maybe that's not a representative sample...)

Interesting. The guy who used to be my House rep (before some redistricting) has more records in this system than anyone else in my home state (NJ). Not sure if he's more actively investing, or if he's just doing a better job of submitting the right paperwork.

It's interesting to see what kind of stocks he's got, tech and otherwise. On the tech side, he's got some obvious choices (Apple, Google, and Cisco). For non-tech, I see some local NJ companies, and companies with a large presence in NJ.

I'm not sure about this statement: "Of these platforms, Linux is clearly the most important. Today, Microsoft earns much of its (record) profits from enterprise software packages (SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, etc.). By running .NET on Linux, it now has the ability to run those apps on a significant majority of server platforms."

Are significant portions of SQL Server, SharePoint, and Exchange written in .NET managed code? I would have thought most of the code base for that stuff would still be in non-managed C++. Will having .NET on Linux make it significantly easier for them to release SQL Server on Linux?

Speaking as a guy who (currently) only uses Visual Studio at home for recreational programming, and not at the office, I'm pretty happy about this. The Express editions are OK, but it's nice to have access to extensions, like VisualHG for Mercurial integration. (Yeah, I know I should switch to Git, but I really like Hg.)