kujawa's comments

Also June, July, August, and about half of September.

Really, Boston is only tolerable for that one glorious week each in the spring and fall.

I do miss Boston. But not the weather. It'd be nice if we got an occasional thunder storm out here, though.

I really don't know why this is being downvoted so harshly.

Kevin J. Anderson's writing is horrific. He's an absolute hack. Brian Herbert should be ashamed at what he's doing to his father's good name, allowing this incompetent fuckwit to befoul his legacy.

I bought the first of the Butlerian Jihad books, even knowing how horrible a writer KJA is, because the topic interested me so. I couldn't make it more than about 15 pages.

It's a minor literary tragedy.

I dunno about you, but I barely type when I'm coding. I'd guess about 90% of my day is reading and thinking.

Reading monospace text sucks.

It's only good for coding for alignment issues. But reading monospace characters for long blocks of text is hard on the eyes. (Not to mention that proportional spacing is more efficient -- you can get more text on a line with roughly the same letter forms.)

I suppose things could have changed since I left, but they weren't really rigged for that sort of thing when I was there, and I was in two groups who would have been very close to that sort of thing.

Wait, so this idiot was trying to sell information to the Israeli government from Akamai?

There is no information that Israel could possibly want that Akamai wouldn't be more than happy to simply hand over, I'm fairly certain. Given how many people who work at that company are Israeli citizens ...

This kind of reminds me of the beginning of the Ninth Gate, a rather under-appreciated Johnny Depp movie from about 10 years ago.

Without, of course, the hot woman who turns out to be Satan.

I had a very promising interview at Yelp right around that time last year. I have a feel for this sort of thing, and I was damned sure I got the job. Great fit for my experience and skills.

Never heard anything back from them.

I'm gonna guess that this was at least partially related.

There's a positive review if I've ever heard it: "Enterprise thinks it sucks".

If I live a dozen lifetimes, I hope to never write another line of "enterprise" code again.

I avoided going to a tech interview there, because I knew they'd never have me no matter how sharp my Unix chops are.

No degree.

But I was laughing a couple months later when I was working across the hall at Akamai ...

Take a fig.

Okay, take about 8 of them.

And take 8 strips of thick-cut, maple-smoked, peppered organic bacon, the best you can find.

Wrap the fig in the bacon, secure with a toothpick, and place on a pan.

Roast at 425F for about 25 minutes, checking after about 15 minutes.

I assure you, you will not be disappointed.

This is the way the world ends. Because, who knows?, malaria just might be the thing that's keeping the zombie virus suppressed.

But hell, who doesn't like a good a good genocide?

I worked for Snapfish (division of HP) for about six months last year. It was quite disappointing. This isn't a company that's ever going to innovate again.

I grew up loving HP calculators, and detest anything that doesn't run on RPN. I have an HP-15c app on my iPhone (notibly, not the one done by HP, which is inferior.)

Carly and then Turd killed any sort of innovation in this company. They're purest evil, and I can see why Oracle would like to hire this sort of executive.