_kfb

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   by _kfb 12y ago

   A company wouldn't. I posit that individual middle managers are the problem: whilst they do want the people working for them to be productive, they often subconsciously act to make sure they have the supposed "status" and tha
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   by _kfb 12y ago

   However, there are environments in which there is a social pressure to not take those spots and in fact be present at your desk regardless. Am I more productive in an isolated room? Absolutely. Do I feel comfortable doing it? No, not necess
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   by _kfb 13y ago

   Agreed, I intensely dislike having my back to a room (including in places such as restaurants), and this was always my explanation, too. (Actually, the explanation I give to people is that I'm terrified of assassination attempts, which
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   by _kfb 13y ago

   > (and you did compare us to 14 year olds!) For what it's worth, I read their comment as meaning that some things we desire are the same throughout our lifetimes. In the same way that teenagers want to decorate their rooms to reflec
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   by _kfb 13y ago

   I think that the problem is that "user-hateful" is the opposite of what's actually happening here: we're still at a state where security is something that users don't actually like, because it often puts the burden
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   by _kfb 13y ago

   Oh man. The shot of nostalgia brought on by this brought me almost to tears. I had them all, Geocities, Tripod... Saturday mornings hooked in to ftp.idsoftware.com at 33.6k and hand-crafting updates to my sites in notepad.exe (using upperca
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   by _kfb 13y ago

   Impressive, and interesting, but with one problem: I, like a lot of people, have floaters in my eyes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floaters ). When I focus on a single point and don't move my eyes around, they tend
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   by _kfb 13y ago

   It's worth pointing out that `git stash` (without arguments) is equivalent to `git stash save`.
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   by _kfb 13y ago

   You might want to check out the Bash completions for Git: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/gi... . They work with stash names so can take some of the pain away.