Well, yes, this would explain my need for speed, wouldn't it?

I wouldn't be able to describe my job, so why try? But I do regret not using my dual Masters in Computer Science and Chemistry. Just nothing out there that needs this combination.

i thought all the cool kids were using docker these days...

I thought docker was more for competing with what vagrant or another VM would do, not for provisioning X number of servers and managing them.

I did notice docker has Dockerfiles for provisioning a server but it looked really gross. It was basically 1 massive shell script and I have no idea what tools it has to manage multiple server instances or classifying them as groups.

Here's the elevator pitch for you

Like Salesforce...

Yeah, but I'm perfectly happy doing water cooler sales for now. Gotta keep the water cold and poison-free, you know?

you might be right.

Docker looks sooooo much like someone read that container book and decided to build some software around it. They do have a cool logo though

I shattered the very end of my finger-tip when i was a kid and after using my mbp trackpad over the weekend, the tip of the finger hurts, not unbearable, but an annoying nerve pain.

Anyone know some type of finger protector thing that would work on a trackpad? Or should I just get gloves?

Searched all the normal places online and I'm not seeing exactly what I would want.

Have you tried a rubber finger tip?

http://www.officemax.com/office-supp...oduct-ARS21668

I've seen people using these and they seem to like them.

Why not just buy a wireless travel mouse? That's what I use. I'm not coordinated enough to use a track pad, or I at least don't have the patience to learn how to use one.

Plus, vimium or something.

For some weird reason I find the ability to be productive with just a laptop without a mouse to be a good skill to have.

Yea those rubber ones look like it might have to be what I get, for now I switched to index + ring finger instead of middle, and its awkward but I'm getting used to it.

I suppose so... Personally, I use a lot of hot-keys, but I don't use a mac, so I'm not sure how many are available. Linux seems to have most of the same hot-keys I use on Windows.

Most helpful is something like alt-d. This targets the browser url box and targets the path in the file system box. For the most part, I touch my mouse about 10 times in a typical 8 hour day.

And vimium or equivalent is very nice to have installed.

There's something nice about having an external mouse. I'm not in productivity mode at that point, so I can lean back and lay my arm out on the desk and just kick it. It's all about attitude.

The above doesn't mean that I am anti-mouse. I've seen some seriously productive people with a mouse, but normally that is a robo-mouse. With track pads, the cursor moves 3 inches a minute and targeting is pretty difficult.

Tbh, I think you just made me realize this is being caused by my current addiction to hearthstone.

That game is about the nerdiest thing I've came across in a long time. I was never into Magic or variants, but it looks like its very well done. Nice graphics and stuff, though I could do without the VOs. I totally see the appeal of it.

And also about the mouse. I get a ton of strange looks when I set it next to my laptop. Probably just a crutch from my technophobe days.

Yea I never played Magic or anything else with trading cards. Its super addicting, mostly because the learning curve of card games seems pretty high if you have never done it before.

I thought using an external mouse with a laptop was standard. I'm anti-trackpad for sure.

I'm definitely not used to it but it always does things I don't want it to like clicking when I all I really want to do is move the cursor a few inches. I genuinely feel crippled anytime I'm in a position where I have to use one.

I guess you do work alone! I don't think I've ever seen anyone but me use an external mouse on a laptop, but maybe this is strictly and LA thing.

Consider the image: I open up my laptop with Lenovo emblazoned on the back, boot into Windows (still running Linux on a VM), then set my mouse next to the computer. Just about everyone out here uses an Apple with their supposedly user-friendly track-pads, so you can imagine how I end up looking. I once had an issue with my tooling. Someone else said "Well, I don't use Windows, so I wouldn't know..."

Part of me wants to ramp it up a bit and start wearing a tie, a sweater vest, wire-framed glasses, and 3 gallons of gel, and top it off with the obnoxious XP opening sound at full volume.

So I've been working on the C# course on Udemy. The instructor goes at a really nice pace and explains everything very well.

He built a program that was a guessing game between 1 and 20. So you put in a guess and it tells you if you're too high or too low until you get the right answer.

Then at the end of that section that included if statements, else statements, for and while loops, it gives you an exercise to go back into the code and fix it so that it counts the number of guesses and then outputs a line telling you how many guesses it took, and then the second question has you put in so that if they guess outside of the range it tells the user it's not a valid answer and to not count that guess.

It took me a few minutes, but I ended up figuring it out without looking it up.

Big fist pump.

Also, debugging is pretty cool being able to watch the code work in the loops step by step.

Maybe this is specific to my past laptops but it only took about three incidents of "have palm accidentally touch touchpad while typing quickly" to make me swear them off altogether. It's really confusing when you're typing up something at 80+wpm and suddenly fat-hand it.

This is #1 for me. It is excessively irritating when the cursor gets bumped to some menu and you accidentally activate something, which just about always turns into deleting your work.

+1 it's bad for your wrists, too which is the major reason why I don't use them.

I used a mouse with my old (low end) windows laptops. The mousepad on my macbook air is just big enough that I don't feel like I need to have one.

I tell my Apple to ignore my hands hitting the track pad and it sorts it out.

Yeah, I use to have some issues with "fat handing" the trackpad, but now I don't (not sure if I changed a setting, it just got better, or I trained myself) and I love it. Using an external mouse would severely limit the places I can work with my laptop (couches, arm chairs, bed, etc.)

Some updates on the hardware before xmas projects:
1) Pi seems to work like a charm (will think of some interesting stuff beyound printserver to do with it after xmas)
2) OpenWRT repeater...got an uptodate image on it and the repeater shows up on the network but doesn't forward some stuff correctly...I'll investigate but have to crawl beneath the xmas tree to do so now (to hook up the netbook to one of the lan ports to ssh in because the public IP it assumes doesn't work...pretty sure I have a good guess what the problem is already)
3) PC for dad...seems like the old PC we had sitting around has some severe hardware defects and I can't be bothered to figure them out/see if it's fixable so it goes straight to the junkyard...have dug up my pretty old desktop 1.2Ghz 32bit processor, 640MB of ram and a 40GB HDD (+a pretty good graphics card for the time) not the greatest in the world but should be okish for surfing and light office usage...I'll slap Xubuntu on it and see how it goes. Booted it because I couldn't remember what was installed...lo and behold dual boot

Derp, why didn't I do more research to discover nested sets two months ago? This pattern (and someone else's implementation of it) will save me a lot of headache for my next tree structure model.

So my designer buddy and I have two decent project ideas. We're going to start building out an MVP for one of them in the next two weeks or so for a one page web app dealing with food and preferences.

It's nice to have someone who can design when you can build... not much reason to not build some MVPs and see if something sticks.