I am not productive at all when I use Turntable. Brain cycles are definitely wasted when I use it.

In case anyone else was wondering what the heck the Apple Newton was/is -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)

Just spent some time putting some Star Wars in my terminal greeting. In case anyone is interested, I threw a .sh and .txt up at github :)

https://github.com/loeschg/ascii-art

You could kick that up a notch with something I just threw together. http://npmjs.org/motd :)

If you told me 10 years ago that people would be auto-executing JavaScript upon SSHing to a server..

what have we done.

Haha, true. I do not actually use it at the moment either, I just figured it could be fun.

Thanks!

Thoughts on other VPS vs EC2?

Yup, still hesitant to click .xxx links at work even if it's not filtered. Didn't see any repercussions after the last time I accidentally clicked one at work (another HN article)... though I didn't get promoted this time around... correlation? I'm going to make myself feel better and say yes.

Man... I don't know what I'd do if an interviewer presented that situation up front and very directly. "We'll hire you fast, but we won't hesitate to let you go." I wouldn't be able to stop thinking of the bad news bears scenario where I quit my job, get hired, and fired at the new one within a couple months. I guess it depends how awesome the job is that I'm applying for and how (not) awesome the job is that I'm leaving.

Try being on the country on a work visa. Makes that situation 100x more terrifying.

Where's the spoiler alert? Psh. No need to watch LOTR now... :)

I'm actually starting to find that many times I'm more productive, feel better, and I believe do better work when I do my "thinking" on paper/white board. When I sit down at a computer to do the actual coding, my brain isn't processing a ton of information. It's just using what I've already written down.

I agree with this. I can't speak for SF specifically, but a lot of places with high homeless populations have organizations, systems, and resources to help those in need. From my understanding, one of the problems is people outside of the organizations unintentionally undermining the organizations by giving food, handouts, etc. When people receive this sort of help, they don't see a need to go to these organizations that help identify and ideally fix the root issue.

Fixing the homeless problem is complicated. I don't think that gives you an excuse to do nothing though. I think the app is interesting, and I think could could come from it. I think the effort is better spent focusing on more permanent solutions. Maybe try joining up with a homeless organization and pitching them the idea.

I'm a big proponent of organizations and systems. They're probably the most efficient mechanism but they don't address all of the issues. Sometimes a homeless person doesn't want/need food or shelter, they just want someone passing by to notice them and take a few minutes to chat.

I'm of the mind that if you feel led to do something then you should follow your gut.

Is there any way to make Emoji part of a custom bash prompt in Terminal? That would be rad.

yes, terminal.app will render emoji. A friend has a pizza slice as his prompt

Do you know how he set the custom prompt? I was trying to edit my .bash_profile and couldn't use emoji.