This sentence exactly got me in. I read some czech blog about fashion written by a women about how Czech men dress terribly themselves. You should have seen the discussions under the articles.
I'm ordinary man and a hacker. I personally don't care what I wear. I prefer comfortable clothing. I don't care and I don't have problem with it. But women care and they see it as a big issue. I'm reading the blog just from curiosity to see how it looks from the other side.
For anyone who doesn't want to use Terminal for file system navigation, a Finder replacement is a must. I'm constantly amazed at how terrible Finder is at its (relatively simple) job. Windows Explorer set the bar pretty low though.
There are a number of good Finder alternatives, each with their own perks. I won't steal your thunder here with a list, cause totalfinder is one of my favorites.
Going to trial it now and from the looks of it, I'll also probably be throwing cash at you very shortly. One pain point I find with Finder is that by default when you search, it doesn't search the local folder. Kills usability for me on multiple levels when I have to resort to Terminal.app + find(1).
I bought TotalFinder last week, nice app, I usually uninstall these types of replacement apps after about 5 minutes but i'm very happy - keep up the good work!
The only issue I have with TotalFinder--and I paid for it a while back--is that I would love to have the freeform visor mode, but have it correctly pop above the dock as it does for full-width instead of overlapping it. I know it's in your buglist but thought I'd mention it since you're here...
When I tried it, I was annoyed that new tabs didn't open instantly; it seemed there was a significant delay before it opened. Also, when I had minimized windows and switched between Spaces, sometimes the finder window without the tabs would reappear unminimized, which was really annoying.
I'm the author of DryDrop. I've created it before GitHub pages were announced. Then I switched to GitHub Pages+Jekyll and quite ironically, DryDrop site itself is hosted from GH pages :-)
But still I think DryDrop may be useful for some folks who want to use GAE for hosting. See the FAQ on http://drydrop.binaryage.com/#faq
> you have a public repo, you don't want to pay for CNAME support on GitHub and you are obsessed with the idea of running your site on GAE :-)
You don't need to pay anything for CNAME support now. It was not true previously but now only "obsessed with the idea of running your site on GAE" reason remains.
Prepare for sacrifices and it will hurt. You need to re-acquire your time back. That is your capital. We all have 24hrs/day, right?
My story: I'm 31, I left comfortable game-engine programmer seat at AAA gaming company because I wanted to build my own products (have been already hacking on browser extensions during evenings for past 8 months). Had savings just for 3-4months. Reduced my burn rate by moving to a very cheap rent. Started doing web-dev freelancing to save money, my goal was to have at least 1 year of runway. After 8 months of cheap life, I finally stated working on my own startup idea (it was basically http://about.me, but with more technical page builder). My GF left me after 2 months and after next 8 moths I started to have some disputes with my co-founder and few weeks later I gave up. I started to work remotely for SF-based startup. The goal was to learn how to "do it right" and to earn money for my next trial. It took it to me next 6 months to recover financially (and socially a bit). After then I started hacking on TotalFinder during the evenings and one year later finally I made it.
Unfortunately I have to add, that with non-entrepreneurial spouse it would be probably much harder to take it off the ground. It makes sense. Most women expect your time/money investment into partnership/family. Also most of them is averse to risk taking. Why she should stay with you when she would do better with fine salaried non-stressed guy who works 8to5? Better he hates his job, because he will be rushing home for recovery.
You need to make your wife co-investor/partner in building your product, she must invest at least your time she acquired by marriage or she has to help out other way to make similar contribution. So we reduced this problem to the problem of looking for the right co-founder, which is very hard problem to solve anyway :-)
A deli manager at a grocery store in the Chicago area in 1985 made $35k - $40k a year. Adjusted for inflation, that was the equivalent of around $72k - $81k a year. With full benefits.
It's been clearly determined that wages have not kept up with inflation, so I would say that comparing one generation's wealth with their parents is not something that will yield hopeful results.
You can buy many things for $100 today that would have cost $5000 in 1985 (or more likely, that didn't exist at all). Life's necessities, with the important exception of homes and apartments, have gotten cheaper in inflation-adjusted dollars over time.
I'd argue that the truest measure of wealth is the distribution of 'happiness' over a population, but that opens so many cans of worms as to be near-useless. I'm guessing the average happiness has decreased over time, but I wouldn't chalk all that up to a decrease in inflation-adjusted dollars.
The things you mention are what inflation is meant to nullify. In an economists perfect world the amount of a normal good you can buy with $1 would be the same as the amount of that good you could buy for 1 inflation-adjusted dollar at any other time in history.
You're right, an inflation-adjusted dollar should buy some fixed fraction of e.g. a loaf of bread at any time in history. It's just such a multidimensional space that any one number is bound to leave out some pretty crucial information as to how much money a given person needs to be happy.
A grocery store deli manager in the mid-80's likely would have been a union member, especially in Chicago. It would be interesting to compare real wage changes in non-unionized vocations vs. highly unionized ones to tease out relative impact of macroeconomic changes vs. the decline of unions and their power to impart wealth transfer.
Did a manager at a grocery store have the same amount of responsibility as today? My guess would be that today being a deli manager just means that you need to follow your chain's rule books. In 1985, with more independent stores and smaller chains, a manager had more responsibilities, and thus her contributions were more directly related to the store's profit than today. Thus a good deli manager is worth less than she used to be (and the really good people should work where they contribute more value, like creating the rules for deli managers in a chain).
That's a ridiculous comment. The reasons were not pulled out of thin air. Relative to the population, it seems likely that more people are qualified to become deli managers today than they were in 1985 due to standardization and advances in technology. If more people can do a job, it will receive less compensation.
At least be right if you're going to try to shoot down a comment with worthless sarcasm.
Really? Do you what percent of groceries stores we shop in today were around in 1985? Almost all of them. Same brands, same buildings, hell a lot of the people are the same too. My Dad was doing sales for Colgate and Nestle in 1970 and dealt with almost the exact same stores we have in our area today. A lot has changed in tech in 25 years, but the rest of the economy hasn't nearly as much. Last time I was at a deli counter, it was a bunch of meat and cheese that needed to be sliced and weighed by a bunch of teenagers. I don't think that has changed along the way at all.
I was born in 1985, so I don't really know how things were back then. I'm guessing more people actually used butchers and deli counters rather than picking up pre-packaged meat. I'm also guessing that it was harder to actually slice the meat since that's basically automated today.
Regardless, the original comment was fairly reasonable and didn't deserve the response it got.
Is "full benefits" comparable across time? You couldn't buy 2010 medicine in 1985 at any price. Survival rates for a host of deadly diseases are much higher today.
