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I'm a serial startup engineer who has had a few health scares this summer and am re-evaluating my lifestyle and career goals. I am looking for suggestions for programming jobs that are relatively low stress, but also at…

When I lived in Boston, I wanted to take this series of courses, but never had the time: http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2008-09/courses/10228.jsp . It is a lab electronics course based on "The Art of Electronics" by…

I've decided to leave my current job to work on my startup. It turns out working on a startup while you work at another startup doesn't work out, time wise. However, I only have enough money to last through the end of…

In an attempt to create the ultimate ergonomic workspace, I'm considering mounting a 42" or larger 1080p LCD panel to the wall about 4 feet from my desk. I'd use this as a 2nd monitor for my 17" macbook. Has anyone…

I want to make a simple video player in flash that can make a 4x4 grid of videos. When you click on a video, it takes over the grid. Also, I'd like there to be buttons that can scroll the video grid left and right. New…

I have four medium sized projects which I consider extremely distasteful on my plate for the next two weeks. These are things I simply can't stand doing, but need to finish in order to move on to better stuff. Since my…

I've been using rails for the past 2 years, and have had mixed feelings about it. I ported two rails applications to MERB, because I'm no longer using ActiveRecord, so most of the other stuff in Rails also seemed…

welcome to the crushing grind of mediocrity, yahoo! style.

I've been building web apps ontop of rails for the past year and a half. Now I need to decide if I want to stick with rails for my startup. I like that it is quick to try things out. I don't like the various execution…