HerrMonnezza

Interesting remarks, thanks!

When discussing remote vs non-remote with a colleague some time ago over lunch, he mentioned that "remote is an extreme version of yourself", so those inclined to slack off will slack off way more to the point of being unproductive, and those inclined to work longer hours will eventually just spend all their time working... Maybe over-simplified but I think he was onto something.

arXiv replaces any URL in the text of the abstract with a link with text "this http url"; it seems the authors did not know this and just embedded a bare URL in their abstract.

One thing that Git and the other DVCS's massively improved over Subversion is that commits are local, and you only need to talk to a remote endpoint when you push/pull. In Subversion, every commit would require uploading changes to the repository server, which encouraged larger commits (to amortize the overhead).

I'm curious: why the `printf '%s\n' "$(pwd -P)"` ? wouldn't just `pwd -P` achieve the same?

It really depends on what your current and wanted roles are... When it happened to me, I would have had to interview again because there were no other roles in my career ladder left in town.

IIRC, Linux' ext2/3/4 support an 'a' attribute that make a file append-only.