Personally I bought Pragmata Pro once and I'm still delighted to use it as my favorite fixed-width font.

I like the M-x eshell function a lot, too. It supplies identical shell experience across every system which is capable to run emacs.

Decision making takes a long time in any bigger company. Changes often take month to years before implementation starts. I guess, the business effects of the US/worldwide internet spying will not be visible right now, but in a few months or years.

My argument above is that companies that have decided to move to the cloud, NSA or not, have already signed off on the fact that it is worth the risk to allow possible 3rd party access. The new discussion about the NSA doesn't affect that decision.

> But in the long term I think the trust can be restored, if majority of people can actually give a shit about these revelations.

The problem is, that right now US based cloud services loose customers to other competitors which are not hampered by ridiculous US laws. Since cloud services are all about customer lock in, it does not matter if trust can be restored at a later time(which I personally doubt). They have lost the customer to a competitor - most likely forever.

I was actually talking about the trust between governments and their citizens. But since you brought it up...

> The problem is, that right now US based cloud services loose customers to other competitors which are not hampered by ridiculous US laws.

I don't think that's the case. Is there even a cloud service that's out of NSA's reach that's become prominent after these revelations? People on HN mentioned some services, but general public still use Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive as if nothing's happened.

What a coincidence! Today there was a retweet in my twitter stream of a essay from American Scientist. The title is "The Science of Scientific Writing". While not everything may be appropriate to blog postings, nevertheless it contains some timeless hints. Here is the URL:

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.877,y.0,no.,conte...

I completely agree with this article. When you notice that your work has no real meaning to the company, it kills your motivation nearly instantly. I just stay because of the money and put my real efforts into some nice open source projects which actually matter.

Thanks for the reply Tezro. I think it's really unfortunate that leadership doesn't recognize how money might drive retention but that impact drives engagement.

I read a quote somewhere that read like 'passion leads to energy, energy leads to productivity and productivity leads to results.'

What kind of situation were you in/what kind of fruitless work did you find yourself doing?

Thanks for writing this fairly exhaustive walk through. No need to feel terrible.