Back in the 80s, Arizona had a Republican governor by the name of Evan Meacham. Businessman, no real political experience (sound familiar?). He was so thoroughly rejected by the government's immune system that he was the first governor in America to be simultaneously impeached and recalled (!).

The lady that followed for the rest of his term was an unassuming Secretary of State named Rose Mofford. Unlike Meacham, she was basically uncontroversial, experienced in government, and (most importantly) competent. She was the saltines-and-plain-broth for a political hangover.

Relatively uncontroversial, experienced, and competent. Does that sound like any of the current candidates?

Saltines and plain broth 2020!

Yeah, there's a pretty wide gap between "here's a tip, Uncle Sam" and "I'm going to abuse the hell out of the law and actively try to get away with hiding money. Maybe I'll do something actually illegal and drag it out in the courts for years to make this quarter's numbers look better. I won't be CEO by the time this catches up with us (if ever) anyway."

I'm not saying folks should overpay, I'm saying that actively fighting taxation in ways the average Joe can't hurts society. I realize that's an unrealistic to expect perfection, but I do think it's a reasonable goal to want fairness in the tax code someday. Cain was a horrible salesman, but 9/9/9 was at least comprehensible and approaching fairness.

How about the folks that can afford armies of accountants to figure out how to avoid taxes, er, I dunno, stop doing that and pay some damn taxes?

We might not need to boil the ocean here.

Thanks, NBCU. Now I have this stupid song stuck in my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If they don't call this the Impossible Whopper, then they're idiots.

Insufficient maple syrup
Not being a hockey fan
Disdain for Tim Horton's
Lack of deference to the Corgi-Enthusiast-in-Chief
Not translating everything into French
Moose baiting
Too little gravy in the poutine
Mainlining smoked meat
Kraft Dinner addiction (outside of the norm)
and finally...
Insincere and/or infrequent apologies

Lots of "homebrew does not..." in those highlights, no?

Despite the fears from the kale-munching, OMG-I-can't-deal-with-artifice crowd, I for one have yet to hear of any actual widespread problems from the dissemination of GMO crops on humanity.

Sure, business practices of e.g. Monsanto may not be great for farmers, but the actual products themselves don't seem to be problematic AFAICT.

Change my mind ;-)

Simple.

1. Get a Windows laptop.
2. She does absolutely everything on Chrome anyway.
3. When it starts misbehaving, get her a Chromeboox, since she didn't need the rest of Windows anyway.
4. Profit!

No way I'd personally have non-techie employees on anything but Chromebooks these days unless they need some specific app that a browser doesn't provide.

Old white guy Googles himself; doesn't like what he sees. Film at 11.

My fave approach as a hiring manager is to do the reverse on a take-home test for candidates from e.g. a career fair:

I write code that does something (generally a few different examples in various languages) and don't comment the code at all and have FIXME-type identifiers (function names like FIXME_name_this_function() ). Their job is to figure out what the code does (compile/run it, take it apart, etc) and then comment it and change the identifiers to something useful. They can use any non-human resources they can find (compilers, debuggers, web searches, docs, etc).

I think this is a better approach because:

* When you're starting at a new job, you're probably fixing broken code at first anyway, so this is a better simulation of that.

* I can process many more candidates, since I already know what the code does and don't have to decipher their handwriting on a board, and

* It shows their ability to get code maintainable, which is much better in the long run.

So stop having your candidates write crappy code; have them comment your crappy code instead!

Both the Salvation Army and Goodwill have reported strong supplies of "refurbished" VCRs in a wide variety of makes and models. Get your home entertainment system to blink 12:00 today; stop by your local shop and pick one up!

IME, nobody who's ever been asked a question beginning with "Why don't we just..." has ever been happy to hear it.

IME, nobody who's ever asked a question beginning with "Why don't we just..." has ever liked the answer.

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Yep, I tend to prefer the default keybindings on konsole (particularly shift+Left/Right to switch tabs) and theme handling. ...but I do so on Ubuntu with Unity (and there I go losing my street cred--I actually like Unity :-/ ).