Yes, I'm sure nobody in all of China already has an inexpensive HEPA air purifier.

"It's when your quote just ain't so." - Oscar Wilde

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> Unless you're a framework author, chances are you'll have to care very little about mucking with bytes.

Right, because none of us write code that interacts with other code or systems that use bytes.

Like C libraries.
Or binary files.
Or network protocols.

> I never learned to ... write modular, DRY code

Don't worry about frameworks right now. This is your problem right here.

The book that helped me best in learning to write modular code was "Analysis Patterns", by Martin Fowler. (http://martinfowler.com/books/ap.html) It's ancient now (from 1996), and you can find used copies on Amazon for under 10 bucks. I came across it back around when it came out (yikes, that's 18 years ago!) while I was buying up every book I could find on OO, and this is the one that really made plain to me how to approach object design.

With book in hand, I might recommend also trying to write a text-oriented version of a card game. Crazy 8's or go fish where the number of players can vary and the "AI" is simple.

And if you really want to focus on modularity, I'd say write this game from scratch in Java. It's a language that definitely prods you towards modularity. Everything is in a class. One class per file. With that constraint, most developers learn to think carefully about how to organize code, and the lessons learned can be used in any language.

> There are too few geeks who have the time and patience to automate anything in the home to this level. Most people are sloth-lazy...

We're too lazy to spend the energy to enable even more laziness.

The pre-video ad was like 3 hours long so I gave up.

Welcome to Mini Cooper a la 2006.

The rule of law is, at its core, a way to protect one party's rights against the actions of another party. Government is the messy system we have devised to enforce said rules. This is clearly a case where one party's reasonable expectation of privacy is violated by the actions of another party. In particular, consider homemade sex videos made by a couple which are later distributed by an angry ex. Law or no law, people are going to sue.

This sort of "revenge porn" apparently happens often enough with current technology that citizens have started to use their democratic powers to push for laws indicating what behavior is a violation of others rights with regard to sexual images. Fortunately, as a democracy, we are a government of the people, which is why "government is sticking its[sic] nose into business like this."

As you have pointed out, extenuating circumstances may exist which make the law subject to interpretation. Guilt may be difficult to determine. That's not a new problem - all law is subject to interpretation. Property lines, who punched who first, etc. It's all a mess which fails algorithmic decomposition. Fortunately there are courts specifically designed to handle this sort of thing.

Just make sure to get it insured. The "I Can Go Potty Myself" app frequently crashes the whole phone... Into the toilet.

The icons appear to be...

"O" - A gaming OS
"[O ]" - A box running the gaming OS?
"O + O" - A gaming network?

I live in Georgia and I don't get paid for unused vacation when I leave a job. When I lived in California, I did get paid for unused vacation time when I left a job.

http://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/leave-laws/vacation-leave-laws/vacation-leave-law-summaries/

Look for the following wording which applies in several states, including Georgia:

"An employer may lawfully establish a policy or enter into a contract denying employees payment for accrued vacation leave upon separation from employment."

The money, to be donated by big corporations, would go to the first organization that delivers a live human from Los Angeles to San Francisco

So what do I get for delivering a dead human?

In the USA vacation time is an earned benefit for a regular employee, short of bankruptcy they can't stiff you.

This is the stuff of state laws. Many states allow "use it or lose it" vacation time accrual policies in employment contracts.

> The problem is that most phone vendors (basically all except Google) never update the Android system after the phone is released.

Even Google doesn't keep Android up to date on older devices. The once-flagship Nexus One, introduced in 2010, only got official updates for about a year, taking it from version 2.1 to 2.3.6.

> Yet C developers... rarely depend on shitloads of libraries.

$ ls -l /usr/lib | wc -l
shitloads