It's the same people who say "we had electric cars 100 years ago so the Tesla Model S is neither new nor innovative."

Dactyl Nightmare? :)

You just listed one group of chemicals, and then called out mothers who exposed their unborn children to a different group of chemicals. Make your mind up.

Why not try to get more young men into scrapbooking? There are very few men at all in scrapbooking.

Java as we now know it is nothing like the language as it was originally envisaged. It was originally meant to be a high level language for low powered embedded systems.

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this. To be fair, it's been years since I used Eclipse, and it's probably improved out of sight (and/or computers being 1000x faster now compensates for the unwieldyness of Java) but last time I did use Eclipse, it was painfully chuggy.

Forcing people to use their real names online in a publicly accessible way is a terrible idea and will scupper your company. Facebook knows this because Google+ was/is arguably a better product, and was taking off fast, until Google started trying to force real names. Overnight, anyone with any kind of privacy concerns stopped using it and, despite Google still trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to ram Google+ down our throats any way it can, it's not really taking off.

They were on display...

In the bottom of a locked filing cabinet...

Stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard!

Exactly. But imagine if we all took a semester of "basic plumbing" in high school, and it introduced just a smattering of all of these different tasks, with enough info to at least let us know how much we *don't* know about plumbing. Regardless of how much we used that knowledge in future, we'd at least have a basic appreciation for the depth and breadth of plumbing as a profession.

I think "teaching everyone to code" would be pointless in terms of everyone acquiring basic programming ability. It's just not something that most people are mentally equipped to do with any degree of fluency. But I think it would be an excellent idea for high school to include a programming course, for two reasons: First, that then the students with an undiscovered aptitude for programming would be able to start learning earlier, and so be able to make more use of their gift. And second, so that the majority of people have enough of an idea what "being good at computer" actually means, and so come away with an appreciation of just exactly how complex software development really IS. I think this would help a lot with the situation where non-technical types (whether clients, managers, shareholders, whatever) know so little about the domain that they just assume it's trivial.

What does "the original consciousness" even mean?

If you're completely unconscious, then when you wake up, you aren't "the same" consciousness because continuity has been broken. You're merely another 'you' running on the same hardware with the same memories.

Zing! :)

My glasses have Transition lenses, and automatically become prescription sunglasses when I'm in sunlight.

When I get Glass or some equivalent, I expect that it would be a recording set of prescription lenses that would automatically become a non-recording set of prescription lenses when required, for instance, by me turning them off. This would not be being an irresponsible jerk.

I've always thought that buying other companies is the first sign that a company has become creatively bankrupt. They now place more faith in the ability of strangers than they do in their own staff (or they'd build a competing product in-house).

The issue isn't that it's an unfamiliar abbreviation, the issue is that the TLA namespace is so horribly cluttered now that CLA could mean any one of between 74 and 85 different things.

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