"He had to tell the system four times to turn the lights off before it got dark."
And *that* time he he called Jarvis by its nickname, "Alexa".

I got a Steelcase Leap chair probably 7+ years ago for my home office and I like it very much. Less expensive than the Aeron but just as well made, reasonably adjustable and with mesh ventilation. Also, definitely get a standing desk, especially if you live where winter restricts your going outside After a particularly rough winter, I got one from Geek Desk (adding a nice wood top from Ikea) that has worked great for 4+ years (after one fix they provided pronto). (Wirecutter has other suggestions: http://thewirecutter.com/revie... )

"roscharc test"? You failed. It's "Rorschach". That and your pitiful apologia for G W Bush and his lying, chickenhawk neocons.

"Critical Reagents Acquisition Program", there, now their acronym is perfect.

You credit the environment, which was certainly spectacularly nurturing at Bell Labs. But don't conflate that with the sort of corporate development that produced these new languages (Swift, Go, Hack). Corporate entities may produce invaluable Technical Journals etc. but rarely, if ever, elegant, inspiring ideas, products, or books like K&R.

Bell Labs didn't develop C; in fact I think Bell Labs hardly knew what to do with it. Two (brilliant) people -- Keringhan and Ritchie -- working in Bell Labs wrote C and developed Unix so that they could do what they wanted, better and quicker, on the minicomputers around their labs. Their slim volume "The C Programming Language" is amazingly engaging, concise, and deeply instructive. Modern IDEs are great for many things but they also constitute a significant hurdle to actually coding, which K&R had you doing pronto in a succinct, introductory tutorial chapter.

you are joking but damn if it doesn't sound pretty interesting...even before you drop a *nix distro on it...

absolutely -- everything is in the race. It's like suggesting more complex beings (e.g. humans) are "more evolved", when in fact they (we) were pushed out of the simpler niches by "better evolved" organisms. There's virus that uses 5 of the 6 available reading frames along a stretch of its genome... THAT is good coding (humans use 1, very rarely 2, and often none (non-protein coding)).

Oh, Reagan would say plenty of rah-rah things about toughing it out and standing up to the bad guys. But once a few hundred marines got killed, he'd cut-and-run like he did in Lebanon.

The B1 was a huge waste of money -- about $100 billion back then, probably over $200 billion in today's dollars. It was obsolete before it was built because low-level (below radar) bombers were impractical. Carter cancelled it and pushed the stealthy B2 but Reagan wanted to buy toys for his "Defense" Department and needed to pay off contractors, mostly in SoCal. The B1 has hardly ever done anything and never anything that couldn't have been done by another plane.

Yippee! I'm in the 2%!

(Mostly I use Citrix to connect to the corporate environment but also Word and Excel on the Air. Mine is over 3 years old -- (still) a great laptop; instant on/off with the cover, reliable, good keyboard, very light weight.)

Companies like SAP, a giant German company that sells software to thousands of American firms, might worry about where that argument leads....