Always, always, always do the math on counters and give yourself orders of magnitude of space. Figured this out the hard way once (fortunately not in a situation where safety was a concern).

...I slept for 11 months and this is April Fool's Day.

I find myself relying less and less on jQuery and more and more on AngularJS and native HTML5/CSS3 (+Bootstrap), (and Lodash for the FP bits). The AngularJS stuff encapsulates the DOM manipulation more cleanly and HTML5/CSS3 has gotten powerful enough to do declaratively what you used to have to do programmatically. However, it is still handy to know some jQuery, particularly to shim the code a bit around the edges of Angular and for various programming tasks. jQuery can make code cleaner, too, though it is a two-edged sword: used badly it can make code even worse. So I'm glad I know jQuery, which is not quite the same thing as thinking it's a good idea to learn jQuery, but still, if you have the spare time...

I can just picture all the kids picking up their 3-D printed parts and smelling them as they are handed out.

A company I worked at had a similar policy: we were allowed one Easter egg per app, and we had to disclose it to management. The management took the rather enlightened view that it could be used to liven up product demos, etc.

I think this is good, even if they did it under pressure. Doing the right thing so quickly, even in response to a nudge, is a hopeful sign.

I believe in the right of people to form contracts, even for employers to require contractual conditions for employment. But it has to be balanced against the relative economic power of the two parties.

It's like saying a match between a pee-wee league football team and an NFL team is fair because both parties are governed by the same rules. “Fair” is only a correct assessment if you ignore the most important facts about the situation.

If a bazillion dollar company wants to require minimum wage, near-zero net-worth, workers to wear certain clothes, work specific hours, not moonlight (if employed full time), not be allowed to abscond with company secrets, etc., I have absolutely no problem with that. But if that same company wants to dictate that those employees will be bound, to their economic detriment, even after they are no longer being paid, from taking the type of jobs that they are trained for and that are commonly available to them, that seems inequitable.

After all, even if the cost of that employee going to a competitor is many times the hourly value of that employee, that still implies less harm to the mega corporation than hindering the future employment of that person.

And I should state that I am not an Amazon-hater; I am a loyal customer since the days when they started out just selling a few books on-line. I remember what it was like (not living in a big city) to try to buy uncommon or technical books before Amazon -- in a word, it sucked. But big companies just need to remember that a large part of what made them into a bazillion dollar companies was all those people depending on those commonly available jobs for money -- sometimes a significant fraction of their small income -- to buy the books, music, etc.

what the "free" in free enterprise is supposed to mean?

He inspired and validated the hopes of generations of nerdy kids; including this nerdy kid. The world will seem a little non-sequitur to me for a bit.

...the original article were written by a bot.

The case should be dismissed on the grounds that the school has no governing authority. This is clearly a case for the Department of Underage Magic.

Laziness makes for great software developers. Great developers will slave for hours, days, lifetimes even, just trying find easier ways to do things.

I haven't seen the movie, but the book is one of my favorites. One of the things that worries me is that the book is one of those rare, so self-contained and complete pieces of art that it seems anything added or deleted -- even a single word -- could spoil it.

Probably inevitable, but sad nonetheless. Some of my fondest memories of my Dad are of visiting Radio Shack with him.

...in a personal sense, that is. I go out of my way to avoid offending others on very personal topics like religion. Not because I'm afraid, but because I want to be a nice guy :)
As a citizen of a republic, however, I support the right of free speech, even offensive speech. In fact, offensive or unpopular speech in particular needs to be protected: there's neither need nor reason to protect the speech people want to hear.