Don't forget the planetarium attached to the AMNH and the Queens Hall of Science (think Men In Black spaceships). There are dozens more all over the city. If you like locks there is an entire museum just dedicated to Locks in midtown. Try this for a listing of the museums we have in town: http://officialsite.com/index.asp?regionid=30&categoryid=12 W

I have been in the CS field for 3 decades now as everything from Programmer to sysadmin to CTO. Your estimation is off by a factor of 10. The average programmer writes 10-12 valid usable lines of code per day. Everything else is debugging, rewriting, documenting, etc. Of course my job when I have the higher end positions is to find programmers who beat that by a large margin, and often I can. To find those programmers you ask nothing about the languages they know. You ask them about the systems they have built at home and the projects which they have coded in their free time. The only programmer worth hiring is the one for whom programming and computers are also a hobby. This programmer will, out of necessity, already know shell scripting, some system and network administration, at least 3 languages and have a general grasp of what a program should do, what a script should do and what database should do.

Agreed. We use Agile and XP (Extreme Programming) at our company. I was part of the pilot group, and having the micro and story tests in place before you write the code helps you write code quicker, better, and with far less stress on your QA group.

Who says TPB does not host porn? http://thepiratebay.org/browse/500 Just look for yourselves. W

You might want to check out the Jewish writer Josephus. He independently correlates that Jesus did in fact live.