I think that if we accept the notion that electric cars are going to get better and cheaper in the future, then sooner or later, maybe not in 8 tears, but maybe in 10 or 15 there will not be many ICE new cars sold. I commute 25 miles each way to work. Most any new electric can do that. That would cover about 90% of my driving. Also, I have a cottage about 250 miles away. Still a bit of a stretch but I think a Chev Bolt could just about do it. Up the range to 300 miles and it would get me to the cottage in the summer and the ski hill in the winter. That would cover 99% of my trips. The odd time I want to take a driving vacation I would rent a gas car. Hell, we did that last year, rented a mustang convertible for 10 days and drove to California and back.
 
People always look at "now", and seem oddly blind to tomorrow. When digital cameras first showed up, I read somebody who said that digital would never replace film because cameras would have to be over 10 Mp to match the resolution of 35mm film. At the time a digital camera cost $1500 and had a resolution of 640x480 (about 0.3 Mp). Thing is, the digital cameras were roughly doubling in pixel count every year even at that time. Same thing with LCD monitors; The CAD guys at work all had $3000 21" Sonys and they were sure they would never replace them with LCDs. Now they all have 28" 4K displays, and I don't think you can actually buy a glass monitor any more.

Take it back - hpe.com .....

HP-UX and the 9000s don't even seem to be available via hp.com. Haven't seen them there in a long, long time.

We bought them for our managers. Six of ten kept the surface pro tablets and four went back to laptops (zbook g3). So they are around.

At $45 / bbl who is going to be doing any offshore exploring?

Sounds just like me.Cruised through high school with straight A average. Physics teacher gave bonus marks for extra lab and exam questions, I scored 114 %. First year science I was having way too much fun and my marks dropped to Bs. First year engineering I was much harder than I expected and I came within a millimeter of failing the year. Finally figured out that three months of foosball and an all-nighter cramming before the exams wasn't going to cut it any more. I started working problem sets on the blackboard with three other coneheads every night after class and (holy shit) actually learning the course material. By 4th year the marks were back up to As and Bs.

I like functional composition, it certainly has its uses (at least as middleware). I disagree with the notion that it makes code more readable though, in general. It only makes code more readable if you're familiar with it (functional programming).

Meh. Pymssql works pretty well. Am I missing something?

Starcraft gave me my first taste of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Every day 8 hours CAD, 10 hours Starcraft. Hurt like a bitch after a few months. I had to give up the Starcraft for about 3 months and mouse left handed at work.

I think this is for the best. I am old enough to remember a time before cellphones, so take this for my version of "get off my lawn". There is a certain species of person who has a need to carry out a phone conversation while on public transportation. I don't expect dead quiet on a train, but listening to someone shout random phrases into a their phone from the time they get on the train till the time they get off 40 minutes later pushes the boundaries of courtesy a little too far. I'm afraid that if someone sat down next to me and talked all the way from Seattle to Atlanta I might snap. I'm imaging something like Bill Duke in Predator - "bleed ya real quiet, leave ya there." I would like to get through my days without having to leave a seatmate behind with a little plastic knife in his spleen.

Listen up Ladies. You know all those other tech companies that pay you 70 cents for every dollar they pay the men. Well if you come to work for Onkeltech I will pay you 72 cents for every dollar I pay my male employees. I know; it sounds too good to be true. Send resumes now.

You have no idea. Small airplanes have much less stringent security requirements. I flew from Vancouver to Victoria last year on Harbour Air (10 seat floatplane). I called to find out how far in advance i had to be there. HA - What time is your flight?. Me - 7 AM. HA - be there no later than 10 to 7. No security check of any sort. At 7:00 on the nose the pilot walked into the lounge, announced the flight and we all walked down to the dock together. This was downtown to downtown, and the from the time I arrived at the "Airport" to the time I walked off the dock in Victoria was 35 minutes. Pure awesome.

I used to work at a $Very Big Transportation Company from 1982 to 1998. They are now clients of our company. Earlier this year Transportation Company needed to give me access to some of their systems. My old username and account, from 1998, were still in their systems.

... the 50,000 Accenture employees that are actually paying attention just shat their pants...

Ive become convinced the best developer environment is 100% remote. Corporate IT is so out of touch with network/application development they can't possibly help or do anything but hinder...