Some of those sound familiar, I'm just recalling what's useful to me now, I took that class about 15 years ago so it's pretty fuzzy without prompting. We did advanced data structures, pseudo code and learned assembly and to some extent converting that into binary. I don't think we ever played around with databases though, we had to pay the student price of $50 for a Borland C compiler. We did write a couple of pieces of data entry software that saved off to csv and spent some time building a GUI with the Carnegie Mellon graphics library from the time.

I'm really glad I took a year and a half of programming in high school. From what I've been told by my buddies who went in to full time programming, our program was particularly good and two full years in high school was equivalent to the first three years of college level programming. Which, it turns out, is about 95% of what's required for typical business programming.
 
Anyways, what I meant to say, was that we spent about 3 weeks on boolean logic. As in, really drilled it in to us Karate Kid style. Then worked on for, if then else and do while loops for about six months. The boolean logic's really helped me with electronics and sorting through complex life issues (not everything is black and white but a lot of it can be broken down as such for analysis) and the deep knowledge of loops helps me identify and troubleshoot problems and offer up solutions to the programmer which if we have the source code, gets us a turnaround in under an hour usually. That kind of logical thought process puts me head and shoulders above my peers in troubleshooting and I end up getting called in to solve "the tough ones".
 
I don't want to be a computer scientist for my whole life, but programming let me look at events in history as a teenager, cause and effect, in a whole new light that the traditional "hypothesis and experiment" scientific method wasn't as easily applicable.

We didn't have video bloggers with millions of elementary, middle school and high school fans in the mid-90's. How adults in their 30's use youtube (tutorials, entertainment) is completely different than how the 9-21 year old group uses youtube. It's pretty much black and white. Things like yogscast (only example I can think of) bring in millions and millions of dollars each year for a staff of just a few. Rooster Teeth could not have existed in the mid-90s. Most people didn't have the bandwidth and/or patience to use video on the web back then. Now children spend more time on youtube than TV (or that tipping point is coming soon)

It must be nice living in the suburbs.

It's a lot more effort to fence six sets of bicycle parts from one bicycle on craigslist than fence a whole bicycle, not even counting disassembly time. Plus you have to store them until they're sold, etc. And the market for bicycle parts is very different (more picky) than the whole-bike market who just wants something they can use out of the box. People buying parts often times are part of a very small market and recognize the same sellers pretty quickly.

I was able to prove out just now that the speed hump my friend in highschool's parents had the city put in front of their house isn't justified - the neighborhood street in front of our house had way more traffic and was only half a mile from them.

You can't eat 2000 calories a day and sustain 3000 calories worth of warm-blooded flesh, either the study is in error or the laws of thermodynamics needs to be re-examined. Unless the bacteria use some sort of endothermic process and the room she was kept in stayed above 98.6F in which case I want to read the article.

You still need to consume > 2200-2700 calories a day for an average size human to gain weight beyond 200 lbs or so (realistically you'll top out at about 180lbs even if you sleep all day but let's use round numbers). If you're 250 lbs or 300 lbs you have to consume way more than 3000 calories a day to simply maintain that bulk of flesh. Fat people are still fat because they eat more than they ought to, this article, if 100% true, doesn't change that fact

For a lot of people who don't follow the news closely, ISIS just sounds like the latest boogyman out of the middle east.
 
On the other hand, torching off a live human being for PR reasons, video taping it, then distributing it to brag about it to the entire world is a whole new circle of hell even Dante hadn't accounted for before. People can generally stick their head in the sand about any topic, but particularly gruesome, minutes long snuff films broadcast on live television are pretty hard to ignore.

I think if we're getting this specific, I would label that as "inadvertently collaborating with" but I don't disagree with you.

It depends on your definition of "for", if you mean "for money" then it's not correct usage. If it's "for their cause" as in "not working against them" then yes they are "literally" advancing their cause and message by broadcasting the video.

5.0 is kind of crap and a big step backwards from 4.4.4, I unfortuantely upgraded my Moto G to 5.0.1 and it just kind of ground to a halt. They haven't released the 5.0 update for the Moto X 2013 yet and now I'm hoping that they'll wait until 5.2 as the new OS seems kind of half-baked compared to the ultra-polished 4.4.4.

When the B+/A+ was announced/released they said that would be the last revision until 2017 which would probably be a substantial redesign. I would google for articles about the announcement of the B+ they have a couple quotes about 2017 being the timeframe of the next version. They didn't specifically call it the "Pi 3" but I would imagine that's the naming convention they end up with.

It's wildly dependent on the rated output, some are rated for 500ma, others are rated for 4100ma, depends on the device, what rate the battery is capable of charging at and the pricepoint of your device. I have Samsung chargers for 600, 800, 1200 and 1500ma from various devices I've purchased.

They still manufacture the A+, which I was playing around with this very afternoon, it is still single core, and even with a Edimax usb wifi nub (I hesitate to call it a dongle, it's too short) plugged in, it only pulls about 130mA, but "spikes" to 160mA when you start pinging Google or 250mA if you start X. By comparison the B+ single core starts at around 250mA draw due to the extra USB host controller and can well exceed 600mA running Minecraft with a mouse and keyboard plugged in and the GPU at full tilt.