She has an iPhone. The company can enable find my iPhone at any time if they need to figure out where it is. There is no reason that they need to log her location 24/7.

I would say it would depend even more on whether or not the programmer profiled the code in question prior to making that optimization change. If there is no perceived or noticeable benefit to this optimization, then there is no reason to put something unreadable and platform specific into your code base. I know I worked on a project once where the dev manager wanted to rewrite an entire library in assembly because there was a perceived performance problem in the library. While some more senior devs started the work on that, I profiled the library and saw that it was just one function call that was accounting for most of the performance problems. I also realized that this function call was being made 1200 times per second when we really only needed to make this call once and then we could cache that result. There is no point in putting in any sort of clever hack or optimization until you've identified a need for it. Most modern C/C++ compilers are pretty good at optimizing your code for you.

My grocery store, Walmart, and many other places will fill those same standard antibiotics for free. What's the point of buying it at a pet supply store if you can get it for free, anyway?

In my current city there is a company that writes software for mortgage companies. Their back end systems were all written in COBOL. They pay a small fortune for experienced COBOL developers, but they are transitioning all of their code over to Java. I also worked on a project for the Department of Defense that was originally written in Fortan, then had new code added as ADA and my company at that time worked to convert all the ADA and Fortran to C. That was about 6 years ago, though.

They know the outer diameter of the hole they drilled, correct? They know the inner diameter of the pipe they are placing in the hole, correct? So they should know exactly how much cement is required to fill the hole, correct? Therefore, they should not need to be able to see into the hole at all. They just need to know whether or not the amount of cement poured matches their expectation +/- some margin of error.

When non-technical people try to tell me that I must be a genius to be able to program, I always tell them that anyone can learn to write software. I do believe that certain mindsets are able to grasp the material and apply it better, but that does not prevent someone without that mindset from learning to program well. It's all just logic and some people grasp logic better than others.

Sounds like you are not the car guy. The screech you hear can be chatter from the brake pads, or from the wear indicator. It is NOT and indication that you need to replace the brakes, it is an indication that you need to inspect the brakes. Brand new brakes can cause a screeching sound if they do not have the proper shims installed, or an anti-screech compound put onto the back of the pads.

There is nothing to cause a screeching sound that would also destroy the rotors - neither brake chatter nor the wear indicator will cause damage to the rotor. If you hear a grinding noise, then the brake pad has been worn completely away (at least in one place, or on one side of the rotor). Of course someone can hear steel on steel grinding. You can feel it in the car when the brakes are applied.

Anyone who understands physics understands that the rear brakes do not provide as much stopping power as the front, regardless of whether they are drum or disc. However, up to 40% of your stopping power can come from the rear brakes. If you're driving without rear brakes, you had better hope you never need to make a panic stop. In a brief Googling the best I could find for you is the Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Basic Handbook that indicates that the average motorcycle has 30% of its total available braking power in the rear wheel. It does not say that the rear wheels provide nothing but brake assist, that is just absurd. And I would prefer to NOT ride in the car of someone who only has 70% of their total stopping power available to them.

You're right, people deserve freedom. However, being a member of society requires that you follow certain norms. For simplicity's sake, why don't we call these norms regulations? These regulations forbid you from murdering me, for instance. The general purpose of these regulations are to prevent injury or harm to others. If you'd like to go back to the days without any sort of government regulations, why don't we just go ahead and let you, your partner, your parents, your children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, or any progeny of your family work in a factory for 100+ hours a week?

The same White Water era in which Hillary denied the police access to the office of her and president Clinton's chief legal counsel after he was apparently murdered or had committed suicide?

Thank you. Obviously this guy has some reason to ignore reality in order to support Uber. Especially that comment about riders knowing that the driver isn't maintaining their car properly. How does anyone know that the brakes need service if they don't stick their head in the wheel well and look? Perhaps if there were no brake pads left! But with drum brakes you wouldn't even hear a sound when the brakes stopped working. And there are plenty of new base model cars with rear drum brakes.

Someone who drives professionally spends a hell of a lot more time on the road than someone who spends 20 minutes driving to/from work each day. That means that they have a hell of a lot more of an opportunity to kill someone than the average commuter. Uber encourages these people to drive more.

No. Most people I know will drive around with their check engine light on for months because they don't know how to actually see what the engine code means. They also fail to maintain the emission components of their vehicles, change their oil, and a host of other small things they should be doing. Hell just a month ago I replaced the brakes and rotors on a coworker's car because she didn't realize that grinding noise she was hearing when she hit the brakes was bad.

I'm 6'3. I can easily be 50 pounds overweight and not look like that guy. If he is that tall, he's got to be closer to 70-80 pounds overweight. Granted, if you look at BMI charts they think I should weigh about 20 pounds less than I do when I think I look fit and trim.

Seriously. I grew up in that area. One day I was standing on a stool that was unstable, it was missing a leg. A 4.0 earthquake hit about 10 miles away and I didn't even feel it on my precarious perch. I'm guessing whoever submitted this story is either not from California, or has never actually been in an earthquake before.

Says YOU! Hasbro has been selling me aircraft carriers for dozens of years!! On the weekends I can go to a yard sale and pick up an entire armada.

Yeah it's pretty pathetic. It's illegal to bait the deer during the season (in most states, I believe), so they get the deer used to a free lunch and take it away when the season starts. That way they aren't technically breaking the law, but they are poor sportsmen. If all they want is some deer meat, perhaps they should open a deer farm.