Funny you should ask: I just got back from a trip to London. Eight time zones worth of jet lag.

I find the first night there or back is no problem to get to sleep, because I'm so totally wasted I can't hold my eyes open anyway. It's the second night that's the killer. After that I'm fine. Getting up at the right time is a challenge on flights to the east coast, but is rarely an issue for Europe.

Unless you're making a phone call or having some other sort of live interaction, the time at home is irrelevant. Don't even think about it. The time where you are is the time that matters.

...laura

I always insist on a clean compile with the warning level turned up as high as it will go. If the compiler is cool with my code, I have a better chance it will do the right thing with it.

Once I have an application that works I see if it meets performance goals (if any). If it does, I'm done. If it doesn't, profile, find the hot spots, optimize as needed. Compiling an entire application with -O3 is idiotic, and misses the point.

...laura

I get in to the office nominally at 8, but usually get in a bit earlier, like 0740.

Since I'm on Pacific time and almost everybody I deal with is on Central and Eastern time, I consider it a courtesy to them to be in the office promptly. At one time I had a job that got me over to Paris and Brussels quite a bit, but the "engineering" folks were the sort who rarely showed up in the office before 1000. This is getting kinda late in western Europe when you need to work with somebody to solve a problem. Since I was in the office earliest I took most of the calls from Europe, and, oddly enough, was the one invited to fly over and help them figure things out.

...laura

More guns sale to US ...
More vigilante militias ...
More dogma survivalist ...
More extremist politics ...

Fewer violent crimes and gun deaths over the past decades in the USA?
I guess, guns with nuts are not a big problem for US law abiding citizens.

At home, I have a firewall/proxy pass-through (a stealthy honey pot) for all my bits and bytes and scan for criminal and malicious data/bots/.... It is all just for fun, and trusting any Web-Services Providers (WSP) Google...Alibaba, or Internet Access Providers (IAP) ComCast xFinity, Verison FiOS ... is as foolish as trusting any government.

IMO Verizon has congress and SC-judges on their side; So, NetFlix, Vudu, and US are the lossers.

Other industries, if they fail in killing innovation (by law or tricks) and fail to change quick enough, then they are out of business. Global economic complexities would side (IMO) with an eventual (though gradual) chaos cascade of industry and power away from US, EU, CN ... to places, cultures, and laws willing to nurture innovation.

Both big Auto and Oil will do their best to kill innovation for US, EU .... Prior history of AC by Tesla being taken by Westinghouse, TV by Farnsworth taken by RCA many others. Just like music artist and the recording industry, innovation is corporately controlled by US/EU/WTO/... laws

I am a small Tesla stock holder. This is good business from this stock holder's perspective. Make the market move and be the market leader.

Elon Musk wants more quick refuel infrastructure on the interstates and local roads/cities, which will advance Tesla's and others electric cars. This is not controversial but does provide probable wider support for Tesla's collection of electric car products, patents, and parts. Open up the designs for Tesla Supercharger systems — the free fast-charging stations designed to quickly refuel electric cars — creating an ISO/OASIS standard for other car makers to use makes prescient business sense.

Simple Reality: It is profitable to release new improved [undocumented bugs] software to buyers.
It is costly to fix software bugs for free, because old buggy products are a an excellent free marketing tool.

HookWare is good for US and always good for companies and greedy.

My boss and I routinely look at new tools and technology with an eye to solving our company's problems and build cool new stuff. Our goal is not to embrace flavour-of-the-month technology. It's to identify better solutions to old problems, or find good solutions to new problems. Tools have to work, or they serve no purpose. Everything else follows from there.

We do most of our development in C on Linux, but have incorporated virtualization and cloud computing, new technologies that provide better solutions to old problems. The jury is still out on other goodies. I like python, while my boss prefers perl. I like Django, while he prefers PHP. He's the boss, so I write lots of perl and PHP... :-}

...laura

It's on the wall, for all to see. Inscrutable display, mysterious controls, the works. When the weather changes it tends to lag a day. So the first warm day we cook with the heat on. The first cold day we freeze with the heat off.

I prefer opening the door out on to the balcony. Fresh air is so much nicer than anything the HVAC can do.

At home I leave my bedroom window open - even if only a crack - all year.

...laura

Far too many CIOs lack adequate hands-on experience with technology to be overly qualified for more than a far too big paycheck.

Microsoft products have failed to be innovative and user-friendly. One-fun-one is the USA English thesaurus; try the word “information.”

One-fun-one (I think) is the Asian MS-developer for the USA English dictionary ....

Microsoft products (IMO) have not improved since WinXP and Office98. I now take twice as long to perform task using current (Win7...Office2007) MS-products.

At home, GNU_Linux and Apache_OO