Also, if your company offers matching funds you should put in at least enough to get the entire matching amount. Otherwise you are just leaving cash on the table. My company matches up to 5% of my before tax income. So I put 5% in every month which becomes 10% with the company match.

This. Also, take advantage of any other financial opportunities your company offers. Is there an employee stock purchase program? If there is put the maximum amount you can into it. There is almost no other investment that will give back as much as an ESPP will. At my company the stock is purchased at 15% below the offering price of either the first day or the last day (whichever is lower). That means if I sell the day the stock is purchased I am guaranteed at least a 15% return and often much higher.

You may be right, but it seems that he has adhered so closely to Bush's policies that it seems like a no brainer that a Democrat president would have overthrown right away. Why would he do that? I have to wonder if he planned to make changes, but then got into office and learned things that only Bush and other higher ups were privy to previously and that forced him to continue Bush's policies. That is, maybe Bush wasn't actually the total idiot he seems, but maybe knowing X forced him to do Y, even though Y was deeply unpopular. Obama came in with a promise to undo Y, but then learned X which forced him to continue Bush's seemingly insane policies. Or maybe you are right and Obama is secretly a Republican masquerading as a Democrat.

It seems like Obama has gone so far off from where he indicated he would go when originally running for office that I can't help but wonder what happened. I have to assume that since coming into office he has learned things that aren't common knowledge that have turned him from the path he originally envisioned. What could he have possible learned and will we ever get the whole picture?

I'm a programmer, but I still tend to do my thinking, planning, sketching ideas, note taking, etc. with paper and pencils/pens. I just find that I can think better with those tools than some program on a tablet or laptop. It's easier to draw sketches and it doesn't feel so permanent like putting it into a computer does so I'm more apt to play around with ideas and throwaway what doesn't work.

A two party system is bad enough. I would imagine what would effectively be a one party system would be even worse.

Except I've heard that coral doesn't do well in the presence of water.

Well, that is true. But I don't drink coffee and now that we have a Keurig machine at work I have the admin get hot chocolate and apple cider cups for myself. So... I'm destroying the environment while drinking a tasty beverage. Such a first world thing to do.

I assume you are being sarcastic. The manner is which we occupied and annexed it was shameful and disgusting. It's as bad as what we did to the black slaves and native americans. I am ashamed to be an American.

I recently learned how the US came to control Hawaii. The story is disgusting and is easily on par with what we did to the black slaves and the native americans.

"They are better off than anyone else in Polynesia, and have one of the highest standards of living in the world." Then I feel sorry for most people in the world. I just got back from spending a week in Oa'hu and the abject and widespread poverty of the people there was shocking to me. I have never seen that level of poverty anywhere I've lived on the mainland (Florida, Cali, Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Utah, Indiana, and Montana).

Son, that's no toy. If you had any idea how much thrust this thing... no, wait... um, If you had any idea how hard...no, that's not right...um, I'll get back to you when I can think of something to say that can't be responded to with "That's what she said."

It's not really old vs young. Most of those on older browsers are coming from foreign (non-USA) countries or are coming from corporate networks where they don't have control over what browser they are running.

But can you give me an example of jQuery creating a terrible mobile experience? In my experience, I haven't noticed any issues on mobile devices for websites using jQuery.

Yes, at least until IE 6, 7, 8, etc. are truly dead. Our browser stats show that enough people are still using non-evergreen browsers that we are required to still support them. As far as I can tell the higher ups won't let us drop them until they are down to 0 hits a month. Sigh.

There is surely a joke about "Not tonight dear, I have a headache" here somewhere.