Back in 91 or so we used the Cadre CASE tool. It's main claim to fame was "anyone can learn to use it in 30 minutes". They were right, you could. Problem was, you could because the editor was a weak PoS.

I wrote a script that would pull files out of the tool, we then ran vi/emacs on them and put them back into the tool as needed. In other words, we used this uber-expensive tool just like we used RCS.

Best part? After I left the company they ran an audit. Turned out every time you added the file to the tool it treated it like a brand new file, erasing all previous versions and history. whoops.

It was designed to send money to certain locales and pockets. It's done a great job of it.

Not much of a plane tho.

4-5 lbs over 6 months? Jeez, I typically gain 20 lbs over the winter, then lose it over the summer. Winter has Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, plus rain and crappy weather. Summer has nice bike-riding days.

I'm the opposite. A private office with phones, email, coffee klatch, etc are all I need to be at my best. Stick me in a shared office and my productivity goes down. I've never been forced into the open office format, but I can pretty much guarantee that if I am my productivity will shrink to close to 0.

Just because I've got an office doesn't mean I can't walk down the hall to collaborate when I need to.

went to El Capitan high school. Now that I'm 57 checking out a google link to it seems a bit creepy.

Python isn't perfect (see: curly braces to define blocks) but it beats hell out of Javascript, or ECMAscript, or whatever name you call that abomination.

What I like about Python is, when you're learning it, after a day or two you can guess how to do foo and 90% of the time you're right. With Javascript, you can follow the book, do everything (you think) right, and the damned script will fail for stupid reasons on other machines.

Don't remember the URL, but it lists the major charities and what percentage of their intake actually goes to the charity. Big name losers? Susan Komen Walk for the Breast Cancer cure, well under 50%. I don't remember the others, that one jumped out at me as my MiL and a friends mother both had breast cancer, and the Walk for the Cure gets major media attention every year.
My 3 I give to annually?
EFF - I love what they do
Alzheimers Foundation - My father in law had alzheimer's, it scares the crap out of me.
Helen Woodward (http://www.animalcenter.org/) - Diagnosed a favorite cat of mine, then got a couple replacement cats from them. Local to San Diego, but if you're an animal lover you should send some $$$ their way.

I see this as an excuse for the cops to hand out a lot more tickets for various infractions that don't really mean diddly to safety, but deposit lots of $$$$ into the budget.

/ San Diego resident
// On Allison street a couple times a week
/// You can't regulate stupid
//// But stupid is a great excuse to ticket everybody

I see much more potential for evil. Be nice if they had a 0 day retention policy, then it could be used to find stolen cars. But it's a very small step from scanning a plate, checking it against a database, then discarding the into; , to retaining the data for however long The Powers That Be want it. I flat out do not trust the government anymore, I don't want them tracking everyone's cars 24/7.

Seems to me, if s/Sony/US Congress/g could happen the world would be a better place.

Put a share icon in the upper right, like everyone else does. Don't replace "read comments" with "share".

Jeez Dice, why are you trying so hard to drive your users away?

Of course we figured it out. The answer was "very poorly".

I've used a lot of languages in the last 30 years, the only one I actively learned to hate was Javascript. Biggest problem being "everything is a global", followed by "Scope? We don't need no stinkin mouthwash", and finally having the behaviour be different on different machines because reasons.

After 6 months of schedule slipping and very poor quality we finally convinced management to let us use perl. Perl ain't perfect, but it's predictable.

The "problem" is that for your phone to work it needs a bare minimum of processing power. 99% of the time it doesn't need that processing power, which gives lots of spare CPU cycles.

I myself don't subscribe to the IoT model, mainly because I don't trust the security. Doing something like this on my thermostat? I trust the security even less.