Maybe he couldn't read clearly because of all the smoke between his eyes and the computer screen.

You said "Google's own stats", but then supported it with a subjective anecdotal statement from Google.

I live in Washington state, and I think we're to blame - at least in part. All those Oregon programmers kept coming north to smoke weed here. I was a bit surprised Oregon didn't have plenty of its own already, given its reputation; but no, you'd see those guys all over the place asking "where can I find the good stuff, man. The GOOD stuff! I need a hookup, man!"

Our own health insurance exchange did well after the first week - that's when we fired all the stoners and hired every Mormon coder we could find.

I was using perl before it was cool.

(I figured a fanboi submission required a hipster response)

You should be able to go to a government web site and enter a persons name to check and see if they have vaccinations, STDs, etc.

nobody as far as i know is advocating a publicly-accessible database here, are they? we already have large data stores full of patient information and i still am not able to look up my neighbor's medical records on the internet.

Go for a little walk, breathe some fresh air.

I'm also a Mac user - but the poll pretty obviously was only about Linux desktop environments. So...

I picked "other" - I still prefer Enlightenment.

I thought all editions of Windows XP deserved the monicker POS?

(Note to the humor-impaired: Chill out, dude. At least I'm not making jokes about your pretend girlfriend, right?)

I regularly use bluetooth headphones with both my iPhone and my iPad.

Sheesh. There are spots in my yard where the three coexist quite happily.

In my younger more naive days, I made the mistake of planting Hedera Helix (English Ivy) - that is one very nasty plant.

Yeah, I'm not sure how the submitter thought that eating blackberries somehow hurts the plant is comes from.

Himalaya blackberries... Because even Luther Burbank made mistakes.

Isn't this why Firefox decided they were going to start showing ads in new tabs?

when i was in high school calc and we first learned derivatives, on the first exam i saved time because i happened to already know the power rule. fucking math teacher marked me wrong even though i got the right answer because we were supposed to do it the long way.

clearly, the way calculus is taught in schools is wrong and confusing. why not go right to the shortcut? it's the american way, after all.

I started moving away from Google about a year ago for this very reason.

My work email is still a Google Apps for Education based, since our university basically wants everyone either there or on Microsoft's cloud (which UW has managed to muck up, so it's not a great option). But my personal email is not. I do miss Google's spam filtering, which is darn good; but using an email client again has made me realize just how mediocre Gmail's interface is overall.

One rule of thumb I remember from way back... an institute founded by an individual and named after himself usually means it mainly generates pseudoscience.

Also, was anyone else disappointed that Mr. Cameron wasn't on that sub when it imploded?