hell yea!

but you can motivate a person who wants to create today and doesn't expect to be a corpse tomorrow.

here's a pointer: don't use javascript. =P

i don't know those specific tools, but it sounds like your solution to poor commenting is to write the same code twice in two different languages. =P

have you ever met a software engineering person who writes actual code? we had a whole software engineering phd program where i went to grad school and most of them couldn't open a socket when needed. (literally - we shared classes with them) nor have i met them on the job. (over a decade of full-time work at this point)

i personally believe there is no right way to write software, anymore than there is a right way to write a novel. you just have a lot of wrong ways to use as obstacle avoidance, and some "worked for me" suggestions that you have to evaluate for your current project.

i assume you have a skill in something. let's call it skill X. as an expert in skill X, you presumably have a job employing skill X that takes some non-trivial percentage of your waking hours every week. and furthermore you also presumably dedicate the remaining non-work hours to some combination of hobbies, personal life, family, etc.

now, are you, as an expert in X, willing to sacrifice a all (or at least a significant portion) of your non-work waking hours reading slashdot comments, fark, random blog entries, etc. in the hopes of by chance running into a proof of faster-than-light travel? despite the minentired-bogglingly overwhelming odds it'll mean you'll spend your every waking non-work hour in vain?

no?

cry baby.

sailing vessels cannot go faster than the wind when sailing directly downwind.

it doesn't matter what the second number is. sans the moon and possibly mars, virtually everywhere in the universe is inaccessible by man at any price.

it makes no sense to send people into space... until we know of someplace we can permanently stay.

robots are faster, more accurate, more durable, can stay out there virtually indefinitely, and are 3-20 orders of magnitude cheaper.

from a scientific perspective, low-earth-orbit (the only place we're sending people) just isn't that interesting. virtually all space-related scientific data comes from unmanned probes and robots.

until we're talking about settling another planet/moon, people in space are just tourists. so why is the government funding it?

actually it only removes "http://". if you're on a secure site it still displays the "https://".

but i still agree it's a bad idea. :)

"RADPU-BE" sounds pretty decent to me!!! =P

a different article i read on the same device claimed the inventor discovered the cows actually produce considerably less methane when using this device. which makes sense, as the constant movement would increase the efficiency of their digestive track, which means less undigested food in the bowels, which means less food for the methane-producing bacteria in their colon.

apply for the google summer of code project. looks great on the resume.

also, do virtually anything public programming related. write a small open source utility. or a new feature in an existing open source app. or a free app for a cell phone. (100k downloads isn't that hard, and looks good to business folk)

i've been on the hiring side of fresh meat devs several times now. literally anything that shows you can code in a reasonable, organized fashion will put you at the top of the list.

btw, i hope the html link reference was a joke. =P

i don't know the specifics of spacex's tech, financials or crookism. but if i owned a company that in 2007 had planned a 2009 IPO, i probably would have postponed it regardless of how awesome/straight-forward my company was. i don't know if you remember, but we had a slight stock market hiccup 'round then. =P

Imagine running a restaurant where 40% of the people who came and ate didn't pay. In a way, that's what ad blocking is doing to us.

I am not making an argument that blocking ads is a form of stealing, or is immoral, or unethical, [...]

really. because when you compare ad blocking to stealing food at a restaurant, it seems that you are making the argument that blocking ads is a form of stealing, is immoral, and unethical.