All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. blah blah blah

Hey, is this enough comment to pass the filter that says I have to say something more than what I can squeeze into the subject line?

Great Scott, how did I get logged out?

What I said was: No, the sad thing is there are people who think it's laudable to score humor points by stylishly saying they don't care and neither should anyone else.

tl;dr (yet)

But I do have something to say about the immediate response of "QA". These are design issues (as has been mentioned). QA is not where you test out that sort of thing. Up-front design (not necessarily Big) should be the first response. Now is not the time to slack off on design, just because a lot of the components have already been written.

Development is also a cost center. Those whiners are constantly bitching about architecture. That's why we look for cheap developers who won't raise objections or otherwise make waves (like, with bright ideas), they'll just code. It's just a simple matter of programming, what the heck is up with them, anyway?

You're an idiot. I know some people who do exactly that.

How about if I raise hogs next to YOUR suburban house?

He's not a troll. If you search on "hackingbear" you can see that he's (probably) just some Chinese adolescent who's fallen for the nationalist line that problems in the U.S. mean China is no worse off.

Anthony Wiener's shens ==> it's ok to lock up dissidents in China. QED.

Sweet! I'm in!

MS is lying and you're a chump. (Sorry.)

(1) Both IE and the Bing toolbar are from MS. Doesn't matter whether they use one or the other; the directive at MS has come down from on high: use Google's results.

(2) The Google search results are only one input into MS's algorithm (they shouldn't be an input /at all/.) Of course all 100 honeypots won't show up. The fact that any did at all is incriminating, given that the data is completely synthetic.

I understand the technologies for both of those things have been lost. (Apparently, the Romans had some trick they did with oxhairs or sinews or something that gave their ballistas a lot more power than the competition.)

...and I have this to say:

Oh, bullshit.

[with feeling]

To know the difference between a million and a billion. Maybe a semester-long project to fill a swimming pool with a bucket?

Um... No. Stupid Americans kill themselves. And sometimes take some of the rest of us with them.

Geez, you guys. There's a real person behind the question. Do you HAVE to be an asshole?

Ya know what? I don't think employers give a shit about "paradigms". Imperative rules the world (as opposed to functional or declarative).

You're right about picking up a new language within the imperative paradigm (it's easy). The challenge is in learning the LIBRARIES. LINQ (are we gonna call that a paradigm, really?), MVC, MVP, all that other alphabet soup that's the latest framework. XML, XSLT, yada yada.

It's not spying if they're up front about it. Which they are.

Really? You're going to use their free web mail and their free browser and then complain about them using the info they harvest? Did I miss something?