"I work at a company where there haven't been coding standard until recently, so there were many years where a few programmers just made stuff work. Well now you come up behind them and it may take you hours to understand code that you could have understood in 30 minutes or less if it was readable and maintainable code."

Yeah, well, you know, owning a business is about trade-offs. Maybe if they were focused on processes and standards they wouldn't have been able to focus on producing stuff that just worked and then they wouldn't have employees by now to sigh about how hard their work is because of the accrued technical debt.

"Business is about sales and customers. Everything else you do is completely irrelevant if you don't have sales and customers."

Tell that to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Pinterest, Skype...

"The low-fat diet and food pyramid is probably the worst thing ever foisted on the American people. With 30 years of run-away obesity and diabetes, maybe it's time to admit failure with those recommendations."

As a foreigner I can easily see where USA's obesity epidemy comes from and it is not from any given food pyramid: have you paid attention lately to the ridiculously big rations you ingest? The ridiculously high levels of processed food? The ridiculously high comsumption of snacks and soda drinks?

A "cut" on a non-editable item equals a copy, so I suppose to be pedantically correct, I should have said "copied".

Good luck with that. The current batch of republicans have been the least productive house in the history.

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And how many of these require congress? The executive's job is to execute the laws. He can pass or veto a bill but he can't write them. He can choose how to execute the law, what laws to prioritize or not but his power is limited.

This is especially true for anything tax or budget related. All spending bills must originate in the house. Ever since he swore the oath of office the Republicans have bent over backwards with fillibuster threats for just about everything, even the stuff they wanted. The healthcare law only passed because there was only a brief window when democrats had a fillibuster-proof majority.

A bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill was passed ages ago in the Senate but what has the republican-led house done on it? Absolutely nothing.

It also doesn't help that a huge percentage of department heads have been blocked because Republicans have used the fillibuster to block many of these appointments, many since Obama began his first term.

The republicans have been up in arms and done everything to prevent him from doing his job out of spite, making constant racist comments about his birth, or that he's Muslim, etc. etc with Fox News blowing the horn for them with crazy conspiracy theories.

The republicans blame the president about illegals and children crossing the border. The border control says they need more agents and more money to better control the problem. The president says to provide more money. The republicans say no more money and continue to blame the president for something that needs funding which must originate in the republican dominated house.

They also are making a fair amount of revenue selling services. For example, my employer had so many problems with Microsoft Sharepoint that they switched to Google Drive. I use both Google and Microsoft's services. Microsoft's (at least Email) leaves a lot to be desired.

Google is also in the transaction business like Paypal and Amazon as well as hosting services.

For another organization I'm looking into Google services now to handle documents and email.

Amazingly enough, for OSX, the major kernel change occurred with 10.7 with the inclusion of GrandCentral. It's been 4 releases, and there's still bugs in that change, but they're getting ironed out slowly. The GUI changes on the last go round were... jarring. For the most part, I ignore them.

Perhaps they could then just call their OS {Windows} X?

What, again?

This is provably false. There are certain people, we'll call them rock stars, that you can stick in a room and they'll get a better solution out faster that addresses everything you need versus 100 lines of doesn't work for 20% of the cases code. Sometimes the rock stars do this to existing code with a 1 line mod. It's because they actually take the time to understand the problem and can visualize the system, instead of writing some boilerplate garbage cut and pasted from stackoverflow.

Removing party affiliation from the ballot would be an excellent first step. Why is it on there anyways? And removing straight party voting as an option. Each person voted for must be selected individually. Let's see how long parties survive locally when that happens.

How much money does the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation have again? What breakthroughs have occurred from that source and how long have they been at it?

So you go no cable, you're then paying 1 of the 2 telecoms.... That's "better"? They're all equally corrupt, and not even in meaningfully different ways.

As for music, you're fine, as long as you don't publicly perform nor distribute it. If you do wind up doing either, and there's a question of copying, pay the $0.01 cent per performance fee and you're good.

And men are more able to require paternity leave, hint it comes from having words with gender.