I work on my pet project (http://msscodefactory.sourceforge.net) because it's a fun challenge I set myself many years ago. Whether others use it is irrelevant. Whether I ever make money off it is irrelevant. There is only one thing that matters to me:

Having fun coding.

That's it. Beginning and end of story. I work on it for fun.

Use an IDE to edit? You're kidding, right?

Why in all that's holy would I load up a multi-megabyte behemoth instead of using a text editor for editing code? I use the IDE to fix build errors that result, and to do the debugging.

But with ant handling the build process and a decent debugger, I see absolutely no need for an IDE. In fact, Eclipse crashes about half the time I try to use it, so I can't use it for projects the size I work on as a build manager. It pukes itself far too often, forcing a complete rebuild every time. And the more code has to be rebuilt, the more likely it is to puke on itself.

No man. A decent editor like vi or emacs, a build manager, and a debugger are all you need. Loading up a whole IDE is overkill.

But then again, I've never seen any debuggers other than IDEs for Java.

The summary and the article itself are so fluffy and short that they don't give any useful information about how this material relates to quantum computing, nor why it's properties are significant. There is mention of a class of electrons involved, but not how nor why this particular type of electron is relevant to quantum computing.

It sounds interesting and all, but it would have been nice to have enough information to give one something to think about instead of just having to assume that the high faluting professors know their shit and must be right. :P

You're asking the wrong question. The question is "what is our business?".

If it's not your business, you hire experts to take care of it.

My guess is "producing a Linux distribution" isn't in your business model.

Good to know you bother installing those monthly security patches. What was your IP again? :P

You're missing the point.

If companies want to compress schedules without being able to increase staffing, then they should be prepared to pay for it.

If they can't justify the cost, then I guess it wasn't that all-fired important in the first place, was it? No, it was just that Billy-Bob-Joe over in Accounting said they "have" to have it by such and such date, but they're not willing to *pay* to have it by that date.

Well, then, it's time for the IT department manager to grow a God-damned spine and tell the customer department "No" instead of expecting the staff to kill themselves for nothing.

And shame on those of you who put up with such crap.

Then adjust the schedule or pay through the nose.

Nobody should be exempt from time and a half except the owners of a business. Anyone who works for pay should get paid overtime, if only to punish companies and businesses that insist on overworking their employees instead of hiring more staff to handle the load.

I take it the one medical provider who had the major screwup of providing such personal and private data has had their license revoked and is now out of business?

We're managing to beat you in the "dumb shit for goobernmint time wasting" in Canada today. Some psycho nutbars from the "truther" movement managed to get their petition submitted to Parliament's schedule by Elizabeth May (leader of the Green Party.)

Yeah.

I want a few hundred highly paid politicians debating the paranoid lunatic's fringe perverse fantasies instead of dealing with *real* issues. :(

Even though I'm a medical cannabis user (migraines), I do believe that people shouln't be driving under the influence -- of anything, and that includes the doctor's and pharmacorp's favourte: opiates.

Here in Saskatchewan, the law is intentionally vague and refers to "Driving Under the Influence" without that being restricted to alcohol. If you're obviously impaired, the police don't have to run a bunch of tests to determine what you're impaired by -- it's your driving that is the deciding factor, and your inability to pass basic roadside sobriety tests.

You can't do that because then all the legislators would get busted for bribery, which is what "campaign donations" obviously are.

Why do some people insist on gaming in the living room instead of in an office? What is so all-fired important about the living room?

Did it ever occur to you the rest of the household doesn't want to listen to you grunting and screaming at your gaming partners for hours and hours on end?

Before I retired due to disability, I found that travel was critical to stay employed. The odds of finding suitable employment locally became slimmer and slimmer as I became more experience, so I found myself moving from job to job or spending a lot of time on the road travelling to work sites for 10 days on/4 days off contracts.

You can't really blame the industry; the best money and most interesting jobs have always been short-term "drop kick" contracts to address specific needs with specialized skills. Had I stuck with "regular" programming jobs, I'd have been bored out of my skull.

A threat is a threat, no matter how "nicely" you try to wrap it up.