They should use "the shape I'm in", but knowing MS they'll probably use "the weight" instead.

You wouldn't have to work so hard if you bothered to use all the services provided to you for free. If you didn't have to build your own roads, educate your own workforce, inspect your own food, maintain your own currency, etc. You could afford some the awesome luxuries afforded by "wealth redistribution" and your bootstraps wouldn't be so worn from all the pulling.

Obviously, that's why you back it up and have fail-over if that's necessary. A single source of truth is a big plus, as is being able to use that single source of truth for code migrations to environments, history for audits, etc.

Nothing in this world is free. Using developer machines for backup isn't an optimal (or, IMO tenable) solution if you're serious about business continuity.

South Austinite here. I find it laughable you'd blame us for gobbling up the budget. How's that $105 million commuter rail? I hope it's not too crowded.

damn, slashcode ate my chars, VBA <> VB.net

you mean, VBA VB.net.

I know you're a highfalutin yank and all, but I wonder what you'd think if I'd made the same ignorant assumptions about hippie communes with holistic remedies and chakra massage to cure Ebola if the outbreak had started in New York.

For we many coffee snobs, changes to robusta beans won't affect us much, except for a few espresso blends. Until they genetically modify robusta to the equal of arabica, that is.

McCain is 78 years old, and while Biden may have some awkward moments he's nowhere near as honest to goodness ignorant as Palin was. Nothing was manufactured about how little she knew about relevant issues. I just went and reviewed some of the transcripts of her early interviews...so painful. Regardless, the republicans running a disconnected financier in '12 while the US was still recovering from a devastating financial crisis was brain dead.

You mean the Iraq led by a demonstrably psychopathic leader who had previously invaded Kuwait and and gassed the Kurdish in an attempted genocide and had thrown out the UN weapon inspectors out of the country 3 years prior? Yeah, that sounds comparable to this invasion.

I don't see the fall of Yanukovych as a coup where the US had any major involvement. Are you suggesting the majority of the Ukrainians didn't want to join the EU? I saw the coup as more driven by the violent overreaction of Yanukovych to the protests rather than any foreign involvement, but I'd be happy to be informed otherwise. It's not worth debating the annexation argument, false equivalency.

Well of course he has a stronger influence than Ukraine over the "rebels" he reinforces with military equipment and personnel. The fact that you see this as an attempt to "defuse" a situation he created whole cloth is beyond discouraging.

Privacy isn't about looking the other way when someone posts nabbed nudie pics. If the bank isn't securing your bank box from the public and your love letters from high school get out, that isn't a privacy issue, it's a security issue. That would be unrelated to the NSA getting backdoor access to go through your bank box from the bank with no oversight.

Fresh out of college I was confident that things like GUIs are optional and code generation was a fad, and that the latest versions of frameworks weren't worth using until they'd been released for at least a year (I probably read too much /.). After some time I found that laboriously written code that would later be rendered broken or inferior when technology advanced, and new tools could automate what my code did, but often quicker, better, or in a more maintainable way. People around me were frequently mentioning new tools, but I was too hard-headed to listen. I could have saved myself tons of work on code that later became a burden to the organization. Don't be afraid to experiment with tools and techniques that will save you time, you don't need to have control of everything.

4. Birds need some predators, we have many cats in my neighborhood and yet the pigeons and doves are legion.