For those who don't know about english football: Tottenham have some sort of jewish connection, not quite sure exactly what at the moment but anyway, and their fans frequently refer to themselves as 'yids'. That's why opposing fans would choose this angle to bait them.

I was once asked to move a checkbox from the bottom to the top of a panel so that the user wouldn't have to tab through all the other textfields and things in the panel to get focus to the checkbox. I was then asked to change the focus traversal so that tabbing through the panel skipped the checkbox (yes, really) so they wouldn't have to tab past it every time they wanted focus on the first textfield. These requests came from the same user.

He wanted to fly the shuttle to the sun.

That sounds like Airplane II: The Sequel. In that case I think it's ok that some scientific realism was sacrificed.

That's how I learnt. I was also lucky enough to have an admin on the mud that made sure the wizards she was in charge of understood the importance of writing good code and not just nice descriptions for players. It made me interested enough to switch major and when it was time to do the OO stuff in school I'd already groked it. Basically I have Lars Pensjà to thank for my career.

Doesn't "We will strive for a single experience for everything in a personâ(TM)s life that matters. One experience, one company, one set of learnings, one set of apps, and one personal library of entertainment, photos and information everywhere. One store for everything. Microsoft has the clear opportunity to offer consumers a unified experience across all aspects of their life, whether the screen is a small wearable, a phone, a tablet, an 85-inch display or other screens and devices we have not yet even imagined." basically translate to "We wish we were Apple :("?

Is ThreadPooExecutor instead of ThreadPoolExecutor a freudian slip or a concious comment on the quality of said component?

I'd like to see vi become the official editor of the United States of America, and at the same time I would like to see Emacs declared an illegal tool only people of an evil doer persuasion would use and banned and hunted down. Start the War on Emacs and you'll have my vote. Thank you.

The all knowing Wikipedia states:

As of 6 February 2013, the highest finite Bacon number reported by the Oracle of Bacon is 9.

For me, writing something with a pen is still faster than typing it on a phone keyboard. I also require less muscle control to write with a pen than I do to not throw the phone into a wall after I've hit the wrong letter for the 10th time in a five word sentance.

If you're only doing it at one place then you might be an idiot, but if as reported with this guy you're doing it at several jobs...? Suddenly you're taking home a lot more than you'd do if you were doing a real job yourself, and you're watching cat videos while doing it. If you have multiple clients who are all satisfied enough with the work your team does that they want to keep hiring you, what more do you need in a manager?

Maybe the Indian programmer hired a laid off American programmer who figured it was better than nothing.

Yeah I think we all know this has nothing to do with hiding Terminator from the kids but hiding the porn from the girlfriend.

Or from mum, since this is Slashdot.

Why on earth would you suggest finnish? It only has about 5 million native speakers, it's pretty tricky compared to english, and any finn in this industry you'll come across will be fluent in english.

For some values of fluent anyway, depending on accent...