Rule 1 - YOU are probably the only person you will ever meet who can write code.

You may land in a team with many good coders, this is a lucky break. Most of the time any vendor, customer, or co-worker you work with won't know anything at all. You are just going to have to do their coding too. Vendors will give you broken XML documents that you have to parse, customers don't understand SSL, data center employees don't know how to ps -e | grep

Customers cannot possibly be expected to get off IE6

Nobody but you can do anything. Just accept it and deal with it, you will be much happier.

It is annoying to write down everything, but when PHB gets off the phone with you, they immediately start morphing everything that was said into their version of what they think you said. If you don't do this, you will find that you over-committed even when you didn't and you will hear all sorts of things that everyone else thinks that you promised.

At the end of each call COVER YOUR ASS. Eventually, if you are lucky, they will stop calling you altogether and will simply START with email, since you aren't letting them get away with the famous "I thought you understood what we discussed" reality bending mechanism. You probably won't have to re-forward it PHB when they lose their mind in 3 weeks, but if you do, you will have it.

To: PHB
cc:team
June 2015 Release
Thanks for talking this through with me, I will go forward with A, B, and C as discussed and I appreciate that you agreed to delay D, E, F until after the milestone build is stable for the June 2015 release.

As a PSPlus subscriber and a Steam fanboy, I can tell you they don't even compare. In summer sale I can get all the AAA titles I missed for 50-75% off, and catch up on DLC for exceptional games for pennies. Now, I do get occasional "free" casual/sega genesis/old arcade ports for my $5.99 PS+ monthly subscription, and sometimes big name games are cheap, but it can't even compare to the 2x a year discount salepocalypse that happens on Steam.

If you want a smartphone that isn't a smartphone, I am assuming you want to avoid the app infrastructure of apple and google? I have no idea what your actual goal is, but blackberry solved this ages ago. What you really seem to want is a smartphone from before iPhones ruined the market for practical smartphones.

I submit to you: Blackberry Bold
insane battery life (remember BB was competing with dumb phones not smartphones, so the charge every 8 hours thing hadn't started yet) - 12 days standby 6 hours talk, 50 hours audio playback
camera, sure it has a decent camera
Insanely good Keyboard that openly laughs at "swipe" keyboards.
Podcasts, sure
costs about 80 dollars now.

I am having trouble with my billiards table, could you please tell me the best way to keep my football bat sharp so that my chlorine levels stay consistent?

When your only hammer is Microsoft, every problem looks like a thumb.

If Disney realized how much I spend on Iron Man shoes, backpacks, toys, notebooks, Infinity characters, crackers, cookies, drinks, t-shirts, and costumes for my kid; they probably would laugh at me for sweating over a 7 dollar movie ticket. Their core business is brand awareness, piracy is quite nicely aligned with that.

"Spelled" is actually "spelt," unless you subscribe to the philosophy that people living in a secondary English colony should be allowed to introduce their own spellings of words. In which case, being flusterful at misspellings on the internet would be silly.

"any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can't think of how to break it."

Here is the problem... If you only allow a few thousand people to look at your source code, and fully test your product, then you only have to design security clever enough to evade the efforts of a thousand people.

In order for something to be secure, it needs to be widely published, and universally assaulted.

Ebola gets its name from a River in the Republic of Congo, despite the fact that it was not discovered in or on that river.

I am honestly considering taking the policy of laying face down on the ground with my hands interlocked behind my head any time a police officer talks to me. That way if they shoot you it will be in the back, and they might have to think twice about beating a murder wrap if there is no way they can claim you were "resisting".

(lazy evaluation)

first they made the iphone 6+ incompatible with skinny jeans and now this. Next thing you know ornate beards will wreck the facial recognition in iPhoto or whatever they call it now.

Well sort-of. The thing is wall street speculation is now highly automated. If a stock starts to slip before the numbers are supposed to be released, all the algorithms start to throw off warning bells and cause a sell-off run much more efficiently than humans reading twitter ever could.

If stock slips during an earnings announcement, it is expected, and bots don't emulate panic... if it happens BEFORE earnings announcements, bots latch on to the pattern in what is essentially insider trading, but with plausible deniability.

the headline accidentally left out a word.

Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps, Badly