The introns have also been deciphered:

AGTTACCATGGGA /* Support new standard RFC -3374, Oxygen as Fuel */ GGCTTCAAA....

Weekends I go to the NextFab makerspace in Philadelphia (US) to work on my project. That's when I feel the most productive, because I'm producing for myself.

Sunday I get to refine all the stuff I did Saturday, so that's why I chose Sunday.

Now, Monday -- Monday is my grumpiest day.

Fascinating. My screenplay is released under a Creative Commons license. There's no reason why a movie studio couldn't release a movie based on the screenplay (with my permission)... except that they want exclusive rights? That makes no sense.

OMG, that's insane! It's like that Real Genius scene came to life, where the prof teaches the students, then the students get replaced by tape recorders, then the prof gets replaced by a reel-to-reel!

Maybe they got rid of "Who, What, Where, When, How (and in investigative journalism, Why)" since the time I was in school.

So something like Zork or any interactive fiction that uses Z-Code would be banned?

I've found that the best way to help an open source project is with documentation. Not necessarily user manuals, but just code commenting. There's plenty of code that has zero explanation about what a particular function does, or how it works. If you've found a project that fits this, then start working on documentation so that (a) you will understand what the code does, (b) everyone else following you will understand what the code does, and (c) the developers themselves will understand what the code does, because sometimes you find bugs just by trying to figure out what the code does. That being said, (warning: personal opinion ahead) I second the opinion that you should stay away from template classes. There are plenty of worthy numerical projects out there that do not rely on a maze of twisty little code fragments, all alike.

"More than one third (36%) of the 343 respondents to a recent poll said they are looking to move to a new employer in the next six months." Why are they so certain that it will be different with any other employer?

I don't know, but any submission where half the sentences are questions surely demands answers!

Animats,

I read somewhere "on the Internet" that when you're given a lie detector test for clearance, they actually expect you to lie at some point, and if you're totally honest, you fail. Do you think that's true?

The Rover makes a sword out of it!

Israel has had nuclear capabilities (~20 bombs) during the '73 war and did not use it, even though the Arab military success at the beginning of the war was definitely more than "very little provocation".

Probably because they didn't need to. Israel counterattacked with conventional weapons so successfully that they were forced to give up the land they gained. It was a complete rout.

...because that's what I can do with my physical books, and we want parity, right? Right?

Alphanumeric characters? Sheer luxury! We had to get up each day before we went to sleep, clean out the bit bucket on top of the rubbish tip we lived in, with our tongues, and then we had to flip switches to enter our movements in binary, and pay mill owner for the privilege, and when we got home our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance on our graves, singing Halleluia!

But you try telling the young people that. They won't believe you!

With Mandarin it felt almost like I was learning two separate languages at the same time, spoken Mandarin and written Mandarin.

That's because you are: you got the problem in one. Not only do you have to learn what the base logogram means, but also how it sounds. You might be able to get away with mapping logogram-to-meaning (in your native language) first, then mapping meaning-to-sounds later, a la Heisig's Remembering the Kanji.