It is true. I just bought myself one of these simply because I like OS X. I'm using it as an extra machine. (I just have my laptop atm as a general computer.) It's also plugged into my entertainment center, so I'm using Plex and am liking it so far. Other than the entertainment center functionality, I'll use it for business to run some small databases on to test my code changes locally. Things like that.

Anyway, all that to say, I wanted the most RAM I could get in it just as a general rule. Apple charges $500 to put 8GB of RAM in the mini. You can do the same for $100 from newegg. People can bicker on whether OS X is worth the extra hardware cost, but they're reaming people on upgrade costs. You can't really argue about that sadly. Considering how incredibly easy it is to swap out RAM, it makes it even more bizarre. Every Mac I buy leaves me with unused RAM modules. It's annoying

You're right. You're not a fanboy.

You're a slut

I kid I kid...

He was so lonely, girl. He was sad and down. Didn't understand why haters joked around. He wanted to be free with other creatures in the sea. Now he got his wish... cause he knows that he's a gay fish.

Gay fish, yo

Muthafuckin gay fish. He's a fish, yo

I was always impressed by one tried and true patterns I discovered at one location of employment: the (jsp -> XML using a jsp -> XSL) -> html/javascript held together with a jsp -> html frameset trick. Toss in liberal doses of "pure Java" plus the action for the form from the page being another jsp with a bunch of pure Java and one jsp tag to do a redirect to another jsp consisting of again pure Java and a redirect back to the original page (or a Struts action).

And just to keep you from being bored, toss in several include files and external .js files. And make sure it outputs obviously incorrect HTML that I.E. manages to somehow render anyway (and only I.E.).

And of course, your IDE won't know WTF to do with it, so you might as well view it in a text editor.

I bet they keep them around just in case MIlo gets too intelligent for their own good.

I fully support this idea provided pilots have to say it over the intercom.

Anyway, if I were doctor working there, I'd just carry a "please" stamp around with me and stamp anything that wouldn't be invalidated by having the word "please" stamped on it.

If you have a problem with someone treating their co-workers like crap, fire them and skip the bullshit.

Where the hell do you work? My friends at university (CS students) and co-workers are all quite nice. There is no "boy's club". We are not condescending to others. We are not arrogant. We do not help in ways to make other people feel stupid. Do I have some asshole co-workers? Sure. But more of them are not developers than are actually... but that's not the point.

Just because you're surrounded by assholes doesn't mean that's the norm. I've met far fewer people that fit the stereotype than do.

It's like we're on two different planets... I'm sorry yours is so shitty.

Or "Relax, some of my best friends are homeless!" :D

As someone that used to frequently play Counter Strike, I feel the need to correct your statement of CS's purpose. It was demonstrated to me time and time again that the purpose of Counter Strike is to run ahead of your team mates and drop a flash bang just before they round a corner where the opposing team is holed up. This is followed closely by knifing team mates in the back while hopping around and lagging behind to see how many of them you can kill with a single AWP round.

I've always been under the impression that acetaminophen is added to narcotics mainly for the purpose of making it so one cannot take large quantities of said narcotic without getting sick. So, I'm not really sure what the problem is here... they shouldn't have been mixed in from the get go imo. The only good thing that comes of including it is that it's able to regulated less strictly that way. (I'm side stepping my opinion on regulation here.)

I was once asked to count the number of classes and methods that existed in a product I worked on to "measure its complexity and richness"... yah... After laughing myself to tears, I wandered around the office... one, two, three, four. four dataclasses! ahahah... No one seemed to get it :(

I have a project just for little personal programs, and it includes a file that's completely overwritten constantly just for very simple "The documentation sucks, so I have to write a program to see what this really does" kinds of things. It's the first thing I create on a new environment, and it pretty much alleviates your problem.

If we all know it works that way, there's no point in saying it anymore since everyone will know it just means "the computer", so who cares if they're right most of the time? I think people should just stick with "computer" if they don't know. It's easier to know what to expect from them at that point.

I can understand wanting a laptop with beefier hardware... video card for example... but three button trackpad? I'll never go back to pc laptop trackpads/whatever.

Neglecting software, that's the one thing that drives me nuts moving away from my macbook pro: two buttons and certain areas on the track pad to scroll or some horrifying scroll button... How is that better than scrolling with two fingers and right clicking with two fingers? I have one button for my track pad and I never even use that. I'd be fine if they took it out. Except for gaming, I actually prefer to use the macbook pro track pad to a mouse.

Right, but what do you do with the child when you're done with it? Throw it in the trash? Recycle it? Rent it out? I know the last two year old child I tried to throw out would just not shut up in the trash bag. Even after repeated vigorous shakings :-/ However, just like my old tv, someone picked him up at the dumpster really quick thank god.