As a younger man, I used to cook for myself all the time. I was never very good at it, but I could come up with simple, satisfying meals for myself (I've never mastered getting two dishes to get ready at the same time). That was in Oregon, with an electric range...

But then I moved to India for ten years and had my first experience cooking on gas. Continuing now in New York City it's much the same. With gas I haven't figured out how to cook food. Everything is either undercooked or burnt, and only rare flukes turn out right. After several attempts at baking cheesecakes, which I had mastered long ago in an electric oven, and completely failed in gas, I sort of gave up. It was frustrating to fail, and I was spending a lot of money on expensive ingredients for food that was inedible...

Fortunately Manhattan has lots of restaurants that aren't junk or middle-of-the-road chains... Lots of really good stuff, fresh ingredients and all that... And a variety of prices, so it's possible to eat well for fairly cheap. And in many cases, ordering a full meal is cheaper than buying a similar quantity of the ingredients at the grocery store (Manhattan is seriously expensive...)

Until recently, me and my wife... Or order in, there's hundreds of restaurants that'll deliver to our address in under an hour...

But she just started learning to cook last month (she grew up in an Indian household with servants and never had to cook before, but now decided it was time). I think our food bills have gone up as we've switched from ordering most meals to home cooked. We order dry and packaged stuff from Amazon to save some money and get it delivered right to our door, but fresh things cost a fortune in our neighborhood...

They censored a game because of content? Ug, "think of the children."

The children now deprived...

There's perfectly reasonably priced housing in Manhattan... I got a great deal on a fabulous 350 square foot, 3rd floor walk-up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood for the great, low price of only $2,200 a month! The apartment across the hall from is vacant. It's about the same size, but no closet in the bedroom and only half the kitchen cabinet space for much less, at $1,995 a month...

Of course, I ride the train for 1-1.5 hours a day because I work in Crown Heights, Brooklyn... Go figure...

I live in a somewhat urban area (Midtown Manhattan) and as for restaurant food, there are more and cheaper options than farther out. Sure, there are expensive ones, but in the heart of the city I can easily get much cheaper restaurant food than in suburbs. There's a plethora of $1 a slice pizza joints (most suck, better to spend double that and go for $2 a slice places) or tasty, plentiful street food where a huge meal costs all of $6.

Groceries to make your own food cost a ton more, though...

The vast majority of WhatsApp users I know (granted, it's a small enough sample to count on one hand) don't have Facebook accounts. Of course, the total number of people "purchased" increases because I don't use WhatsApp, but I'm in all of their phones' address books, so I'm as good as being in WhatsApp...

But this one comes with several hundred million users plus all their phones' address books...

It must've missed New York City. I live in Manhattan and commuted to Brooklyn, but I didn't see anything I'd call a "massive storm". Just a light touch of snow...

Still, I wish we'd get this snow on the weekends instead of the work days, I'd really like the opportunity to go out and enjoy it.

Ug, those are pretty bad. Skinny Puppy is great stuff, I don't see how it could be used for torture. It couldn't be that effective...

While the company is long out of business, I've outlived quite a few people from the department I worked in at the second job I had.

We had seven people, and five have died. Vehicular accidents and cancers...

If I had a tinfoil hat I'd suspect someone was bumping off those of us who read the white paper on our software's undocumented parameters. So I'd better watch myself.

If you're primary audience is not the compiler why are you writing code at all? If the compiler isn't your primary audience, just tell another person what you want done...

Not necessarily for the first time. I wasn't thinking at all about coffee, but now there's an article about a big coffee vendor, so it comes to mind. Maybe I'll stop in on my way home, since I walk past several... (but who am I kidding, they're always crowded and I've never ordered coffee on my own before, so I'm not sure I know how to do that without making a fool of myself...)

Where on movie night it'll be unlikely any other inmates will have cell phones they can use to text and disturb him.

No kidding... As an American, when I worked for a U.S. company a decade ago, the Indians brought over on H1-B visas were paid quite a bit more than I was for doing the same job.

On the flip side, though, I guess I had better job security (being competent and underpaid...)

As an American who worked in the Indian office of a Finnish company, the same applies, we were way cheaper than our Finnish counterparts...