Oyster shells are ground up and fed to chickens as a source of calcium. Chickens need a lot of calcium to keep laying eggs every day, and if they get deficient, they can lay the eggs with thin or even no shells.

Actually, I wouldn't be too surprised if they actually used them in human calcium supplements as well. (I have no idea if they do, but it would seem reasonable.)

I think it would be more appropriate to name a sea after him.

Yes, the human ear can distinguish vertical position as well. Ever wonder why the outer ear (the pinna) is shaped so weird? It's so it will distort sound coming from different directions differently.

Here's an demonstration I saw at the Exploratorium in San Fransisco, but you can easily reproduce this at home.

Close your eyes, and have someone standing beside you jingle a ring of keys near your ear, above, below, and adjacent. It's easy to tell where the sound is coming from.

Now bend the top cartilage over, so the shape of the ear is distorted, and repeat the previous experiment. Now the easy task of detecting direction becomes almost impossible.

I'm not claiming that you're wrong, I honestly don't know enough about the subject. However, I don't understand how Reagan could sign an executive order in 1989 since he was president from 1980-1988. Am I missing something?

Of course he's Homer the Great, haven't you see season 6 episode 12?

I used to indent parameters across multiple lines like that, but they're just too much of a hassle to maintain like that. I think it's just as readable and less work if you put each parameter on its own line, just give it normal indention:

if (AThing)
{
--->MyFunction(
------->parameter1,
------->parameter2);
}

or normal indention + 1 indent:

if (AThing)
{
--->MyFunction(
----------->parameter1,
----------->parameter2);
}

I once did a similar calculation for my city of 200,000, and came up with an answer of approximately 2. At that point I concluded I would never find either one of them, and gave up.

If I were applying for jobs, I'd be dubious about one that required an explicit "test" as part of the interview process, since it's hard to know what you mean by "test". Are you going to test my typing speed, or whether I know obscure language trivia (quick: Where was Bjarne Stroustrup working when he invented C++? How do you pronounce "Bjarne Stroustrup"? What does "restrict" mean in C?), or whether it's really a standard interview in disguise.

A normal technical interview process really should be a "test", for all intents and purposes. It's fairly easy to put a candidate in front of a whiteboard and figure out whether the candidate can write a function in your language of choice. (At least, it's easier to test coding ability than many other professional jobs.)

It's a budong.

Attributed to Lyall Watson:

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."

The Gamasutra article (the article with actual content, not wild speculation) is based on BREW -- a Qualcomm proprietary runtime with no Linux involved.

Q: Why don't jokes work in octal?
A: Because 7, 10, 11