I've worked for two companies where "agile" methodology applied company-wide meant point releases every one or two weeks and minor UI changes with every point release to "get better with each version." This floated mgmt's boat and kept the UX/UI people busy and excited, but it was a nightmare for customer support and (evidently, by extension) for customers who could never quite feel as though they'd "learned" to use the software.

Every time they logged in they struggled to figure out how to repeat the workflows they'd struggled to get ahold of the previous time. Of course, the widgets, labels, views, etc. tended to change between logins. Kind of like a maze with moving walls.

I argued for UI changes to be batched for major versions, but this supposedly wasn't "agile."

It's OK. I'm from Colorado, I know what you really meant.

When a majority of citizens are receiving benefits from the state, why would they vote to curtail those payments the government can't really afford? It's much easier to instead tax the *producers* of society.

Stopped reading when I saw Linus Tovalds on that list. Yes, Linux can and will survive without him, but "doesn't matter"? He's still the curator of the kernel. It's not like he has some sort of ceremonial role now.

It's all Greek to me...

...laura

driving parts of town they don't know, with random strangers as passengers. Great idea.

Actually it turns out is a pretty great idea, it's called Uber (and Lyft).

It's almost universally loved by customers, because in many cities TAXI DRIVERS don't know where anything is either. In the last several taxis I've been in even giving a well-known place name (like Long Beach in Los Angeles) was ignored as they typed in the exact address into a GPS...

Since an Uber driver will find a way to where I am going the same way a taxi driver would, except there's no chance of error because I enter the place on my own device instead of them typing it in through a shitty GPS UI, an Uber driver is vastly more likely to get me where I am trying to go, sooner.

And given the way most taxi drivers drive I frankly would in fact rather be driven by a teenager.

As for the "random stranger" thing that part simply shows your unending ignorance into how Uber and Lyft actually work. It's not strangers that meet, it's two vetted individuals.

No, it's because often force is the only argument that works with any duration (or effect) on idiots.

Idiots by definition, cannot and will not learn so higher order appeal is lost on them...

Thus has it been historically also.

Sure but those are all individual efforts, not a group of car pools where the organizing group itself takes a cut or facilitates the transfer.

Will they go after the car pools next?

No because those are free. It's the presence of money in any form or amount that triggers the primal instinct by the state (and taxi unions) to control or kill.

What would be nice is a kind of Tinder for car sharing, where you could put in a starting point, and ending point - people could read your profile and see a rough distance from their own starting and ending points, and swipe right if you seemed like someone they would want to ride with...

There would be no money in that (for the drivers anyway) so the taxis/state would lay off.

By the way, you can't make a living wage driving full-time for Uber either

Hey guess what THAT DOESN'T MATTER.

The last Uber driver I had, was also a comedian/writer (Los Angeles). He didn't need a living wage, he wanted a part time job with a ton of flexibility to supplement income.

There are a LOT of people like this (including, perhaps you've heard of them, TEENAGERS). The next time someone says "that doesn't make a living wage" the correct response is to punch them in the mouth.

P.S. on a side note those claiming things like Uber cannot make a living wage are generally ALSO simply too lazy to work the amount required to live on what is offered. I have also met Uber drivers who DO live on uber income only, so your statement that Uber drivers do not make a living wage is false by example.

Sorry I replied to myself in error.
I have seen some drafting stools that are really just tall desk chairs.
For example this one
http://www.lexmod.com/p-15349-....
I wish I had bought one of the old 1960s style drafting desks from my high school when they replaced them.
Solid Ash and with a built in light fixture.

They actually make some drafting stools that are really just tall office chairs.
Here is the first one I found http://www.lexmod.com/p-15349-...
I am sure that you can find a lot more.

If the restriction remains after the initial test, it could be a simple way to avoid pseudo-professional drivers, and all the taxi-related legal problems

You don't know much about taxi unions or city regulatory agencies, do you?

In no way does it avoid anything except making 100% a driver cannot make a living through this. So it's a lose-lose.

Although you meant it to be funny your statement is really wrong - I'd say a good 90% of Browncoats didn't find the show until way after it was off the air. A number I know of didn't get into Firefly until well after the movie even...