Um. Apparently not.

I'm not antisocial. That said, I'm not into finding friends at work, nor am I interested in idle chit chat. I'm busy. My day is frequently intense. Between cranky servers, writing code, meetings and frequent one-off projects, I often don't have *time* to discuss your favorite TV show, your vacation, your children's school problems, your pet's illness or your new car. Really, I just don't. On slow days, I'll cheerfully chat about any of these, but most if the time, you'll find my nose in the nearest grindstone - a method that's kept me steadily employed.

If you think that makes someone a "dick," I foresee many short term jobs in your future.

And not much else. Look, I've walked out of interviews where they asked me goofball, irrelevant questions. As for job description listing requirements like "5 years of Windows 8.1 programming" (no joke), they don't even get a look. I no longer have to work for irrational crazies.

This, by the way, explains your "talent shortage." Want good employees? Fine. CUT THE BULLSHIT! Ask relevant, job-related questions - and nothing else. You don't need to know my community activities, why manhole covers are round, or my favorite band.

With enough people using SnoopSnitch ( https://play.google.com/store/... ), which detects Stingray cell phone trackers, and a collection site on Facebook or any other social media site (Reddit sounds like a good candidate), the locations of these things could be mapped and published in jig time.

That's what happens when you don't throw away everything in the old universe.

Hiding the extensions, is quite frankly, a slow motion disaster. Thousands and thousands of people clicking on the wrong file, staring in bafflement as to why they have multiple duplicate filenames. It cost, I'm sure, millions of hours of lost productivity worldwide over the years, all because some 20-something C++ programmer had a brainwave. That guy should have been fired the day after the release.

Moral of the story? STOP HIDING STUFF! I need to know where my folder is. I need to know what the filenames are. I need to know if they're read-write, read-only and what the permissions are. I need the IMPORTANT stuff easily available. What I don't need to know about are the friggin' media extensions, the color, font, size or any other trivial fact about the file.

I see that one a lot. The assumption that because the software vendor did it one way, That's. The. Way. It's. Done.

It's nonsense of course. Our testing system was designed for the most common use case. Maybe 50 dialogs with 5 or 6 controls each. Our system has thousands of dialogs, some of which have as many as 50 controls on a dialog (It's old, legacy, badly designed. I know....). To make that system scale, we had to develop our own abstraction system, an API and a different object mapping system.

In the end, it worked quite nicely. Had we just used it as was designed out of the box, we'd have scrapped it by now, or quadrupled our staff running on that maintenance treadmill. Vendors can be pretty bad at scaling or special cases.

In a high tech world, we can no longer afford to be governed by the innumerate, technically challenged and the uneducated. Democracy as currently constructed is failing.

I'm sorry about your reading difficulties. Here's a simplified definition that you might be able to follow. DSM-V-TR has the complete version. FYI, despite my current job as a software designer/programmer and system administrator, my degree is in psychology. What's your's?

Greedy sociopaths worldwide manipulate the aggressive en masse via the media, monetary reward and punishment systems, and if necessary, brute force to further their acquisitive nature, which has no end, and ultimately, no point.

Anyone who wants to code, will learn to code. It's a self selecting group.

And thus we demonstrate the kind of ecological problems that can happen as we try and scale solar up to industrial scale levels. That's 2,900 acres of local ecological disruption through lack of sunlight.

While solar has many strong points, and is great for small scale local power, you have to be careful about how you grow it, and where you put it.

With cameras, phone tabs, smart phone monitoring, and computer monitoring.

Seriously. Let's turn it around. Make sure the watchers are watched, from the lowliest policemen to the president of the USA. I'd be in favor of monitoring all corporate transactions too, and banning cash or otherwise untraceable transactions for corporations.

In a democracy, citizens need privacy. As a society, we can't afford to have it for politicians or corporations.

Or so all other evidence indicates. That said, is there any reason why what we call the "big bang" represents nothing more than an unmeasurable atemporal interval between otherwise quite mundane spatio-temporal domains? That would satisfy the condition of "eternal existence" and leave room for the big bang.

In other words, big bang, followed by big crunch some xx billion years later. Rinse, lather and repeat.

The theory assumes limited interaction between simulations. They're probably using RS-232 cables because that's all the budget would pay for.