Depends on the location. In a major tech center (Silicon Valley, NYC, DC, etc.), nobody who is proficient in even one language is going to get out of bed for 90 or even 100k.

Not halfway, by a long shot. You should be able to learn the basic language constructs in a few hours. But that doesn't mean a thing. Each language has its own idioms, APIs, standard libraries, typical addons, development frameworks, testing frameworks, etc.

If I sub some Java work out to someone who writes Perl code translated line-by-line into Java, I will reject it for the unmaintainable garbage that it is. If a sub reimplements a JDK or apache commons function, that's a rejection.

To verify proficiency in a language, I usually ask a few compare/contrast questions in an interview because those are hard as hell to answer if you've just read a "_____ For Dummies" book (e.g. "What's the difference between C and C++?" "What's the difference between SOAP and REST?". That type of thing.). Then, I ask to see one of their projects in that language on GitHub. Generally, that tells me all I need to know.

Republicans: Preventing boneheaded legislation since 1854!

I think this might be more of a Silicon Valley phenomenon. I've never seen this on the east coast, at all.

It's a lot cheaper in fountains. I forget the cost, but anyway, you pay a lot for individual cans or bottles.

Well, it kind of does have to do with programming. I guess I just didn't summarize it at the end to bring it into one coherent thought, so I can see why it wouldn't have gone through.

My point was that if beer brewing is as sensitive as sous vide cooking can be, then the obvious, simple programming solution is insufficient. In other words, plunking a temperature probe into the liquid and firing off a bash script that checks the temp every minute, operating an electric stove accordingly, is not going to keep 20L of liquid at a correct, uniform temperature. This is especially true if you have a powerful stove. You can verify this by moving the probe around and seeing the temperature variance.

I have personally used a 1000W heating element in a 15L water bath and without circulating the water, I've noticed a temperature variance of up to 3 degrees at various locations in the bath. If this is OK for beer brewing, then this is not a concern for your application. However, if a variance of 3 degrees is significant, then you need to be aware that the naive solution is insufficient and that you should take measures beyond the simple Linux solution to mitigate this. That means using a proper PID controller, not a naive bash script (among other steps already mentioned).

Also funding bias.

If you publish an article that questions AGW, you'll never get another research project funded. And if you never get your research funded, you don't get to be a climatologist anymore.

You get what you pay for.

I don't know much about beer brewing but I'm starting to get into sous vide cooking. It turns out keeping a body of water at 65C is a lot more complicated than you'd expect!

I'm not sure what the tolerances are in beer brewing, but in sous vide cooking it depends. For meat, you can be off by about 1 degree C and never be the wiser. But if you're cooking eggs soft-cooked, you really want to be accurate to the tenth of a degree (63.5C) for consistent results. Also, there is another complication: uniformity. Any idiot can keep the water that is in contact with the thermometer at 63.5C. But what about the rest of the water? It's no good if half of your eggs are undercooked*!

In practice, that means circulating the water and insulating the container, which includes covering it (evaporation will cool the water toward the surface). Also, temperature is controlled with a PID temperature controller which takes care of overshooting the temperature and ensuring that the temperature remains within tolerance, and the average temperature is as close to target as possible. For that 63.5C +/-0.1 degree tolerance, you obviously want to fluctuate between 63.40-63.60, not 63.30-63.50 or even 63.40-63.50 (or some other range).

*Food safety is not a huge concern in this case, by the way. Pasteurization occurs at 57C for 75 minutes. Even if your egg is a underdone and looks like it should make you sick, it won't unless your thermometer is off by a country mile (and even then, your egg would appear to be completely raw, so you'd know something went wrong)!

There are many things that can impair driving. Kids fighting, dog puking, sun shining in your eyes, messing with the radio, and that's just off the top of my head. Who gives a shit if you can detect small changes in eye movement? Is that going to kill anybody? No? Then stop trying to push Prohibition back down our throats.

Does that entitle me to free manicotti like being a Pastafarian does? If not, then this is useless to me.

OK, fine. Have it your way. I am hereby Catholic!

So can I now go take Communion in a Catholic Church? No? Why not? I just said that I'm Catholic. You mean there are requirements for being Catholic that I don't meet?

I guess I'm not as Catholic as I claimed, am I.

I never asked you to give a shit what Muslims believe, hard-line or otherwise. My comment was on doctrine, not the President's religious practices. In fact, I believe I wrote that President Obama is a practicing Christian.

This is silliness and I'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion. I was merely pointing out that reasonable people can have different beliefs.

And this is why I'm not sure where your outrage came from. Again, the President is a practicing Christian. Precision, in my opinion, requires that we recognize others' beliefs, even when we don't share them.

That's not quite true. Let's say, hypothetically, that I was to decide that I was Catholic. Well, the Catholic Church has requirements for someone to be considered Catholic, and it turns out I don't meet them. Even if I considered myself to be Catholic, other folks, folks in the Catholic Church, think that I am not. Therefore I am not. I could not take Communion in a Catholic church because "other folks" think that I am not Catholic.

What a person thinks, and what other people think, are different things. However, they are both important in their own ways. You can choose not to care what other people think, but that doesn't make their thoughts meaningless. In case you were wondering, I have chosen not to care that you consider me to be a Pastafarian. I'd speculate that President Obama doesn't really care if Islam considers him to be Muslim.

P.S. If being a Pastafarian entitles me to free manicotti, I intend to claim it. I really love manicotti.

I'm not an expert on Islam by any means, but I'm fairly sure that if you are born to a Muslim father, then Islam considers you to be a Muslim by birth. Assuming that that is correct, Barack Obama, Sr. was Muslim by birth, as is President Obama.

Again, I am not 100% certain about this Muslim by birth thing. I could research it, but my research motivation is curtailed by the fact that I don't personally care whether or not Islam would consider President Obama to be Muslim.

I understand that President Obama is a practicing Christian. Just trying to be precise here.

Thanks for the link to pam-abl. That was the first I'd heard of it. Neat module.

Personally, I've always gone with

RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication no

and I sleep well at night. Although I have to admit, I sure see an assload of this type of crap in the logs:

May 9 11:12:38 imap sshd[15366]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for ras-185-151.wntpr.net [196.12.185.151] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
May 9 11:12:38 imap sshd[15366]: Invalid user matt4 from 196.12.185.151
May 9 11:12:44 imap sshd[15368]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for ras-185-151.wntpr.net [196.12.185.151] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
May 9 11:12:44 imap sshd[15368]: Invalid user mat4 from 196.12.185.151
May 9 11:12:46 imap sshd[15370]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for ras-185-151.wntpr.net [196.12.185.151] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
May 9 11:12:46 imap sshd[15370]: Invalid user mat from 196.12.185.151

I guess I forgot the corollary to "if you can think of it, it's real, and you can find it on the Internet." Corollary: and there is already a porn site for it.

I'm at the office so I can't google *that* for you. You'll just have to trust the rules of the Internet.