It's a little disingenuous to say that. Everybody writes bugs. I consider myself to be an expert coder, I've been doing it for well over 20 years with hundreds of successful projects. I've lead some of the best teams. And yet, no matter what, *everything* has bugs. Some big, some small. Granted, Oracle is rather slow in fixing general bugs. But I've found that with support, if you have a show-stopper bug in your database, they will write a hot-fix for you. I still don't like Larry Ellison though.

From Seattle to the Grand Canyon and back, enjoying many unique landmarks along the way. Back roads and primitive campgrounds pretty much the entire trip. It'll be nice to get away from daily life for 1.5 weeks. The daily life includes sitting in front of a computer all day writing software. I miss nature...

When I was in high school, I had access to a PDP-11, and when I went to college I worked on a VAX 11/780. The VAX was an amazing machine. It *never* crashed no matter what us college kids would throw at it. Of course, let us never forget that computers of today owe a nod to the VAX architecture.

I have MRE's plus a JetBoil (mostly for camping) plus cases of water. With this, my family and I could survive well for a couple weeks, easy. It's a cheap, easy way to keep food at the ready. It makes me feel better for when we have a massive earthquake - or whatever comes our way.

I went and listened to the song, and though I couldn't understand it or the Perl on the screen, I enjoyed it. It would be awfully nice to see an English translation to I could follow along better. Is this something somebody here could do?

Subject says it all...

Usually I like progress in UI/UX. This one seems like a bad idea. If properly shocked, a person with a not-perfect pacemaker (your natural one) could go into fibrillation. Cue the lawyers...

Couple of comments on that:
1) Terrorism in the US is still a relatively new thing to us. We're not used to it.
2) The media is out of control. They love stuff like this. It makes them lots of money, so they'll milk it for everything it's worth.
3)The above two things are what makes this whole event worse. Yes, a few people died and there were a good number of injuries. That, in itself, is not particularly newsworthy. Terrorism is newsworthy here, unfortunately. And the media pushes it as far as they can.

You have a lot of good comments so far, but none particularly directed to your specific question. I have recently come to a framework that I *really* like, coming from a similar background to yours.

node.js (server, business logic)
nginx (web server, proxy to node for business logic)
postgres (For relational/transactional data. There's a nice node.js driver for postgres)
mongodb (For larger datasets that don't need the transactional stability or quite so structured data)
Angular/Bootstrap with some jquery for good measure on the front-end

This is a lean-mean server tech that blows away any Java (JEE) framework. It took me a bit to get up to speed on node and the way you program with it, but I love it now. It scales so much more on fewer machines than JEE can even dream of. For what it's worth, you should look into it.

I think BlendTec Will it Blend? would work quite well, don't you?

Just so you (everybody reading) know: When I was getting my private pilot license, one of the things you do is read the FAR/AIM manual (Federal Aviation Regulations/Aeronautical Information Manual). Not a terribly easy read unless you like that stuff.

Anyway, even for a little two-seater plane, you must give the whole lecture about fastening seat belts, emergency exits, etc, even though there is only obviously one way out on a small plane. This is a good thing. Even though frequent flyers get annoyed by it, myself included, on an airline with a reasonable number of new flyers it is something quite necessary.

On another note, the FAA errs on the side of caution, which is also a good thing. However, it has become obvious that flight with portable electronics is safe. I know I've personally seen dozens of people with their phones on during takeoff/landing. This particular subject is ready to be looked at, and I think at some point we will not have to bother with this any more.

One other item of note: If you are a passenger on a plane, you have no rights. The FAA authorizes the pilot and crew full authority over what you can and cannot do on a plane. This is also (generally) a good thing. Without this kind of authority, we would have the potential for greater loss of life.

Not sure whether to mark this "Funny" or "Insightful"... I guess I'll lose my mod points for this comment.

Every time I have to fly and get in the line for security (which fortunately is just four or five times a year), I have to wonder about the nitwits that put all this in place. Surely they don't have to go through the same thing all the time or they would do something about it. At least I would think so. That's the trouble with politicians - they don't live in the same world we do...

I traveled to China (Beijing, Wuhan, and Guangzhou) in 2001 and I remember when we landed in Beijing how smoggy it was there. Pretty much the entire country (the parts we saw) were all like this. Of course, this is much worse, but I thought it was kinda bad even back then.

I think I'd rather see a higher frame rate. When I was watching "The Hobbit" I really enjoyed the HFR but I was thinking to myself that the rate needs to be even higher still. No less than 60, I would say...