What advantages does PHP have that Python does not? Sure, there's a lot of PHP out there, but if you have a choice of web scripting languages I'd say Python has more utility, better support, and better language design.

Let's see: BASIC, Pascal, C, C++, Lisp, Java, Python, Perl...

Uh, did I say Perl? I never knew Perl...*runs away sobbing*

I'm kind of shocked how tone deaf this is. If a company generally perceived as trustworthy asked the British to send them their nudes, there would be plenty of eyebrows raised. Now how trustworthy is facebook? In the UK?

After doing some research my wife and I ended up getting two LG GizmoPal 2 watches for our kids:

http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phon...

They're bascially dumbphones they can wear on their wrist. We can call them(and even auto-answer if they're not picking up), and they can call us. There are only 4 phone numbers that can call in or out, so no telemarketer spam. There's GPS tracking too, which is spotty but generally good enough. And since they're dumbphones they stay charged all week. They have some fund sounds and voice changing features too, and it can say the current time. We bought them used for $35 each, and Verizon charges us $5 a month for each. Not too bad. If they didn't gouge us with a one-time $32 activation fee per watch we'd be pretty happy.

Now I'm not saying the dumbwatches can't be hacked...but it's a lot more work without internet access!

The kids are in to Overwatch for FPS these days, but if you've been out of PC gaming for a while you might want to check out Bioshock. Single player only, but even my wife was hooked after playing for 5 minutes.

Of course they had to fire this guy; he's got "hostile work environment" written all over him. Who would want to work with them? Professional software engineering isn't about going into a dark cave and banging out code in solitary--you have to work with people to do your job.

I worked at Google for 3.5 years as a software engineer, and I am not at all surprised that a Googler would write this pap. During my time there it was clear that there were some employees who were completely blind to the reasons there were so many white men in computer science. It's ironic that the mandatory unconscious bias training could have led to this: privileged white male conservatives convincing themselves that they suffer from comparable levels of discrimination.

I've worked as a programmer mainly at companies in Silicon Valley. I've taken and given plenty of whiteboard coding interviews, including for Google.

The problem is that they were designed originally to find recent college graduates who have topics like red-black trees or counting sort at top-of-mind. This process weeds out older folks who might have a lot more practical knowledge but aren't as well versed with more academic topics that aren't encountered much in the real world. Instead, people are given an expectation that they need to brush up on their academic skills for a non-academic job interview, which is an indicator of a broken process.

Besides, even Google has publicly admitted that there is almost zero correlation between interview scores and the resulting job performance score. It's disheartening to see that they really haven't revisited this process then, despite their claims of data-driven decision making.

I'll believe Microsoft can do this once they've "solved" email spam. That solution was promised 10 years ago, yes?

Previously I've used the free version Catch on mobile and desktop with zero problems, but then Apple bought them out and shut down the service. I migrated everything to Evernote just because they're the de-facto note taking service; I didn't want to have to switch again.

After using it for a while I discovered its flaws, like having your notes be inaccessible during their weekly maintenance Wednesday evenings. What is this, the 90s?

Anyway I couldn't complain too much because it was free. Now that they're hitting us up for money I'm inclined to just pay them the $35 yearly fee so I can access it everywhere and start complaining. I tried Google Keep but it was extremely bare bones; the notes couldn't be shared and were limited to less than 1K of text.

In any case, it's better than pen and paper--these notes never get lost and are easily searchable. If those features aren't useful, you haven't taken that many notes!

Remember that there would have been no charges filed in the Walter Scott case had there not been any video that conflicted with the official police story. I'm all for more surveillance _of_ police, so long as it's not kept secret.

This is less of an attempt by Intellectual Ventures to shed the "patent troll" label and more of an attempt to get some money after the big boys refuse to pay them for their shenanigans. As noted by BusinessWeek and others, they had their second round of layoffs in less than a year:

http://www.businessweek.com/ar...

So they're flailing a bit to try and generate a second revenue stream. I guess VCs are handing out more money than the courts.

To quote my friend Auric Goldfinger: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action."

I second the Roku/WDTV props. When I was shopping around for such a box I was leaning toward WDTV but its lack of DVD menu support was a show stopper.

I ended up going with an Asus O!Play and never looked back. $79 for a beautiful HDMI picture and it plays absolutely everything with zero hassles. The menus could be prettier, but it's more important for me that it just works.