For most of the history of television, Americans believed a Russian named Zworykin invented television. RCA poured a lot of money into convincing people of that, while simultaneously using their monopoly power to relegate Farnsworth to obscurity. They were very successful at that. Farnsworth's key contributions to the technology that made television feasible on a large scale were not widely recognized until relatively recently.

An actual law was proposed and voted on by congress: http://www.legisworks.org/cong...

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I'm curious how you can have 1 or more drinks per day, adding up to 6 pints per week. Either you're using some new definition of week, or someone is drinking negative beers.

I already pay Microsoft about $60/year for a subscription service that allows me to download and play games. It's called XBox Live Gold. Perhaps no one told the new boss at XBox about?

This is exactly right. Unfortunately so many people think that constructing a building is a good analogy for "constructing" software, and think the same methods and ability to schedule in detail apply. It's the worst analogy. A better one is, making a schedule for the invention of a flying car. You know exactly what you want it to do, but you don't know how you'll make it happen yet, and you certainly don't know the exact date when you'll have it all figured out.

The saddest case is seeing street folk buy the 200ml liquor for $5 when the 1 liter bottle is $9. He's paying $25/liter instead of $9 because he just managed to scrape together $5 and immediately went to the liquor store. And the liquor store knows this when they set those prices.

Should have been C or assembly. They way I was taught, which is how I think it should be taught, you start with transistors and work your way up. Logic gates, circuits, integrated circuits, assembly, compilers, high-level languages. C lets you see how the language is integrating to the hardware below it. You have registers, heap memory and a stack, interrupts, pointer arithmetic. Python et al are all just theory. C is reality. From there, you can move up to learning high-level things.

I'm not saying C is the best language. I'm saying it's the best first language.

The key is to get Gwyneth Paltrow to tell her followers that this thing is the most awesome device ever created: http://goop.com/the-coolest-in...

This is the part of C++ that you can't learn in 21 days.

They mean "gun-firing robot". A "gun-shooting robot" is a robot that fires bullets at guns.

No gurps_npc is right. I've lived in NYC 20 years and I think I've driven a car in the city twice. You are right KiloByte that we are unusually into cars; I still drive cars when I'm in other parts of the US. But seriously, the statistical significance of people in NYC driving home from a bar after drinking is gotta be 0. Before Uber there was 0 reason to drive a car home, and you can't go down from 0.

Read this article: http://www.autonews.com/articl...

TL;DR "Why is Tesla *SO* special they need an exemption from the law!?!?" Kinda hard to read without getting angry.

Long ago, the argument was that car companies come and go, but dealerships are forever. So you buy a car from a dealership you will always have a place to service it even if the car company goes out of business. That argument sounds pretty silly nowadays. So now they go with "This is how it is, no exemptions for Tesla".

Developer salaries in the US are high to make up for the fact that they don't provide health insurance or paid holidays? Been a developer in the US for 20 years and never heard of such a job. In fact, never heard of a job w/o paid maternity/paternity leave. At my last job a guy was out sick for almost a year and he was paid the whole time.

Writers aren't constrained by the number of remakes, they are constrained by the amount of original work. Network TV and Hollywood could be all remakes, there would still be more original content on Netflix+Amazon+HBO+Showtime+CC+Indy Film Etc than there ever was when there was just 3 tv networks and a couple movie studios. No, writers are only constrained by the number of writer slots in the city, which is increased by 2 when you build the Writer's Guild wonder.

It's the latter. But I'm actually replying to tell you your sig is awesome.