Unfortunately, it is hard to find anything controversial or interesting in these answers, which is to be expected when political teams are given time to craft PC responses to questions like these. Everything here is what you would expect - Obama answers the questions by talking up his policies of the past 4 years and Mitt answers the questions by attacking Obama's policies of the past 4 years. I would much rather see these questions posed in a debate, where the candidates have less time and less help in coming up with responses.

I agree with you. However, the Democrats' "view" of the issue does not match their policies. I'm no Mitt fan, but he is right on when he attacks the current administration/FCC's net neutrality policy.

They chose to do it because it works and it's profitable. Direct your ire at the patent and court systems.

I don't know why every company who sells serious development/production software doesn't give away "developer versions" of their software which can legally be used for home-use only. No one is going to pay a boatload for software that isn't going to make them money and any serious business whose employees use the software will be willing to pay for a legitimate license. *cough*adobe*cough*

As a developer, I love the android back button. But I understand activities and the activity stack. I'm not sure the typical user should be expected to understand these things. I'm glad you and your dad figured out the button so quickly, but I'm betting you are both very logical thinkers even if one or both of you isn't particularly computer literate. I'm an android user and developer, but even I have to admit that some of the gui decisions made by google where very obviously made by people who develop software for a living without really considering users who don't.

Yeah...it really is that simple. Which is why it's ridiculous that the FCC is screwing it up.

You SHOULD be right, but there's a bigger problem in this country. The guy with the political motive is supposed to keep the guy with the profit motive from screwing his constituents over - that's why we vote for that politician. But right now, the guy with the political motive and the guy with the profit motive are best friends.

"Variable scoping -- in javascript especially!"

Absolutely. I've been programming javascript for a long time and I still confuse myself with its variable scoping.

I think part of the problem is that most web developers have never been formally trained in javascript. Most likely they were formally trained in OOP languages like C++. And if you try to apply the rules of those languages to javascript, you have just enough knowledge to dig yourself a gigantic hole.

That's pretty short-sighted. Most programmers, even computer engineers and CS types, learn good programming practices after they have entered industry. School gives you a solid base to start from, but you need real-world experience to really sharpen your skills.

At some point, YOU were that guy making common mistakes. You learned from those mistakes and became a good programmer because your boss didn't fire you the first time you nested your classes a little too deeply.

You did not read the posts at all. I DON'T want anyone to pay for Me to get to work. That was the whole point of my post. Also, I don't live in a large city and my place of work is in the middle of nowhere. I live in the largest city near my work. Please read before you post.

I have met people who do the following things while driving long distances:

-Nalance their checkbook
-Read the newspaper
-Read novels


Sometimes people are just going to choose to do stupid and dangerous things. We can't possibly try and prevent every single one by making it a law.

I almost don't want to respond to this, but here goes:

-Have you ever been in a cab? Those guys are considered professionals. There is nothing safe about cab drivers.

-You obviously live in a large city and you seem to think everyone in the country is in the same situation. Do you have any idea how hard it is to implement public transportation in rural areas? My place of work is 40 miles away from my house and there is no other reasonably-sized town anywhere closer to my place of work. So what sort of viable public transportation system could you possibly implement?

I'm pretty sure your post is a joke (I hope so, at least), so I won't spend any more time responding.

I work at a place where we have a choice between 9/80 and 8/40. Almost everyone here does 9/80, but having tried it for awhile, it just does not work for me. I'm typically very busy after work (I have two large dogs that need exercise, and I work out myself, plus a few other hobbies take up the rest of my time). The extra hour/day is much more important to me than a day off every two weeks (I tended to sleep until noon on that day off anyway, due to the exhaustion of trying to get everything done around my 9 hour day the rest of the week). A lot of people here are claiming that they "never missed" that extra hour per day, but I think it's important to realize that it's personal preference. If you take part in a lot of daily activities, that extra hour a day may be more valuable to you than the day off every two weeks.