Well it depends on what your intention is. As the author of an open source project I got little feedback on, I'm still glad I wrote the project because I needed it for my own purposes, and I was still able to treat it like a "real project." I wrote an installer for it. I had version numbers. I shipped it out on laptops I setup for my employer, because I might need to use it to diagnose problems. If the author has a real problem to solve for themselves, even if its for their weekly D&D game or for a fantasy sports league, they can still teach themselves about version control, installer software, unit testing, or other things.

I learned about version control when I was writing VB6 programs as a clerk in a security guard company. No one told me to. I decided on my own. Later when I was a programmer there I taught myself to make an MSI installer and how to use NUint. No market pressures from my boss or a client made me do this. Just a desire to be more professional and disciplined.

Depends. What if not quickly enough is 6 months? 2 years? What if part of the problem is your lack of employment makes you depressed and distant? What if you two recently closed on a bigger house before an unexpected layoff, and you were the one that pressured her into agreeing to it?

We like to consider ourselves "evolved beings" but the facade of civilization fades away after a few missed meals.

"Making stuff up" is an educated guess, or hypothesis. You can keep dividing matter into smaller and smaller pieces. Is that infinite or not? Saying "there must be atomic particles" is as educated a guess as "matter may be divided infinitesimally" if you know as much as the ancient Greeks. The same exists with continental drift. Look at a map and see that the continents kind of fit together like puzzles. Also note that sometime the earth shakes and bleeds (volcano's). So even without all the data and knowledge of fluid dynamics, you have a guess that makes as much sense as "the earth is static except for when it bleeds lava or shakes"

In the same sense, science fiction is based on science fact. Yes Gene Roddenberry did not produce any research to lead to FTL travel, but he certainly had some scientific knowledge on the matter

The problem is Louis removed may market inefficiencies created by the RIAA/MPAA, and those inefficiencies create jobs!</sarcasm>

24 Hour urgent care might be possible. I'd expect the hard part would be finding night shift admin staff. Then again, college students could do that. The problem with a hospital having a built in urgent care system is that they'd probably have to let people in for free like the ER. An urgent care could probably advertise in an ER, but most people in an ER that have insurance would go to urgent care if they knew about them. Also imagine the lawsuit if someone went to an ER, saw the urgent care advertisement, and went to urgent care, who sent them back to the ER?

If it could happen I'd love it though.

Part of their results are based on what they host their company websites on. I don't know about the top 1000. But when I worked at an ISP, several large clients that colo-ed several racks of equipment from us hosted their website on our hosted servers. If a company website doesn't do anything interactive besides send an email to someone in sales or marketing then thats probably what said company does.

Also, its really more interesting what the internal systems in a corporation are running, not the company website, which is usually not handled by IT.

That's called marketing. Sure, it might not be direct to consumer advertising, and its a different approach. You're buying doctors lunch as opposed to giving free pens out at health fairs. You're buying ads in journals as opposed to Esquire magazine. Either way, you are spending money to inform decision makers.

That seems really low for a programmer, regardless of what part of the country you are in.

As a college drop out programmer that started off in IT making less than that doing third shift help desk, I was making more than $30k the first time my title was developer.

I always wondered about the two dimensional thinking of that. Why not go UP a few light years at full impulse and then have Scotty stoke the warp core and Sulu floor the gas pedal.

I guess it depends on the area and population. The Archdiocese of Newark covers 4 NJ counties. Archdiocese of Brooklyn covers 2 of the 5 counties in NYC. The Archdiocese of NY covers the rest of NYC and up to Dutchess county I believe.

Perhaps that's why its optionally manned. If their going to bomb Russia or china, they might man it. If they are going to perform surveying and dropping MREs after a disaster on a humanitarian mission, then they might chose not to man it. Also, the event of a suicide mission, where the Bomber is almost guaranteed to be lost, they can fly it unmanned, ensure it will self destruct.

It could simply be a matter of their being less to hide, and lots of it being on paper. The sex abuse scandals probably were covered up at the diocesan level (usually the size of a county or two in the United States). Equate priest with Police officer/Sargent and Bishop with Lieutenant and think thin blue line stuff. That kind of stuff doesn't get recorded on paper. Also, if it did get recorded, it probably got recorded on PAPER not on a hard drive.

Whatever ancient Dan Brown-esque evils Holy Mother Church has to hide is probably only available on paper if it exists. As far as the whole abortion and birth control thing, the church is quite proud and vocal about it.

Finally, anonymous only wants to steal the Vatican's poster collection.

I only need one job to pay myself (or x contracts if I'm an independent consultant where x is certainly less than 100 if I'm charging by the hour). With my employment history, I've never gone to work for a competitor, was interviewed with one, or even approached by one, so even if I wasn't allowed to it didn't affect my market rate or employability. Maybe if I was more highly specialized, that would be a problem. Perhaps with outsourcing that is a reality for sysadmins since most of them work at ISPs. I don't think that is the case for developers, at least in my market (greater NYC). Honestly, I've had two jobs where I didn't even know the name of a direct competitor, so maybe I just see things different.