In the vast majority of businesses, especially small ones, getting to market has a lot more value than building great tech. It doesn't matter how good the tech is as long as it meets the business requirements from a black-box prospective. You don't need three independent projects to do that. The resources are almost always going to better spent on sales and marketing.

I'm with Joel Spolsky on this one. Private offices. If you can't swing that, *please* do not do the round table. Programmers need to concentrate! Some here here.

As others said, most likely it was leaked or stolen, but also realize that in the Valley the level of tech knowledge is a lot higher than other places. There are a lot more people around that know about these things and if it really was left at a bar, that bar probably caters to the tech crowd.

This.

The two tickets are not comparable--you are getting a discount on the open-ended ticket, which is quite expensive on most airlines. As parent says if you have fixed dates, the online price is the best deal you are going to get but is full of restrictions, with a notable exception being Southwest Airlines.

More here, in the comments.

Ron Paul was in favor of bringing our troops home and closing foreign bases.

Perot was also info in favor of closing foreign bases back in 1992.

This would save a lot of money.

The code is GPL'd and on Gitbub.

http://github.com/chromakode/xkcdfools

I sweeten my coffee with HFCS, you insensitive clod!

What are you talking about? People with "power" usually have money and thus don't need insurance to cover this. Mostly it is people in unions (these days, primarily government workers and teachers) with excellent insurance for life.

You mean like Medicare?

I'm going to guess they will remain valid since this article is about actions that took place over 80 years ago.

Firefox did not invent tabbed browsing and OO will never be anything more than a buggy clone of MS Office 2003. I want to like but I just can't. MS Office is a very good product.

This isn't true. Any assault without a weapon that doesn't land you an overnight visit to the hospital is a very minor charge and the perpetrators do not go to jail for "an extended period of time"--1 night is more like it. And that is if you are in a city small/peaceful enough that the cops actually give a damn to help you find the assailant.

That is not going to do you too much good as AC...

There is nothing to tinker with, it's magic.

The iP* products are consumer electronic devices, not general purpose machines. It makes perfect sense that these are locked down for the sake of reliability and performance. Not to mention the Apple business model is based on the closed nature of these products.

The desktop versions of OS X are incredibly flexible and powerful tools, with the usability bonus of a well thought out graphical shell. There is a reason programmers and IT people are migrating en mass to Mac--they are way ahead of the competition when it comes to power and flexibility compared to Windows, and reliability and usability for an end user compared to Linux.

When you purchase a Mac, you are getting a full featured development environment and sys admin toolkit out of the box.