Keep in mind that some of the things they couldn't verify still have some truth to them...

I think you're referring to the workers who suffered nerve damage from exposure to n-hexane. Ironically, that's one of the things that Mike Daisy admits that he made up. Oh, that did happen to some workers at some other company over a thousand miles away. A long time before his visit. The thing is, Mike Daisy claimed that he witnessed it and that he interviewed several people who suffered such nerve damage. Which is a lie.

There were people that were wounded in Vietnam. I could claim that I'm one of them. Would that be partially true?

This is really cool, because I just finished reading how badly Washington Post screwed up with the "Inventor of Email" story. In fact, if you look at the comments you can see that former OSDN CEO Robin Miller (aka roblimo) suggested that they hire someone from the slashdot crowd to work on IT reporting. Maybe they took it to heart.

Beyond that I think they also own it it the literal sense. Wikipedia says they purchased it from the original inventor...

Oh to be sure Objective-C wouldn't be on the radar were it not for iOS. I'm sure that 95% of objective-c developers are working on iOS (the other 5% probably being MacOS). My only point is that there's a big difference between "uses" and "requires".

Well hell, so long as we're substituting words, I choose to replace the word "correct" with "high" in your previous statement ;-)

I'm not sure I understand how it matters why it's popular. The index isn't a listing of strictly general purpose programming language.

Actually that's not even remotely true. You always had option of using C and C++ in addition to Objective C, and ever since apple removed the language restriction you can use whatever language you wish so long as it compiles to native code, resides in the app bundle, and doesn't use undocumented API calls. In fact many games are written in C# using monotouch.

But even if your statement was correct, I'm not sure it's relevant. There are lots of environments that *require* Java development, so do we then apply some sort of negative weighting to it's rank on the TIOBE index? If it's popular it's popular.

I did see the link to the original CDC article concerning 'zombie preparedness' in the summary but didn't see one to the follow up article where they actually prepared a novella concerning the topic:Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic, it's not World War Z, but it's fairly entertaining never the less.

And when you can be sued for the mistakes of the corporations you 'own' then come back and talk about how the government enforcing safety standards is nannyism.

Till then, special protections = special restrictions.

I don't consider myself a feminist by any means, but I imagine it's a bit frustrating that a discussion of a male CEO rarely ever involves talking about their looks, yet it's one of the primary topics when discussing female CEO's.

Another quick history lesson - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bonus_Army - Sometimes this shit just means shit.

People get pissed, they make noise. That doesn't make change, having leaders who has the ability and will to get pissed people to follow them makes change. As much as OWS is something I enjoy seeing, I'm not pretending it's the fall of Rome.

I know it probably doesn't mean much from some random guy on the internet, but I've derived a tremendous amount of joy from this site. Thanks so much for your efforts here. I do hope that you update cmdrtaco.net w/ you find out what your next endeavor is!

Florian? Is that you?

Stack Overflow reputation is cumulative. This means that if two people are providing answers of the same quality and at the same rate over time, the folks who have been there longest will have higher reputations, and that the higher reputation will reflect only tenure. Not any kind of quality.

If you want to look at quality, you should be looking at a metric that is something like (total reputation / number of months active). Even this is imperfect of course, since if people take a hiatus or something that will present the appearance of worse quality using this metric.

I was going to say that this fatal flaw invalidated the conclusions because the correlation between reputation and age just reflected the older people being around longer. The problem with that is that Stack Overflow opened in 2008. That's not enough time to explain a linear trend that tracks from age 16 to nearly age 50, but the final conclusion "So, senior coders earn their higher reputation by providing more answers, not by having answers of (significantly) higher quality." should still be re-examined with tenure-controlled analysis to try and see whether older aged members have been members longer.

I advised Abbott to put her cell phone away

If she sues, this will be the part that screws the officer. She was in a public place, there was no expectation of privacy (in fact, given that it was a TSA screening, quite the opposite). I'm surprised that he even wrote it down in the police report.