Bud is a great chaser to a neat jigger of Jameson but Coors is just gross.

America is making some pretty amazing beers these days though that the curious or international crowds should try.

I recommend these small breweries as their beers are generally available regionally or nationally in the USA:

Yuengling, (A Real American Lager) Victory or Sly Fox (PA)

Ommegang, Lake Placid and Brooklyn (NY)

Anchor Steam (CA)

Read "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress." It's got all the socio-political asteroid weapon porn one could hope for.

What I'm talking about is cultural and specifically related to business. I'm sure you've experienced the exact same cultural issues I'm referring to and can even empathize with them.

The only dispersions I cast were on management types who poorly manage people who want to work hard but don't provide parameters or proper guidance for that hard work (in this case hard team work.)

Maybe you should re-read the comment as I would never mock or cast anything other than praise on people who work hard. I do however mock people who think they're working hard but aren't.

And lastly...in comparison to hard labor, nothing is really "hard" work...just more or less mentally taxing.

It's the best part sadly as I have nothing to do at work these days besides interview people and it drives me absolutely bonkers...hence a comment about what I look for in developers when interviewing people.

I'm not a dev, never been a dev, and never went to school...but at least I know how to properly inject myself with SQL.

I'm going to go tie-off.

It's called faking it till you make it. When you present your proposal/architecture do it with confidence. I just saw Julie & Julia this weekend that had a great quote about presenting work: "No excuses, no explanations." Not sure if she said it first (or at all) but it's the way to go most of the time.

Maybe I should make that my sig as the whole quote would actually fit...

In my experience that's usually because some 30-something moron passed a lot of their bad habits onto their subordinates as if they were revelations from the lord himself.

I personally tend to shy away from hiring developers who brag about living in the office as it says to me that they don't know how to work smart, only hard (which leads to sloppiness). Living in the office also leads to "office as home" syndrome which totally destroys your developers ability to know when they're working or not. This leads to a never-ending cycle of almost-working developers eating up time and power through all hours of the night without a lot to show for it.

90% of the time a smart and hard 8 hours is all that's necessary to get what you need out of your devs (or your job if you are a dev.) If you're constantly working all hours of the night you're either:

1. Getting ripped off by your employer

2. Being managed by an incompetent

3. Incompetent yourself

4. Some combination thereof

I wish I knew how to better articulate this to others but I can never seem to get the point across. Something tells me posting this here isn't going to solve that but I can dream.

The worst in other "people?"

What would that be?

Don't forget the throngs of over-40 dot com crashers who stock on Apple lifestyle devices. They're an big part of the market share too (or even more judging from what I see on the subways) and they love to be told what to do. It's a kind of a technical "Step on my cubes" kind of thing.

My vote would be to tone it down a bit and just flash up the first three results of the predictive search below the bar just to give you the flavor instead of the whole result. I think there are ways to do this already with browser extensions but I'm cool with my search as-is at the moment so haven't investigated.

One could just make a little script that automatically presses enter every time you type a key in a google search bar and you'd have essentially the same thing. That actually sounds a little annoying but we'll have to see where they're going with it.

Indie game development industry, meet the indie music industry. I think the two of you will get along nicely.

If I was being funny you wouldn't have to ask.

What is funny is that when speaking of a hypothetical future people can't have fun with it and instead ground it in the now. Kind of takes the fun out of scifi.

Yes but with proxies you could be in many places at once without the hassle of space travel...which I think will remain a hassle to some degree for a millennium to come. Primitive robot proxies seem like 50-70 years away. It's short term but if I squint really hard I can see myself alive to at least drive a virtual robot across the moon.

Ugh. Avatar hasn't even crossed my mind. I was thinking more like Terminator meets Snow Crash meets Star Trek.

MS's WorldWide Telescope is cool too. It also has a Mars map that's fun.