Nice! I wish I'd had that link 5 hours ago! Thanks. +5 informative.

Also keep in mind that the ruling conservative party is a minority party.

The days of electoral majorities are behind us, I think. Time to get more mature about our voting options.

So you also clearly don't keep health insurance for your family, don't benefit from (in no particular order) police services, fire departments, curb-side trash removal, winter snow removal, labor regulation, environmental regulation, judicial services, etc.

Why are so many people willfully ignorant of what services modern governments pay for from their taxes?

No, no, no. The iPad is not a giant iPod Touch.

The iPot Touch is a miniature iPad. You really have to keep that one straight.

Having typed SMSs on phones and having typed on an iPad - what the hell are you talking about? I wouldn't want to write a novel, but short emails, SMS, tweets, are much nicer on the iPad than any other non-laptop I've used.

With that attitude, I hope that you have some alternative mechanism for receiving your post, food delivery to your grocer, and all the other second-hand societal & civilizational lubricating effects that the public roads bring.

Selfish moron.

Yes. Unless you also count "easy data entry tablet" through the numbers app.

But yes. Mobile media display, iTunes remote control, web browsing. In a stable platform that I don't have to screw with.

That's a lot of "That's it".

Sure, her kids should suffer a lower lifestyle to please the RIAA and "deter" file sharing. Your country is fsck'd.

The munitions ship Mont Blanc blew up in Halifax harbour during WWI - the event is recalled as the Halifax Explosion. It was about 3 kilotons of explosives. It razed 2 square kilometers of the town. So we do know what such a ship might do.

I also avoid categorical imperatives.

There is testing that isn't unit testing. Knowing when it's sufficient is one of the things that separates good coders from highly productive coders.

I'd avoid the false dichotomy.

Only unit test what needs to be unit tested. If it needs to be tested the testing will pay for itself. If it's simple enough that it doesn't need testing, then you're wasting your time writing those tests.

Half the benefit of the unit tests/test-first methodology is that they force you to design even your internal interfaces in a reliable way. The other half is knowing you didn't introduce regressions in that oh-so-clever code.

For most projects you don't need a whole lot of tests but there will be a couple of subsystems that you almost can't manage without them.

They are called personal computers for a reason.

It just makes it more expensive to fight your suit against the megacorp. Since justice belongs to the party with the deeper pockets, megacorp gets away with it until some defense lawyer can carry the whole thing through, which reduces how many attorneys might take on what might be an otherwise open-shut case.

You need to learn to use a command-line debugger. IDE debuggers "work" for simple bug and code flow tracing, but they are useless for anything subtle.

There's nothing I hate more than the IDE deciding to display the new value of a variable by overwriting the old one, making it impossible to track the history of a variable without a piece of paper. Try debugging tricky races without that history.

Real debuggers give you a log, in your window, of all your actions and of the previous state you examined. No IDE I know of gives you that.

Really, the question about the question is: Do you mean "how many hours a day are you allocating to your job", vs "how many hours are doing useful work for your employer".

Job is easily 9-10 a day.

Useful work is capped around 5.

Overhead chews (from expense reports to travel arranging, to yet another bozo who couldn't be bothered coming to the meeting needing to be filled in) up the rest.