RTFA? That headline wins the internet for today.

Hey dude, if your email is jsmith@hotmail.com, sorry. My bad.

...Promise Keepers I wonder where one would end up.

Our amazing illustrious and tremendously dear leader has slashed the federal budget to the tune of a 50% employed clerical worker, otherwise known as a TAKER. There is NO WAY that those reports could prevent more than $15,000 in fraud and abuse by a department with a paltry $523,900,000,000 budget. No way. God Damn, America is Great Again!

Without GNU, Henry Spencer is just a dude. Now, who wants to buy a plushy?

Obvious solutions are only obvious after they have been solved. The fact that I can explain how an incandescent lightbulb works, a semiconductor, nuclear fusion and fission, does not put me on the level of the giants (and teams of giants) who made those discoveries. Those discoveries were made from deliberate acts of innovation that Linus declares to be bullshit and you declare to be worthless. Who gives a shit about incrementalism. Of course all discovery is built on the foundations of prior discovery, I fail to see how that somehow devalues actively engaging in innovation.

You know, I can make perfect implements of all of those things every day for the rest of my life. I can sing the shit out of a Bon Jovi song. But no one will remember me for my perfect implementation of someone else's ideas. Because we all know that someone reasonably skilled could have done what I did.

To believe that having a solid grasp of the theory of relativity makes you equal to Einstein with respect to net value to the world, is the sheer epitome of hubris. 98%+ of those ideas fail not because the implementation was bad, but because they were bad ideas in the first place. I certainly concede that a good idea without a good implementation will have no realized value. But good ideas are HARD to come by. Implementing good ideas is just work, not to be diminished and certainly of value, but the implementation is rarely the thing of scarcity that leads to intrinsic value.

Some of the comments here are truly disheartening. A professional CONSIDERS computational complexity EVERY time they write a line of code. That consideration may be that there is no point trying to optimize some particular block of code for many valid reasons, but you still friggin' considered it. The poll question wasn't

But that seems to be the question that most are reacting to. This was not a question about premature optimization, we all (hopefully) understand the problems with that. But if you don't consider computational complexity when coding until it becomes a problem, then you have no business being paid for your work. Period.

Unlimited H1-B's. Pure and simple. Oh, and each H1-B that is hired, because they are needed to fill a position that is vacant because of a scarcity of competent labor,and because the invisible hands dictates that scarcity drives price, must be paid a minimum of 2 times the going rate of Citizens employed in the field doing commensurate work with similar skills and experience. If no such benchmark can be established, they must pay 10 times the poverty rate, adjusted annually, minimum. If my employer wants to replace me with an H1-B and feels that it is worthwhile to pay twice as much for superior labor, then who am I to complain? That is a legitimate business case. If they aren't willing to pay the premium for the premium employees they seek, then they are just full of shit greedy little assholes and can go FOAD.

That is a complete load of horseshit. Again, another trope from politicos who have manipulated the public into believing that they need to "take their country back" or "make America great again". Just go look at the stats, the WTO is a good place to start. The military issue isn't even a question, no one is close. Economically? The US's GDP per capital is almost 5 times China's. If that doesn't count as superpower, then I would like to know your definition of that word.

Are China and other countries gaining ground? Sure they are. But the sky most definitely is still up there, mon petit poulet.

Listen Webster, when in a hole...
This is an expletive sentence structure, and "a whole lot of folks just south of the border with a hole lot [sic] artillery aimed up their noses" is the complete subject.
The South part clearly refers to the South Koreans, unless you are from Australia. Not because North and South are different there, but because they allow Barnaby Joyce to continue to hold office under the guise of protecting animals and thus might be expected to get things diametrically incorrect.
You are correct though that "they" in the second sentence refers to the subject of the first sentence, you just misidentify the subject.
Props for using the correct form of "you're" though, that's not common for folks who refuse to issue a mea culpa after they are called on being so clearly and incontrovertibly incorrect.
Remember, sometimes it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool...

Do you mean to say that somehow a patent has managed to stifle innovation and retard economic growth? The hell you say.

In terms of harm and danger to the public this right up there with breaking into a car that doesn't have any fucking doors and leaving the headlights on overnight. There, FTFY.

Yep. It's completely a non-problem when I go out to my car after work and it won't run. Oh, wait, your were trolling, right? Right? Maybe you didn't have time to put forth a more compelling argument because you are too busy adding security to an app that has access to certain controls on my car, though I can't possible see why any rational person in the world would have expected that SOME form of authentication/authorization would be included in a product that I paid money for. After all, I usually invite the neighborhood kids to come turn on the air conditioning and heated seats in my car whenever they get the urge. 'Cause, why wouldn't I, right? Such a non-problem.

... that she got fired from Yelp for posting an unflattering review?

Two. But the bigger question is how do they get inside the light bulb?