So, I take it you use the WordStar word processor? written in assembly to be as lean as possible - not a byte wasted and super fast!

what's that? no? what do you mean it was overtaken by Microsoft word, that's a bloated as - how can it be better?

oh, it works. It gets its features out.

I do really like DI - it's a SOLID dev principle to make reliable software!

being able to test things and not have to build the world everytime you want to use something is amazing!

As a developer, it comes down to $$$

Storage is cheap. RAM is cheap. Compute is Cheap. Developer time is Expensive.

For compiled languages, the number of dependencies can be compiled away

For Javascript/web, webpack et al rewrite things down to a few files

The cost for devs about deep dependency trees is usually hidden at decision time

If you treat the errors as return values, as they are, you can get some really nice error handling

One example:

handleErr := func(err error) {
    if nil == err {
        return
    }
    print_error(err)
    os.exit(1)
} // if any step fails, we exit the app
handleErr(do_thing1())
handleErr(do_thing2())
handleErr(do_thing3())

one of these things is not like the other.

I know that America is a different place. They like to stand around after these sorts of events saying "IF ONLY THERE WAS A WAY TO PREVENT IT" while the rest of the world scratches their heads and ask "Can they really be that stupid"

We may not share borders directly with other countries, but there are these things called boats which like to pop over to our thousands of kilometres of unprotected coast line and drop stuff and people off (that was and is still a rather large political football). As for the illegal drug trade, it is alive and well unfortunately. Granted the we don't have the same ideas about guns and gun ownership here (that is a much larger social change for the US) so how things are implemented in the USA will be different. Easy access to a gun is a bad thing. * I hear way too many stories about children getting guns and shooting themselves or someone close by. These news stories are non existent here, that sort of thing does not happen. * We can generally associate mass shootings with People who are having a really bad day who also have easy access to a firearm. What happened here was: * a gun buyback and amnesty. That removed a lot of the easy access to weapons. That also had the effect of making them a scarce resource (and capatilisim being what it is, made anything already out there more expensive, even for the criminals) * You need a gun license and a reason to own a gun (i.e. you are a farmer or are part of a gun club) * You need a special license (and reason) for anything that is semi automatic, no fully automatic weapons are allowed I challenge you to find a solution that *would* work for america. Take a look at other 1st world countries and find out where they went wrong and where they went right. Do some reason for the opposition arguments.

Follow the example set in Australia after the Port Arthur Massacre 20 years ago. Gun Buybacks. You need a license AND a reason for owning a semi automatic. Make guns really expensive to buy (it's amazing how well economic measures are) The only reason that most people have to own a gun is "Because they are fun to shoot"

Agreed - start with something that can expand with you... Norco 4220 Case that should do - 20 hot swap bays should be enough to get you started. get a good motherboard and CPU (turn the box into a server) and add in a good RAID card. when you need more room, just add more disks and expand the RAID

Look at the questions from previous years and implement some of them in python and see if your going to have run time issues.

if you have no issues, then chances are the kids are not either (since your teaching them, they will code in your style until they learn their own)

You don't have to be a comedian, you just need to make sure that your audience is attentive and taking in what you are saying - so - make it funny and have the jokes the things you want people to remember.

that and tell them to be paranoid "if it seems dodgy, it probably is!"

The IIA is an industry lobby group. They are the good guys in this :).

Personally I think it is a good idea, as long as it is an opt-in service by ISPs!