According to Columbus Business First:
Wendy's Tuesday clarified its intentions and said that it does not mean it will be raising prices at peak times. “We said these menu boards would give us more flexibility to change the display of featured items,” the company posted on its blog. “This was misconstrued in some media reports as an intent to raise prices when demand is highest at our restaurants. We have no plans to do that and would not raise prices when our customers are visiting us most.”
Almost certainly paywalled:
https://www.bizjournals.com/co...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I use OneSearch www.onesearch.com for everything except images.
Still use google for image searches.
OneSearch gives me crap about not working outside of the USA when I travel to Central / South America and I have to default back to google. I have no idea why it can't deliver results everywhere since I literally want it to do exactly what it does within the USA, but whatever.
I have zero firsthand knowledge of them living up to their privacy marketing message, but I like that they are least claim to be designed with privacy in mind.

Birds Aren't Real

Would love the language to be broad enough to allow us gamers to "repair" (stand up? emulate? Take over hosting costs?) old online video game servers that the manufacturers "broke" when they turned them off. I get that the game makers can't keep spending money on servers forever, but the gamers that want to keep them alive should be able to pony up the money to do so. . .

I miss Slashdot's April Fools summary. The OP that said, "thank you" can just ignore the summary one day. It isn't wasting his time unless he keeps spending time reading it. It snuck up on me about 1 year in 3, which made it even better as they "got me" for a bit.
We miss you CommanderTaco!
OMG Ponies was the best! If you really used a plugin to keep it alive, you are my hero
(my id# misrepresents how long I've been reading slashdot)

The majority of professional hockey players are born in January and February. . .
. . . because the cut off for each age group, when they are kids, is Dec 31.

If you are a little better than everyone else young(a few months older or left handed in a sport with time pressure), you get more attention from the coaches, more playing time, and get better. That compounds over years.

The book Outliers is a great read and explains all this.

Even if left handedness's advantage gets diluted later in life when half the people are left handed through selection, the effect when you are young would still persist.

Cruise ships during the "days at sea" are the closest thing to this still existing (in my opinion).
No cell phone (rarely a reason to take it out of the room). No credit card. No news. Conversations with random people (eat in the main dining room not at a table for 2).

Worked in the fields (detassling corn, walking beans, and bucking hay bales) to buy it.
IBM clone.

• 4.77 MHz with a "turbo" button to take it to 8Mhz (which you had to be careful with because it would make some games unplayable)
• One 5.25" floppy drive
• 512K of Ram (I think I remember that right)
• No HD
• Came with MS DOS and GW Basic as the only disks. A manual for each.

I had borrowed other computers from my parents' schools (trs 80, apple II, etc) but this was MY first computer and the first one that stayed in the house all the time (not just christmas and summer breaks)

I started my own custom software company without an "idea" and with no business experience.
I grew it to 11 employees making more than a $million a year of profit. Sold it for multiple millions.
I've started companies around an "idea." (most of these failed. Some were ok)
I started a second custom software company that is still going strong. It works primarily with software startups. We've launched about 50 companies (all around an "idea") so far.
I'm actually working as the CTO of one of the companies we've launched as they've grown explosively around their "idea."

My advice:
Pre sell. Do not think of something, go build it, and try to sell it. Don't do that. As others have pointed out, that requires sales, business, etc. You don't have that.
You say you can code. Talk to anyone and everyone around you (focus on existing business owners). Try to see problems that they might not even see that can be solved by computers. Anything that a human is spending a lot of time on that a computer can do better.
Offer to build that computer program for $x. Ideally you've already learned that they are spending 10x in labor costs on that issue. If they say no, move on. If they say yes, you have your first sale. Delight them.
Repeat.

If you start seeing the same types of problems or if you start getting skill in a particular area, a natural business will grow out of it. You'll naturally realize you are making more with these other projects than your full time job and you'll quit the full time job to do this.
(As an aside, you can start a software company around an idea, but you need deep domain expertise so your idea is already vetted by your expertise in that industry as an industry-wide problem that you *know* lots of people will pay $x for)

Good luck. Happy to help more if I can.

Bill Paxton's characters quotes are THE quotes I think of when I think of memorable movie quotes. (He's #2 in my book behind the Simpsons).
"This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons and no training." "Why don't you put her in charge."
"knives. sharp sticks"
Thank you Bill Paxton for your impact on my life. I'm saddened that this happened.

I scanned the whole thread and didn't see anyone suggesting what I've been doing for years. . . The first letter of a long sentence that only I would have made up. . .
For example, reading the thread makes me think of the sentence: "xkcd says that its important to add extra bits of entropy" turns into "xstiitaeboe"
So easy to remember, that I still remember passwords I created 20 years ago (and haven't used in 16 years). . .
I never had to write it down
For special character "requirements," I still make up a sentence, and then capitalize the first letter and add a number and a special character to the end.
"Xstiitaeboa5%"
I used to have to remember a lot of different ssh passwords for lots of different clients. . . I remembered a different sentence about each owner. . . first letters turned into VERY different passwords. . .

My parents were teachers. They brought home a TRS-80 and an Apple ][ with no external software for christmas breaks and summer breaks. . . No software. None. All you could do was break out of it trying to find something and start programming it. . . I borrowed a book of example programs (not instruction) from the library and typed a bunch of those programs. . . eventually learned what the things meant, in context at least. . . . Nothing to save the programs to, so they had to be left on all break or all summer or I had to start over. . .

I worked summers walkin' beans, detasslin' corn, and buckin' hay bales and eventually bought a Laser IBM compatible which had a REAL GW-Basic manual! Read that cover to cover and learned things I'd been using for years but didn't really understand. . .

I wrote a lot of programs for my own use on that computer (and follow on ones I bought) for school work, organizing stuff, stupid games, etc.

Got a job as a programmer when I started college in C++, which I'd never heard of (I remember looking in the book store in the "S's" for "See Plus Plus" because I had no idea there was a language called "C"). I totally faked my way through the interview. I did know "programming," just not language specifics, so that helped. The interview was luckily on a Friday and I bought a book on C++ on the way home from the interview, read that book cover-to-cover over the weekend and started the job Monday.

I had a lot of programming classes in college (Computer Engineering major at University of Illinois). That helped a lot.

Told my first day on the job (officer in the Air Force) that I'd have to be programming in Java once my security clearance came through, so I spent the time learning Java from a book (or maybe the internet existed enough at that point that I used that. I don't remember).

I'm not proud of it (probably still leads me to be more "hacky" than properly trained Computer Scientists), but I think I'm about as "self taught" as is possible to be. . .

I was in Vegas on Sept 21st, 2015 (3 weeks ago). Myself and 2 co-workers took several Ubers and several taxis that day.

I don't know what was true when this article was written, but it is very out of date when compared to the reality I experienced, first-hand, just 3 weeks ago.

Uber exists there; seems to work great, just like it works everyone else that it exists, with one caveat. . .
The uber drivers are scared to death of going to the airport; either to pick up, or drop off. . .
They claim that if they do, they get cited by local police (more than one uber driver said this).
That one problem creates an incredibly messed up situation. . . as illustrated by one of our attempted rides:
- We called for a cab to the airport at the end our business meeting (because we knew by then we couldn't take Uber).
- The cab company promised to come get us, but wouldn't tell us a pickup time other than "hopefully under 30 minutes. Answer your phone."
- 30 minutes later, we called again.
- The cab company said, "Oh I'll let dispatch know you you called again and that you are still waiting." (like she was shocked we were still waiting)
- We called another company.
- The second cab company was willing to come get us, but only if we put down a credit card first, and they were unwilling to guarantee a time that they would arrive to get us, not even a promise that they would be there in the next 30 minutes.
- We declined this option.
- 60 minutes after our first call, in desperation, we had our co-worker (who was already at the airport) get a cab (at the airport) and take it to our location, to pick us up, and take us back to the airport. That was the only way we could figure out to get there.
- We never received any call saying "hey we're here" or "we can't get you" or anything. (Call us bad for contributing to the problem by not calling them back to let them know we no longer needed a ride.)

Mind you, we had taken 4 ubers (get there, go to lunch, come back from lunch, send co-worker to hotel to get luggage) from this same location/area, all that same day, prior to this attempt to get to the airport. They all showed up in under 5 minutes, were all clean, friendly, and willing to take us anywhere we wanted to go (other than the airport).

I have lots of opinions about what this all means, but I'll try to leave this post to just what I experienced.

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