Cities and states grant billions in tax incentives to US companies to open offices in their area and employers are at risk of losing out on lucrative incentives.

"[Netscape] did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.... It’s harder to read code than to write it."

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Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET – All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn year? (That’s probably it, actually.) But the end result is just cover fire. The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can’t spend writing new features.

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Bitcoin is not currency. It's speculative. Tulip bulbs. Etc.

Obviously.

And deep down we all feel stupid for missing out.

Is this candidate âoeSmart, and gets things done?â

.... "Is that a PC?"

A "Computer" is too general. A PC could connote 1980s, IBM, Microsoft and Windows, etc.

I bought $500 worth this summer. Won't ever buy more, can afford to lose it all. Having fun watching it go up, expecting it to burst at any moment. Obviously this is a bubble. When will it burst? At this point Bitcoin can't be used as currency as its becoming more valuable that the product you want to buy with it.

If you can afford it, which means you're prepared to lose it, buy a few hundred dollars worth of Bitcoin and watch it over time. I did, and it's been fun to watch the values fluctuate like crazy.

I don't have anything else to say....

there are lousy homegrown solutions and great vendor applications (and vice versa). It depends on the caliber of the development team.

... get over it.

When things are humming again, the jobs, money and talent will return.

"Behind every great fortune is a crime." -- Honoré de Balzac