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I didn't realize the P/E was so low. Sounds like a bargain.

Edit: They're paying a modest dividend as well. AAPL is becoming more of a mature stock, but that's not a bad thing.

Same here. I'd have friends in the investment industry ask me about some new IPO or another. "I can't tell you what these guys do." Still, they'd pour money into them.

Even worse was pouring money into things like Nortel after the crash was well under way. People just chased it to the bottom.

Edit: I thought I'd add that even in a bloodbath like 2001, not everything tanked. The (tiny) company I was with continued to grow in revenue. We weren't doing anything glamourous, just focusing on business value. No IPOs, although some folks were trying to push us that way in the late 90's.

The moon landing thing would be important to me.

Actually, I have been hearing more and more about athletes who train in ketosis. It would be especially attractive to an ultramarathon athlete to be able to burn fat for fuel. (This relates more to a high-fat diet than a high-protein diet you mention.)

I've seen a video by Dr. Peter Attia, who was a triathlete, but found he carried a lot of body fat despite his training regimin. https://youtu.be/hB7aGnfLB-8

I had one customer on DO DNS and it was a "good enough" solution. Unfortunately, this came right in the middle of a marketing push for last-minute registrations. An annoyance, but not a major financial impact. (Maybe it will give the impression of excess demand. :)

I understand that things break and I should be ready for it. What I found unacceptable were the status updates. Basically, "we're working on it". No clue as to what was going on. A DDoS? Not a DDoS? Routing issues? Corrupt zone files? No clue? Any of those would be helpful as I needed to figure out if I should wait it out, or switch to Route 53.

In the information vacuum, I switched to Route 53. It works.

Every site where I was using external DNS stayed up.

I'm trying to frame this as less of a problem and more of an opportunity. Sadly, pornbnb.com is already registered. :(

Pages used to be my word processor of choice. I have since subscribed to Office 365.

My understanding is that the desktop version of Pages was brought in line with the iOS version. Simple things like paragraph styles were taken out.

In Toronto, it would be soldiers from the war of 1812 who were often buried where they fell. http://citiesintime.ca/toronto/story/surf-reveals/

I could see this has it's applications, but as a hobbyist I'd want to be able to unsolder or resolder if I'd made a bad connection.

I thought that they used a bitterant in the plastic. I guess I thought wrong.

I've used both shrink tubing and Sugru on iPhone cables. On the MacBook charger, just Sugru. Both will fail eventually. I find that typical shrink wrap is too stiff and creates stress riser. After a couple of years, my cables are more patch than original.

Those of us who can work remotely are incredibly lucky. I spent last winter motorcycling and working in Mexico.

The photo of the Macbook by the ocean brought back memories. I had a nice little house on the beach for $500/mo. Unfortunately computer equipment won't last long in the salty air. My keyboard gave out after about a month.

Wordpress seems to be well behind in good dev practices. I do know Drupal adds the settings.php to the default .gitignore. It would take a bit more than simple ignorance to add setting to the repo.

My brief experience while on vacation in 2010 is that Internet access is far too expensive for an individual.

I suspect there's little or no censorship. Cuba has no money for such luxuries. With a busy tourist industry it would be difficult to keep out news of the outside world as is possible in China.

Cuba's isolation is only from the United States. The rest of the world comes and goes as they please. It's a favourite tourist destination of many Canadians and Europeans. I've seen Chinese construction and petroleum interests there as well.

As for Internet, they had it, but prices are far beyond what an individual can afford. It was also so slow it wasn't worth bothering. I gave up after 30 minutes having only downloaded a few emails.

I recently met a Web developer visiting Toronto from Cuba. I was impressed that he could get any work done with such slow downloads.

I notice use of the phrase since I'm aware of the origins and the the fact that oppression under Mao has affected people close to me.

I don't take offence, but may suffer injuries related to involuntary eye rolling. It's an overused phrase and I'll assume the author is a hack and stop reading. Sort of like anything with "cyber" in the title published after 1993.

I think dominotw is a cat. If so, don't expect a citation.

For me:

1. I'm old enough to need reading glasses. 2. etc.

At this point, I just assume that "X considered harmful" contains an element of satire. That's not always the case, but I have no problem saying "Satirical 'Considered Harmful' Articles Considered Not Harmful".

I'm not intimately familiar with the California climate, but this project in India dealt with infrequent rainfall and capturing runoff: http://www.permaculturereflections.com/2009/07/india-talupul...

The key issues would be scale of the surveillance and warrants.

I was in a very similar situation with a full-time permanent government job. They were restructuring the organization and had an offer to leave with a nice severance package. I left and have been some form of self-employed ever since.

I had been planning a career change at the time to something not computer related. This gave me a good chance to try out consulting and I realized that I didn't hate computers, I just hated my job.

Also, you don't have to deal with a disruptive timezone difference. Same story in Mexico, where I spent the winter and did a little remote work.

If you took only 10% of the budget and put it toward treatment and harm reduction, I believe that the problems associated with abuse would plummet. Portugal saw something like 50% decline when they decriminalized.

I would see Lynda as being more valuable for specific software packages like Adobe Illustrator. Videos teaching programming don't really fit my learning model. I really need to build and tweak to learn. A walkthrough like on video seems better suited to software packages.

Stevia was not included, so for now I'll assume it is safe. It does have some positive effects such as increasing insulin sensitivity.

I only had diet soft drinks very occasionally, but I think I'll eliminate entirely and stick to water or juice.

My experience running my own small consulting company was actually positive. In the late 90's I thought I was a loser since nobody was handing me seven-figure cheques. In hindsite, the stuff I worked on was solid and maybe better than the flashy dot-coms. By focusing on business value rather than what was fashionable gained us increasing revenues year after year.

2008-9 was actually worse... that was the first decline in revenues and it combined with changing climate toward outsourcing with our government clients.

I don't care much for infrastructure that is separate from cars, unless it is completely separate. What I've seen in the USA is a sidewalk of sorts that is a few metres away from the road, but with driveways and access roads that cross the path without stop signs. The infrastructure I've seen in Amsterdam offered better, but not complete separation. (And again the awareness thing.)

The one bicycle-car collision I was closest to (my friend was in front and was hit) was on this sort of bike path. His quick reaction put him on the hood of a truck instead of into the grill.

As for helmet as oppression, I heard noise like that about 20 years ago. Damn gubmint! Next thing they'll take our guns!

I recall anecdotal reports that Perl was faster than egrep in some cases. I never tested it myself and that was a long time ago—could be a bug that is long since fixed.