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If you make 400K after taxes and don't spend any of it, you'd have 4M after 10 years...

Seems like pharmacists, who are constantly in contact with sick people, should be the first to not work if they're sick.

From the article... "the press release came with a caveat: the game will still be produced in 1080p HDR and get upscaled to 4K for delivery"

I don't see the article mentioning the Apple street view car I saw driving around my neighborhood in St Louis. I guess that's a different initiative....? Seems like a pretty big deal for them to try and have their own version of Google's street view.

I thought that was to get past the email scam filters (that look for certain words).

Wow...the company listed above (corrections Corp of America) has spent over half a million on lobbying... https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00002194...

That brings up something else that needs a complete overhaul - the lobbying rules, or lack thereof.

I've been using WinSplit Revolution for years and love it. It's not extensible, but lets you do things like toggle between 1/3, 1/2, and 2/3 of the space, which I use a lot.

I really like the questions about programming languages. What's their favorite, just favorite language, features, etc. If the candidate says they've only ever used one, or they don't have any features they dis/like, that's a flag. If they point out a feature, you can use it to dive into a deeper discussion about something they say they know about.

All or most of those are available at http://dotfiles.github.io

I don't understand why people are "friends" with people they don't care about seeing updates on. Or why they don't ignore them. But I don't really use Facebook anymore so maybe that's not an option?

Try Google+... You choose who you want to see, and they don't have to choose to see you. Such a better way to get information you want. And circles and communities make that so much more useful.

Of course it probably helps that most of the people that spam Facebook with games they play and emotions they describe don't use Google+. Or I should say most people don't use Google+.

Am I reading this right? The fifth result on the Google Transparency report[1] (the live updated page) is a request from Cisco to take down Cisco urls:

http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=1064850

[1]http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/

"you can't put a corporation in jail but you can tell them that if they do something you will put their leadership in jail [an imperfect analogy])"

Does leadership, from a corporation either private or government (NSA, CIA, FTC, etc) ever end up going to jail though? It seems like after the banking industry was pretty much caught red-handed breaking all kinds of laws and/or causing all kinds of programs to end or start, none of them ended up behind bars. I have to think the NSA would be better at avoiding jailtime than bankers...

Maybe I'm just pessimistic but it seems more like the best this could hope for is the NSA stopping Prism and then finding out 5-10 years later (or never) that they started Diamond or some other program that does the same thing except doesn't record the first 5 seconds of phone calls, or something else that "obeys the new rules"...

In simple terms, what do the people in the lawsuit hope to gain from the lawsuit? If they won, would the NSA have to stop the program, or would the government have to pass laws saying it was allowed?

I'm just trying to figure out what the end-game is and/or if there is any way to stop something as powerful and uncontrollable as the NSA (government in general?) appears to be.

They put up dynamic (digital) speed limit signs in Seattle (where this article is based) in the last year or do, and I've been wondering how effective they are. After reading this article I feel like this is the reason.

There is one speed limit over each lane when it's slower than the regular posted limit, which to me seems like if you see your lane slower than the one over from it, you'll merge, causing next lane to go slower.

Reading the article, and the comment above,I can now see the purpose of the dynamic signs. But unless drivers adapt a mentality that's best for the traffic and not themselves, this doesn't seem like it would work.

I think this could be a great addition to the normal list view. Different people process things better or worse with pictures vs lists vs charts,etc.

I think this could be a great tool for planning or just looking at a snapshot of your day, developer, project, etc.But in order to be a full fledged issue tracker, you need to be able to filter, report,pivot,etc.

Just my two cents.I think it looks great and is promising.

Seattle, Full time.

IOS/Objective C Dev/Architect/Lead

Gratafy is seeking an expert iOS developer to lead iPhone app development and enhancements, and support our already established iPhone app. This role will directly interface with the founders, other developers, as well as business development and marketing functions. Gratafy is a highly collaborative, agile, and fast-paced environment -- your contributions will be visible and highly impactful.

Gratafy is a VC funded startup located in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. We are a growing team, building a social gifting platform focused on giving and sharing experiences. Gratafy allows users to instantaneously send gifts to Facebook friends at a rapidly expanding list of partner local and national restaurants, nightlife establishments, and hotels. We launched at the end of October and have been featured on ABC, CNN, as well as other media outlets.

The status says "an issue with CDN provisioning, however content delivery is not impacted" but all of my cdn images are not flowing through to my production website. I can browse the blob storage, just not the cdn. In case you needed a reason to not trust the azure CDN.

It's just so convenient I couldn't help but try...

Or implement pull down to refresh, which would remove the need for the button altogether.

I'm blown away by how good technical books look on Google Play Books on the Nexus 7 (and maybe all tablets?). I normally use a 2nd generation Kindle and can never read tech books on there because of the code wrapping lines and the monochrome text. But the difference between a tech book on the Kindle app and the Google Play Books app (both on the Nexus 7) is night and day. I highly recommend at least getting a sample of a book and trying it.

You can also zoom out far more than you can on Kindle, which probably helps it look so great.

They should not give away anything this year, so those that didn't get a ticket will get a similar streaming experience and those that got one just for swag will get nothing for their "investment"

and I got a ticket, so I'm not saying this out of spite...

I've done this with the two MBP's we have at our house. It was very simple (around 8 screws). Just make sure you have a tiny screwdriver set (like those used for glasses). You can usually search for macbook screwdriver and find ones that work for <$10

This looks pretty useful. I'm curious why you used class to store the "category". Wouldn't it be cleaner to store it in"data-category" or just Javascript? Or is that less browser compliant?

Overall a great script though.

I've lived on a dead-end street (but not a cul-de-sac), and I've lived on a regular traffic street. I definitely preferred the dead-end with the lack of traffic and noise, and ability for kids to play in the street without fear of a car going 50 down it. And people did socialize with neighbors on the dead-end street (although maybe not as much as the regular street).

You could almost argue that the definition of a "good programmer" is one that does know many languages, even if just to bring over paradigms from one to the other or keep his brain sharp.

I also think that programmer to architect could go either way. Some programmers are very well versed in their domain and current application and make excellent architects while the application remains the same. Once enough changes are made, they are no longer an expert in the code base, and don't know the best ways to extend and improve on it. Others are good at envisioning the current solution and know, from doing it with the programmer hat, how to best architect a change, no matter how it evolves.

There are so many t-shirts waiting to be made from this.

The website that actually works, in this case...?

I always (with sql server at least) add a begin tran/commit/rollback before any prod statements, because of getting burned in the past.

Even if you add the WHERE, but put it on a second line and only run the first, the transaction will help...

Of course, if it's going to lock the data, do all of the statements together: BEGIN TRAN UPDATE ... WHERE ... SELECT ... WHERE .... -- show that the update worked ROLLBACK

Then run the actual statement

I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and started taking Ritalin, and it's helped tremendously. In the past I took that, and sometimes Vicadin, to help. They both helped me focus and get much more done. Obviously the Vicadin wasn't prescribed for that, I just found out by accident that it worked.

I just tried this test and scored a 99% for ADD (ADHD was recently changed to be all encompassing - you can have either inattentive or hyperactive or both).

Working on several teams before going into consulting helps a lot. Most of the work I've gotten has just been word of mouth. People I've worked for/with in the past have come across a project they needed help on, and immediately contacted me to do the work. All because I've worked with them before and they liked what I did.