zanethomas

Is this related to the reason some stinks and others don't?

Airport food will do that to you.

roflmao

Sorry, no, it belongs to an tld operator.

Easily predictable, and predicted, unintended consequence.

once upon a time i wrote a whois server

I guess they are unaware of the fact that some people still use cash.

I think the documentation for Vue is pretty good.

I guess their parents should have avoided having kids focusing instead on getting richer.

Four days ago.

Hold the back button down until you get a list, then choose.

Memory Lane!

Page 177 had an advertisement mentioning Alpha Micro Systems, where I worked at the time.

Me too!

I began programming mid 70s (although I was 25, not 11) and I've been programming every since. I'm still picking up contract work.

True fact, but in my experience there is some really shoddy wordpress code in the wild.

"They" have usually been very grateful to have the disaster mopped up.

You know nothing about the choices I make and your condescending manner is rather insulting.

I've been a paid programmer for over 40 years. When some code has seriously gone off the rails I can help.

Bookworms. Really. Had a very old dictionary with bookworms!

Hahaha

I'm freelance (aka ronin) and so the job security is actually a bit spotty. :)

I often get called in to fix things which are horribly broken.

I'd like PHP more were it not for the army of amateur programmers hacking wordpress.

It might be interesting to look at his history of campaign contributions.

I noticed lately that even NPR is mentioning nuclear. As in "renewable resources, solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear".

Guess they got the memo regarding the impracticality of going without either fossil or nuclear fuels.

Ha! I believe I wrote the first 68000 version of Forth, sold a copy to Scientific Atlanta.

From the Department of Unintended Consequences

what's the point?

You expect the government to treat you like a customer?

I wonder what the unintended consequences might be.

"sinophobia"

That translates to "fear of china" which is almost always incorrectly applied. Were there a single word for "boycotting china" that would be more appropriate.

The fact that the federal government has used the income tax to centralize power, taking money from the citizens of the states and sending (some of) it back with strings attached, is a different issue.

Regardless, the cost of living is the cost of living.

California? The state with the highest poverty rate in the nation?