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Not the person you're responding to, but I assume that the kickbacks comment was referring to cases like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

That's no DeLorean, it looks like an old Z28, maybe about ~1980

Sure: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/us/3-businessmen-testify-o...

Shameless plug: http://flowlab.io

I'm sorry that someone close to you is dealing with that struggle, but I have two questions: 1) Do you think that your friend was at all dissuaded by current US drug policy? Of cou…

It represents the "line of scrimmage", which is where the ball starts at the beginning of each play.

Static and "weak" typing are not mutually exclusive.

Great list, thanks for putting this together! My own project ( http://flowlab.io ) is a visual programming language for 2d games.

"sweat equity" specifically means doing repairs to a property to increase its value, as opposed to building equity by making payments. A tech worker's income is not sweat equity.

People often claim that, but it's not a particularly credible argument. Emergency room visits account for less than 2% of total healthcare spending in the US. http://newsroom.acep.…

The brake pedal actuates the master cylinder, which is connected hydraulically to the calipers. Even if stomping on the brakes triggered more throttle problems, they are still plen…

Also not trying to blame the victim, but it seems the even more obvious/natural approach would be to use the brakes. Those are hydraulic, and plenty powerful enough to counteract a…

I personally really don't care about the money (no lying, I swear). I care, though, about the fact that money brings me time, and as such more freedom to do whatever I like. These …

>One could adopt some kind of event-based system in scala or clojure, but Erlang and Go are alike in being the lone runtimes where running millions and millions of very small messa…

> built and maintained a large-scale Flex app I see your problem right there :) Also, I am not aware of any stable platform for game development. Browsers and iOS have both changed…

Not coming down for or against, but one argument is that it causes less market distortion than a minimum wage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax

Ok, I concede - lets just use punch cards.

> Let's exaggerate in order to enhance the effect. Let's not, they are entirely irrelevant. Noone is claiming that any specific tool will make your startup succeed, or fix your bug…

> In the context of starting, launching, growing, evolving and maintaining a tech business Possibly, but some people are not starting, launching, growing, or evolving anything but …

Awesome strawman you have there, and the same non-argument could apply to any technology: "I am going to take a month to learn Ruby...". In any case, you can relax - no one is tryi…

So your point is that because you may take breaks during the day, you shouldn't bother taking the time to learn sharp, efficient tools? There are plenty of legitimate gripes to be …

So tap-tap-tapping on the arrow keys like a chicken is a more efficient way of navigating text documents then?

Probably because she added that after the articles in question were written.

As I mentioned, this was added in an edit - but even the A/C doesn't affect range as much as you might think. It is roughly ~8% in your typical ICE, which is less than rolling your…

This is reaching a bit. 1) The nominal amount of electricity used by a heater blower motor is not going to measurably affect the range of your trip (this is most likely the same fo…