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I suspect it depends on the kid. If they are naturally frugal and saving for things (and the household doesn't need the money), then why bother. If they aren't frugal, and are othe…

Yes, I was in college and it took me a while to realize I needed to actually turn on the news, because all the mainstream websites were wrong. Oddly enough, neither of my classes w…

That's a very common problem, it's not a well defined and clearly visible definition.

That seems to be based on the assumption that coal is easily accessible. I'm not sure that's true.

Starting when?

Never heard that second one, which part of PA? I'm Philly burbs.

Considering the site we are, treat your effort/time debt as tech debt. You appear to be past the point where it's beneficial, and should focus on reducing it to improve your life. …

I'm fairly sure he'd have the same response if you asked them "who's a good lion" in the same tone of voice. *I tried hard to find an animal they wouldn't know. My initial thought …

That's moving away from the actual horse analogy. If you can tell a guide dog to take you somewhere, you can tell a horse that too. Granted, a journey to a new location would make …

Oddly enough, UC Berkley is public education, so it's the federal government and state government. At least technically true.

I recall a coworker being excited several years ago about catching someone lying about their linux experience before their interview. If what they said was true, they'd have to hav…

That was an active debate ... 15 years ago

If they're talking about Cobol, it's usually systems originating before the early 90s that haven't been completely rewritten. J2EE would be late 90s and 2000s.

It's still there at the accounting/backend level. Automated Financial Systems Level 3 and it's replacement Vision are commercial loan systems. LVL3 is pure cobol. It has been recen…

If they've done the research to figure out what combination is durable and safe for the plants, then there is certainly some science there. It's certainly more of an entertaining s…

2/ out of 3 of the last batch of software development interns were hired. I don't think we had any last summer. The one individual in our current batch still has another year of sc…

How do you look something up?

My understanding is the most deadly/destructive parts of hurricanes are usually: 1. the storm surge, the potential wall of water brought by the continuous winds and waves near the …

The last part is accurate, but equating the two is a bit of stretch. The democrats went out their way to do everything by the book. They also generally took the time to understand …

Validating facts is good too. If the steak is blue and they ordered medium ... then there is little room for debate. If they wanted something other than what they ordered, then val…

Or open up more stores then the region can support, remove the local competition, and then close theirs stores as uncompetitive. The small town (population One or two successful bu…

Ok, what was the reason?

That has as much to do with Oracle lawyers and ambiguous licensing issues as anything else.

Paraphrased quote from one of my professors years ago: Writing readable perl is easy, just code it like it's LISP. Granted, he was working with it in AI/bioinformatics. One of my c…

I had a northern short tailed shrew running around my basement. After luckily live catching it (and getting the correct id), I also discovered that they are mildly venomous. Go fig…