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The company I joined makes packaging machines. So there is some "software" development for PLCs and robots but it's nothing like the modern software industry. Plus feature creep co…

I quit the software industry and all of its stupidity. After trying to change culture I decided that maybe it was me that didn't fit the ridiculous notion that software companies a…

Why reversed range? Range is fully capable of descending [1] You also missed the point of the exercise: start at 0 in your index, but count backward from 100 in output. So the map …

The IRC and IBC do specify minimum sizes, so if your county adopted either of those then there is a built in minimum. > Every dwelling unit shall have at least one habitable room t…

I'm not going to weigh in on CC itself (I don't have an opinion either way), I just want to point out that when Texas, NY and California (or any combination of those 3) adopt a sta…

The army of lawyers headed your way? How about the CFAA for 'unauthorized access' to Twitter? When Twitter has all the money and lawyers it's sure tough to argue.

And that's the thought process that got a bunch of toys banned or restricted (such as magnets[1]) even though they can be responsibly used by many children. I don't think the probl…

That's not true at all [1]. This holds for previous years as well. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg...

If I understand correctly the Speedlite is battery powered, so as such shouldn't cause any voltage spike on mains.

Not to dive too off topic, but the telecom industry has been heavily regulated and in no way represents a free market. Through franchise fees, fighting public right of way sharing,…

No, it means the last mile remains exclusive to the provider.

Those aren't really designed for long term daily use, can lead to accumulation of wax and serious infections if used repeatedly and continually. Also in my case they put too much p…

I wonder, though, if your key were a confession to a crime you did actually commit (perhaps you stole a pack of gum) and you cannot be compelled to testify against yourself, how wo…

> even under Stalin To be fair, Stalin had a habit of just killing people instead of sending them to the Gulag. Not that it excuses the US incarceration rate but your comparison is…

In this case "the government" refers to the upper management of Ford, or at least that's how I read your parents post. To reword: > But since this time, the shareholder value has t…

I've never seen this be effective. I worked at a place that had quite a few people leave within a few months, all citing more or less the same issues I did, and still to this day t…

Did you read the article? It very much mattered in this case, and has historically mattered in the scientific community quite a lot.

And now you know why the US houses most of the world's prisoners [0]. This is the same thinking that brings the US security theater at its airports. Anything for safety, even if it…

How, exactly, would they deploy their gear inside of Comcast data centers without Comcast approving it?

The DEA may not directly set drug policy [0] (it's also part of the "federal government" so I don't understand your distinction here) but it most certainly has a large input on whi…