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Thinking about WordStar always gets my ire up, not about WordStar but by comparing a word processor that fit on a single 3 1/2" floppy and comparing that to the size of modern word processors that easily eat multiple Mb. I know that they are often adding features to increase audience, but I rarely do anything in the modern software that I couldn't do in WordStar. It seems like such a waste.

I [think I] understand the annoyance with indicating Pi Day based on the US order for month/day (though, I normally use ISO 8601 as my first choice, also), but I think some people may be missing the point. In the United States, with poor STEM performance, anything that increases awareness of math in the United States is beneficial, even if it is in an extremely arbitrary way.

I don't mean to start a flame war, but I find it interesting that a site talking about CSS layout forces a horizontal scroll bar on my laptop's highest resolution (1366x768) because of the image size and layout.

Yes, this type of minimalism does exist, but the author seems to be discounting the possibility of a genuine focus on what matters to a person regardless of financial status.

> Small towns seem like another world after midnight. ... there's no sound in your immediate area, there's no life.

What I loved about growing up in a town with less than 300.

George Burns? (kidding - Morgan Freeman does a great job too).

One of my favorites from eighth grade was Isaac Asimov's Realm of Algebra - I read that before any of his other books.

Thanks for the link!

Wikipedia says in brief "radical authoritarian nationalism." [1] I think I remember hearing in high school that it was, by example, anyone that believe "Love it or Leave it" in regard to a country, but I think now that may be jingoism - related, but not necessarily the same.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Very well written. Thanks.

Guilty. Even in a digital age, there is just something about paper.

But I have the same issue with digital reading, as well.

> Budgetary reasons. Why would the FBI spend their own money and resources to enforce FDA regulations? That's money coming out of their budget.

Businesses have been charging internal departments budgetary expenses for ages. That's what an overhead department - often IT, for example - does.

Thinking of these as separate agencies is just an easy way to hide that they are all federal government agencies.

Even working with charging state agencies wouldn't be that difficult to work out.

The problem I had when I first read this article and still do today is the terminology. I am probably being overly picky, but I remember reading a categorization that differentiated between geeks, nerds, and dweebs. I still think it is possible to be a geek and be popular, or at least, "above" (more socially acceptable) the social circle of nerds or dweebs.

+1

Having someone else's opinion on something that works for them can be helpful if you need a place to start, but it will work best when you develop your own style or techniques.

But one suggestion to avoid a common danger - after reviewing several techniques, pick one and try it for a minimum amount of time - say a month - before trying something different. many people get caught up in productivity pr0n, constantly searching for the "perfect" at the expense of something that "works."

CSS System Colors support[1] in Windows/IE makes this harder to stop than you many realize. I don't see it very much anymore, but when it first came out, I saw quite a bit of this.

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#css2-system

The RUSH 12 from 5.11:

http://www.511tactical.com/rush-12-backpack.html

I think they could solve this with a "librarian's choice" factor in the algorithm. It should be reviewed regularly, but it could allow the library to hold on to older "classics" of merit while devaluing so called "pulp fiction," even if readership would mean they should disappear.

Outside the set of integers, the only reals left are either only fractionally interesting or crazy </end stupid pun>

Capitalism? Did you read the article?

> In 1987, .... We reached a simple conclusion: When farmers could bring foodstuffs to points of sale — when the roads were clear of army checkpoints, when markets were held at night to reduce the risk of being bombed — the local economy worked efficiently enough. With markets in operation, the production of local crops increased, and food prices fell to levels people could afford.

> Ending famine required ending fighting.

Seems capitalism improved things once the government got around to providing basic security.

> It's up to the professionals (ie. us) to make decisions on behalf of those who can't, don't, and won't be able to understand ...

I wouldn't stand for this in a politician, so I can't be surprised when people say they don't trust I.T. professionals.

I think many of the problems he lists are because, as he properly notes, a great many people believe "ALL" or "NEVER" are appropriate words to use when considering CSV files (most of his points use one or the other).

But I think it is in all fairness to point out that parsing CSV files for value is a lot better than free form text, even if it's nowhere close to XML.

> Sixty-five percent of your calories must come from fat and the other 25 percent from protein.

It's an interesting read, but inaccurate silliness like this just made me laugh.

I think the answer is rather simple and straight forward: just as there are many people who have created different GNU/Linux distributions because they thought changing a particular aspect would be an improvement, people want to improve security and offer their version.

I tried mirror writing when I was young because my mom could do it. The muscle strain was the reason I didn't keep up with it (right handed). That, and having to think more when trying to read it ;-)

> Under a Clinton administration, my list would have looked much the same.

And the political polarization and bantering continue. But at least there is some truth in there.

I prefer sites that should work without JavaScript, but I don't always worry about disabling it. There a number of situations where I do appreciate the enhanced experience - image galleries, client-side form validation to reduce server-side errors/warnings (the edits should be both client side and server side, but that's a different conversation), or controls for multimedia come to mind. I get really annoyed by JavaScript powered ads or excessive, bloated libraries downloaded because the developer didn't care.

This is probably reading way too much into things, but the videos made me wonder what viewing modern battles might be like with drone flights with cameras, ground troops with cameras, and everyone with the occasional tracer round, or some similar technology. Would it eventually become a real life Ender's game?

I still look at most of the modern, themed Lego sets with a sense of sadness. They seem to inspire the "you have to follow the instructions" mentality so apply demonstrated in the father in the Lego movie. The older sets did include instructions, but the older blocks seemed more generic to building a wide variety of things, versus the "this is a piece for the Batmobile engine."

I think the usual lazy reason is to defend against Bobby Tables[1].

Sites that don't cleanse the user input properly.

[1] https://www.xkcd.com/327/