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You can actual show formulas in excel, instead of the values.

But that's not to say that it'd be easy to spot the one that is different. This is why excel has a little tooltip that pops up and says 'inconsistent formula' when it finds a cell that doesn't seem to belong.

To use the old saying, when all you have is a hammer, everthing begins to look like a nail. To most office workers, Excel is their hammer. You can stretch it to extreme limits by using things like pivot tables, and complicated lookup functions. It's easier for them this way, that is to say they have fluency in excel, but none in programming, which means they fail to realize that a simple well written script could save them from every having to repeat a task.

why not something millionaire match maker styled, where you pay an MBA to get you hitched?

It's a neat app, but for me, I probably prefer copy paste as a note, then going through the hassle of signing up. What benefit am I missing?

Culturally, I think that sites like pinterest tend to get people to develop a hoarding habit. You hoard all your photos, or to-do projects, or in this case quotes with little thought to their use. How do you eventually revisit these quotes or do you ever? Maybe it's helpful to offload the brain's responsibility of remembering 'memorable' quotes (irony), but you're never going to impress anyone by reciting a beautiful poem off from your phone.

use the google open fonts.

chromebook has hardware based drm.

How is this true online?

On the internet, monopolies are natural for social networking, online auctions, classified ads, and search. Each of these require the user to go to the site with the most ads, friends, bidders or sellers, or results.

How do you think the government created an E-Bay, Google, Facebook, or Craigslist?

some domain registrars give you email forwarding.

Whatever happened to cuil?

Well, what about having several house servants? Rich Americans don't have these things.

What I don't get is that the law allows hiring foreign workers only if a qualified American worker could not be found, but I have never seen any evidence of this. Has anyone heard of a company being forced to prove this, or experienced an interview process where they prioritize American workers?

First off you have supply and demand, which is enough to say that new workers would depress wages. You can go deeper into the micro-economics view point and look at the utility curves of the American Engineer vs. an Immigrant Engineer, and see that they are very different. A immigrant engineer, is facing possible deportation to a country with lower wages, whereas an American Engineer is more willing to hold out for a higher wage, knowing the state of the labor market and that they do not have as pressing of a need for a job immediately. To an immigrant worker, turning down the job could lead to a much worse outcome, so their logical choice is to take the initial pay offered.

Furthermore, the business is aware of both their cost of the H1NB and of the immigrants situation, which gives them a negotiating advantage. They can use the H1NB cost as a negotiation tactic, and pay the worker a lower wage, without fear of being turned down.

This is the fallacy of division. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_division

Most of the Indians and Chinese that I went to school with were the sons and daughters of doctors, lawyers, and professors.

Perhaps we should prevent Facebook from airing ads, like we do for Marlboro.

I think they already do, and that's why they are using things like snapchat, whatsapp, and tumblr instead.

Yes, you are. The parent was arguing that PC hardware would become specialized high $ developer only equipment, but as you say all you need to recreate a PC from a mobile device are a couple of peripherals.

50 inch high? Do you mean wide? Due to our physiology of two horizontal eyes, we're more suited for a wide screen than one that high. I'm not convinced your field of view could even s make use of an entire 50 inch high screen at that distance.

I expect that tablets will one day get the knack of supporting multiple resolutions and multiple monitors, and serve just as a secondary input device when on your desk.

I don't think the price for PCs will matter. You can always grab a bluetooth keyboard if you want to type something out, and there are even web based IDEs available, which means that you're not limited to platform. Right now, you can add a keyboard to your droid or iphone and start hacking away.

Additionally, the programming experience is in many ways focused too much on the text based code itself, and less on the act of creation. It may be that changing the PC/developer interface causes a revolution in the way that people program.