williamDafoe

O-O is a state of mind and can be implemented in nearly all algorithmic languages, you just need senior people who know WTF they are doing. And I've seen a lot of spaghetti non-o-o code in places like the Google web crawler even though there are class definitions there are no actual objects.

I bet it's a bitch to learn addition or multiplication using Roman numerals!

My brother in law was taught to sight-read (recognize words on sight and not to analyze phonemes) and he always struggled and regretted it!!!

Phonics is the #1 advantage of ALL western languages. The idea that teachers would not leverage the #1 advantage of the entire language just shows how foolish our teacher education system can be!

Don't let teachers screw up your kids with educational FADs! We didn't! We taught our kids at 3.5 - 4.5 to read using phonics before kindergarten! We used:

http://www.headsprout.com .

Our kids loved it! The risk of these FADs damaging your child's entire education would make this program cheap even if they charged $1000 (it's $200 - a small 10% increase over the last 14 years!)

2 miles a day is about how much our Tesla m3 loses by self discharge and parasitic loads.

Companies that perform layoffs have underperforming stock over the next 5 years. so they are trying to lay off a small enough number of people that they don't appear to be the weakening company that they are....

The last few years both companies give out stock grants every month after 1 year so if somebody is laid off they don't lose equity because they already own the equity outright. Lyft even allowed people to keep their vested stock options for seven years after they leave.

RU kidding Uber pool and Lyft line rides are often cheaper than public transportation!

Taxi cab companies are incredibly corrupt as they are run like your local cable TV service! With all the customer satisfaction and low prices and quality service that that entails! I believe that Lyft and Uber can easily beat the corruption of the taxi cab market and still provide rides at a good price and profitably.

I think this is utter BS. the reason Lyft and Uber are not profitable is that they keep fighting a war for customers with each other! The last time I compared a taxi to a Lyft it was $17 versus $34. Lyft could easily charge 50% more except Uber is trying to kill them by wasting investor money!

I think it's pretty obvious that nobody buys a Domino's Pizza because it tastes good! They buy it because someone shows up at your door and gives you food!

Not exactly true. If you drive full-time for Lyft or Uber you MUST change the oil of your car EVERY MONTH. Leased Hyundai's don't see that kind of stress until a year goes by so the Lyft/Uber car is getting destroyed at least 4x more quickly.

That's excellent. We have too many blood sucking financial people and they are draining the life out of the USA, producing nothing of lasting value!

Credit cards are solved problem for the last 30 years. The fact that they take 3% to 4% of every transaction and then extract a usurious 20% annual interest rate at a time when loan rates are 4% should be criminally prosecuted.

A 1% cut and 3% over prime rate interest rate (currently 5.5%) should be mandated by legislation!

(Error) Bank Americard actually changed their name because they wanted to expand internationally and having America in the name was not good in every country. That's precisely why they chose the name VISA.

MasterCharge got started just a few years after Bank Americard. I feel like they probably changed their name to MasterCard just to respond to their competitor's name change....

When I was a kid in the mid 70s movies cost $3.00 in the Midwest. Westegg says that inflation is up 10x since then. Any movie less than $20 is actually a bargain. However, my dad's salary was 7,000x a movie ticket (Midwest CS professor before salaries exploded).