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This is a great idea. Read a few customer emails and you will never again have a dispute over whether a GUI is simple enough to understand. Whatever you do, it won't be.

We already donate a shit ton, like $5000 for a 8 minute ambulance ride or $1300 for an 5 minute assessment in an ER

I was just at LGA Terminal B and can't believe how awful it is. You're stuck at those cramped gates with CNN blaring at max volume - when it's not playing stupid ads it's just non stop Trump bashing - I was there 2.5 hours and boarded my flight with a throbbing headache.

Also could not believe there's no public transport at LGA. After 60 years they have not managed to get a rail line out there. WTF?

So I really feel for people stuck there due to this shutdown nonsense.

What amazes me is apple is that valuable. What do they have that you can't get much better for much cheaper elsewhere?

I enjoyed that post when it first came out - now it has left high school !

why is this comment grayed out?

"shenanigans and financial engineering, to the benefit of the few in power, where executives are replaced when they fall out of favor, rather than their obvious incompetence"

Right on the money!

Does public transportation always work better outside the US? Metra in Chicago is a heck of a lot more reliable than the likes of South West Trains and Govia in the UK.

Metra even works in the snow! And in the 15 years I've been using it has not had one strike. Whereas London suffers rail and tube strikes every few weeks.

Add to that commuting from the Chicago Burbs costs about 1/3rd of what commuting from the London suburbs does.

You will most likely turn up at the airport to discover your tickets have been canceled. You must check with the airline.

this is what I can't believe. Three people thought violently taking down a man with Down's syndrome was a reasonable thing to do.

Not one went to the manager and said: "he's not hurting anyone - leave him be"

Bouillabaisse recipe?

yes, have you ?

Why are enterprises so slow?

Simple. People in Enterprises with any decision making authority at all have comfortable lifestyles and earn a lot of money. Job #1 for these people is keep the cash and perks flowing. What's the benefit to them in changing anything, compared to the risk ? So do nothing !

Add to that in many cases, the only people with authority to take decisions are close to retirement. Something they don't want to jeopardize !

you're right: Fuck Off Davros !

I live in an affluent area and the Sears by us closed. If Sears can't survive there, it's done. I feel bad for the people who worked there. Whenever I went in, they were always helpful. Now they are looking for something else.

No conflict of interest there!

I wonder how long it would have taken to debug this back in 1960

who the heck at Microsoft when reviewing that feature thought "no problems! Green light!"??

beautiful, looks like a work of art !

Excellent guide, hope this brings it to more people

Got introduced to the school computer in 1980 - a Texas 990/10 mini. Immediately went out and bought a bunch of books on BASIC (the only language we were allowed to use). Bought a UK101 for home use (8k 6502), bought Rodnay Zaks' book on 6502. Also Leo Brodie's book on Forth. So self taught from books - the only way to learn back then !

They're dreaming !

I read the Ben Rich book "Skunk Works" about 15 years ago. I've never forgotten the ending.

Towards the end of his life Kelly Johnson suffered from dementia.

They wheeled him out on a runway and there was a fly-past of SR-71s.

Ben asks Kelly "Did you see that? They were saluting you!" I was bawling when I read first that and I am tearing up now. Talk about Epic Men.

Consider that not much more than a decade before the SR-71 project started the state of the art in plane design was canvas over a wooden frame with a V12 engine that went at 300mph.

How much technology did they have to invent from first principles to build a plane which flew at Mach 3 at the edge of space? Using slide rules and chalk boards?