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Yeah! How about if I kill myself would you pay attention to that? Someone important just did thAt so people like you would give a damn. What does that tells us about the world we live in?

1st ¶: surely you've never been in the situation where you didn't have a parent to pay your rent or daily needed meals. Prove than and then you'll have the right to question how others make their money,

2nd ¶: your friend loves her, and she helps him to lift the weight. Who are you to question that?

3rd ¶: thank god your parents are such great persons.

He commented in so high level that debunking his comment would miss the point. That beig said, programming languages sucks.

Maybe I'm too drunk instead of being just high (blame Italy for that [can't get properly high here]). But I really think programming languages tare way to messy to accomplish anything useful without getting in our own way. I mean, what if instead of proving a point our real goal was just to be really effective? I think that would shift the state of things a tiny bit.

But who am I beyond just a drunk programmer?

Your statement is wrong is so many levels that's quite easy to tear it apart. Let's start by the meaning of the word progress. The second definition of the Ofxford Dictionary states: advance or development toward better, more complete, or more modern condition. According to that, in order to have progress made you've got to start somewhere. Another word for that would be engineering.

Anyway, I'd say researching a F1 engine is a great start point to progress towards the development of a newer rocket engine. Kudos to these guys!

What you call unsolicited advice in fact is part of a process to make the world a better place. You see something wrong and right it. Tell the world about, and hope to make a dent I the universe. That's actually a very good way of inflicting change. Because even if you don't dent it, at least you're getting better in the process.

Failure? I can't see they failing in the long run. They have a monopoly in mind share and bundles with virtually all new laptops (apart from Macs and some Ubuntu machines).

They took this route with Xbox and all went well in the end. Secret, keep iterating the damn product.

Even after all those delays and teething issues the Dreamliner was passed under a very compressed schedule, said Mann. "And there was an electrical failure and an emergency landing during the test-flight programme," he said. "That was blamed on a 'foreign object'."

The whole aircraft apparently. And there lies the solution to this riddle. Boeing went too far outsourcing engineering. Is Boeing trying to copy Airbus, and If so, why?

Give 'em beer or pot, and a spec. :)

PS: I'll be hiring this year; if you don't have anything against what's written here send me your resume (email on profile).

A new UI annoyance 14 years ago

I'd like to add another item to your list, tap to zoom. Why some webdevs disable this feature? If I can't tap to zoom I usually do one of these two things: open the reader or leave.