The fun thing about his pardonees is their general tendency to commit more crimes.

There was a good bit of complaining (for whatever that was worth) and W’s approval rating was in the shitter just like trump’s. Along came 9/11 which was definitely just an intelligence failure even though it was the best possible thing that could have happened for Bush.

One of the many forgotten things about November 2000 was that the Supreme Court – before its final ruling awarding the Presidency to Bush – issued an injunction stopping the recount in Florida on the grounds that it would call into question the legitimacy of Bush’s win.

OK, which one of the things I mentioned do you think is vastly and objectively superior to all others? Genuinely curious here.

I’ve worked professionally on Windows and Mac; using Visual Basic, C#, Java, Objective-C and Qt Creator (which is C++ and Javascript); for web apps, desktop applications, and mobile apps (iOS, Blackberry and Android). I have my personal preferences but they’re all viable platforms/languages/frameworks/devices and anything that needs doing can be done on them one way or another. The idea that one of these is vastly and objectively superior to all others is just pseudo-religious nonsense.

Speaking as someone with plantar fasciitis who can’t walk ten feet without inserts: you sleep on a different floor from your bathroom?

You show me a dictatorship and I’ll show you a boat filled with penis-shaped potatoes.

Some of the long-term consequences of global warming are going to be absence of clouds and extreme winds. Maybe these bastards are just thinking really long-term.

Windows Phone was great. I’d done Windows Mobile since 2005 and it was nice to be able to continue developing with C#/.NET and Visual Studio (back when it was still good) in a more modern OS. One thing that really spoiled me permanently was being able to compile, build and deploy the app I was working on to my test device effectively instantaneously – like, by the time I’d moved my hand over to the device, the app was already up and running. Then I switched to iOS where the same process could take minutes, also Blackberry where it might take half an hour or never happen at all.

Funny thing: RIM was going around circa 2010/2011 offering companies cash bounties of $10K to $20K to develop apps for Blackberry, since they were dying a rapid death but were still flush with cash. Nobody that I know of took them up on the offers. I tried to get my company to make a Windows Phone version of our software but I was laughed at (and deservedly so).

This is why it’s unfair to compare Trump to Hitler: Hitler actual cared about housing (and food) for his people.

Today’s McMansions will be lucky to last 30 years.

so you can focus on what really matters… meetings! collecting unemployment!

That would be incredibly ironic given that they completely fucking gave up on mobile devices when the iPhone came out.

It’s kind of funny how eagerly we programmers criticize “premature optimization”, when often optimization is not premature at all but truly necessary. A related problem is that programmers often have top-of-the-line gear, so code that works acceptably well on their equipment is hideously slow when running on normal people’s machines. When I was managing my team, I would encourage people to develop on out-of-date devices (or at least test their code out on them once in a while).

That’s obvious. I’m pointing out that your logic doesn’t support your opinion.

Reminds me of asking operations to help me move furniture in my office: “ya wanna move something, ya gotta move it with yer mind!”

My girlfriend once asked me how I knew she liked me when we first met. I told her it was because she would lightly touch my arm when we were talking. She said she didn’t remember doing that, and also that she didn’t actually like me when we first met.

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It would have been cool if they’d renamed themselves “Calloway”.

Britain did this during WWII. Over 10% of their draftees were sent down into the fucking coal mines instead of going off to shoot nazis.

run our design past a focus group before implementing it

once you’ve built something, you’re not asking users for whether it’s perfect