If he can reverse engineer the patch - the bad guys have already done it.

If you're in doubt if your area needed to shutdown - just look at doubling time - when Los Angeles County shutdown the number of cases was doubling every 2.5 days, now doubling time is at 27 days.

This is a MF of a virus, if you get sick during a surge and their isn't a vent when you need it for weeks -- you die. What if they don't have oxygen for you that day, you die. What if there isn't a doctor or nurse to take care of you because they got sick because of a surge, you die.

I tried to switch - but firefox was too slow - I'd end up spending 10-30 seconds waiting for it to do something?

First exposure was basic but I wasn't programming just typing. really taught myself to program in Logo with conditionals, loops, procedures in 7th or 8th grade. And then Pascal and ADA in college.

Our early programming experiences are dictated by the tech when we first start.

For me it was basic on apple ][+ in K-6 and then logo.

The real learning began in Jr. High when I wanted to do more than draw on the screen, and had to figure out how to get user input, and how to use procedures/functions.

Later in college I nearly quit programming due to a bullshit pascal course that was way to heavy on computer history, with the repeat I got lucky with a professor who didn't spoon feed us, but gave us enough so we could figure things out.

Those lucky enough to have gifted teachers/professors and/or who have the fortitude to put in the work will definitely benefit.

Unimpressed with the nearby Three Star planet, the gentleman Astronomer holds out for a Five Star Planet.

My school district provided early exposure via apple II computers. They showed up one summer with an extracurricular summer workshop and then one to two per classroom, and a computer lab in Jr. High. And while there was an Atari computer at home, I basically had all of my meaningful early exposure to programming via the school district, and the teachers who were willing to spend extra time learning about and then sharing how to use them. Starting at probably age 8 or 9, I used basic and then later logo. The logo continuing off and on until 8th grade when I was using functions/procedures, getting user input, redrawing the screen, etc. By 8th grade my programming was beyond the scope of the curriculum or programming knowledge of the teacher. These skills then lay dormant for 4-5 years resurfacing in college with the first two years of CS course work. Which then led to computer support employment and then high end systems/networking employment.

It is impossible to attribute my skills to nature v. nurture, but I believe that any meaningful early exposure to computer languages, problem solving, or independent exploration of programming to solve a problem or provide something new is a worthwhile investment.

Hate to be the one to point out the obvious... but the solution is not in changing the meat it is in reducing and/or eliminating the meat. A very large part of world has done very well for a very long time on limited or no meat, eating beans and rice, lentils and rice, and tofu and rice. Meat requires vast quantities of water, creates vast quantities of waste, and is a huge caloric loss if you are feeding the animal grains or other foodstuffs that humans can eat directly. Beef being the worst offender for water use, and pollution.

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TESS was competing w/ another exoplanet survey instrument:
http://finesse.jpl.nasa.gov/

Roughly the same amount of money, same launch date, different people working on it.

Good luck to the TESS team, too bad it wasn't FINESSE.

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Re: the three partners...I think Walt was with the girl, and then the other guy and the girl hooked up and that's why Walt bailed.

Its hard to explain how important Slashdot was to all of us 10 years ago. Indeed, without it it would be hard to imagine HN, Reddit, Digg, Fark or any of a thousand lesser sites. The editorial perspective of Rob and the other editors of /. is what kept people coming back and for a long time that perspective was Rob's, then Rob and Jeff and a bunch of us (some, like Timothy and samzenpus, still around!), but then Jeff left, now Rob. In some way I see this as a passing of an era in free software.

Throughout, while some have left for those greener shores, slashdot abided even while buffeted by the markets and the de/evolving internet news world, and it has remained a default tab in my and many others' browsers.

I didn't mean this post to be about Slashdot though, but about my friend Rob. I'll only say that while the site will be the lessor for you leaving, I firmly believe that computer science will gain my. While this note reads like an epitaph or the last pages of a book, it is really no more than a thank you note from me and many I know to your for your decade+ of work on the site. So...

Thanks.