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Comment Re: Gee I wonder why (Score -1, Troll) 101

Here's another aspect to consider:

The investigations and teeth-gnashing were justified, and she should have been held accountable for it; if you or I had done anything similar we would have been in prison in about 45 minutes. But alas, nothing happened.

Now "the other side" is doing it, and "our side wants accountability" is just as hypocritical. That is plenty of hypocrisy to go around to all sides. BOTH parties need to be behind bars, but as long as accountability is a lost cause in DC, this will continue to be a problem.

Comment Re: Make it stop!! (Score 4, Insightful) 265

I'm not disagreeing with you; I think I agree with your basis idea that businesses shouldn't get a R&D free ride at taxpayer expense, but your comments raise some questions.

If the business risk to researching and developing some new drug or technology is very high with the chance of success and profit very low, do you think a business will take on that risk? That's why the government which, for better off for worse, has no target profit in mind takes on high-risk research that may eventually yield success and benefit the public. GPS is an example of this. Do you think that any commercial entity would have had the resources to develop this technology?

Second question, feeding off the first: If a new technology/drug/etc is developed by the government, who else is going to commercialize it for the benefit of the public?

Comment Re: We've known this for over a decade (Score 1) 77

I'm in agreement with you re: typing vs. handwriting. I've tried to go paperless several times in my work notes, but always go back to the black Moleskin notebook and flags to highlight to-do items. Even with search functions in apps like OneNote, I tend to remember where I wrote something and can find it faster ("it was halfway down on the right side page back in Octoberish...ahh there it is.").

Comment Define "Coding" (Score 5, Insightful) 152

Isn't "tedious, undifferentiated tasks such as learning codebases, writing and reviewing documentation, testing, managing deployments, troubleshooting issues or finding and fixing vulnerabilities" part of development? I don't do much coding anymore, but developing code involves all these things, not just entering lines of code into a project.

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