We have a hammer that no one can figure out how to swing.

You're right about restricted access, but you're misinterpreting the sentence. He's talking about a backdoor created *for* the good guys. As in, they wanted to have it, so it was put in. Not as in it's ours so only we can use it.

Build a trench from yellowstone to the grand canyon.

Planes spontaneously appear in the anti-bermuda triangle. Full of people who hadn't existed.

Funny, but untrue - it's a common misconception that academics' code is bad. I think you would be pleasantly surprised at the quality of the code if you worked with them directly. There are bad apples of course, but the vast majority are very capable programmers with solid fundamentals.

Maybe it was an assignment statement. They want us to refer to Bitcoin as !anonymous from now on.

CA is already getting plenty of Michigan water. Read that Dasani label, it was bottled in Detroit.

There is, it's just expensive.

I'm sure I'd be able to come up with some comment to refute this, but I just can't wrap my head around it.

UX is good, and you have to invest in it no matter what, but it'll never be a silver bullet unless you strip your apps way way way down - something that'll be painful for both you and your established users.

But if your docs really are a bottomless pit, it might behoove you to invest in your community instead of documentation. Grow some in-house experts and put them on the forums and a chat system. Send your users there instead of to increasingly out-of-date help docs and get them in the habit of searching for answers there. Build a reputation for responsiveness to get free customer loyalty on the side. Send your UX people and engineers to the forums as well so they get the pulse of your most frustrated customers. Slowly your community will become your experts as well.

If USPS delivers mail monday through friday and packages monday through saturday, why would they bother doing dvd processing on Saturday? They can't mail anything out... there's no point...

... in the "tiny universe" experimenter's particle accelerator.

I wasn't ecstatic about all the non-major courses I had to take when my primary worry was getting a programming job after I got my degree, and I might have taken an $100K out if it was available. But now 10-15 years later I'm glad I that my formal education included a psychology class, a statistics class, a history class, and others. Maybe I would have picked all that up on my own, or maybe I'd have a giant black hole in my world view.

There's a training side to education and there's a wisdom side to education, and they're both important in the long run. Telling young people to get jobs right out of high school because being well-rounded isn't necessary for "smart" people just means it's going to be a crap shoot as to whether their decisions repeat history or learn from it.

We love fantasy novels where someone discovers a box that holds ancient power and destruction, and then the hero has to save the day.
Well, it just happened.

Pandora's box - it's easier to spread fear than to take it back.