Cities and states grant billions in tax incentives to US companies to open offices in their area and employers are at risk of losing out on lucrative incentives.

"[Netscape] did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.... It’s harder to read code than to write it."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.joelonsoftware.com...

Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET – All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn year? (That’s probably it, actually.) But the end result is just cover fire. The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can’t spend writing new features.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.joelonsoftware.com...

Bitcoin is not currency. It's speculative. Tulip bulbs. Etc.

Obviously.

And deep down we all feel stupid for missing out.

Is this candidate âoeSmart, and gets things done?â

.... "Is that a PC?"

A "Computer" is too general. A PC could connote 1980s, IBM, Microsoft and Windows, etc.

I bought $500 worth this summer. Won't ever buy more, can afford to lose it all. Having fun watching it go up, expecting it to burst at any moment. Obviously this is a bubble. When will it burst? At this point Bitcoin can't be used as currency as its becoming more valuable that the product you want to buy with it.

If you can afford it, which means you're prepared to lose it, buy a few hundred dollars worth of Bitcoin and watch it over time. I did, and it's been fun to watch the values fluctuate like crazy.

My bank doesn't require an ID. Just the key, box number, and a signature they compare with what they have on file.

I don't have anything else to say....

Just don't make the mistake of believing that Zen in the Art of Archery actually represents how kyudo is actually taught:

http://www.thezensite.com/ZenBookReviews/Shots_in_the_Dark.html

Herrigel is a bundle of contradictions. At the very least he started the "Zen in..." and "Zen and..." memes.

A friend of ours with leukemia made a plea to donate cord blood to help others in her situation. We looked into it and found that there were no donation companies in our state. However, one company would ship us a collection kit to FedEx back to them. Because it would be shipped, if we delivered certain times of the week then they wouldn't be able to accept the sample.

The doctor was great about collecting the cord blood, especially at 4:30 in the morning. The thing we didn't know was that the hospital staff wouldn't take responsibility for putting the blood together for the kit--they didn't want to accept the liability. That responsibility fell to me... after 18 hours of labor, even though I wasn't the one delivering it was still difficult.

We did get a thank-you form letter from the company. Hope it helped someone out.

there are lousy homegrown solutions and great vendor applications (and vice versa). It depends on the caliber of the development team.

Can't believe nobody else has mentioned what I consider the primary attraction: no-additional-cost vanity license plates (at least in Minnesota).