robkix's comments

The company I joined makes packaging machines. So there is some "software" development for PLCs and robots but it's nothing like the modern software industry. Plus feature creep costs the customer millions, so it is a pretty fixed deliverable.

I quit the software industry and all of its stupidity. After trying to change culture I decided that maybe it was me that didn't fit the ridiculous notion that software companies are today. We will see how my next endeavor goes but at least it doesn't have 'burn down charts' and MVPs.

Why reversed range? Range is fully capable of descending [1]

You also missed the point of the exercise: start at 0 in your index, but count backward from 100 in output. So the map is 0->100, 1 -> 99, ..., 99 -> 1, 100 -> 0

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#range

The IRC and IBC do specify minimum sizes, so if your county adopted either of those then there is a built in minimum.

> Every dwelling unit shall have at least one habitable room that shall have not less than 120 square feet (11 m2) of gross floor area. Other habitable rooms shall have a floor area of not less than 70 square feet (6.5 m2). Habitable rooms shall not be less than 7 feet (2134 mm) in any horizontal dimension.

The 2015 revision removes or modifies this.

I'm not going to weigh in on CC itself (I don't have an opinion either way), I just want to point out that when Texas, NY and California (or any combination of those 3) adopt a standard it becomes almost impossible to find a text book or other resources that are not geared toward that standard, and thus becomes very difficult to generate curriculum.

So with California and NY adopting CC this fuels the adoption of CC in more states as a standard because it opens access to more resources at reduced cost since you aren't buying, essentially, custom materials and books. I think that rubs a lot of people the wrong way and has contributed to a lot of noise around CC.

The army of lawyers headed your way? How about the CFAA for 'unauthorized access' to Twitter?

When Twitter has all the money and lawyers it's sure tough to argue.

And that's the thought process that got a bunch of toys banned or restricted (such as magnets[1]) even though they can be responsibly used by many children. I don't think the problem is the product and certainly making it easier to start class action lawsuits will only further decrease the available toys until all we can purchase are pictures of toys. Just don't get a paper cut.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/5929064/buckyballs-have-been-banned-by-th...

That's not true at all [1].

This holds for previous years as well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg...

If I understand correctly the Speedlite is battery powered, so as such shouldn't cause any voltage spike on mains.

Not to dive too off topic, but the telecom industry has been heavily regulated and in no way represents a free market.

Through franchise fees, fighting public right of way sharing, and other forms of lobbying these large corporations have used law and regulation to their favor. This is not a position libertarians support and it is not a market anyone would point at and call "unregulated" in any sense of the term.

No, it means the last mile remains exclusive to the provider.

Those aren't really designed for long term daily use, can lead to accumulation of wax and serious infections if used repeatedly and continually.

Also in my case they put too much pressure on the canal which eventually gets quite painful. When I was a mechanic it was more of a hassle but much better for my ears to wear proper ear muffs instead of disposable ear plugs.

I wonder, though, if your key were a confession to a crime you did actually commit (perhaps you stole a pack of gum) and you cannot be compelled to testify against yourself, how would that turn out?

> even under Stalin

To be fair, Stalin had a habit of just killing people instead of sending them to the Gulag. Not that it excuses the US incarceration rate but your comparison isn't very good.

In this case "the government" refers to the upper management of Ford, or at least that's how I read your parents post.

To reword:

> But since this time, the shareholder value has taken over the government.

But since that time, Ford management only cares about maximizing shareholder value.

I've never seen this be effective. I worked at a place that had quite a few people leave within a few months, all citing more or less the same issues I did, and still to this day the culture and problems are the same.

The truth is if the problem is management then it's very unlikely any meaningful changes will ever be made.

Did you read the article? It very much mattered in this case, and has historically mattered in the scientific community quite a lot.

And now you know why the US houses most of the world's prisoners [0]. This is the same thinking that brings the US security theater at its airports. Anything for safety, even if it only mariginally works.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/safe-communities-fair-sentences/prison-...

How, exactly, would they deploy their gear inside of Comcast data centers without Comcast approving it?

The DEA may not directly set drug policy [0] (it's also part of the "federal government" so I don't understand your distinction here) but it most certainly has a large input on which schedule a drug gets classified. The Attorney General can add, change or remove a drug from any of the schedules at will and would do so based on advice from DEA agents. The DEA is part of the DoJ which is headed by the Attorney General.

[0] http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/21usc/811.htm