Sit for 15 minutes in any social workers office or 5 minutes in a Family Court waiting room and you'll see/hear enough punch lines to last a lifetime.

"No,...

I agree. I used to believe in "Maslov's Heirarchy" until I found out it was based on his studies of the top 1 or 2% of college students.

Thats hardly...

Buy a $150K+ motor home to house your servers. (Adds a whole new meaning to mobile computing!)

You'll get as much as a 50% rebate on the sales tax....

I hate open offices. Too much distracting chatter and too many interruptions. One I worked in was so noisy people would get physically ill from noise induced stress.

On...

Thirty years ago learning my very first programming language, I also hated documenting programs.

Now, n+ languages later, and 30 years wiser, I document the hell out of anything but the...

As a grizzled old coot that is new to SQL, but very old to programming, it appears as though the real answer on which way is better is the same...

3 way tie between Holly (Red Dwarf), Marvin (HG2G), and Genie (The Great Time Machine Hoax). Don't expect TGTMH to be great literature, it's just plain fun reading. ...

The biggest problem I had was getting my family to understand that even though I was at home I had to work.

Different wife and older kids helped resolve that. ...

At my last company the phone system had the habit of dying intermittently. I noticed everyone in my department seemed to get a lot more done on days it...

Years ago I had a military supervisor that told me if he got 3 things accomplished during the day he thought he had a good day.

I thought this was ridiculous...

The volatility and possibility of recursive crossfeeding of such systems would border on dangerous.

Groupthink in people is bad enough. To enable it at the speed of light could be...

To me the only thing that matters is "Effectiveness". If the most effective way of storing and manipulating data is in cuniform on clay tablets, fine.

Usually "most...