Zpirate

With federal debt at 66 year high, there's a problem

Politicians, regardless of label, seem to kick the can down the road. They spend their money on their friends ("necessary infrastructure", "critical defense spending", "defending social security", etc.). The bill to pay goes to grade school kids.

Ariana pulled a Steve Case on 'em!

In related news, AOL down 3.2% in late trading.

Market says "bad move".

See if you can install a Linux distro.

Purchasing power parity in local currency?

Maybe interfacing to javascript libraries has replaced actual new javascript development and people search for, for instance, "jquery" instead of javascript.

Three things struck me:

1) The persistence of C. Looks like it will remain "the glue" between the machine and "higher level" operations for the next decade and beyond. It's strong niche in the "must be fast as possible and still portable" arena helps, too.

2) The rise of Python.

3) The decline of VB.

It would be unwise to submit to vendor lock-in.

Wow. There wasn't a baby boom, it was more of an earlier depression/war bust.

Properly using vi , especially the macros feature, will save you from carpal tunnel syndrome. Typing "set -o vi" first thing in bash will save your sanity.