I've had awesome results just adding spices to a jar of Ragu and simmering it for a while. It'll taste just like homemade. Seriously

Oh good, so its not just me that never reads the comments. ;-)

I can't be the only one that thinks about ninja turtles whenever I see USMNT in a headline?

That's a great idea! The complexity of my taxes goes up and down from year to year, so there's definitely been a few years where I've been tempted to try it out again.

I'm pretty sure Turbo Tax was completely correct for the information I entered. I'm totally the one who's untrustworthy to get the information entered correctly.

I used to use Turbo Tax the first few years I was out of college, until one year I had sent in my taxes and thought everything was complete and then got a letter from the IRS and a $1200 check because of some mistake.

I'm not talking about the random manhole cover type questions. The type I like to ask are relevant to the position, but might be "adjacent" to something they've done previously.

In technical interviews, a lot of times I'll ask questions that I'm pretty sure that the interviewee won't know, but should be able to reason out from the different bits of experience on his or her resume. In those cases, I'll be clear that I'm looking for thought process and the ability to connect the dots.

That's not exactly how I meant it. The R-values will give you a fairly precise number for the amount of heat that will be lost at that spot, but the heat will still escape from other areas. Think of it like patching a bucket full of holes. You can patch the biggest holes in the bucket, but the water loss just goes…

Its not a fair comparison. Battery tech has changed some, but Moore's Law doesn't apply outside of semiconductors.

Kit Kat broke my ability to get work email on my phone using EAS. Jackasses.

Back in the 80's, my Dad modified an Atari 2600 cartridge to have a prom socket on it, and he gave me a huge printout of all the games they could burn onto eproms at his work. I only ever had 10 or so games/eproms at a time, because inevitably we'd put one into the socket backwards and burn out the prom, or leads…

This is just confirmation of the joke that Bonds has become. Why the outrage?

Personally, I'm blessed to have a good, secure job, but with the prices of lots of basic needs going up (groceries, electricity, health insurance, etc), and my paycheck not going up at all, its hard to feel the security.

So then, Clojure after that.

I plan on teaching my kids the basics in C (variables, loops, etc) before moving them on to Java for OOP, multi-threading, etc.

I love me some Perl, but its an interesting choice for an example of a "modern OOP" language. Its been around long before the rest of them, and to me the OO part feels bolted on as an afterthought.

My Thermapen has rocked for ages. But its not the last thermometer you'll need. Its still nice to have a leave-in temperature probe for roasting or smoking. And a laser thermometer is nice for checking the surface temp of the griddle.

That one's scary. I screwed it up just ordering books about it for my wife. Fortunately, the drugs are completely different.

We had to do a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2008 when my wife's business failed in the economic downturn. It was emotionally hard, and I don't ever want to go through that again....but that said, it wasn't actually too bad. A lot better than debtor's prison, which was the option for a long time until less than a century…