As an engineer, I find that a healthy dose of pessimism helps me evaluate the success of a project. If I can mitigate all of my negative thinking of "what if this goes wrong", then a project will have a much better chance to succeed.

Scale matters when you understand the size of those things. I don't even know how big one blue whale is, and without consulting Wikipedia, I may never know. But, one thing I can be sure about... blue whales don't come in one standard size.

There were a great many copies of Duck Hunt that were packaged with Nintendos that may have never actually been played.

Sadly, that one was inaccurate. Kirby's Adventure was the largest Nintendo game ever made. The cartridge had 6 megabits of ROM, or 3/4 of a megabyte of memory.

This is all stupid information.

I would love to see someone get recognized for fastest trans-continental run without breaking traffic laws. I expect it won't be as impressive as a little less than 29 hours, but it will be more responsible, and require some real ingenuity and planning (or an increase in the posted speed limit) to beat the previous…

In my opinion, wearable computers aren't ready for us yet. We are at the equivalent of PDA phones and Slate PCs, not quite smartphones and tablets. There will need to be a few more iterations before they hit the mainstream.

I feel like the opposite is a better approach. Specialize early, generalize later. From a career perspective, it can be difficult to get on those in-roads unless you are some sort of snowflake. Another generic peon is just another resume in the stack.

This is likely very bad advice. Any time you'd feel like it is worth your time and effort to go the extra mile and check your email against your smartphone for length, it is likely that the email would benefit from more and not less.

Cowboy coffee is perfectly safe. Tossing a raw egg into 200 degree water will cook the egg and kill the salmonella (if it is present)

Cowboy coffee is perfectly safe. Tossing a raw egg into 200 degree water will cook the egg and kill the salmonella…

A chemex is nice, but your standard issue pour-over will produce similar quality for significantly less money.

A chemex is nice, but your standard issue pour-over will produce similar quality for significantly less money.

I'm a sucker for novelty coffee mugs.

I'm a sucker for novelty coffee mugs.

If you are buying mixed drinks from a bar that serves booze from the bottom shelf, I am sorry for you.

I don't see the connection. I can see plenty of reason to punish the folks who did such a thing, but I do not see any reason why we should go above and beyond for the developer. If he did have monetary damages, the sales provider would be the responsible party and he could have sued them for damages.

Wait, why should we give money to a person just because something bad happens to him...

I'm planning on the reverse inheritance route where my kids pay for all of my expenses in my final years. Anything they get after I die will be partial repayment for the debt.

It says I'm 44...

It should be observed that advice that works for a millionaire may not be very effective for someone with limited savings and little surplus income.

Using a blender will lead to uneven grind and muddy coffee. If you don't have a grinder, go to your grocer, buy some beans, grind them on the coarsest setting and use them that day. If you do have a grinder (not one of those blade ones... same problem as a blender) then pick a coarse setting and grind away.

"Would you like to buy this for X dollars"