The best time to invest is 20 years ago. The second best is today.

Probably a dumb question (or one that has been covered elsewhere), but for our young man in the Fiesta ST, Does the term matter if you’re planning on making over payments from month to month? Let’s say he doubles the monthly payment every month and (bad math, I know) pays off his 84 month term in 48 months.

As a programmer person, I can confirm that being able to write clearly is a big deal in this industry. It’s amazing how many decent programmers people are hard to work with because they simply cannot communicate clearly.

As a programmer, I can confirm that being able to write clearly is a big deal in this industry. It’s amazing how many decent programmers are hard to work with because they simply cannot communicate clearly.

I feel like this is apropos:

Too many people think software development is easy.

Ugh, I've had to have this conversation with friends and family so much lately. Yes I could write your app, but no it's not as simple or cheap as you think.

Still a bargain at $150, but I'm not sure how they'll make this work profit-wise.

Being a programmer at some point is about experience and working on projects of your own or as part of a team, and making your own mistakes. This is especially a tough one for new graduates to grasp.

fits...barely. although you'd have to have really good aim to try to drift under the truck

Pretty much. A high-level programming language would probably teach a novice about the principles of programming more effectively. It's really easy to get bogged down in the minutiae of C.

You forgot reason zero.

One of my old managers' mantra was something to the effect of "if you can't figure out how to do your job in about 40 hours every week, you probably don't belong here."

How is this any different from those of us who spend hours reading books and have been doing so since childhood? This whole, "technology is ruining everything" has to stop. Long before I had a smart phone I was avoiding people in buses/trains/waiting rooms by looking down at a book.

The truck driver already was hitting on her.

Zoom! Zoom!, bitches.

The culture around work in Germany is so different. When I lived there, I thought I was impressing my bosses by staying in the office longer than everyone else. In reality, they just thought that I was too inefficient to get my work done in the 7.5 hours allotted to me.

Easy way to cut out a lot of those costs - don't have a car. My folks to drive me to college at the beginning of school (they wanted to see me off anyway) and picked me up for break and at the end of the semester. I never had to pay for parking, maintenance, and only had to chip in a couple bucks for gas if I wanted…

FirstEnergy Stadium.