No! I teach C/C++, and just no. Most of my engineers are in the "they will never need C/C++" camp and would be better served by my teaching them Python (I have no say in the matter). Currently, most of the C/C++ compilers have god awful, incredibly cryptic, error messages, and so my students get so bogged down in the…

I'm pretty sure a pirate started the booty movement.

Hi Nico, there are also other people who actually cannot get the flu shot because they are immunocompromised. So lets say Grandpa Joe is unable to get a flu shot because they are in the middle of chemotherapy to treat the cancer they are already battling.

"Your flu could become their flu."

Can I just say that these are all amazing? My finances were a mess until Kristen opened Two Cents. I read it all because I trust Lifehacker and love this community.

Not much for sharing online but here goes. Once I was a major meth addict, sold more pot than most will ever see, shrooms, acid, x, and mooching off friends for about 10 years. Once while smoking meth in my crappy studio I dropped some meth on the floor. Next I was on my knees trying to scrape up the beautiful…

I mean, it's a fast food chain, so the coffee probably won't convince coffee snobs. BUT on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say it's a free.

I recently purged all my apps when I installed iOS 8 (albeit... I didn't realize it was going to remove them when I forcing the dev build on my phone). But I only added the apps I frequently use—Twitter, Instagram, Gmail, and a few others. And... okay that's really the whole anecdote. It was nice to get rid of all the…

I thought I remembered reading an article that suggested that Capital in the 21st Century and Thinking, Fast & Slow were two books that have mass highlighting patterns that suggest most people give up fairly early when reading them.

Better.

YOU'RE GOING TO DIE IF YOU DON'T GET THE EXACT AMOUNT OF SLEEP WE SAY YOU SHOULD

The way I look at it is this: If you're representing country X over another country because you truly feel some affinity or sense of belonging to country X, then I'm totally fine with it. That goes even for guys who feel a greater affinity for country Y, whether they're representing country X because they're not good…

And no spoiler results either. Fantastic!

This should be higher on the comments list, I keep having to scroll down to find it because I'm too lazy to save it as a favorite.

ARGH i forgot the open thread again. I always do that. I'll share it now, thanks. And put a reminder on my calendar for fridays going forward :-)

Awesome, thanks on both counts! I've added a link to LiveSchedules in the post.

I didn't plug it there because I didn't want my first post on Hackerspace to be an exercise in self-promotion.