Your decision are the right ones. Any experienced developer would chose those. In my humble opinion, they are faster to implement than the alternatives.

The right solutions are often the fastest ones too.

Let's start a war on information because war is peace and information is the cause for thoughtcrime.

Orwell's timing was wrong but close enough in my book.

To me, it's as if 1984 were the past few decades' events and attitudes condensed into a few weeks.

This gives me a better insight as to why my CS degree is a piece of shit and why I learn not much more than I already knew or that I use on a regular basis.

I'm Canadian not British, but I do relate to everything that was said in this article. I completed my degree in 2004.

Great read.

Most colleges do a poor job of providing CS education. Worse yet, CS is a poor substitute for the education needed to do software engineering.

We're finding candidates with a math, physics, or engineering background are better prepared to write software than CS graduates. I don't really understand why that should be the case.

When I did a CS degree in the 80s we did roughly the same amount of maths as engineering courses and all of the more difficult CS classes (generally the more mathematical/formal ones) were mandatory - there was a relatively small amount of choice and certainly no way to graduate without being a fairly decent developer and quite happy with formal abstractions.

Unfortunately, as the article describes, many CS courses have become "customer focused" so are now, as far as I can see, attempting to become vocational training courses, which universities are generally pretty awful at. When I finished my undergraduate course (with a 1st) the only thing I felt qualified to do was go into postgraduate research - which is pretty much what the course was oriented towards, although this was only apparent in retrospect.

"Real" CS is irrelevant to 98% of development jobs. In my opinion anyone believing that a CS degree will train them to be a good developer is going to get a nasty shock.

Having said that, some of the very best developers I have worked with did have the combination of awesome raw talent and CS degrees (often PhDs). Of course, I've also worked with some equally good developers (in their own way) who didn't have a degree.

In my opinion those majors are generally more challenging than CS and thus the graduates will be of a higher intellectual caliber. Additionally, folks pursuing technical careers with those degrees will be more likely to have a personal passion for technology. They also won't have the bad habits that CS programs often instill in graduates, they will look to the workplace and the industry standards as a guideline for their habits and behaviors rather than their college professors and fellow class-mates.

End the prohibition on plants. People should be able to put whatever they want in their body because they own their body. Even if it is quite stupid to do so in many cases, you cannot deter stupidity. In almost every cases, when you try to force people not to do stupid things, it creates unintended consequences that are far worst than what that people would have done in the first place.

Let's try freedom for once.

That's not an accurate summary. A better summary comes in the last paragraph of the article:

  It's no longer acceptable for us to not take responsibility for our Congress
  anymore. If we want it to be better then throwing bums out, and replacing them
  with new bums doesn't seem to be doing the trick. Let's work instead to
 educate whomever is in Congress, and the professional class around them.

In particular, with law enforcement, it's not as much an issue of how much money is spent on law enforcement (though that also matters), but whether the right things are prohibited. There are some things that few people would argue for decriminalizing (say, driving a truck bomb into a building), but a lot more questions past that.

That is one side of it, yes. Congress takes your money to do a lot of horrible things, like the hundreds of thousands of documented civilians that were killed as a direct result of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

But Congress takes your money to do a lot of things, and some of them are absolutely important, like taking care of the medical problems that older people have.

I tried it, love it and bought it right away. Since than, I haven't look at another editor for my needs. On the plus side, I'm using it on Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OS and it works the way I want on all those platforms.

It simply works. Get it now.

> it works the way I want on all those platforms lol.

Amen! It's as simple as that.