mark merrens wrote:

If you show it to him, he'll just steal it and the credit.

Stealing it and the credit is, I think, not the best way to think about helping the code nonja. Both work for the same company; the company owns all the work done there; hence, there is no theft involved. Besides, needing to get the credit would imply that one's own ego is a little too wrapped up in the job. Helping your cow-workers get some credit gives you a warm feeling inside and benefits the company, too.

-- Will

They can ask all they want -- they're not going to get my FB credentials from me. If they have a private dick hack into my FB, they'll see that it's quite benign (I got my wild days behind me before FB was even a gleam in Zuck's eye). The point is, I would never work for a company that wants to see my FB page. Fortunately, I have only ever been interviewed at companies with reasonable boundaries.

Without out-going connections, I probably wouldn't be able to watch Netflix, Youtube, etc. on the TV. Those so-called "smart" functions are a big reason I bought the thing in the first place. Bummer.

-- Will

I tried to like Win8. Came on a new notebook. Gave up when some programs wouldn't run in Win8. Put Win7 on. Good luck trying to find the Win7 drivers for a machine "designed specially for Windows 8"! Yes, it uses components that are Win7 compatible, but there's no explicit support for Win7, as if they couldn't have predicted the backlash. Sure, you can still find new notebooks with Win7, but the specs aren't the best.

I agree with you completely. BTW there's a way to revert the VS 2012 menus to regular capitalization: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2012/06/14/turn-off-the-uppercase-menu-in-visual-studio-2012.aspx

Age 14, in 1980 or so. Wrote my own game programs in BASIC on the junior high school's lone computer: a Radio Shack TRS-80 -- with audio cassette storage!

I fondly remember many long afternoons in junior high school (late 1970's) on the single Radio Shack TRS-80 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80[^]. Hey, it was either that or churn through roll after roll of printer paper playing Star Trek on the teletype terminal. Fortuantely for me, not many kids wanted to spend their free time in the computer lab in those days. We saved our spaghetti code to an audio tape cassette drive! Ah, the good old days.

-- Mountain Will