This does not fly with our BAFHs. They need to know the content :)

It would be nice if we can have integrity and authenticity without confidentiality.

Wow. There are people who will steal* and then have the guts to argue they are right.

I did not read LPTHW before this.

Now I read it and it's indeed hard work.

Wow.

logic and reason and empathy. What use is of logic and reasoning if he turns out to be Hilter (or a female version...)

The main conclusion is definitely right. You need to take the constraints into considerations.

However, imo the optimal strategy to pay off debt is to reduce the total amount of payments whenever you have money to pay after the necessities of life are taken care of.

Simple :)

Did the guy own any of these three stocks and others???

if you think you can earn money without the government.

Absolutely agree :)

But seriously, if the students turn in programs that won't even compile, I'd say the blame should be on the TAs and the Profs!

I disagree.

What would you use instead?

Nagios, Zabbix or M/Monit (which also has an iphone app)

I think it depends on how many servers you monitor :)

$99 per month for 6 servers is really cool.

"... at the end of the day everyone's there to make money for the business"

Really. It seems to me like everyone's there to make money for their departments / business units / lines of business.

Well, my company has only has 4 people full time, so maybe my perspective isn't representative. :) But I've had people who were writing code on a temporary basis get frustrated when things didn't stick to the spec 101% or when there wasn't time for them to follow all the software engineering practices they read about in a book and felt like trying...I understand all that stuff (I've been on both sides of the equation), but what bothers me is when people are inflexible on principle, to the detriment of the business.