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1) I really don't know. Maybe he had a stockpile? Maybe it really was color, but the room was somewhat dark/shaded, and I'm only remembering/assuming it as B&W?

2) We used to do a lot, lot, lot worse than that in the USMC in those pre-MADD days. Different era.

Fun fact - same motorcycle, I was struck by lightning on it several months later, riding home from California (to Ga) on I-70 in Missouri. This was following my discharge (actually, end of active service) in late August.

Yeah, I thought what I titled it was clear and informative and as author of the article, the Orange Coast title was literary rather than descriptive.

FWIW, I originally titled this "The Crack Of A Twig" and we were rolling w/that title, but at the last minute, the editors at OC Mag asked if they could change it.

I'm not a pro writer by any means, and going through the process of editing a feature article w/a print mag was pretty interesting.

When you dig into it, nobody really knows how many victims there were. His cryptic tally sheet seemed to indicate 67 or so, but some investigators believe he may have killed 100 or more.

For instance, when they caught him, the front passenger seat of his car was apparently bloodsoaked, but was never matched to any known/suspected victim. A fair amount of evidence suggests that he had at least a part-time accomplice as well. All sorts of unknowns, as he still maintains complete innocence to this day.

He had been killing people in Oregon, on business trips up there and the folks up there theorized that something like this was happening and had been working credit card gas purchase, car rental, and airline ticket info and from what I read, right around the time he got arrested in Ca. his name was coming to the top in Oregon.

In retrospect, I'm pretty convinced he was going to try to get me to undress myself at his escalating suggestion w/out him ever touching me. He was extremely careful about not touching, "accidentally" brushing, etc, and keeping out of my personal space. I realize now that this was a survival mechanism for him, as if the spell were broken by some wrong move, he really could have gotten hurt badly in this sort of situation.

Hi Rob, hope all is well. I don't think any of us will ever forget those Adrenaline days.

I spent a year in Idaho years ago. I was really surprised at how smoggy/dirty the winter air gets in some of these Mountain west places that are prone to inversions.

On top of that, woodburning in fireplaces/stoves is also really popular in some of these areas. I remember a few days in Pocatello where you could barely see to the end of the block.

I thought the first chart, the number of commits per language, was interesting.

I don't think that 1 person in 1000 could do what i do no matter how many ruby/clojure classes they took.

Sorry if that sounds cocky, but whatever.

Programming is incidental to what I do, which is figure out how to use the deterministic execution of computers combined with the availability of data to solve some problem for somebody. Programming language/architecture considerations are an afterthought for optimizing operations.

This is like suggesting that because one learns how to type/write/spell, all of a sudden one is in competition w/Herman Melville.

Don't leave until you close on other job. As others have noted, your value plunges in the eyes of other hiring folks even though you feel you are the same person.

You also are perceived to be less in a position of strength on compensation negotiations.

And finally, since you don't have a job, there will be a little bit of a question about why you left your last job, a little bit of a non-positive aura about that.

This is just the way the interview/hiring dynamics go, whether we think it is fair or not.

I turned down a job w/Microsoft in the early 90's with great options. Interestingly enough, they kept calling me back - I really got the impression it wasn't that they really wanted me, it was just that they were curious about someone turning down their job offer.

Anyhow, I gnawed on this for some years, calculating what the options would have been worth, but I finally let it go when it go to be around 5m.

Anyhow, cry in your beer a little bit and move on.

Maybe he just thinks it would be fun, wants to feel the joy of that first "Hello Gotham"? He certainly wouldn't be the first person coding for avocational reasons.

We're doing the platform approach. I don't think this was part of any grand calculation of where the technology wave is, just that it is the idea we have and it meshes w/our skillset.

The field does seem awfully crowded with social/mobile lightweight apps.

People prosper all over different parts of economic/tech cycles. My father was a developer (real estate kind, a regular "A Man In Full") in Atlanta, he used to always make all his bank during recessions when all the other developers were going broke. Conversely, during the fat times, he never did very well.

We (including Dad) were all aware of this pattern, but never could really figure out why things worked out that way.