It's even worse than it appears.
When the president threatens a reporter for coverage he doesn't like he's certainly violating his oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."#
The president who didn't show his tax returns wants to know what the states have to hide.#
The NRA has to sell guns to a saturated market. So they have to create demand for upgrades. The worst kind of mercenaries. #
  • Use pngWriter when you have more to say than will fit in a tweet. Instead of chopping up your ideas into 140-character chunks, you publish it all in one tweet, as a beautifully formatted and easy-to-read image. #
  • You can use simple styles, bold, italic, numbered and bulleted lists, heads and quotes. There's an RSS feed, of course. 🍌 #
  • Here's an example of a pngWriter post.#
  • Be sure to read the docs for features and caveats, post questions as a comment there. #
  • Hope you like it! ;-)#
  • I keep telling NakedJen that she is the Mother of Dragons. Tonight I watched four episodes from season 2 or 3, and one of them contained the moment when Daenerys Targaryen becomes the Mother of Dragons. This is it. #
  • A picture named motherOfDragons.png#
  • On Facebook, Scott Knaster says he's amazed that people still use the term radio button for mutually exclusive buttons. He asks "How many people programming these have any idea what that means?" (Sorry I don't link to Facebook posts.)#
  • Does it really matter if people know the derivation? Think of all the non-English speakers who learn the names for concepts that came from English-speaking countries. The words are just words, they have no meaning beyond their functionality. #
  • It's not as if hamburgers are made of ham. 🍔#
  • Further, when something has a name that everyone knows why not keep using it? Why are the foot controls in cars the same today as they were when I learned to drive in the seventies? Look at all the change that's happened in cars since then. #
  • Why do many of the streets in Manhattan have the same names they had in colonial times? There's no wall on Wall St. Broadway is an anglicized version of a Dutch name believe it or not, not descriptive. #
  • When you have a spirit of continuity you can make design decisions you intend to have last for generation after generation.#
  • So much change in tech is just coming up with new names for well-understood concepts. I have friends I use to help translate. It's a job security thing. Full employment for programmers. But on the whole it's not a good idea. Keeps us from building.#

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