Let's kick it off with a classic.

Is your organization doing anything to ensure new devs are productive from day one? How do you guys handle local environments for the code you are working on? I am trying to get my company to enable teams to create their own workstation image that contains all the dev tools and local application-related infrastructure needed for that team to be productive. Has anyone done something similar?

How long do you hold the smoke in your lungs? Does it change depending on what sort of mechanism for smoking you use? Do you believe in the old adage, "if you don't cough, you don't get off"? Tell me about your breathing habits when smoking.

Between these two pitches, which sounds more interesting?

1. After climate change eradicates society as we know it, civilization is much more like 1800 than the rapidly approaching 2100. Daniel Lupida never cared about politics of "rebuilding society" when he volunteered to join The Coalition and left his small village behind to go beyond the Gate. He only wanted to find his father. Instead, he found his destiny.

2. When twenty three year old Cameron Winchester becomes the youngest rookie ever recruited into the Prime Guard, the elite squad that keeps the Kingdom of Kurisa safe, he should be elated. However; he feels nothing but pressure and anxiety. Will he measure up to the rest of the squad? What if they find out how he got the job? His trouble just intensifies when he makes a startling discovery while on a mission to the Neutral Zone that will lead him into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with illusive terrorist mastermind Uncle.

Both are valuable, but which should be the priority? Assuming finite hours in a day, how much time should be spent working on your actual work vs. learning about the customer vs. learning about technology you haven't worked with before?

I finally read "Old Man and the Sea". I have tried to start it many times, but the beginning was just so slow. Has anyone here read it? What are your thoughts on this Ernest Hemingway classic?

For the sake of the argument, you get to arrive up to 24 hours before the event starts and leave up to 24 hours after it ends.

Are you still part of a classic message board? If so what is it?

House is clean, laundry is done. You have the whole Saturday to yourself. What's happening boss?

What do you think about Ron Paul? Was he the hope and dream of our movement or just a republican quack?

Hey guys. Curious about how you run your automated tests.

Let's see your rankings.

Any Michener fans here? I just read "Space" and it was amazing. Wondering what from him I should read next?