> California created this situation through lax enforcement of immigration laws.

It's not for states to enforce federal immigration laws. If enforcement is lax, that's a failing of the federal government. It's also a failing of the federal government that the path to legal immigration for many people is file some paperwork, then wait 20+ years for your turn.

Federal Gov't handles immigration laws and enforcement by and large.

I don't agree with all enforcement methods, but lets not pretend that California doesn't try to actively impede federal enforcement of immigration laws.

For example, they passed SB 54, which prevents California law officers and agencies from assisting or sharing any information on illegal immigrants with the feds.

The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch or Democracy in America by de Tocqueville might be of interest to you.

Less than 5% of their revenue is calculators, and much less than 5% of their R&D or engineering budgets. It's an incredibly small part of their business.

5% of revenue requiring much less than 5% of engineering time sounds like an awesome part of a business. Hardly small, either.

It serves the purpose of exposing future engineers to the TI brand during a formative period too

Excel is the world's most popular IDE ;)

One of my weed out questions in programming interviews is to ask their opinion on Excel. Specifically, strengths and weaknesses.

If they don't come up with at least one strength or spend the whole answer bashing it, that's an instant reject for any position touching UX.

I could bash it in ways you probably haven't heard before...

The clashing paradigms of the Data Model and "vanilla" Excel have really been aggravating me recently.

I feel like Excel is underutilized for cultural reasons and it seems like it can do anything I was previously asked to use Qlikview for.

But the fundamental reason I am using Excel these days is because I don't want to be subjected to a programming interview, ever again.

I got my current job without any particular technical requirements, and the interview was entirely about how I manage my time and multitask.

Watts are joules/second - with perfect insulation and doors not opening, the only energy used is the energy used to cool the contents initially. As time approaches infinity watts approach zero, despite the energy consumed initially. c/t -> 0 as t->INF given constant c.