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  1. Re:I dunno... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    For the first condition, I'd use

                if mod(i,3) == 0 and mod(i,5)==0 then print 'fizzbuzz' ;

    because (a) it reflects the problem statement, and (b) just as soon as the original program has gone into production and the programmer has gone on to another project, word will come from on high that there was an error in the spec, and they really meant to print fizzbuzz when the number is a multiple of 3 and 7, not of 3 and 5.

    The important thing here is probably that the 3 and 5 test has to come first.

  2. The Weapon Shops of Isher on Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings · · Score: 1
  3. Shortpacked! on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012? · · Score: 1

    By David Willis.

  4. Re:If there was a Bad at Math Map... on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 1

    If enough citizens object strongly enough, the government will be gone. In the words of Joseph de Maistre, Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite - Every nation gets the government it deserves.

  5. Re:White House Response on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 1

    The executive branch doesn't control statehood. The states, congress, and people do.

    Here's a link: http://constitutionus.com/

    The relevant parts are Articles 1-6 and Amendments 9 and 10.

  6. Re:If there was a Bad at Math Map... on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 2

    If they are taking actions that result in the most polluted capital city, then yes, in some sense they wish for the most polluted capital city. It may be a side effect of the government they support, not a main effect, but it's still an effect.

  7. ACLU press release on EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://www.aclunc.org/cases/active_cases/doe_v._harris.shtml

    It's really not a good law - it won't accomplish its goal and it has lots of bad possible side effects.

  8. Re:As much as I hate Steve Jobs.... on Shake-up at Apple: Forstall Out; iOS Executive Fired For Maps Debacle? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because he had some perfectionist tendencies. That was one thing that set Apple apart from Microsoft - you might not like what they did, but they usually did it thoroughly. That seems to be falling apart a bit.

  9. Re:Yes. on Is Microsoft's Price Model For the Surface Justifiable? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:It's not iTunes or Apple, it's RIAA on Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection · · Score: 1

    I don't know why that URL disappeared. http://www.gizmag.com/apple-cost-iphone4/15583/

  11. Re:It's not iTunes or Apple, it's RIAA on Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection · · Score: 1

    3% of Apple's profits is still a good chunk of change.

    Much of the profit from the iPhone comes from carrier payments to Apple, which are content fees,not hardware fees. See, for example, .

  12. Re:It's not iTunes or Apple, it's RIAA on Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection · · Score: 1

    Maybe "Content was the hook to sell hardware" was true at one time, but nowadays it goes both ways.

  13. Re:BigData != "standard databases" on How Big Data Became So Big · · Score: 1

    This is what many people don't understand about big data. Big data does not have a good PR department, and its differences from traditional data processing have not been well explained.

  14. Re:BigData != "standard databases" on How Big Data Became So Big · · Score: 1

    Big data doesn't usually apply to transaction databases. Acid isn't relevant.

  15. Re:Perspective please on How Big Data Became So Big · · Score: 1

    It's typically only large corporations and government agencies that have those huge amounts of data, but those who do, really do.

    Think of a data point for every item purchased at every Walmart for the last 10 years.

    Or a record of every phone call, text message, twitter, or Facebook posting in the United States - if the NSA doesn't have that now, it's only a matter of time.

  16. History on Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We need a repeat of SEA vs. PKZip, with Apple as SEA.

  17. Not the only choices on Online Services: The Internet Before the Internet · · Score: 1

    Some of us were on BITNET.

  18. Re:You can get aviation headsets with bluetooth on Best Telephone For Datacenters? · · Score: 1

    The Lightspeed is designed to cut low frequency noise. Are there any noise-reduction headsets designed to cut out the frequency range of human voices?

    I asked a couple of manufacturers at the AOPA convention a few years ago, and at that time there were none. But there might be now, and not every manufacturer was at the convention.

    A review of the Bose Quiet Comfort 15 and the Heil Quiet Phone Pro in the May 2010 QST said that those headsets are also designed to cut out low frequencies, and not the entire sound spectrum.

  19. Re:What a joke... on SAS Named Best Company To Work For In 2010 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The SAS data step language was originally modeled after PL/I. Some recent additions (for example, the "object-oriented" interface) appear to have been modeled after C or other more recently fashionable languages.

    If you are speaking of the data step language, it's not correct to say that "[m]ost of the functions automatically apply to a whole recordset at once"; that's a misunderstanding of the default data step iteration over records. Statements in the data step apply to one record at a time, going sequentially or in index order through the input - unless you've done something to make that not happen (which you can do - SAS is very flexible).

    In many ways, SAS follows the same principle of least surprise as Perl and some other languages.

  20. It depends on where you are on Truth Or Dare — What Is the Best US Cell Company? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Which cell phone company is best" really depends on your location, and on your definition of "best". In some places, Sprint will be best, in others it will be Verizon or T-Mobile, and it's even possible that AT&T is best somewhere. I personally have been happy with Sprint for both voice and data. If you live in an area where they have implemented high speed data, they might be the best choice. I have not experienced the constant data drops or poor customer service I saw at Verizon (people seem surprised when I say Sprint customer service has been good, but it has). T-Mobile supposedly rolled out high speed data across the country this month, but I haven't heard any reports of how well it works.