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  1. Re:Infinity on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    lim x->0 x^2/x = 2

    Let's pretend you didn't write it, okay?

  2. Re:Don't use thousand separators internationally on Malware Attacks Give Criminals 1,425% Return On Investment · · Score: 1

    Exactly.
    On a related note, could we please kill the developer(s) that wrote the CSV import for Excel?
    Depending on your regional settings, importing a cell containing 3.14 could yield 3.14, 3140 or 14th of March.

  3. Re:This Amin kid is obviously an idiot. on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 1

    Sure, kill the messenger.
    All those facts are well documented : feel free to look for other sources.
    It's typical of this damn conflict. Both sides are so extreme that they consider any centerish point of view to be extremely biased.

  4. Re:This Amin kid is obviously an idiot. on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 1
  5. Re:This Amin kid is obviously an idiot. on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 1

    I was indeed talking about military-conflict situations.
    How is ISIS not involved in a military conflict?

  6. Re:If it was political, that is sad on Philae's Lost Seven Months Were Completely Unnecessary · · Score: 1

    It hasn't been posted on Facebook, but the point is still valid :
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1pns...

  7. Re:This Amin kid is obviously an idiot. on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 1

    For the US & Israel, a few months are actually enough.

  8. Re:"Watch this space for some more links to follow on Online At Last: Comet Lander Philae Wakes Up · · Score: 1

    Wait what?
    If that's not news for nerds, I don't know what it is.

  9. Re:This Amin kid is obviously an idiot. on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 0

    lunatics who behead people or burn people alive

    Please name one western country that didn't do either of them in the last 75 years.

  10. Re:Hidden Malware on German Parliament May Need To Replace All Hardware and Software To Stop Malware · · Score: 1

    Holy shit!
    Thanks a lot for the explanation. This happened to my parents a month ago, and I couldn't understand why everything looked clean, but IE was somehow infected.
    I removed every link to IE I found, and put a big Firefox icons everywhere they could be looking for Internet.

  11. "First year or two"?
    You're doing it wrong. The trick is to put your brain in a position where the only possible escape is to learn the new language, and learn it fast.
    I made it clear to my room-mates/colleagues/acquaintances that I didn't want to fall back to any other language. They were really nice and patient, and were already laughing while I tried to make silly jokes with my 50 words vocabulary. I had some big headaches during the first month, and was exhausted every day after trying to make sense of the new language.
    After about 2 months, I could speak well enough to make myself understood by anyone. I had a great time, and my social life was also helped because locals found it cute that I went through all this trouble.

  12. Re:Can someone translate "1.4x faster?" on WWDC 2015 Roundup · · Score: 1

    It translates to "it will look faster than Yosemite, but only after a fresh install. After you installed your beloved programs, it will be slower".
    Fun fact : If you multiply all the supposedly "X times faster" since 1984 and take into account the faster CPUs, you'd probably have startup times of a few nanoseconds.

  13. Why? I didn't speak a word of Spanish when I came to study engineering in Madrid, and I didn't speak a word of German when I came to work in Stuttgart. 10 years later, I'm fluent in Spanish and German.
    I need human contact with native speakers (and beers, lots of beers!) in order to learn a language.

  14. Re:In the more civilized parts of the world... on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    And Europeans can take advantage of exchange programs too.
    My sister spent a year studying at Boston College in 2001 and only had to pay the tuition for her French university : it was less than 500$/year at that time.

  15. Easy on Ask Slashdot: What Asset Tracking Software Do You Recommend? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Access+Javascript+MongoDB+Visual Basic.
    If you manage to use this system, tracking laptops will be a piece of cake in comparison.

  16. Re:WTF? on Egyptian Repairman Outranks Google · · Score: 1

    Count me in, I didn't understand anything from the summary.

  17. Re:TeV, GeV on Prospects and Limits For the LHC's Capabilities To Test String Theory · · Score: 1

    My calculator tells me that 10^16 = 10 XOR 16 = 26.
    Only 13 TeV to go! :)

  18. Re:Dry Heat on Heat Wave Kills More Than 1,100 In India · · Score: 1

    Holy shit you're right.
    30% at 47C is about 25g of water for 1kg of dry air, which is equivalent to 3 imperial shit-tons of moisture.

  19. Re:Not much on How Much C++ Should You Know For an Entry-Level C++ Job? · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't like to clean up after you.
    There's a difference between "learning a language" and "knowing how to write clean and maintanable code while avoiding subtle caveats".

  20. Re:And so preventable on A Beautiful Mind Mathematician John F. Nash Jr. Dies · · Score: 1

    Adults are moral entities with agency, and can damn well decide on their own whether to wear a seatbelt or not.

    It's not so easy : by not wearing a seatbelt, you make it easier for others (taxi driver and other drivers on the road) to accidentally kill you. It's a big burden that you could put on other "moral entities".

  21. Re:I guess that if a Mathematician... on A Beautiful Mind Mathematician John F. Nash Jr. Dies · · Score: 1

    And by the way, usually this argument tends to come up from people who want to claim economics isn't a "real science" or something.

    The burden on proof really is on people (usually economists among themselves) that pretend that economics is a science.

  22. Re:Thanks You Dr. Nash on A Beautiful Mind Mathematician John F. Nash Jr. Dies · · Score: 1

    How long was your career? The movie came out in 2001.
    Also, may I ask what you do?

  23. Re:I guess that if a Mathematician... on A Beautiful Mind Mathematician John F. Nash Jr. Dies · · Score: 1

    And by the way, usually this argument tends to come up from people who want to claim economics isn't a "real science" or something. I won't get into that argument, but well, neither is "peace" or "literature."

    Those people are right, and you're right about peace and literature.
    Nash's contribution was really in mathematics, though, so that's fine by me.
    BTW, the best proof that economics isn't a science, is that it isn't even included there : http://xkcd.com/435/

  24. Re:And so preventable on A Beautiful Mind Mathematician John F. Nash Jr. Dies · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we should give Nash a big fine to deter him from doing it again.

  25. No morning coffee yet on Musical Organ Created From 49 Floppy Disk Drives · · Score: 1

    No morning coffee yet : why/how do the floppy drives produce different pitch?