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  1. Re:XMPP on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 1

    The problem with XMPP is that it encompasses at least 12 competing standards just within itself, and nobody working on any one part of it seems to understand the whole picture. The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. The left hand and right hand don't even know there are more hands involved.

  2. The problem once was solved. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 1

    I had been doing fine for years with multi-network clients like Pidgin/Trillium/Adium until semi-recently when big players started kicking 3rd party clients off their networks.

  3. Re:Undue Burden prior to 1 Jan 1970 on Online Job Sites May Block Older Workers (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice troll there. That's the Unix epoch, FYI and Windows uses it too.

  4. Re:Maybe stop using dropdowns for numbers? on Online Job Sites May Block Older Workers (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I was just gonna say something snarky about regexp but you beat me to it.

  5. Re:Maybe stop using dropdowns for numbers? on Online Job Sites May Block Older Workers (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Nah, there's some sort of grift going on there. It's not just ubiquitous naivety. I've actually had clients demand that I ensure date-range cut-offs built into forms for potential registrants casually exclude people older than 50 while making it look like like a design oversight.

  6. Re:The Discrimination is about wages, not age on Online Job Sites May Block Older Workers (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It basically comes down to jealousy.

    Despite still not sounding quite correct, this is the best explanation I've heard so far.

  7. One big memory leak. on Windows 10 Is Just 'A Vehicle For Advertisements', Argues Tech Columnist (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Fixing it did not require changing out the whole OS core. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call a boondoggle.

  8. Re:Focus on a few key things on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? · · Score: 1

    Cheap and pretty is always implied.

  9. Re:Focus on a few key things on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? · · Score: 2

    The reading list is obviously chosen from a select set of things that outline skills they're expected to know to do their jobs. If you're someone who has already read these books and understood them then it's pretty easy to see who finished and understood the reading assignments just by reviewing their code.

  10. Re:Very simple on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? · · Score: 0

    +1 insightful

  11. Everyone keeps geting it backwards on Will Montana Become America's Third State To Ditch Daylight Savings Time? (missoulian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Daylight Savings Time is good. We need to stop turning it off in the winter.

  12. The long-term security impact: on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    This will be the worst thing to happen to the internet since Internet Explorer.

  13. I've been saying it was a mistake all along! Nobody ever listens to me!

  14. Well you can extrapolate it out to all the PS4 models except the most recent, yes. But since this article was about Microsoft, I didn't feel right about bringing up Hillary Clinton. Woops, er, I mean Sony.

  15. I bet all you poor suckers who just shelled out ~600USD for the now-obsolete xboxone are ecstatic about this opportunity to salute Microsoft even more with your well-earned cash.

  16. Re:Theory number one: on Americans Are Having Less Sex Than 20 Years Ago, Study Finds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Stranger Things" was really good.

  17. One really simple, obvious cause: on Americans Are Having Less Sex Than 20 Years Ago, Study Finds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    "Syfy" started making "Sci-Fi" again. And yes, some of it is even good. You're welcome. :-)

  18. Re:Tapes on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    Lemme guess, it's a used tape drive.

  19. Re:Terabytes over decades on NTFS on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Schrodinger's bit rot. If you never look in the box again after putting the cat in it, you can pretend it lived forever.

  20. Re:Clay pots in the desert on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be crockery. Flat clay tablets work fine too, if you don't bomb them.

  21. Re:Terabytes over decades on NTFS on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 2

    Not a single example in 30TB over 20 years? I think you should check again.

  22. Re:bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's pretty sad that in this day and age, only one person has highlighted the relevance of ZFS here, and they're an AC. Someone mod parent up. RAID is borderline necessary if you don't have multiple backups, (to recover from in the event of random corruption caused by gamma rays from outer space or a butterfly flapping their wings on another continent or whatever) but so far as I know, only ZFS has built-in checksumming to detect/prevent the data corruption in the first place.

  23. Re:Celeron? on Litebook Launches A $249 Linux Laptop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly you don't realize it, but you just basically re-stated his point without getting the point. Hilarious.

  24. Re:Celeron? on Litebook Launches A $249 Linux Laptop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's actually more that Microsoft wields weapons-grade incompetence deftly enough to make everything use so many more CPU cycles that it just makes Linux seem like magic.

  25. Re:I'm more interested in the Pinebook, really. on Litebook Launches A $249 Linux Laptop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    *exciting