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  1. Re:Learn as hobby, not at school on 14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    Are you stupid? Some exceptional people managed to build some exceptional products. That somehow proves competent people can't do competent work?

  2. Re:Gene injection on Gene Therapy Causes Blind Woman To Grow New Fovea · · Score: 1

    Thanks. When the telomere is used up, cell division won't work and won't propagate the injected gene, no? How long does it take for telomere for eye cells to get used up?

  3. Re:Good afternoon, Arizonians, on Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just when you thought we here in CA hit the bottom, Arizona shows there are deeper holes than ours.

    Lay off McCane, man. He's a Wonko the sane that somehow managed to get elected in Arizona.

  4. Gene injection on Gene Therapy Causes Blind Woman To Grow New Fovea · · Score: 1

    What's the mechanism to inject gene sequence into existing cells? How do you sustain them after the cells so modified have died off?

  5. Re:Learn as hobby, not at school on 14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    Oooh, another "special" AC. What have you built?

  6. Re:Public Twitter opinion only 98% inane on Measuring Real Time Public Opinion With Twitter · · Score: 1

    Usually the last 2% is the hardest, but there is no such obstacle to twats.

  7. what up dawg on Measuring Real Time Public Opinion With Twitter · · Score: 1

    I hear you like twiting, so we built a twiter with twats built in so that you can twit while something or ohter.

  8. Re:That's curious on 14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    The thinking behind this was that the Communist countries would use the brainpower of their people to propel themselves above the degenerate West. (Its ironic that at least here in the US the opposite philosophy was followed, we make our people too dumb to notice there is a fundamental problem with our education system and then import talent from other countries when needed.)

    Yep, that's the genius of our system. We see what you were saying, so we exploit the elevated brainpower of those poor foreigners by oursourcing!

    Bow down before the superior intellect! Pay no attention to my puking.

  9. Re:Learn as hobby, not at school on 14-Year-Old Wins International Programming Contest · · Score: 2, Informative

    Problem is that guys like you think you're special. Bit of talent, (continuing) education, and putting in the efforts turn out competent programmers, and those are the ones in demand in mass, not some "special" people.

  10. Re:Stupid prices on US Cell Phone Plans Among World's Most Expensive · · Score: 1

    "True competition? Then why are your prices so high?"

    Becuase the price is highly competitive. Hablos ingles? Dumb foreigners...

  11. Are these...? on Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over · · Score: 1

    Are these the same clowns that made the Pluto demotion fuss?

  12. What's the problem? on New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers · · Score: 1

    So Bing apparently works and is superior to Google.

  13. Re:Really difficult algoritmic programming on 21st International Olympiad of Informatics Opens, In Bulgaria and Online · · Score: 1

    "One guy in our team had a great strategy. He ignored in depth analyzation and started writing a brute forcer as soon as he understood the problem. This way he was guaranteed 10-30 points per problem, and usually when writing a brute forcer, you get to understand the problem so well that you can make improvements or even write the correct solution for it."

    That's why this is one of the approach I like:

    1. Implement quick-and-dirty code. You'd encounter good part of issues, both anticipated and unforeseen.
    2. Rewrite it in cleaner architecture.

    Not always feasible/applicable though.

  14. Re:Schrödinger dog? on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 1

    Don't all of yous try this at home. This requires certain Korean expertise.

  15. Re:Obvious on Are Information Technology's Glory Days Over? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget EE. We keep tinfoil hat market churning. We are the dot in electronics. We are the...

    Oh screw it.

  16. Re:Well, obviously... on Times Are Tough For Nigerian Scammers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn straight. Nobody scams better.

    USA! USA!

    Damn.

  17. "Open Source" on Open Source Textbook For Computer Literacy? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I guess free/open concept has been hijacked into becoming free/cheap. I don't think that was the point at all.

    Anyway, if you want "cheap" option, cobbling together various Wikipedia pages may be a feasible option?

  18. Slow news day on Poor Passwords A Worse Problem Than Poor Antivirus · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just like everyday.

  19. Re:Optimistic on Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans · · Score: 1

    Ok, Ok, that was at this New Scientist piece, not at psychology in general.

  20. Optimistic on Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans · · Score: 1

    Good thing psychology figured out the rest of the puzzle, huh?!

  21. Re:Only half on LHC To Start Back Up In November At Half Power · · Score: 1

    No good. Those stupid Europeans are gonna get the wrong half and kill us all.

  22. Re:Runtime vs. compile-time checking on Bjarne Stroustrup On Concepts, C++0x · · Score: 1

    As you noted, static type checking is a half measure for enforcing contract. I suppose the pluses and minuses of that can be argued until the cows come home.

  23. Re:Maybe the vendors don't want C++... on Bjarne Stroustrup On Concepts, C++0x · · Score: 1

    Yeah, legacy is a bitch.

  24. Re:Interesting on Nicotine Improves Brain Function In Schizophrenics · · Score: 1

    But then life seems to be THE carcinogenic.

  25. Re:I am a physician on Medical Papers By Ghostwriters Pushed Hormone Therapy · · Score: 1

    I'd like to think s/he meant mistakes happen, doctors should admit it, the public should be educated about it, and we all should handle it on that basis.