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  1. PHP on PHP vs. Node.js: the Battle For Developer Mind Share · · Score: 0

    has never been taken seriously by anyone with half a brain.

  2. "Twas ever thus on UK Computing Teachers Concerned That Pupils Know More Than Them · · Score: 1

    The only thing is that good teachers are smart enough to realize it and take what steps they can to help superior students.

  3. Re:Yes. on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, as in Carl Sagan and Niel deGrasse Tyson doing more harm than good every time they opened their big idiotic traps.

  4. A possible bright spot in the looming default... on The Strange Story of the First Quantum Art Exhibition In Space · · Score: 1

    of the US dollar and other currencies is that funding for this nonsense will disappear.

  5. Re:$1 million? on Silicon Valley's Quest To Extend Life 'Well Beyond 120' · · Score: 1

    A few rich eccentric megalomaniacs is NOT "Silicon Valley." If you want a clue as to when serious longevity activity is happening then look for an extremely well-funded project from the genomics sphere not a bunch of self-congatulatory crackpots going to feel-good conferences and taking too many vitamins.

  6. Re:PostgreSQL on Ask Slashdot: Linux Database GUI Application Development? · · Score: 2

    Absolutely PostgreSQL has always been a serious RDMS. My SQL was a joke when it came out and is still a joke years later. They have always been years late and several dollars short when it comes to functionality. They only got stored procedures last year! LOL Typical.

    Stick completely with stored procs for production database access. You can tune them and it keeps messy queries out of the application code. It also makes the impact analysis of database changes much, much easier to track and deal with.

    Do your programming in LISP if you have the nads and smarts (few do.) S-expressions match almost seamlessly with both SQL queries and with HTML/XML.

  7. Re:islam on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "1. you can't kill"

    No, you can't murder.

  8. Re:islam on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1, Troll

    Actually not; Marxism has.

  9. Re:Really? On Slashdot? on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's just those cut-rate H1B programmers from the Indian subcontinent who suck.

  10. Re:islam on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

  11. Re:Floppies I understand, but... on US CTO Tries To Wean the White House Off Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    Blackberries are easy to type on because of their real keyboards.

  12. Re:Degenerate on Anthropomorphism and Object Oriented Programming · · Score: 0

    "One model entities"

    Entity modeling predates OOP.

  13. Re:Doesn't matter for its primary mission. on Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' · · Score: 1

    I'm not particularly in favor of the F-35 but EOTS is stealthier because it is a passive detection system that does not emit a signal. It is not always wise to do active "pinging."

  14. Re:Solar and sidereal time. on Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting to account for nutation which is why sidereal time is only an average.

  15. Re:Solar and sidereal time. on Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    I prefer solar time for my particular longitude. Burtthen I am retired and don't travel by air.

  16. Re:Solar and sidereal time. on Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately both solar and sidereal time have a variable length day that changes by the time of year. UTC finesses the problem of a fixed length day with occasional leap years and leap seconds. Two more cheap watches would not solve this.

  17. Solar and sidereal time. on Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    A true smartwatch would provide both in addition to time based on UTC. I find it amazing that a purely mechanical watch, albeit those that cost upwards of a quarter of a million dollars can do both (provided you set the cams inside for proper longitude and latitude) but a watch with a computer inside that can do these calculations is unavailable.

  18. You blithering idiots have not exactly solved Hume's fundamental Problem of Induction.

  19. Re:Nonsense on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    As if there is a meaningful difference. Space opera is still space opera and it is still childish BS.

  20. Re:Nonsense on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 0

    Mod down for trekkie reference.

  21. KaBOOOOM!!!!! on New Cargo Ship Is 488 Meters Long · · Score: 1

    nt

  22. Nautical charts on Touring a Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees of GeForce-Powered Projection · · Score: 2

    The only thing that the captain of the Costa Concordia needed to avoid those rocks was the ability to read a chart!

  23. Portland on Job Postings Offer Clues to Future of Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    This job needs to be local because google has a tax law problem in Oregon that it has to overcome.

  24. Get a Zaurus... on Ask Slashdot: Best Software To Revive PocketPCs With Windows Mobile 5-6? · · Score: 0

    if you want Linux.

  25. Re:the pirate bay is important on Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down · · Score: 1

    "The liberal Democrats of 2000 are not the liberal Democrats of 1940."

    Exactly my point asswipe.