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  1. Re:My father is a retired corporate pilot . . . on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    A problem the much safer Lockheed L-1011 solved by only putting the air intake on the leading edge of the rear stabilizer and putting the third engine down in the fuselage and more in-plane with the two wing engines.

    The DC-10's name was changed to the MD-11 in order to distance itself from the hugely bad reputation the DC-10 had earned.

    The safety statistics quoted above are bogus as they count a single death the same as this infamous one of Flight 191 which killed everyone on board when an engine fell off the plane during takeoff from O'Hare:

    http://www.super70s.com/Super7...

  2. Re: Are you fucking serious? Tell me you aren't! on UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack · · Score: 1

    "There are plenty of use cases where ACID compliance is ridiculous, such as most banking transactions."

    I (and my minions) have been applying relational transaction solutions to banking problems for 35 years and your statement is total and utter nonsense. Almost all banking transactions require rigorous application of ACID in order to ensure that there is no double accounting for the same transaction.

    You don't know WTF you are talking about.

  3. Re:And the winner will still be... on Intel Launches Xeon E5 V3 Series Server CPUs With Up To 18 Cores · · Score: 1

    Partitioning a table over multiple drives has allowed RDMS's to utilize multiple processors for a single join ever since Teradata pioneered the hardware for this 30 years ago. The sky is the limit.

  4. And the winner will still be... on Intel Launches Xeon E5 V3 Series Server CPUs With Up To 18 Cores · · Score: 1

    the architecture that can achieve the fastest speed on complex relational joins.

    You remember normalized tables and joins of course because they aren't going away since they are the only program constructs that are remotely built on the solid foundation of real math set theory

    AND they aren't even Turing machines!!! LOL.

  5. This will lead to... on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 1

    The REVENGE of OpenBSD!

  6. Give me... on TechCentral Scams Call Center Scammers · · Score: 1

    your IP address, your tablet, and your Prius!

  7. Re:Agricultural Revolution 2.0 on Climate Scientist Pioneer Talks About the Furture of Geoengineering · · Score: 1

    In pre-Columbian times massive areas of the Amazon basin were de-forested and under cultivation.

  8. Red Box on Facebook Experimenting With Blu-ray As a Storage Medium · · Score: 1

    I hope it gets those cartridges faster than RedBox.

  9. Re:Pick a different job. on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 2

    "Programming isn't a profession like law or medicine. It's a skilled trade like plumbing, masonry, or electrical work."

    I worked under the impression that it would be something akin to being a skilled tool & die maker when I learned to code Fortran, circa 1973, for an upper division class for statistical analysis of econ data. I was subsequently proved right when I started working professionally as a financial analyst in 1980 using Fortran, SAS, and an early relational database management system.

    I made a ton more money in my career than any tool & die maker ever did though I moved around a lot like a professional welder might.

    As for the OP's original question, my first big mistake was not modularizing my early long Fortran programs into subroutines. Fave languages are fully functional interpreters with dynamic typing and code that in itself can create immediately executable code like a LISP 1. PS - HTML are really just a special case of S-expressions and rows in relational normalized tables map pretty easily to lists too.

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  13. Re:String theory is not science on Can the Multiverse Be Tested Scientifically? · · Score: 1

    No. Math is an abstraction. Science is about measuring and explaining actual phenomena. Science may use math to make approximate models of physical reality but is not reality itself.

  14. Re:Pay versus billing rate. on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 1

    When did I ever say I was underpaid? I billed directly for years. Had to go through an intermediary once though. Since I was the one who found the position but the government agency with the work required that I bill through a third party I paid them 5% of the actual billing rate. 1099 right to my S-corp just like I was billing directly.

  15. Re:Pay versus billing rate. on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 1

    Thanks but I've done plenty of budgets in my day. I'm talking about fee for services not being bundled as part of supporting a package.

  16. Re:Pay versus billing rate. on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 0

    You got raped.

  17. Re:Pay versus billing rate. on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 1

    If you think they can cover the benefits for 1/8 less you are dreaming. Try 40% at minimum and that doesn't cover job security or defined retirement benefits or 401k partial matching.

  18. Hahahaha! on Machine Learning Used For JavaScript Code De-obfuscation · · Score: 4, Funny

    The development of tools like these started out of necessity for figuring out old COBOL code.

  19. Re:Pay versus billing rate. on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 1

    Not a lot of room left over for cricket gear. Hahahaha!

  20. Re:Nativism on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 2

    Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before and it's really wearing thin. Thankfully most real Americans don't pay any attention to the alleged slur anymore despite its repetition at increasingly higher levels of hysteria. You can only cry wolf so many times. Oops, so sorry, that's no doubt a culturally biased reference! LOL

    BTW, Asians are among the most racist and class conscious people on earth. The Japanese-Negro inter-racial marriage rate is approximately zero.

  21. Re:Nativism on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because it's OUR fucking country and birthright you stupid fuck! NO Asian country would ever consider doing this. They actively discriminate against foreigners.

  22. Re:Pay versus billing rate. on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 1

    Those taxes and insurance are taken out of the sub-contractors already low portion of the billing rate.

  23. Pay versus billing rate. on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone who has worked for any of the three should know by now that they pay their IT workers about 20 to 30% of what they bill the client at best. Avoid body shops like the plague if you want to make decent money.

  24. They still have real keyboards! on BlackBerry To Allow Rivals To Manage Its Smartphones · · Score: 0

    nt

  25. Re:The 111th explanation... on Harvard Study Links Neonicotinoid Pesticide To Colony Collapse Disorder · · Score: 1

    "you're a tobacco-style propagandist."

    A total non-sequitur. So much for you ability to reason.

    As for your ability to comprehend, this is two new and different insecticides and the study has a laughable dearth of data points. Go rant about your organic vegetable garden somewhere else. You're barking up the wrong tree with me.