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  1. Re:first post + 20 on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of ... nevermind.

    In Soviet Russia, Beowulf Cluster imagines you

  2. Re:Of course the callers were aware on 'Microsoft' Scam Callers Arrested After Years of Terrorising the Technically Challenged (gizmodo.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh ok is that why when I'd mess around with them pretending I was looking at my computer they would immediately call me a motherfucker that was wasting their time and hang up?

  3. Adventure on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Easter Egg? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    The first one I ever encountered was the one hidden in the Atari 2600 Adventure game

  4. Re:Experimental audio support on GNU Hurd Begins Supporting Sound, Still Working On 64-bit & USB Support (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Does that include Sound Blaster for IBM's MicroChannel Architecture?

    Yes, the support is still spotty. Dr. Sbaitso announces himself quite nicely but the talking parrot still has trouble laughing, unfortunately. This is expected to be fixed by 2021.

  5. Re: Begs the question on Australian Government Tells Citizens To Turn Off Two-factor Authentication (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ozzies don't drink Foster's. That stuff is 'roo piss.

    "Foster's. It's Australian for 'Pabst Blue Ribbon'."

  6. Re:So? on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    I must say your grammar is quite good for someone who was kicked out of school half way through the 2nd grade.

    I'd joke about it being an accelerated class, but this is a public school in the city of Lynn, MA we're talking about... :)

  7. So? on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Even if it WAS a real gun, it's not like a Stormtropper can actually hit anything!

    Also, I went to that elementary school until mid-year 2nd grade

  8. Re:Not the same use cases on PHP vs. Node.js: the Battle For Developer Mind Share · · Score: 2

    you can dance with fish

    Um

    They don't play baseball
    they don't wear sweaters
    they're not good dancers
    They don't play drums!!

    --Fish Heads, 1980.

  9. Re:Ditto on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    My iPad 3 also horked upon install and had to be recovered via iTunes. However it did everything automatically, just took a little longer than a normal upgrade. When it booted back up, iOS 8 was installed and everything was fine. I haven't noticed any problems or sluggishness with it.

  10. Re:Yes, Perl is indeed dead and rotting on Perl Is Undead · · Score: 5, Interesting

    More telling is how utterly fast Perl is compared to the other languages. I've run most of the sample files from this language shootout and had remarkably similar results to what they list there.

    The Perl version performed on par with the C and C versions, and it's growth/memory usage stayed pretty consistent throughout. The other languages were horrid. They took much longer, and their memory usage grew significantly during the run.

    I use Perl still when doing scripting tasks. I love Perl, always have. I don't, however, necessarily think it's the right choice for building a medium to large web-based application any more. Sure the performance is there, and there are some great frameworks like Catalyst and Dancer, but to me, they still feel a bit antiquated to some of the other technologies I've used. Plus installing tons of CPAN modules can get a little trying at times.

  11. Better in thought than in practice on For US Customers, Text Access To 911 Slowly Rolls Out · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is great idea, right up until they start receiving a zillion drunk texts or things like "EMERGENCY!!! I'M REALLY HIGH AND TACO BELL IS CLOSED! SEND HELP IMMEDIATELY!!!"

  12. Mmmmm I think we'll be ok on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Are you ready for an era where the ignition key doesn't exist?

    Before this we had:

    Are you ready for an era where the hand crank doesn't exist?

    And before this we had:

    Are you ready for an era where the horse doesn't exist?

    I have a feeling we'll get through it.

  13. Just like any other software project on Ask Slashdot: How Many (Electronics) Gates Is That Software Algorithm? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Make up a number, then when they complain that it was way off, blame it on their management changing scope a hundred times throughout the life of the project!

  14. Wait.... on CMU AI Learning Common Sense By Watching the Internet · · Score: 1

    Aren't "Common sense" and "the Internet" mutual exclusive things?

  15. Re:The short version... on Ars Technica Reviews iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    5) Safari performance is up
    6) Battery life is down

    7) And we have more excellent waterslides than any other planet we communicate with.

    Sorry, had to go for a Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure tie-in. Long live Rufus!

  16. Re:Mac OS X is not founded on FreeBSD on Happy 20th Birthday, FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    I cannot understand why year after year we have to bring this topic up... Gentlemen! Why can't you do your research and believe that Darwin is not based / founded on FreeBSD. Most of the Darwin / Mac OS X source code is from 386-BSD and not from the FreeBSD. Darwin Is a fork from 4.4 BSD fork 386-BSD fork made for NextStep. It's true it was updated with some of the components from the FreeBSD userland, but that is pretty minor.

    So the page right on Apple's site, where it states:

    Darwin 1.4.1 is the UNIX-based, open-source foundation of Mac OS X. It is based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0 technologies and provides...

    is incorrect then?

  17. I just need syncing on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    I'm fine with not having the Google Reader interface as I use Reeder on Mac and iOS, but I rely on it's integration with Google Reader to 1) Have a unified place for all of my subscriptions so I don't need to manually add them (or export/import) and 2) Keep my Articles Read in sync so that I don't have to scroll through all the stuff I've already seen that day, when I get home or on another device.

    I'm hoping Reeder and other RSS aggregators come up with their own cloud-based sync. Barring any current good alternatives, there's an opportunity for a start up there, me thinks.

  18. Re:Legacy Code is not the issue here on Ask Slashdot: How To Avoid Working With Awful Legacy Code? · · Score: 1

    Get hold of Martin Fowler, “Refactoring” and Michael C Feathers, “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”

    I would also add Robert C. Martin's “Clean Code” to that list. for a lot of great advice on writing code. It doesn't matter how many years you've been writing code (I'm at around 30 years of doing it), that book has very valuable information that you'll be able to use.

  19. Re:dot slash, please on Want to Change the Slashdot Logo? For 1 Day in October, You Can · · Score: 2

    It's not a directory path. It's spoken URL hi-jinx. h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org

  20. Re:Reality bites on Mark Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake · · Score: 2

    Really? A TL:DR summary for 3 sentences? That's what we've come to?

  21. Al Gore was right on top of that! on A Look At the "Information Superhighway," As It Looked In 1985 · · Score: 1

    Al Gore didn't go into the Senate until 1985. so inventing the Information Super Highway (née, Internet) must have been the very first thing he did when he got in office!

  22. Goofing off to get ahead? on 'Goofing Off' To Get Ahead? · · Score: 1

    Well if that's all it takes, I have a former coworker who's about to be elected President of the United States

  23. Re:Ohhhhhh! on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 2

    No, but having a Jr on the end does typically mean it's the son of someone by the same name.

  24. Ohhhhhh! on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ross Perot Jr. (son of Ross Perot)

    Thanks for explaining that; we would have never figured it out on our own!

  25. Re:Missing from summary on New Targeted Mac OS X Trojan Requires No User Interaction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not to mention that horrendous experience of connecting a backup hard drive, waiting 30 minutes then have the new OS installation reboot and be exactly how I had everything before doing a reinstall. That moronic process forces me to not waste 10 hours reinstalling everything, every time. Bastards.