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  1. Re:Bad reason on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 1

    Whoever made the decision to 'do it yet again' needs to be taken out and kicked square in the balls by every coder that has to waste time on this bullshit.

    XML is too verbose and formal for simple messaging.
    JSON provides an easy and quick way to transmit structured data, yet you're on your own.
    The bullshit is on XML just the same as Java, far too much boilerplate for simple purposes.
    But in the end, you'll have to personally make that connection work and check+test if the types match and are handled properly, because there's no semantic description and everyone abuses the schema to their own end, so why not pick the far more efficient format in the beginning?
    Worked at a large hotel booking site, moving from XML (the "standard") to JSON (with rewriting on our account) saved and saves lots of manhours, performance and data transmission.

  2. Without the sunlight tomatoes won't be as tasty as possible.

  3. Re:Fraktur is a terrible typeface on How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Arial was great for low-dpi monitors back in the day.

    Exactly. It beats Helvetica at low point sizes whereas Helvetica rules on print/logo's.

  4. Re:Comic Sans on How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    I love to annoy Font Nazis, and that will be my last opportunity.

    According to the article, you should use Fraktur.

  5. Re:Legendary on Java Creator James Gosling Joins Amazon Web Services (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    He has POX, plain old XML, no use for soap.

  6. Re:Not dead just clueless writer on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Wake me when either language runs on small tiny embedded applications.

    You're in a coma, smartcards already did 15 yrs ago

  7. Re:Mostly Javascript for US Government Web Apps on Why The US Government Open Sources Its Code (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Where is this cigar REST API?

  8. Re:Wow on Linux 4.10 Kernel Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    As a long time Linux user, I just realized I don't know or care what Linux kernel I am using.

    Same here, can't remember when I did make dep clean config (2.6ish?) or dmesg.

  9. Re:I would say not just young people... on Facebook and Twitter 'Harm Young People's Mental Health' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Having been around the internet since 1990, I've seen all this stuff before.

    Yes, remember newsgroups and IRC, where eventually one or more users started to control and moderate every thread.
    It's more apparent, aggressive and abusive now.
    At least with real life discussions you can prevent unwanted interventions, for now

  10. Phage therapy already receives renewed interest and bacterias will also evolve resistance against it.
    IMO the real problems are (as you said) overuse but also lack of incentive (commercial) to develop new antibiotics.

  11. Re:as a workaround on Linux Distros Won't Run On Microsoft's Education-Focused Windows 10 S OS (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    when managing multiple machines in education, just pxe boot (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto)

  12. Re:Not in Africa and all of Asia on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Young people are no longer fascinated by the iron cages stuck in traffic.

    Young people are too low on income in Europe these days to afford a new car. The elders are typically much wealthier.

  13. In Soviet Russia, the largest single-memory computer uses 64KB segments.

  14. Did you think every hospital should just throw out all it's working equipment and purchase new ones? For hospitals in Africa and India as well?

    Why bring in Africa/India? The budget cut is as real in Western countries. . Sure, we cannot expect MS to support an OS indefinitely, so do not buy MS. Buy something that can be supported to your needs.

  15. Re:Drug dogs debunked. Doesn't pass the sniff test on Human Sense of Smell Rivals That of Dogs, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You're obviously wrong. If I fart, my dogs run out of the house!

  16. Re:Microsoft Executives - Eat Your Own Dog Food on Microsoft Wants To Monitor Your Workplace With AI, Computer Vision and the Cloud (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Wonder if Microsoft has implemented this software on their own premises?

    Yup, nothing new. http://sierrachest.com/gfx/gam...

  17. Apple is falling behind

    Apple is the most valuable private company in the world. You're delusional.

    Microsoft is also more valuable than ever, yet fallen behind.

  18. Re:thereÃ(TM)s simply no foolproof way to kil on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    We could use the earth as a massive fly-wheel.

  19. Re:What it does and why it's (partially) useful on Developer Shares A Recoverable Container Format That's File System Agnostic (github.com) · · Score: 1

    I can understand a finer-grained meta data model can aid recovery, but isn't the corruption of an SBX container more likely than the filesystem meta system with its backups?

  20. Oh for christ sake, this is just an attempt at 15 minutes of fame.
    Try arguing someone in the checkout line about your improvement on his grocery list, what do you expect?
    If you want people to do things *you* want, you either:
    1. convince them,
    2. pay them what they want, or
    3. coerce them by force or extortion.

    Really, kindergarten stuff.

  21. Back to the future on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Because I'd really like to go back in time and prevent this movie from being made.

  22. Re: oh no on Pirate Bay Founder: 'I Have Given Up' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The rest of us come here because it's mildly more entertaining than going to an actual zoo.

    Sorry Tinder was a bummer, no need to leave your resentment here.
    Just curious, were you attracted to this site by the lack of boobs?

  23. Re:What's with the banner across the page? on Some HTTPS Inspection Tools Actually Weaken Security (itworld.com) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Comma-separated vs. tab-separated on Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The solution is easy. The tab character is ascii 0x09. We can remove it, and slide down all the other ascii characters to match and fill in the hole.

    Better yet, I propose the 0x09 character to be the deprecation slot. That way, we can start putting \r into that position following punctuation and a yearly frequency analysis on Github's least used character for assigning a new character to this deprecation slot.

    Finally, we will end up with a clean slate of ASCII table ready to be populated by emoji icons; just imagine, instant recognition of malicious software, adult material and unwanted advertising. Computers *are* here to simplify our lives and binary logic unnecessary complicates our environment expecting every human to be a socially inept Borg drone awaiting input. If you look at babies (they are really not that scary), the root of every human, you can see the emoji's materializing intrinsically and emerging in its surroundings, nothing thru binary, REST or god forbid, XML requests. It would be natural.

    Ironically, sysadmins, programmers and alike would never devise such a system denouncing control and efficiency, whereas emoji based input would have given them great improvements; a pad with only a power button.

  25. Re:Fake News on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Couldn't you get the pressures with a magnetic field?