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  1. Re: Don't tell me about the pain, researchers on New Anti-Cancer Drug Put Cancers To Sleep In Mice -- Permanently (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 0

    This way you can keep eating sugar and live long enough to die of diabetes!! Cancer can't live in oxygen rich environments...it needs sugar to fuel its cells. Of course the American cancer association can't issue a statement to cut your sugar back to paleolithic levels and close its doors...nor would the AMA cut off the medical industry from its main source of fear, power, and money. Change is going to be very slow.

  2. Ruined a $250 set of water proof Bluetooth headphones...in water.

  3. Do you want to get hit by an old keyboard? No? Then watch your fucking mouth!

  4. Was that science? You're fired!

  5. I heard that Apple will not be including a phone the next iPhone box. This will make it so much easier for iPhone customers to function and have a normal, uplifting life. Pure genius.

  6. I have plenty of "stay at home mom loses her shit." Alexa..record my wife.

  7. Re: 100% complainer on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    I was involved with a pie in the sky project where the developers were given a chance to rewrite and entire legacy application suite. We ended up with a new legacy code base consisting of all the latest fads and trends which were misused and abused. It is worse than the old legacy...literally.

  8. Re: Here is the thing with "full stack" on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    It's because the UI of web applications suck so bad they need everyone to be able to dig around in them. That and wishful thinking...passing as a full stack developer has a very low bar.

  9. Re: Javascript on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    Web apps will die as mobile cross platform matures.

  10. Re: Is our basic education system a problem on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    I made a fucking robot out of a log and an old car radio when I was about 4 yrs old. I thought he was real...it was a he. Never forget that little guy.

  11. Re: Tldr: coding is hard and I'm a moron on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    ....and this is how it should be until the business requires an intelligible code base.

  12. Re: Not really. What you get is ... not done on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 0

    Right. Listening to developers spin up a project always makes me cringe. The business gives requirements and they go off half cocked architecting what they think they are going to want five years from now.

    Just deliver a fucking tarball of code that makes the business happy...if they want more later just do whatever you have to do to get it done. I can understand framing it out to maintainable but this usually goes way overboard. Focus directly on what the business is asking for at that moment...fuck the new shit you want to work on....do that at home.

  13. Re: Idiocracy on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    Answer to the headline question: Get humans away from it.

    There is definitely a disease that has fully spread and it results in complexity. Even the simplest things are made complex by bored or ignorant developers trying to entertain themselves.

    Who here hasn't seen an enterprise multi tier application with dependency injection and all the things that it requires smashed together so the projects can be tested...where no one ever writes or properly maintains a test suite. People do all that shit and they don't even know how to test!!

  14. Re: Simple, Regular and Consistent on Windows 10 Buggy Updates? Our Patching is Simple, Regular, and Consistent, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Raise your hand if you give any fucks about zdnet articles.

  15. Re: Harder if you're a child on New Study Finds It's Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "It's because any person on the normal spectrum is going to pause to reflect at least a short time if something is begging not to kill it."

    Especially since they were not going to kill it...only turn it off. What the fuck are we rambling about here?

  16. Re: Harder if you're a child on New Study Finds It's Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Relax man. Schizophrenia is real...and definitely physiological.

  17. Re: Harder if you're a child on New Study Finds It's Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well...if I have decided to end another person's life...my delay from their pathetic begging would most likely be a threat to me.

  18. Re: Harder if you're a child on New Study Finds It's Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's right up there with putting pictures of penguin on dish soap. We are so fucked.

  19. Re: Harder if you're a child on New Study Finds It's Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Both are trash. You are looking for compassion...a word very few know the meaning to.

  20. Re: Best Buy is still taking many types of e-waste on US Recycling Companies Face Upheaval From China Scrap Ban (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    They are just collecting batteries that sell for outlandish prices at recycling centers...they are no different than a thieving neighborhood heroin addict.

  21. Re: Yeah, no, fuck them and that shit on Browser Firm That Required Users To Confirm Their Real Life Identity Shut Down After Its Employees Were Threatened (xconomy.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well then don't use the stupid browser.

  22. I'm guessing the idea was to address the issue of anonymity in things that do not benefit from such.

  23. Re: They realised.. on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    China is working on this very thing. We should pay attention to their burgeoning survaillence state and how they use it.

  24. Re: Translation. on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the revitilazation of our nuclear arsenal that is underway--without debate. Projected to cost 1.2 Trillion.

    We can still stop it.

  25. Seeing what I have seen in regards to security vulnerabilities reported to institutions and the general paralysis that ensues when anyone brings up real security in just about any organization...none of this surprises me...at all. In fact, I would have predicted nothing would be done, especially given the tell where the institution focuses on a single perpetrator or incident when in fact that is not at all the problem. When their security sucks, and they don't get it and can't fix it because they suck, they spin the focus on Snowden or whatever evil hacker dujour.