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  1. Re:Redeployment on Robot Janitors Are Coming To Mop Floors At a Walmart Near You (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    LMFAO!!! Someone always beats me to it.

  2. Now all that's left to assure Facebook's downfall is for me to start speculating in their stock. As soon as that transaction clears it will surely tank.

  3. Re: "people could handle that very easily" on Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It was actually uncovered that he had 47MM in loans (most never repaid) from his father on top of million in salaries and revenue schemes from rental properties. After all that he inherited his father's empire and sold it off. He duped banks out of hundreds of millions and was given hundreds of millions often running into serious financial trouble along the way. I was duped by Trumps insane genius for marketing as we're many others.

  4. Re: This is a good thing - free from US banks on The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. This is awesome.

  5. Re: They aren't taking bitcoin on The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    They are probably doing it cheaper than Visa.

  6. Re: Queue the standard arguments... on The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    1 bitcoin is always 1 bitcoin. It's relation to a basket of goods only exists through the dollar as a proxy. People are still sniffing dollars and everyone gets mad at bitcoin? WTF?

  7. Re: Unbelievably stupid on The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Right. They abstracted thier currency...a very good thing.

  8. Re: Just when you thought it couldn't get worse... on The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    What's stupid about equipping your e-commerce system to accept crypto? There is no downside.

  9. Re: For once Betteridge is wrong on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    I always tell people that I remember ideas and forget details. Seems I have been identifying patterns in details and committing it to memory as an abstraction that I later use to unearth details when needed. In any case, as I have gotten older I learn "new" things much faster than I did when I was young because I can see the abstract and just focus on plugging in the details.

  10. Re: Yes and no on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    I was going to come up with something but this will suffice.

  11. Re: Long-term programmers can make for worse softw on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    Perfect example: AME Accounting Software

  12. Re: It depends, but usually it is 20x better on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    And if you had just kept up your shoddy practices and allowed more bugs your company would have been more profitable.

  13. Re: Betteridge is actually appropriate here on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    Ugh. You are adding your greedy little code monkey paws, that is all.

  14. Re: Struggle is growth on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not consulting if somone is billing your hours.

  15. Re: Struggle is growth on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlimited PTO for the win. Often there are unspoken alternate rules for PTO. My last CIO would let us take extended vacations without filing it as PTO. You can hardly ever know if that is the deal though.

    My current job is unlimited but I also only work about 30 hours a week and I can work from home whenever I want. Before joining I couldn't even get an answer to if I could work from home at all.

  16. Re: Struggle is growth on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    Have to agree. Spent five years at my last job. After three I had maxed out my impact and I spent the next two years looking for my next job while I raked in bonuses and extreme pay raises. I was not willing to jump just to change jobs and I set a pretty high salary bar for myself which helped filter out a lot of crap jobs.

  17. Re: A senseless question. on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    Define "sucks." This job hopping because thier job sucks routine is really symptom of one's misguided view of how most places view thier services. If you are pragmatic about the truth of the relationship you won't be so apt to become discouraged. As a side effect of that you will choose better employers if you clearly identify what you want and what they expect.

  18. Re: You don't. on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant? · · Score: 1

    IT "consultants" are the used car salesman of the tech world. Hire college students and someone knowledgeable to manage them.

  19. Re:This does not scale well on First Ever Plane With No Moving Parts Takes Flight (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Why not adapt the principle to a jet engine by affixing charging rods to each compressor vane (they are replaceable/interchangeable), and using a massive amount of electricity generated by the engine under gas power produce extra ionic thrust? Literally a supercharged jet engine yielding greater efficiency.

  20. Re:So the good news is Java isn't going away on Amazon Releases A No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So you threw a few million dollars at the problem and then decided to investigate deeper when that didn't pan out?

  21. Re:"Should" allow user data export? More like "mus on Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    California's data protection law goes into affect in 2020. I plan on using corporate fear of non-compliance to benefit from it even though I am not a California resident.

  22. Re:I talked to a round 1 employee. on Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    They are getting something for their money in that case. Real cancer, not the fake digital kind.

  23. Re:I talked to a round 1 employee. on Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    It would never survive the ridiculous amount of friction involved with making the payment. As soon as humanity invents a micro-payment system that works and is free to transact then paying for things that are not yielding value will be viable.

  24. The point of this was to exact leverage and become a defense contractor. Mission accomplished. AWS is going to end up being the Oracle of cloud services. Now they are "too important to fail." Defense contractors never have to worry about the things most companies lose sleep over. They have a free unspoken guarantee of billions in profit for life.

  25. Re:The adults of this civilization on Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The DA is never going to create bad blood by going after a member of the force unless the force casts them out first. They have to work with them every day. Its politics.