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  1. Anyone can write code... on Learning To Code: Are We Having Fun Yet? · · Score: 1

    But not anyone can write *Readable* code... which *others* can read. Coding is fun? No. Solving a problem, like solving a puzzle can be fun. Finding the best solution is fun, but just the typing for the computer to do something is actually boring, I don't know if this is because I wrote already a bunch of code myself that the nice part is actually the design of the solution. If the fun is to find more people to come to our field, just pay better and you get more people who find interesting to code.

  2. Sure! on Are Commercial Games Finally Going To Make It To Linux? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But only when they see that it makes sense and it will not require too much technical work to allow some! Ahhrg by the way! First post!

  3. This is the problem of being pioneers on something on Netflix To Lose 1 Million Subscribers · · Score: 1

    I believe this is the risk of being pioneers on something, they inventing this tv streaming service and the dvd rental... Then suddendly the market you invent changes, and as you are the pioner you do not have examples to follow on your way to avoid sotck price to drop in your segment as well as a complete study on how your consumers will behave before the options you give.

  4. Related to the num of commits by the MS employee on Linux Receives 20th Birthday Video From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I believe that Microsoft is now interesent somehow in Linux success. Mainly because many virtualization options may run on Linux servers but having as Guests MS Servers. Also take a look at this article some days ago: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/2316251/Microsoft-Developer-Made-the-Most-Changes-To-Linux-30-Code

  5. Re:And....? on Java SE 7 Finally Approved By JCP, 13 To 1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5207 There you will find the comments... It is good to see that it is not google the one that would like the license of java changed, but IBM and SouJava as well.

  6. lifecycle? on The Details of Oracle's JDK 7 and 8 'Plan B' · · Score: 1

    In my honest opinion everything in Computers world has a lifecycle, and in this case, Java Oracle is providing this lean featured Java releases because they are running out of ideas to implement for the JCP. Java soon will have to enter in the Maintenance only and not give new features, so it means it may soon disapear from Enterprises and Education levels (maybe like in 3 years).

  7. Re:For those who wonder what Gnome Shell is ... on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 3, Informative

    From TFA: "GNOME Shell is the interface being developed for GNOME 3.0, which was delayed to spring 2011."

    Probably then they are switching to Unity due to the schedule?

  8. Re:Cloud Computing? Why? on Amazon, MS, Google Clouds Flop In Stress Tests · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, have you tried playing out with Google App engine? It brings to the table a host server for your Django application at very low cost. It also allows you to integrate your application with google user managment. Why to use? Well, for me, it is for low cost hosting for Django Applications, but for business it can be really interesting as there is somebody taking care of the infrastructure while they only need to care about the application itself.

  9. Gobby on Collaborative Software For Pair Programming? · · Score: 0

    Have you thought on Gobby? It is easily downloaded from Ubuntu. It has sintax highlight for some languages and it is very easy to set up. The SVN Server is also a good idea, but the students should learn to configure the server. As you would like them to have on a centrilized way SVN would be the best. I would not go to git because they are "distributed" by nature, so they would do again everybody one part and not "togther". I hope this helps.

  10. Forget About EA, go for Blizzard! on EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban · · Score: 0

    Leave the crappy games from EA & play Blizzard Games! Go for WOW!

  11. It depends ... on Recovering Moldy Electronics? · · Score: 0

    It depends, 1) Where they powered when they got flooded? This can create some short circuits and then the electrinics would be compromised. 2) If they were not powered by that time, but it stayed some considerable time under water, it is possible to get damaged as mentioned by the guy from topic 2. 3)If none of both, and being tooooooooo optimistic, if you get a way to dry it, like using some haird dried or somethiong similar, right after the inmersion, you can get them to work again, but if you DO NOT LEAVE any dorp of water, as it can create a short circuit and damage you equipment. In this case, as you mentioned on the description, I belive most of your electronics may have get damaged.

  12. For which company do you work for? on Bringing OSS Into a Closed Source Organization? · · Score: 0

    Well, maybe it is not for interest of everybody. But I bet the owner of this discussion works on Brazil, maybe in the same company as I do. =) Well, actually I belive that the truth is that we have to accept what our bosses say, and this is from my point of view worldwide. One reason they may forbid the use of OSS/FOSS is because they pay other companys software with their software, or maybe they just have a contract to buy some software from other vendors that are also customer from the company. This is what I think ocurrs where I work. I also belive that some companies are afraid of being sued by OSS Software developers, I'm not sure, but also, large companies prefer to buy from other large companies.

  13. Re:Good on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 0

    That is actually truth, all the computer science was born from Maths!

  14. Childs is like most admins on SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Childs in this case acted like most network admins act: just being paranoid and not allowing other people to replace them. It is completly fair that he goes to jail.

  15. Self Signed on When Is a Self-Signed SSL Certificate Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    Well, from my point of view, the self signed certificates, would be a nice way to provide secure login/access to system like blogs or wikis for example, but not for banks that the user really need to verify the authenticity of the host. This is not provided by a self signed CA. But for non critical sites you can simple use the self signed to provide ENCRYPTATION between the two sides.