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  1. Re:Sure on How Professional Russian Trolls Operate · · Score: 1

    In America, cooperations do this.

  2. I see someone dusted off this old boondoggle again.

  3. Re:Normal women... on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    This is not about a workplace situation. This is a about doing volunteer work. You know, the environment that requires a little begging from the person who initiates it. Something about making sure you're not excluding somebody who might otherwise turn in great work. Because you're not *paying* them, you're kindly asking them if they want to do something for you in their spare time.

  4. Re:Who said it was likely? on Government Spies Admit That Cyber Armageddon Is Unlikely · · Score: 1

    Well, one of the reasons of cybermageddon could be two gangs having at each other.

  5. Bollocks on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 1

    Typical American attitude: we can't do it, so nobody must be able to do it. Also: 'grammatical sentences' ?

  6. Re:Us vs them on How "Omnipotent" Hackers Tied To NSA Hid For 14 Years and Were Found At Last · · Score: 1

    And Highlander 2.

    / No! No! There *is* no Highlander 2!

  7. Looks like on Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction · · Score: 2

    Looks like a readable python variant.

  8. I use a standard for coding in C that *requires* the use of goto. It goes like this:

    #define CHECK(fnc) { int __r = (fnc); if (__r) goto CLEANUP; }

    Then define each function to have a CLEANUP: label, and surround the call of every function from within this function by CHECK(). The CLEANUP label usually has a return 0; just before it, and in most cases a return nonzero; after it. Gives you clean code that always eats up the stack in case of error.

  9. I gotta say on RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el · · Score: 1

    I like clang better, recently. Nicer warnings and errors.

  10. Re:If you're going to criticize... on AP Test's Recursion Examples: An Exercise In Awkwardness · · Score: 1

    Has there been a correction in the article? The code in the article now prints i, making it correct.

  11. I'm weary of recursion on AP Test's Recursion Examples: An Exercise In Awkwardness · · Score: 1

    Normal loops risk never ending.
    Loops made by recursion risk ruining your stack to boot.
    Recursion is mostly a hobby of mathematicians and in practice is a tool that should be used ultimately sparingly.

  12. xfce is very usable on Xfce Getting a New Version Soon · · Score: 2

    I have it on all my computers that run Linux and need a GUI. It could be making a bit more work of drag-and-drop in its own elements (panels etc) though.

  13. Another angle on Replacing the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    What has become of those compression tests? Wasn't the answer to AI not (at least partially) found in the ability to compress?

  14. Re:what about skinny people? on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: 2

    It's correlated with *increased* curiosity. Hence the loss of fear.

  15. Re:what about skinny people? on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: 1

    'Amount of empathy' is a scale. People at the bottom complain about everybody else. People at the top don't understand what everybody's complaining about. Most of us are in the middle, doing both things.

  16. Re:Shame on them on Mathematicians Uncomfortable With Ties To NSA, But Not Pulling Back · · Score: 1

    "It was their dollars that created almost all of the encryption algorithms. "

    Theirs, and a lot of Belgian Euros belonging to Vincent Rijmen. But other than that, yes. US Dollars.

  17. Re:Shame on them on Mathematicians Uncomfortable With Ties To NSA, But Not Pulling Back · · Score: 1

    I think you should step away from your terminal and stop using the Internet. After all, it was developed by DARPA. And DARPA also developes weapons. Go on. Be principled.

  18. Re:Open source code is open for everyone on Serious Network Function Vulnerability Found In Glibc · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily: to come to this point, you need two things: development quality, and auditing quality. The first to create, the second to discover, the bugs. The second is what you get plenty of, in the open source world, presumably. But you assume that an open source developer is just as good as a closed source developer. That might not necessarily be true.

  19. If Drew were to rule Kentucky on Fark's Drew Curtis Running For Governor of Kentucky · · Score: 1

    I dread to think: what's the IRL equivalent of a shadow-ban?

  20. Re:1st Post on Fark's Drew Curtis Running For Governor of Kentucky · · Score: 1

    He was just testing out to see if slashdot has started transmogrifying posts through filters yet.

  21. Re:HTML = programming on Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch? · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right. s/functional/declarative/g; However, you're also wrong: SQL definitly *is* a declarative language.

  22. Re:HTML = programming on Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch? · · Score: 1

    HTML is a functional, not an imperative, language. Perhaps the reason that you don't recognize this, is that you never knew there is such a thing as a functional computer language. Both types of computer languages tell a computer what to do, but they do it each on their own level. Functional languages don't care how a problem is solved, as long as it is solved. Another example of a functional language is SQL, another example of an imperative language that renders graphics as its core business, is postscript.

  23. I have my reasons on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    1) It's beautiful hardware. 2) I don't want to run an OS that the NSA can simply summon the passwords of.

  24. The IETF is irrelevant anyway on HTTP/2 - the IETF Is Phoning It In · · Score: 1

    With IPv6 the IETF has shown that they're on a long path toward oblivion. Too many cooks in the kitchen.

  25. Re:translation on White House Responds To Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor · · Score: 1

    Governments need to make their jobs cushy, because a) they are already fraught with risk, b) they couldn't afford the salaries if they weren't this cushy. Protection from being fired is part of the job.