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  1. Which Managers? on Developers, IT Still Racking Up (Mostly) High Salaries · · Score: 1

    One information I'd be most interested in is "What did the those managers do before managing, by salary range."

    To answer questions like:
      - Is it "better"* to become a manager after already having a high IT salary? Or to start from the bottom as a manager who's studied essentially management.

    *: "Better" in monetary terms, of course. Obviously being a manager after having been in IT makes one a better human being; morally and intellectually superior to other kinds of manager.

  2. Re: That's bananas! on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 2

    1 Library of congress = 180,3 MegaBananas

    (Using 878.835g as the average book weight and 115g for the average banana.)

  3. Re:Question on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 2

    A man is sitting in this ship, and throws a massive Korean-made LED TV-screen overboard into the water.
    As a result, will the water level rise, or drop?

    It depends on the answer to the following questions:
    - Was the TV's weight being held by the ship? Or was it held neutral by, for example, helium balloons.
    - What water does the question refers to? The Sea outside the ship? Or the captain's quarters' Olympic swimming pool.
    - Shall the answer take into account the man's decrease in weight caused by the calorie loss due to the TV throwing? And, in that case, what's the man's lean body mass, BMI, weight and basal consumption rate?

  4. 864 million bananas on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 4, Funny

    enough space to transport 864 million bananas

    Yes, I too calculate volumes in MegaBananas.

    Except for astronavegation, where I base all my calculations on Earth's volume of 1.086 PetaBananas.

  5. Re:The mention of Valentina Tereshkova is ridiculo on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    outperforming practically all of the men

    It's ambiguous whether this means "practically all of the male candidates" or "practically all of the Mercury 7".

    The only important data is whether she outperformed one single male in the Mercury 7: Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper and Deke Slayton.

    If she didn't, the entire topic is sexist.
    If she did, the program was sexist.
    If it wasn't known either way, the program was sexist, because it should have been known prior to selecting among the candidates.

  6. Re:Another junk article from medium.com on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    The point made may be true, but why should a reader spend more time researching the article's sources than the writer themselves did to find the truth?

    Welcome to Socratic Journalism.

  7. IP on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 1

    They are just making space.

    When someone said "everybody is infringing IP several times per day", most people took it as meaning "IP laws are wrong".

    When the MPAA and RIAA reacheed the same conclusion, they understood that if everybody was infringing IP, the only solution was to put everybody in jail.

  8. Re:Serveds him right for being a hipster twat on The Great Robocoin Rip-off · · Score: 2

    I think a general rule of thumb is that once you hit 5 digits of price, a test drive is never too much to ask.

    Exactly. That's what I told my diamond guy. "Give me one that's over $9999."

    Sadly, my future father in law disagreed.

  9. Re:A bitcoin product was a scam? on The Great Robocoin Rip-off · · Score: 1

    You lost your faith too fast. I'm sure the bitcoin product is blessed in it divine honesty and all the corruption comes from that Wilkinson guy. If that's even his real name.

    (In the name of Mr.Nakamoto, the bitcoin and the block chain. Amine)

  10. Fussion on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 1

    You don't get it. It's Fussion! As easy as fission but as newsworthy as fusion!

    They just missed an S.

  11. Re:Of course! on Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not exactly. Its section is 7 feet by 10 feet. To achieve 100MW the length must be infinite. Any reduction in length implies a proportional reduction in power.

  12. Re:Just tell me on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 1

    As they get sicker and sicker, people deal with the mess and viola...

    And it's fricking hard to properly play a viola with latex gloves. Thus, contagion!

  13. Re:Printer drivers on Apple Releases CUPS 2.0 · · Score: 2

    Yes, and we use mainly laptops, projectors and large TVs for the video-conferences.

    The only paper I use is the one I write on with a pen. No printer there.

    What exactly do you use a printer in an office nowadays? Do you print your mails? Do you print Power Point slides? Excels?

    No, wait. Trying to imagine your office I found one use I make of the printer. I print flight tickets for work trips, in case my phone dies on the path to the airport.

  14. Printer drivers on Apple Releases CUPS 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Printer drivers are going away, and mobile usage is now the norm.

    No. The norm is not printing.

  15. Re:projectiles are a reasonable concern on Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated · · Score: 1

    Lot of people don't think about this with their cars, but at least then, you're by and large only placing yourself, and a limited number of passengers who chose to ride with you, at risk.

    Bus? Train?

  16. Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. on Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't give a fuck.

    I fly 2h every monday and friday and still I'm most at risk during the 30min taxi trips homeairport. And if the taxi driver told me to store my phone is case of a much more probable accident, I'd give him the same answer.

    And the taxi driver owns his vehicle. And he could be killed precisely by my phone.

    So shut your dickhole about hypothetical airplane accidents and how many hoops we have to jump through to avoid dying in one.

    The scaremongering got old a long while ago.

  17. Re:outsource your wedding on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 1

    If you organize it in Cuba* you don't even have to bring a groom*.

    *: Replace with "Thailand" and "bride"** for an equally dark but more sexist joke.

  18. Lego on Oxytocin Regulates Sociosexual Behavior In Female Mice · · Score: 2

    Without [oxytocin], female mice were no more attracted to a mate than to a block of Lego.

    And... How attracted are female mice to blocks of Lego?

  19. Autonomy on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, 0 to 60 miles in 3.2 seconds... a range of 275 miles... So, it has less than 15 seconds of autonomy.

    Let's hope it doesn't take much longer than that to recharge.

  20. Re:Relative sizes on NASA Finds a Delaware-Sized Methane "Hot Spot" In the Southwest · · Score: 5, Funny

    For everyone else, they're talking about 6,500 km2.

    (Or, the combined area of about 1293017700000 ping pong balls)

  21. Re:Edged weapons and grappling on Ask Slashdot: Capture the Flag Training · · Score: 1

    Which tradition involves edged weapons and grappling? Greco-Roman filleting?

  22. Re:Not a good idea on Ask Slashdot: Capture the Flag Training · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, but your stereotype is out of date.

    There are no computer science students, only entrepreneurs who happen to be in the early stages of their short path to becoming multi-billionaires and who vote for the rightmost wing to protect their imminent fortune.

  23. Re:You mean... on Indonesian Cave Art May Be World's Oldest · · Score: 0

    Prove that it isn't only 6,000 years old. You can't, the best that can be said is that it is consistent with what we would expect from something 40k old.

    Indeed. Just as you using arguments consistent with what we'd expect from someone who is retarded, does not mean you are one.

    It's just very probable.

  24. Re:You mean... on Indonesian Cave Art May Be World's Oldest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well. If it was painted by a dog, it would be just 5714.28571429 years old.

  25. Languages on Goodbye, World? 5 Languages That Might Not Be Long For This World · · Score: 1

    Still pissed off about the fact that there is not one single language for programming. Someone has to make an interface that seamlessly translates anything to C++ bidirectionally on the fly.

    Or, even better, an AI that translates binary to C++ organizing it in a human readable correct structure. With procedurally generated comments based on cyclomatic complexity. For example:
    "DEV1: Yeah, the next part is a big fuck-up. I'm sorry."
    "DEV2: Dear DEV1, after two days correcting your shit I swear I'd give my car for the chance to meet you in a dark alley."