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  1. Re:How much money are we talking about? on Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative · · Score: 1

    Let me put it this way. With such languages you can break in to the 36% Obama 2013 MFJ proposed tax bracket and you don't even have to be living in the greater Seattle, Washington area.

    I think once you're at a certain level, you must be multi-disciplinarian in languages, libraries, and frameworks. You're also primarily getting paid well because you're a good software engineer and even better at solving the business's problems elegantly and with the least amount of effort.

    Working in a smaller pool can be good because scarcity drives demand. If you're in the larger talent pool you have a lot more competition which actually drives down wages, especially when you're getting edged out by dirt cheap H-1Bs.

  2. Proof on UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack · · Score: 4, Funny

    That dropping ACID is not hazardous to your health.

  3. Re: Why limit yourself? on Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised it took this many posts to see Ruby. Ruby developers often make above national average and higher than big tech companies like Google.

  4. Just a product on Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? · · Score: 1

    Looking at the website this seems more like a product Gates should be selling rather than something useful for the classroom.

  5. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, but I believe systemd came out of the Redhat camp where they continuously struggled with the inability to query and manage system state for total system automation (i.e. cloud). systemd was the answer for Redhat, yet somehow everyone else starting thinking it was the answer for them too.

  6. Ask your customers on Ask Slashdot: Should You Invest In Documentation, Or UX? · · Score: 1

    Instrument your documentation pages if they're online. Put high priority focus on the most used pages for your initial roll-out if that makes sense. Have your Product/UX team talk to clients and see if they find the documentation useful and make sure they have a decent quality sample size. Talk to customer support to see if customers are calling in with questions that was available or not available in the documentation. Measure cost to customer benefit and client retention and if you don't know how to constructively do that, don't change how you're doing things until you do.

  7. Slippery slope on Gmail Now Rejects Emails With Misleading Combinations of Unicode Characters · · Score: 1

    As much as I can appreciate the intent and the fact that this will solve 99.999% of people's problems for this type of spamming and create 00.0000000001% of problems for legitimate users, it still feels a little like Google is trying to be the thought police on this one; you know free speech and all.

  8. Re:I have a Lenovo Miix 2 11" on Microsoft Surface Drowning? · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but the Lenovo Miix 2 is nowhere NEAR similarly speced to the Surface Pro 3. I'm having a hard time seeing any way in which they are similar rather than how they're different.

  9. No longer easy on Microsoft Surface Drowning? · · Score: 1

    What made Microsoft so successful and ubiquitous was their cut-rate deals with OEMs to integration their OS and Office software in to every desktop on the planet. Now, when I walked in to the Microsoft Store to buy my wife a Surface Pro 3 i5 model, I discovered much to my dismay that they don't bundle Office in to their own product! Since she is a writer, Office was critical so we had to shell out an additional $150 on top of an already expensive device that doesn't even come with a keyboard you have to pay extra for, and things quickly add up. I think Microsoft is pricing themselves out of the market except for the rare people like me who is willing to pay a premium for performance and mind boggling light weight.

  10. Bad suggestion on The CIA Does Las Vegas · · Score: 1

    Journalists like Conor Friedersdorf have suggested that one explanation for this is that the public is "informed by a press that treats officials who get caught lying and misleading (e.g., James Clapper and Keith Alexander) as if they're credible."

    My explanation is that the public has ALWAYS suspected and we expect the CIA to do morally and legally questionable things, and now we don't really care that our suspicions have been confirmed.

  11. Not a technical problem on Ask Slashdot: When Is It Better To Modify the ERP vs. Interfacing It? · · Score: 2

    What your CIO should be doing is bringing together two (or more) separate proposals to the executives who then mandate that all department heads provide cost estimation and risk analysis for each of the two scenarios. Once all those are compiled together, cost and risk can then be used to help the CIO and other executives make a choice. Then they can once again mandate a conformance of all departments to the chosen solution and give the department heads X amount of time to convert N percentage of their business processes to the chosen solution. Iterate until all legacy systems and processes are sunset.

    Choosing one technical solution over another or choosing to pay a cost here versus there makes absolutely no sense until you completely understand the needs, resources, timelines, and risks.

  12. No thanks on Put Your Code in the SWAMP: DHS Sponsors Online Open Source Code Testing · · Score: 0, Troll

    The NSA is already proactively doing this for me.

  13. Try the aftermarket on Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? · · Score: 1

    Kind of like the afterlife of the slide-out keyboard. Sure it will make your phone a little bulkier, but as a slide-out keyboard user you should be used to that.

  14. Re:Iron Sky on Preparing For Satellite Defense · · Score: 1

    Build more than one on different faces retard.

  15. Re:Iron Sky on Preparing For Satellite Defense · · Score: 2

    It's much easier to deploy countermeasures from a large body of land than a relatively small satellite in orbit. It takes much longer for a missile to get there so there's a longer opportunity to respond. Different international regulations on bombing the moon. Redundancy for emergency failure. We can continue to target our nukes at them while the closer satellites are taken out. I could keep going on but either you'll understand or fail to see the motivations. "Better" is probably not the precise word to use here.

  16. Re:Iron Sky on Preparing For Satellite Defense · · Score: 1

    I apologize for the possible mis-use of the word telecommunications.

  17. Re:Iron Sky on Preparing For Satellite Defense · · Score: 2

    All kidding aside, I think this illustrates how important it is that we establish permanent moon telecommunications infrastructure.

  18. Known risk on Preparing For Satellite Defense · · Score: 1

    This puts a new spin on the phrase "sitting duck".

  19. I disagree on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We all know most top tier network providers are running over multiple bands of fiber just sitting there idle. What Verizon is saying is Level 3 has not worked out an agreement with Verizon to upgrade capacity. The physical part is the easy part; it's just about upgrading port usage. Now, if Level3 is paying for X bandwidth and they're not getting X bandwidth because Verizon hasn't upgraded their equipment, I'm sure Level3's lawyers would be all over that.

  20. A lot of ground to cover on ExoLance: Shooting Darts At Mars To Find Life · · Score: 1

    It would be nice to see in the article where the enthusiasts intend on dropping their probes. With Mars's landmass being equivalent to the Earth's, that's a lot of ground to cover. It's my understanding that the poles are more likely to harbor life from trapped H2O and CO2 and by their location should receive less solar radiation.

  21. Re:Seems like old times on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Thank you so much for pointing out relevant history. I think the key distinction here will be whether or not the ultimately responsible party will end up paying reparations to the country and family members like the US did (and yes I saw the part about the US not publicly acknowledging actual responsibility).

  22. I applaud this action on Krebs on Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails and Blaming Canada · · Score: 1

    How easily people forget and get in to a comfort zone. When Microsoft first announced switching to a patch Tuesday email, everybody on /. criticized them for waiting up to a week to announce 0-day vulnerabilities and patch information.

    A once a week email is close to worthless. It's better to leave vulnerability notification to people who are serious about it and stop wasting Internet bandwidth, cycles. and storage.

  23. Re:how long before on Boston Trying Out Solar-Powered "Smart Benches" In Parks · · Score: 2

    Didn't you RTFA? They were built by Cisco.

  24. Germany is laughing at you Boston on Boston Trying Out Solar-Powered "Smart Benches" In Parks · · Score: 1

    see title

  25. The question begs on CDC: 1 In 10 Adult Deaths In US Caused By Excessive Drinking · · Score: 1

    Would deaths of working-age adults go UP (particularly suicides) if they weren't drinking all the time?