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  1. Re:Such potential on Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the situations where block structured code gets its indentation garbled and you can't tell which block a "}" or "end" is associated with.

  2. Re:It's kinda strange on Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction · · Score: 1

    Because some militant mods on Wikipedia keep deleting it with the excuse that it isn't "notable". Note that they've also tried locking the disambiguation page to prevent external links or placeholders.

  3. Re:ummm... on The Revolution Wasn't Televised: the Early Days of YouTube · · Score: 0

    Before YouTube it was all curated content or television feeds from BigMedia.

  4. Re:Youngster. on The Revolution Wasn't Televised: the Early Days of YouTube · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably don't get what either of the two basic meaning of "Tube" in YouTube mean either.

    It's about the internet right?

    --TS

  5. Re:HOLYF*CKBALLSTHISCHANGESEVERYTHING on Mountain Biking In Virtual Reality With the Oculus Rift and an Actuating Bike · · Score: 1

    It will simply because there is a huge market for personal exercise equipment purchased by people too self conscious to go outside and run, ride a bike, or find suitable cold weather substitutes.

    Much like Huffy bikes are only designed to last for 50-miles of use, consumer level exercise equipment is designed to look sexy on the showroom floor and sit unused for most of it's existence after purchase. There's no shortage of people who will fall for this gimmick. The engineering costs are the biggest hurdle and there are tons of cheap, capable engineers in China now.

  6. Re:College requirements are why.... on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 1

    Don't fret. I have a masters degree in my field and can barely get any callbacks. The entire technical hiring process is now run by know-nothings running resumes through dumb scoring algorithms and throwing out 90% of the "chaff".

  7. Re:Yes... on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 1

    This irritates me to no end. The core of the problem is that screening is delegated to non-technical HR staff or recruiters. I just explained what RS-232 and 422 was to one of them today. When making their cuts they fall back on the one thing they can understand which is money.

    I really wish there was a revolutionary ATS out there that was geared toward giving coworkers input into the initial screening process to guide HR and which didn't require mind-numbing, useless data entry from applicants.

  8. Somebody call the fashion police on The Oddball Side of CES (Video) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Red and black tie + gray shirt + beige jacket = fail.

  9. Re:Tech needs more women like... on What Intel's $300 Million Diversity Pledge Really Means · · Score: 1

    I'm all for increasing stem programs for high school.

    All for continuing the lie that there's a bounty of science jobs available if young people just reach for the stars and wish it to be true?

  10. Re:Microsoft has gotten themselves in trouble. on Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End · · Score: 2

    Some games (Civ2, egads!) won't run even in XP Mode

    That's not Microsoft's fault. Civ2 has 16-bit code which can't be run in a 64-bit virtualization environment. It is an inherent limitation of the x64 architecture. It can only be done with full emulation which imposes too much of a speed hit for MS to invest the time and effort to implement.

  11. Next to the stingray reports on FBI Can't Find Its Drone Privacy Reports · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's filed right next to the stingray privacy reports where they justify pissing all over the FCC's rules against operating an unlicensed transmitter.

  12. Re:But... on US Gas Pump Hacked With 'Anonymous' Tagline · · Score: 1

    More like:

    1. Buy a gasoline refinery
    2. Jack up the market price immediately when oil futures rise
    3. Delay dropping the price when the futures drop.
    4. Too big to fail PROFIT!!!

  13. Re:"Not intentional". Right. on Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video · · Score: 1

    Just don't connect it to the internet. You don't have to use the smart features. Research will be needed to make sure the TV doesn't nag you to death about a missing IP connection but it is doable.

  14. Re:Emergency probably has legal meaning on Arkansas Declares a High School CS Education State of Emergency · · Score: 1

    But if it were truly an emergency, where are the local school boards? Why haven't THEY already acted to solve the emergency crisis?

    Football is more important than skoolin.

    -- Former Arkie

  15. Re:Okay, so... on Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bacteroides likes to eat complex polysaccharides, like those found in many plants, so it's speculated (but not known) that a diet high in plant polysaccharides would promote the presence of Bacteroides, and correspondingly reduce the number of Firmicutes

    What would be more interesting is if these bacteria actually influenced their host's behavior to drive more consumption of sugars. I'm skinny and have never had a strong desire to consume sweets. The majority of the overweight population who can't naturally control their consumption of high-energy foods seem alien and puzzling to me.

  16. Re:Actually this is good and bad on Verizon Sells Off Wireline Operations, Blames Net Neutrality Plans · · Score: 1

    Not to worry. Frontier looks up to Comcast as a guiding light. You'll feel right at home.

  17. Re:Just a chance to threaten america on Verizon Sells Off Wireline Operations, Blames Net Neutrality Plans · · Score: 1

    Don't have mods but parent needs to be +5. FIOS was all an elaborate scam to steal from the taxpayer.

  18. Re:AT&T isn't far behind on Verizon Sells Off Wireline Operations, Blames Net Neutrality Plans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that they're selling off to bottom feeders like Frontier who will do nothing to improve the copper infrastructure which could still be useful if it were tidied up to achieve VDSL2 speeds.

  19. Re:Why not websites? on Why It's Important That the New Ubuntu Phone Won't Rely On Apps · · Score: 2

    Why do we even need native apps anymore?

    To conserve battery life. Modern portable devices would be able to last for days of active use if they didn't run managed code with demand so much DRAM.

  20. Re:Character stereotypes? on Google-Advised Disney Cartoon Aims To Convince Preschool Girls Coding's Cool · · Score: 1

    They already did that with their earlier girl-power show Kim Possible.

  21. Re:Oh God, not again on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    And yet they do nothing to fight the mass stockpiling of Tamiflu. A drug that exists solely to line the pockets of it's manufacturer.

  22. From Japan on Listnr Wants to be 'Your Listening Assistant' (Video) · · Score: 0

    Where they code websites like it's 1999. They are culturally incapable of developing advanced software. This will fail.

  23. Re:Enjoy years of splitting between 5 and 6 on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Won't be a problem for me. I've been writing Py3-styled 2.x code for years by using most of the from future imports. It gives the best of both worlds. You can still use libraries that aren't ported to 3.x and the code will cleanly convert using 2to3 99% of the time. Their efforts at forward compatibility are a complete win in my book.

  24. Re:Double Irish on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 2

    I know. And when their business is burning down the firefighter fairies just magically appear to make things better.

  25. Thank god we have a Law on NFL Asks Columbia University For Help With Deflate-Gate · · Score: 1

    Fortunately we have an ideal gas Law and not just a theory or the anti-science masses would never get a believable answer on whether their circus is rigged.