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  1. knowing how well they test Windows 10 on Windows 10's Version of AirDrop Lets You Quickly Share Files Between PCs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This feature will probably have couple of tiny bugs. You know, putting disk usage to 100% for 5 days, wiping the hard drive of both computers, deleting installed programs. That kind of stuff.

  2. Under no circumstance QA anything in secure Windows 10.

  3. Hey it goes to 9000! on Sharp Announces 8K Consumer TVs Now That We All Have 4K (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh wait, that's the price. Oh well, I'm guessing it'll be about 5-7 years before the price comes down enough that I'd even consider it.

  4. Video on HCCI engines on Mazda Announces Breakthrough In Long-Coveted Engine Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    From Engineering Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  5. Of course how many finish? on College Students Are Flocking To Computer Science Majors (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    Since I kind of remembered when I took that stuff years ago there was probably around a 100 students in CS101 but by the time I graduated it was maybe 10-20

  6. A little CS wouldn't hurt on College Students Are Flocking To Computer Science Majors (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    I mean I'm still surprised how many people who are professional developers who are considered good literally don't know when they should use a link list, an array, or a map so they always use arrays. (Admittedly that's CS102.)

  7. You do know why Galileo published right? on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Because his old college buddy, the Pope, asked him to. BTW FWIW the 2 theories they were debating, Tychonic and Copernican, are mathematically equivalent (they literally make the same predictions) and Galileo was trying to prove Copernican right with a theory of the tides that at the time people realized didn't work. I could point out that the reason he got in trouble at all was the fact he published in Italian where he put in a crack about the omnipotence of god which apparently was taken a rebuke of catholic theology. (IE He didn't get in trouble over science and he didn't have the evidence anyway. He got in trouble when he started talking theology.) Yes for those that don't know you were pretty much taught a myth about what happened. (Just like I was taught other myths like the Minutemen won because they used guerilla tactics and used rifles instead of muskets.)

  8. It doesn't qualify for a darwin award on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since he's already procreated.

  9. On top of that they're tiny on Physicists Discover A Possible Break In the Standard Model of Physics (futurism.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If I understood this correctly they're so tiny one of these micro black holes could plow through a proton and manage to miss the quarks inside.

  10. I'd call their bluff if I was him on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    By first pointing out the US never actually ratified the agreement so it was stupid of any country to think we were in it. Then he could explain how congress ratifies treaties and then say he'll sign it if it gets passed. (Which it probably won't since the pubs control congress but hey the dems can vote for it knowing full well they won't have to worry about the results if it were to pass. Why yes I am a huge cynic)

  11. That's nice so are they going to work on on Wikipedia's Switch To HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    censorship from the Wikipedia "mods" who've decided which pages are "theirs" and only they are allowed to update them?

  12. Well except the fact that the debate with the church wasn't Ptolemaic vs Copernican but Tychonic. That and the fact Tychonic and Copernican are equivalent systems and literally make the same predictions. I mean sure if you have Newtonian mechanics then it's obvious Tychonic is wrong but they didn't have that because Newton wasn't around. That's why he went to such lengths to come up with a tidal mechanism since that would require a moving earth. Unfortunately that theory gets everything about tides wrong. Of course we could bring up that issue of no stellar parallax being a reason to think Tychonic was the way to go. Or the fact he really got in trouble because after his college buddy, the pope, suggest that he publish he did so. But instead of latin he did so in Italian and put a crack against catholic doctrine at the end of it.

  13. Damn how I hated LISP on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Mostly because when I was taking it in college 20 some odd years ago all the code they gave us as example basically tried to do everything in one line of code. I mean damn, maybe if your terminal gave you a 50,000 volt shock for hitting the enter key I could understand it but it made debugging anything a complete pain. (Well that and the fact you had to have the absolute perfect number of parenthesis. One too many or few and watch the app crash.)

  14. I would guess it's the standard stuff on Researchers Determine What Makes Software Developers Unhappy (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    Let's me see some of the stuff that annoys me

    Not being given the tools I need to do my job.

    Being blown off when I try to get them to do more basic stuff like source control and release management.(Oh we don't need to do that, we're fine.)

    Working under a manager where you seriously begin to wonder if they're literally a psychopath.(Hasn't happened much to me but there's been one or two where I started to wonder.)

  15. Re:On top of that you also have the Agile Lawyer on 'Pragmatic Programmer' Author Andy Hunt Loves Arduino, Hates JavaScript (bestprogrammingbooks.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh you've definitely met one. The most over the top thing that's happen so far is them telling me what "I thought" of something during the retrospective.(No, they didn't need to actually listen to me to know what my opinion actually was.) Then of course writing down "my opinion" which they made up for me as part of the retrospective. (I mean WTF?)

  16. On top of that you also have the Agile Lawyer on 'Pragmatic Programmer' Author Andy Hunt Loves Arduino, Hates JavaScript (bestprogrammingbooks.com) · · Score: 1

    One thing I've really screw over "agile" projects is a concept I call the agile lawyer. In theory law is supposed to make society fair. However we have people called lawyers that while they can help you they can also use their expertise to completely pervert the idea of fairness. Similarly I've seen the same idea crop up in agile. You'll have a guy, usually a scrum master, can totally quote any particular part of agile you could mention. However when it comes time to actually do agile they just end up using agile doctrine to fuck over the development team. Shit like oh you're self managing but you can only grab from the top of the backlog. Oh, another one is keeping interesting projects out of the sprint process so, surprise surprise, they can work on it themselves. Of course the classic, everybody is equal on the team, except most of the planning of projects that's special and only the leads get to put their 2 cents in on that.

  17. Hey remember when they had that no evil rule? on Google X Worked An Older Employee Until He Was Hospitalized, Then Laid Him Off (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Guess we've seen that it was nothing but horseshit and they're yet another evil empire.

  18. Don't forget sharing with friends and family on Four Years Later, Xbox Exec Admits How Microsoft Screwed Up Disc Resale Plan (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Supposedly they'd let you share your games with pre-designated friends and family members. Given that I tend to hold on to games too long so they basically have no resale value anyway that feature actually appealed to me.

  19. The reason it can't be dumped on In 18 Years, A College Degree Could Cost About $500,000 (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    It is only the US that forces student loans that can't be dumped in any way.

    There's a simple reason it can't be dumped except for things like getting crippled very badly. There's nothing to repossess. I mean in theory you could take the person's degree away from them but they'd still come out with whatever they learned and whatever network connections they made in college. On the other hand if you don't pay for your car loan the bank takes away the car and sells it to somebody else. The deal is if you could just get out of it like that no bank would make student loans. (Since people would and have declare bankruptcy to avoid paying for things like med school.)

  20. Does the article discuss if it's just an indicator on Parenthood Can Help You Live Longer In Older Age, Research Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What I mean is that I'd expect simply being able to have kids is an indicator of physical and mental health. I'd expect those that don't have kids are more likely to have physical and psychological issues linked to poorer health and a reduced life span.

  21. Really? Galileo? on Why Is the Vatican at a Tech Conference? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean the guy who got in trouble because after his college buddy, Pope Urban VIII, asked him to publish the heliocentric hypothesis he did so in Italian with a dig in his treatise about the omnipotence of god.(Which is what actually got him in trouble.) I could point out that the 2 leading theories that they were considering, Tychonic and Copernican, are mathematically equivalent and make the same predictions. I could also point out that he had no actual evidence that the Earth moved, he tried to demonstrate that it moved with his tide theory but the problem that people at the time pointed out was that his theory got every fact about tides wrong except that there are tides. (It predicts that there's 1 tide a day, it's at noon, and it's always the same height. All of which are wrong.) The Catholic church are a bunch of control freaks but that whole anti-science thing is a myth.

  22. No surprise since DNA is digital on Researchers Store Computer OS, Short Movie On DNA (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's stores in individual units that are base 4. (AGCT instead of 01) Oh, living organisms read 3 units at a time called a codon which is 4^3 or 64 combinations.

  23. If H1B's really were about bringing talent on CS Professor Argues Silicon Valley Is Exploiting Both H-1B Visas And Workers (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Then the US government wouldn't allow the company sponsoring the worker to have any control over his status, well at least after some trial period.(Say 6 months) I mean really, if it was about talent would anybody want a talent guy to get the boot back to his country because of the whims of his boss? (Yes, I know it's politics is the real reason they let companies own people under H1B)

  24. Look who's won the peace prize on Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    People like Henry Kissinger, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres. I always say given I've done nothing for peace but some of the prize winners have done less than nothing I must have won it at least once since I deserve it more than them. Of course more than half the planet deserves it more so I'm figuring it'll take a long time to give them all out.

  25. What in the blue hell are you talking about on Trump's Next Immigration Move To Affect H-1B Visas; Require Tech Companies To Try To Hire Americans First: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Guess what. Technology workers like you and me aren't immune to the same damn laws of capitalism. Businesses will find a way to reduce costs and punch up their profits, no matter what populist measures are passed by the politicians.

    I guess you missed it. The big bitch session about H1B's is that it isn't capitalism, it's cronyism. It's using government to interfere with the market by letting business use effectively indentured servants. They bring people in that don't have the knowledge about how much the job is actually worth, suppressing wages. Then when they find out they're getting screwed just like US citizens they have no recourse since if they raise a stink they lose their status and have to go back while the company gets yet another sucker. If this was capitalism then the foreign candidates would just work for somebody else that actually paid them what they're worth but with the H1B program they're prevented from taking any action. But hey, it's not as though this is the only time a company thought that using cronyism is a hell of a lot better deal than actual capitalism.