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  1. C++11 on Microsoft Officially Releases Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Visual Studio is now advertising partial but significant C++11 support, and they claim only 3 minor features of C++03 are missing.
    Of course, this is quite far from the truth, as it is riddled with bugs and nothing really works, but at least they're trying.

  2. Re:DMCA on Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty · · Score: 1

    Is that why there is barely any yify release?

  3. Kickass is dying anyway on Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty · · Score: 1

    I'm finding it increasingly hard to find decent releases on kickass and have started moving back to the pirate bay.

  4. Women succeed at soccer because there are no men on Microsoft Uses US Women's Soccer Team To Explain Why It Doesn't Hire More Women · · Score: 2

    The reason women succeed at soccer is that there are no men in that field in the US.
    That's Blue Ocean strategic thinking: if you want to succeed, go to uncontested markets.

  5. Re:Nitpick on New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" · · Score: 1

    In LaTeX, it's mathematical if it occurs in a math context, which is separated by $ characters.

  6. Re: Oh slashdot... on A 'Star Trek' Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    I don't understand, do you mean plumber?

  7. Re: Terrifying. on Clang Plays Tetris -- Tetris As a C++ Template Metaprogram · · Score: 1

    Not any more horrible than any other pure functional programming language, and people tend to find those elegant more than horrible.

  8. Re:I lost interest when I saw brisket on When Nerds Do BBQ · · Score: 2

    Damn, that was beef?
    The meat they showed looks like pork.

    Don't you crazy americans don't know what beef is supposed to look like? Protip: if it's not red inside, it's overcooked.

  9. Re: Terrifying. on Clang Plays Tetris -- Tetris As a C++ Template Metaprogram · · Score: 1

    Metaprogramming is useful for real things. It allows to automate some code generation instead of weiting redundant code by hand, which is definitely a great thing.

  10. Re:Why release it? on Square Enix Pulls, Apologizes For Mac Version of Final Fantasy XIV · · Score: 1

    The DirectX 11 implementation they're referring to is built on top of OpenGL.

  11. Re:Profitable on Google: Stop Making Apps! (A Love Letter) · · Score: 1

    Thank you. This is priceless.

  12. Re:Google the All-Knowing on Google: Stop Making Apps! (A Love Letter) · · Score: 1

    Google already does this. Didn't you notice they send you a notice on your phone of the type "you should leave now for the airport to be on time, we recommend this itinerary" even though you never told Google explicitly that you were taking a flight? It automatically detects where you're going based on your emails and can also automatically deduce where you live and where you work based on your GPS.
    It can also automatically make recommendations of restaurants when it notices that you're not in an area you're usually in.

  13. Re:Most of their apps are annoying anyway on Google: Stop Making Apps! (A Love Letter) · · Score: 1

    GMail is a step back from regular email, and Inbox is worse still.
    As for Google Groups, it used to be good, so good it was my preferred Usenet client, before they entirely ruined it and made it irrelevant.

  14. Dice guy runs software to generate graph from thei on Exploring the Relationships Between Tech Skills (Visualization) · · Score: 1

    This is news?

  15. Re: And it performs poorly..... on Detecting Nudity With AI and OpenCV · · Score: 1

    Human female breasts are disproportionally large compared to other animals. That's because as bipeds, breasts have replaced the role of a large round ass that females use to attract males in the animal kingdom.

  16. Re: Sad, isn't it? on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    you mean they're building a dam?

  17. Plenty of locations pretend to be a Silicon Valley on Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of locations all over Europe that pretend to be European Silicon Valleys.
    The most obvious is Plateau de Saclay, in France. Having founded a software company there, I can tell you it's nothing like the real thing.

  18. Link with Powerpoint? on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 1

    I don't see the link between his rant and Microsoft Powerpoint. Maybe he just meant "slides"?

    In any case claiming that slides should be banned is ridiculous.

  19. Just look at other countries on Bill Gates Still Trying To Buy Some Common Core Testing Love · · Score: 1

    The US is the country with the widest education gap. A few (usually rich) people are very well educated, most of the masses are below the lowest of standards of any other developed country.

    Everyone in the world is using standardized tests and degrees. It's a rite a passage and a guarantee that people that have passed them have at least a basic level.
    Sure, it's a got a lot of limitations and it is a rigid mold, but that's what you expect of basic core stuff. It is not useful in evaluating truly smart people, but it is really useful to have a better education on average and in particular for the disadvantaged, as it levels the playing field.

  20. I work for a company acquired by Cisco on Cisco Names Veteran Robbins To Succeed Chambers as CEO · · Score: 1

    Me and all of my colleagues appear to have defected to startups that do essentially the same thing than the company they bought.
    They just killed innovation and expected the company to focus on the low-end with all of the high-end being handled by Cisco itself in San Jose.

    Not a good strategy to keep a company moving forward...

  21. Please refine the question. on Has the Native Vs. HTML5 Mobile Debate Changed? · · Score: 1

    Please refine the question, I don't understand it. In particular, what is native vs javascript necessarily about mobile application frameworks?
    In any case, more and more companies use SaaS with a service oriented architecture nowadays, since they want isolation of the different services as well as high reliability and scalability. In big companies, they build their own frameworks, Javascript/XML (or HTML) are quite popular for the UI, while C++ seems to be favored for the backend of the service itself.

  22. Re: Do not on Liquid Mercury Found Under Mexican Pyramid · · Score: 1

    That's not how things work.

    The Mayans were a civilization based on water control. Water is necessary to survive and was only available seasonally in the region the Mayans originate from. The Mayan kings developed ways to control water, which in turn got them the following of their subjects, which allowed them to have a massive workforce available to build more sophisticated ways to control water, as well as the incentive to develop the technology further to stay in power.

    Something similar happened to all ancient civilizations; they get developed out of need, dependence on a ruling class is built to address that need, and massive constructions are the result of large populations being controlled and conditioned.

    Why is there no such thing during the middle ages? Because to a degree, people were generally happy, had what they needed and were left to their own devices instead of being at the mercy of a control freak.

  23. Re:Gameplay is king on Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage · · Score: 1

    It's done by DICE under EA, they're the makers of the Battlefield series.
    It will be a casual shooter. They attract people with visuals and pseudo-cinematic aspects, not with actual gameplay.

  24. Re:Not interested on Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage · · Score: 1

    Surely you realize those weapons are not realistic, right?
    They behave pretty much like normal guns, and not like lasers would.

  25. Re:What is wrong with SCTP and DCCP? on Google To Propose QUIC As IETF Standard · · Score: 1