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  1. Re: The worst thing... on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    You realize fashion magazines are made by women, right?
    Don't blame men for women being shallow and superficial.

    Men like women to look good, but they're certainly not interested in fashion or shopping for clothes.

  2. Re: The worst thing... on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    I personally found the project to be a good satire, and it clearly showed how some men feel oppressed by those stupid feminist movements. In particular a lot of content (video games, movies...) is being ruined because of this. The authors simply demonstrated what would happen if the same thing happened to programming languages.
    But women are the ones being oppressed worldwide, so some men couldn't possibly be oppressed, right?

  3. Re: You are so adorable ! on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 1

    I don't know what definition of race you're using, but it's mostly a matter of ethnicity. The genes are just the visible parts, and they're used to infer the rest, what really define them is their culture, their education, etc.

    For example, Spanish people are noisy. You may choose to dislike them because of that. However, in our society, it is not politically correct to communicate similar feelings to other sensitive ethnicities, in particular jews, blacks and arabs.

  4. Re:Not to rain anybody's party, but.... on Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart · · Score: 1

    HTTP2 not HTML2.

  5. Functional language with no constants? on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    Isn't that an oxymoron?

  6. Re: On whose planet? on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 1

    Humans have been eating rabbits since the dawn of time. I understand rabbit is not a popular food in the US, probably due to the fact the US don't have a history where they didn't mass-produce cows, but it's regularly eaten in Europe.

  7. Re: Spreadsheets? on Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome · · Score: 1

    PostgreSQL has allowed functions to be written in plenty of programming languages for at least 10 years.
    Also, with Oracle it was possible to use Java in addition to PL/SQL since 2002. I don't know about Sybase but I guess it probably got .NET support around 2003 or so.

  8. Re: Spreadsheets? on Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome · · Score: 1

    It's only fairly recent in MySQL, MariaDB or whatever web people use these days. Real databases already had this decades ago.

  9. Re: Top talent is always hard to find on Inside the War For Top Developer Talent · · Score: 1

    It's based on my personal experience and that of other software engineers I know.
    You can also find online a variety of blogs from Google employees, including people who explained why they left.

  10. Re: Top talent is always hard to find on Inside the War For Top Developer Talent · · Score: 0

    Giving you concrete examples could be a breach of cinfidential data, but surely if you've ever discussed or workef with current or past Google engineers you should already have realized this.

  11. Re: obligatory xkcd on Inside the War For Top Developer Talent · · Score: 1

    Looks like a start-up.

  12. Re: Top talent is always hard to find on Inside the War For Top Developer Talent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The way Google evaluates talent is pretty bad, and it's not an interesting company to work at unless all you're interested in is a stable income with lots of perks.

    They heavily suffer from NIH syndrome and are convinced that the technology they created (and they created software for pretty much anything) is the best in the world, even when it's painfully outdated. To get hired, you have to use the Google way of doing things to solve problrms. It's a monoculture.

  13. Re: Please make up your mind, dude ! on How Much of ISON Survived Its Closest Approach To the Sun? · · Score: 1

    It of course referred to ancient chinese people. The Chinese have been around for thousands of years, the beliefs of modern chinese are irrelevant. China is also a very big area in Asia with many different peoples. In any case I wouldn't expect any modern chinese to still be burdened by religion today, especially polytheist ones.

  14. Re: Unwinnable on The Ultimate Anti-Action Online Game: Waiting In Line 3D · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that's 5% of the awake bar. And 220 seconds is to maintain full hp. You could last longer by gradually losing hp, but the amount of total hp is missing.

  15. Re: Unwinnable on The Ultimate Anti-Action Online Game: Waiting In Line 3D · · Score: 1

    According to your numbers, you can only last for 220 seconds, since you lose 5% hp every 11 seconds. This must be wrong if you managed to last for five minutes (300 seconds)

  16. Re:Behaviour change due to social pressure? on The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath · · Score: 0

    There is nothing fatalistic about being a psychopath. It's not a disease, it's simply the trait of a predator.
    It means that he can manipulate people more easily, which is a useful skill. Rejecting it because it's badly seen by society is a mistake.

  17. Behaviour change due to social pressure? on The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The most troubling aspect of this story is that the person felt that he needed to change his behaviour when he learned society would diagnose him as abnormal, despite having been a functional member of society and a respected scientist for several decades with his behaviour as-is.

  18. Re: Interesting move on Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK · · Score: 1

    O2 is also a pretty big ISP...

  19. Re: It's a sad day... on Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK · · Score: 2

    I know of people who were refused entry in the US or denied a green card because they had hosted a Tor node before.

  20. Re: wishful thinking on Researcher Shows How GPUs Make Terrific Network Monitors · · Score: 2

    In practice, most people who publish results of a new algorithm ported to GPU do not have a version well-optimized for CPU, or aren't that good at optimization in the first place. I've had several cases where I could make the CPU version faster than their GPU version, despite them having claimed a x200 speed-up with the GPU.
    If you have a fairly normal algorithm in terms of data access and your speed-up is bigger than 4, you're probably doing it wrong.

  21. Re: That's it? on Researcher Shows How GPUs Make Terrific Network Monitors · · Score: 1

    A Xeon also has SIMD, which gives a speed-up of 8.

  22. Re: Human Relatives on Mystery Humans Spiced Up Ancients' Sex Lives · · Score: 1

    Compassion is not a rational activity, since it's an emotion..
    You're implying laws should try to prevent sociopathic behaviour, but that would be problematic in a society that relies on capitalism and individualism like ours.

  23. Re: Human Relatives on Mystery Humans Spiced Up Ancients' Sex Lives · · Score: 0

    It's better for you if others are compassionate, but it's not better for you if you are.

  24. Re: Human Relatives on Mystery Humans Spiced Up Ancients' Sex Lives · · Score: 1

    A lot of text to say nothing. All you did was say that compassion and intellect are linked, which makes no sense since rational thought requires not being biased by emotions, and that compassion is morally good, an obvious religious belief. There is no universal truth, morals are entirely arbitrary.

  25. Re: Human Relatives on Mystery Humans Spiced Up Ancients' Sex Lives · · Score: 0

    Compassion isn't a feature, it's a bug. For survival, it's better to control than to be controlled.