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  1. It's all about enunciation on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    If a ship had 26 sheep...

    Shouldn't that be "20 sick sheep"?

  2. Re:Exponential growth of developers on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I heard a stat recently that said the number of programmers is doubling every 5 years. Given that most new programmers are likely young professionals coming straight out of college, this means that at any point in time, half of all programmers have less than 5 years experience and the median age is somewhere in the mid-to-late 20s.

  3. A family of four with an income of $105,350 per year is considered "low income." A $65,800 annual income is considered "very low" for a family the same size, and $39,500 is "extremely low."

    Making only $27,400 is considered "incredibly low". Whereas an income of $16,900 is "impossibly low". And for those making $8,500, their income is "super-duper low". $0 is right out.

  4. Re:Most coders on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    90% of people make up statistics. The other half are bad at math.

  5. You're asking the question wrong... on Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 2

    Why is so much reported _anything_ wrong? The media wants to come across as the trusted expert on everything, but the truth is they don't know squat about anything.

  6. Did I miss something? on Slashdot Asks: Is Scrum Still Relevant? (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Where did this article even talk about Scrum? All I saw were a couple of comments about how it's hard to have daily stand-ups when teams aren't co-located.

  7. Missing Option on Future of Cars: Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Or Electric? · · Score: 1

    Flying!

  8. Literary analogy on Volume 4A of Knuth's TAOCP Finally In Print · · Score: 1
    So is this series going to be just like Stephen King's Dark Tower Series?

    Knuth takes forever to get the first 4 volumes out, making you wonder if he'll ever finish the whole thing. Then he will get the final three volumes out in rapid succession, but they will largely be regarded as huge disappointments by the rest of the programming community. For the most part, those last three volumes will just reference prior work Knuth has done, and talk a lot about recursion.

  9. Who do they expect to buy into this? on Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases · · Score: 1

    Any movie that I could possibly want enough to buy, I would have already seen at the theater. For any movie that I just saw in the theater, I can certainly wait an additional month before I have to see again.

  10. Stick to what's popular on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 1

    Well, obviously Harry Potter. And vampires. Definitely focus on books with teenage vampires.

  11. Re:Sesame Street & the Importance of Bilingual on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    Ik lijk het huis.

    I'm sorry, you incorrectly misspelled 'the' as 'het' when in fact, everyone knows that the proper way to misspell 'the' is 'teh'.

  12. Re:Seems like a good idea to me on Small Robots Could Build Landing Site For Moon Base · · Score: 1

    Except we can call it 'Moonba'!