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  1. Re:Picking your post apart: on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Working Environment For a Developer? · · Score: 1

    Lots of bagging on VMs but they are great to have available, especially if you want to run a long running batch job without tying up your machine

  2. Re:Netflix outspends HBO more than 2:1? on Enemy Number One is Netflix: The Monster That's Eating Hollywood (business-standard.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure where this thread is going... sure HBO isn't nearly as prolific but the quality is better.

  3. Re:Netflix outspends HBO more than 2:1? on Enemy Number One is Netflix: The Monster That's Eating Hollywood (business-standard.com) · · Score: 1

    Sopranos and Deadwood come to mind and I don't even have HBO

  4. Aren't going to hang around for 8,600$ a year.

  5. Re:Holy Blinking Cursor, Batman! on Blinking Cursor Devours CPU Cycles in Visual Studio Code Editor (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obviously the OP suffers from incredibly lazy thinking to believe that he can find a good candidate with just a couple of questions. You certainly don't want to work there.

  6. Re:Uber issue, not a tech issue on Uber Manager Told Female Engineer That 'Sexism is Systemic in Tech' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's hardly a 'progressive' thing. Most places are small where everyone knows each other and bad interpersonal behavior of any sort is not tolerated. At least that's been my experience.

  7. Re:Hmmm... on Uber Manager Told Female Engineer That 'Sexism is Systemic in Tech' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Remember today is SJW day or what we used to call Friday.

  8. Re:Telling the truth is fatal on Uber Manager Told Female Engineer That 'Sexism is Systemic in Tech' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    That's been my experience. It's mostly an issue with 'bro startups' in silicon valley that make the news, nobody cares about the small boring businesses that make up the majority of IT. Also at my current job the majority of my co-workers are women including my boss. I suspect things would not end well if I said or did something stupid along that vein....

  9. Not every day on Alcohol Is Good for Your Heart -- Most of the Time (time.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't drink every day. When I do it feels like a habit and it is less enjoyable, so I limit myself to one or two drinks a week. How many people fall into this group?

  10. Re:And I don't have a single one of these installe on App That Lets People Make Personalized Emojis Is the Fastest Growing App In Past Two Years (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    What is a 'personalized emoji'? It's always heartening to hear about people using technology for the betterment of mankind....

  11. Re:The Lemming Society is pathetic. on Hollywood Producer Blames Rotten Tomatoes For Convincing People Not To See His Movie (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    If movies were more reasonably priced this might make sense.....

  12. Re:Broken cleanup mechanism? on Molecule Kills Elderly Cells, Reduces Signs of Aging In Mice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    A payment on a car is a lot cheaper than having kids. Trust me I know :-)

  13. Re:Broken cleanup mechanism? on Molecule Kills Elderly Cells, Reduces Signs of Aging In Mice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    From a purely evolutionary standpoint you are correct, but I disagree from an energy/resource standpoint. Raising children is very expensive and resource intensive. Once you get over the reproductive hill most people start to tend toward frugal living. So for the same population a state of 'less children but living longer' is easier on the environment.
    All first world countries are experiencing a shrinking demographic and it make sense to help people live longer productive lives.

  14. Re:Sounds nice! on Molecule Kills Elderly Cells, Reduces Signs of Aging In Mice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Most developed nations are undergoing a shrinking demographic. People having less children and living longer is more efficient and environmentally friendly than the opposite.

  15. Re:Instead of bitching on YouTube Loses Major Advertisers Over Offensive Videos (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    Why isn't it possible? The issue is that it would cost something.

  16. Youtube needs better ad pairing on YouTube Loses Major Advertisers Over Offensive Videos (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have an issue with Youtube showing ads for revenue but they do a piss-poor job of targeting ads to content. Mostly I watch classical music on youtube and get ads for something accompanied with awful jarring music. It annoys me an I does a disservice to the advertiser... clearly the ad would be better displayed elsewhere.

  17. not sure where you are getting this number from I am paying 45$ month for 100

  18. Use it all the time.... google some code related thing, open a half dozen tabs, read them then want to repeat, go back to google tab then close all tabs to the right.

  19. Re:Just stop on Most Teens Who Abuse Opioids First Got Them From a Doctor (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Check out 'covert narcissism', might help.

  20. Re:Production server on O'Reilly Site Lists 165 Things Every Programmer Should Know (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's meant to be a pain. I've altered things (configuration, sql tabs) that I thought were development items that were really in production.

  21. Re:Something stinks on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Every president we've had since I was born has been inept, just in different and lest obvious ways.

  22. Re:Picking one at random on O'Reilly Site Lists 165 Things Every Programmer Should Know (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    If manglement is about to make a disastrous decision, it is my professional responsibility to inform them that said decision is disastrous

    Learned a long time ago to never give advice unless asked

  23. Re:Production server on O'Reilly Site Lists 165 Things Every Programmer Should Know (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    At the very least use a separate account with admin privileges.

  24. Re:Lots of links to articles, phfft on O'Reilly Site Lists 165 Things Every Programmer Should Know (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    Change the function name?

  25. Re:Lots of links to articles, phfft on O'Reilly Site Lists 165 Things Every Programmer Should Know (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    It also helps to get old and have your memory fade. If you don't follow good naming conventions it is hard to understand what you wrote yesterday.