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  1. Re:20 Years? on Ask Slashdot: How To Find Expertise For Amateur Game Development? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't berating him. I was simply saying, it's not surprising.

    And i wouldn't say that guy who couldn't tell me what a hashtable does, was an idiot. I just wouldn't call him a Software Engineer.

  2. Re:20 Years? on Ask Slashdot: How To Find Expertise For Amateur Game Development? · · Score: 1

    A hashtable is an important data structure that is used everywhere. I think you should have a basic understanding of such a common structure. What would have satisfied me is a basic explanation of the process that get and put go through. 45 minutes and i'm basically looking for answers to 2 questions, how a hash map works and an implementation of atoi. Asking that of a Senior Software Engineer should not be problematic.

  3. Re:Blast from the past on Wine 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Finally, the point of ReactOS is that Windows programs should run on it.

    Yes, and unless I'm mistaken KDE on windows would run windows apps as well.

    There is no reason to introduce KDE

    THe reason, as I mentioned above would be to save them time from having to write a menu system and taskbar and ect. assuming KDE on windows was working well enough.

    when you have to write things like explorer.exe and the whole shell that Windows programs expect to have. The "crap that they spend their time on" is making a binary-compatible Windows OS.

    Yes, they'll have to make stuff work. Like explorer.exe. BUt they would save themselves much time.

  4. Re:Blast from the past on Wine 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    You are completely wrong.

  5. Re:20 Years? on Ask Slashdot: How To Find Expertise For Amateur Game Development? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Haven't interviewed a few people with 'decades of experience', that is not surprising. I just interviewed a guy with 15 years of experience that couldn't tell me how a hash table works. But he certainly new a lot of buzzwords.

  6. Re:Blast from the past on Wine 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Slightly off topic, but I wonder why react OS doesn't switch to using kde as a window manager. you would think that would free them up from having to do a lot of the crap that they spend their time on. But maybe i'm wrong.

  7. Re:So says the religious guy. on Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science' · · Score: 1, Troll

    They're not dumb, they're just following an agenda that requires a bit of science denial now and then.

    This is politicians in general. Just about anytime someone says "blah blah (democrats/republicans) blah blah" it can be applied both ways. Partisan politics are stupid, imo.

    For global warming, it's because the rich assholes they toady to don't want to change the way they do business, even if it means destroying the nest we live in.[*]

    You know what, even if man made global warming is real, the estimates that i've seen are a 1 degree rise in temperature and sea level rising a foot, over a century. And the only acceptable reaction, less you be labeled a denier is "LET"S DRASTICALLY ALTER OUR WAY OF LIFE AND BASICALLY FORGO MODERN LIFE AS WE KNOW IT". Have fun explaining that to someone when they can't get their medicine on time, because that diesel truck was causing too much pollution. Or countless other scenarios that are helped because of oil.

    For creationism, it's because there aren't enough rich people to win elections, so they have to con various flavors of fools into voting against their own best interests.

    That's right anyone who doesn't vote your way is a fool. You know what, it drives me nuts arguing with liberals/conservatives, but I almost always refrain from calling people stupid(and i regret the times i have done that). You know why? Because it's not really true. Besides which, lowering yourself to insults is usually just an indicator of a lack of an intelligent argument.

    Related note, the junk food industry is fighting efforts to remove vending machines from gradeschools, because their profits are more important than the kids' health.

    Personally I don't give a shit either way, it's the decision of the school and parents. Thankfully, people actually care about their children, if it's a big issue to them, they won't let the machines in.

    We've evolved into a society where the haves only care about having more, fuck the consequences.

    No, human beings don't evolve a whole lot (back to that science thing). People, like you apparently, just think you know better for other people than they do. Which leads to this sort of bullshit.

  8. Re:hackerspaces.org on Slashdot Visits Metrix Create:Space in Seattle (Video) · · Score: 1

    I'm a software engineer with 0 background in anything electrical. I've always want to tinker with stuff, and I had no clue places like this existed. I looked online for tutorials and such and never came across these things.

  9. Re:How does going outside help? on Aging Eyes Blamed For Seniors' Health Woes · · Score: 1

    i was gonna make that joke too.

  10. Re:For you, maybe. on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    I use linux for real work and for facebook and youtube..

  11. Re:Some developers appreciate their QA people on What Does a Software Tester's Job Constitute? · · Score: 1

    As a developer my OP was more of a joke about my dislike of the arrogance of developers in general. and what seems to be all to often the talking down to the testers.

  12. it means on What Does a Software Tester's Job Constitute? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    telling the developer he's right about everything and the product is never broken, or the tester will get a tongue lashing.

  13. Yes on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everything is better in europe.

    Their healthcare, their food, their government, their women, their cars, their tv, their bathrooms, their internet.

    I heard they all have supercomputers for their desktops but aren't allowed to tell us americans cus we'll be too embarrassed.

  14. Re:Am glad that I ain't American !! on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    mean exactly Jack Shit after years of Republican rule.

    Ahh america, where people want to turn everything into a partisan argument.

    If you don't think destroying civil liberties is a bipartisan effort, you quite frankly are an idiot.

    In the last year, we have a democrat president who thinks it's perfectly fine to assassinate american citizens abroad and who signed the shitty NDAA that says americans can be held indefinitely, which was pushed by republicans.

    This is government getting stuff done, and comprising for the good of the country! lol

  15. Re:Ron Paul & The Internet on Ask Slashdot: Which Candidates For Geek Issues? · · Score: 1

    you didn't buy your house from the free market, oh wait you did.

    you didn't by the computer from the free market, oh wait you did.

    you didn't buy the internet from the free market, oh wait you did.

    you didn't buy the tv from the free market, oh wait you did.

    you the content on the tv isn't provided because of the free market, oh wait it is.

    you didn't buy the refrigerator from the free market, oh wait you did.

    Now, go some place without a free market and maybe you'll get some of that, maybe not. and even if you get some of it, it will not be as good.

  16. Re:Ron Paul & The Internet on Ask Slashdot: Which Candidates For Geek Issues? · · Score: 1

    Yep because microsoft, yahoo, google .. ect are all from government research. While you can claim that some things are based on government research, the fact is the internet would not exist today without the free market.

    the market is far from perfect, it is superior, because you would not have teh above, whom have provided you with so many services and products. and that's ignoring more basic human needs.

  17. Re:Ron Paul & The Internet on Ask Slashdot: Which Candidates For Geek Issues? · · Score: 1

    while that's true to some extent, that doesn't take away anything from my point.

    The computer, the house, the internet, the monitor, the tv, content on tv, the refridgerator ect ect. you would not have if there was no free market.

  18. Re:Ron Paul & The Internet on Ask Slashdot: Which Candidates For Geek Issues? · · Score: 1

    unfounded? look around you and all the things you enjoy today are because of that free market. Things that don't happen in a non free country.

  19. Re:!RonPaul on Ask Slashdot: Which Candidates For Geek Issues? · · Score: 2

    If you've been paying attention, you' d know the following:

    - Ron Paul did not write those
    - Ron Paul has disavowed them
    - Ron Paul has admitted this as a mistake

    It's a pretty lame excuse to the hold something against him, knowing the above 3 facts, unless you can say you've never screwed up. It's also pretty lame considering he's consistently talked about issues for the past 30 years, and says what he believes even when it's unpopular.

  20. Re:Strange names on Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools · · Score: 1

    completely irrelevant to stuff written in the last, 30 years or so?

  21. Re:Government action on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    I like the part where you try to disparage and dismiss a group of people whom may have a different political view point than your own. Which is basically the whole point of your post, as far as i can tell.

  22. Re:Strange names on Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools · · Score: 2

    in scripts, i pretty much quote everything. seems to be the way to avoid problems. of course, i'm not a sysadmin by trade, so maybe it's bad for some reason or something.

    when at the prompt i hit tab.

    We'd probably avoid a lot of problems, if people wouldn't be so lazy to not type a few extra characters.

  23. Re:Pictures from the bomb range! on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 1

    I wondered why the links i clicked on werent' working.. lol

  24. Re:Motherfuckers. on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 1

    That is such bullshit. Ross Perot spent so much money getting attention, Ron Paul has said the same thing for 30 years and is finally getting some attention.

  25. Re:Gone gold! on Minecraft Is Finished · · Score: 1

    if there was something else to the movie and i found the villains annoying and not essential to enjoying the movie(and there was a villian setting) I would.