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  1. Re:Ew on HP's New Logo Is the Awesome One It Never Used (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not really a minor consideration. It's the fundamental way HP does business - everything from HP only memory to HP only boards to HP only drives.

    Shit, shit and shit.

    isn't this the way Apple is functioning?

  2. Re:if it was 90 % female... on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If it was 90% female, the % would reach 50% pretty quickly. Similar to nightclubs, where women have free drink/entrance to attract more men.

  3. According to this day trend on Windows 10 Anniversary Update Will Bring Android Notifications To Your PC (winbeta.org) · · Score: 1

    Windows 10 anniversary

    is actually Windows 2

  4. Re:Linus filled a void on Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Linus was incredibly lucky to be in the right place at the right time.

    How many men could have been at the same place and time, and simply fail the job? (True for Linus Torvalds, also Bill Gates, etc...)

  5. Re:Climate change, AI robots, ISIS, econ. inequali on Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions Even Bigger Than Originally Thought (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but that'd be a reliable way to get rid of ISIS.

  6. Re:Japan especially terrible on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not mentioning most sites which design is so f-up that they cannot recognize a number entered while in "hiragana mode" - and force users to switch between modes all te time...

  7. Re:Programers can not even figures on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The domain doesn't resolve, even the MX type.

  8. Re: McKenzie should just get a Japanese name on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Like most cultures/countries - the Japanese are deeply attached to their cultural roots and want to preserve their language/alphabets/kanji.

  9. Re:McKenzie should just get a Japanese name on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Certainly not. Foreigner names may be "translated" into the katakana alphabet, which doesn't change much the number of characters (since full width katakana take each 2 bytes). Some foreigners get themselves a name in "kanji" (ideograms), but that name (unless it's the spouse name) has not official value.

  10. Re:I can't book an airline ticket on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Cher is not allowed to fly, her tight skin may not withstand high altitude air pressure.

  11. Re:Aw, come on ... on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe some dumb languages check for "null" (string) values. In PHP,
    echo "0" ? 1:0; // echoes 0
    echo "0.0" ? 1:0; // echoes 1

  12. Re:How is McKenzie too long in Japan? on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, because "Yamamoto" takes only 2 characters, two ideograms, one for Yama and one for Moto.

  13. The AI writes the novel "autonomously" on Japanese AI Program Wrote a Short Novel, Almost Won a Literary Prize (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    Hitoshi Matsubara and his team at Future University Hakodate in Japan selected words and sentences, and set parameters for construction before letting the AI "write" the novel autonomously

    So, basically the AI was given the sentences and was parameterized to arrange them. I'd need more to be amazed (especially coming from Japan)

  14. My point is not that the code is buggy, the original few lines are in TFS here. And the code works.
    The point is that even such a simple padding algorithm uses unnecessary variable and, all in all, is not well written.

    Aaah, have to explain everything ..

  15. Seriously, real programmers do not produce such crappy code
    var i = -1; // unnecessary var, assigned far ahead from use
    len = len - str.length; // len -= str.length
    while (++i < len) { // while (len-- > 0)

  16. Re:Netflix got worldwide exposure at the cost of t on Netflix CEO Says Blocking Proxy Services Is Maturation of Internet TV (mobilesyrup.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends on the % of people that were using a VPN/proxy in the first place. Unfortunately, Netflix is big enough to not care about a few % of users.

  17. Re:Non-offensive on Obama Nominates Merrick Garland For Supreme Court (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    But does he use Linux!?

    That'd be the end of him!

  18. Re:Something to look forward to on Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Mine was not. Nope.

  19. Re:Something to look forward to on Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    I made a "submission" about something that really annoys me since yesterday..

  20. Re:Anyone else see the Hobbit door at 0:31? on New Horizons' First Ultra High Resolution Photos of Pluto Released · · Score: 1

    With that messy ground, i guess you may see whatever you want to see.. Did you watch a Peter Jackson movie recently?

  21. Re:Cue the haters on PHP 7 Ready For Release (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    __construct(), $this, -> for starters

  22. Re:What a fucking childish logo! on Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    You may like better the Christmas one .

  23. Re:Something to look forward to on Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot main problem is not server side, it's client side, mainly CSS

  24. Re:I've found the Perl 6 community to be dreadful. on Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    The Achilles heel of Perl is the references. Like in Java, JS and many others (PHP also but with copy-on-write) Perl should only have a references layer that is hidden from the dev perspective.

  25. Re:Self-fulfilling prophecy? on The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I see where you're going. C would be something like

    puts ( sanitize_string ( get_POST ( "name" )));

    Since a good langage comes with good libraries.