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  1. Re:Not gonna happen on Promising Vaccine Candidate Could Lead To a Definitive Cure For HIV · · Score: 1

    Nice tinfoil hat. When can I buy one?

  2. Re:American priorities on Only One US City Makes "Top Ten Internet Cities Worldwide" List · · Score: 0

    I both Praga and Amsterdam, the state-owned telco is only one of the available providers.

  3. A person steals employer's source code to seed it's own startup. Happens all the time. Why is this a news?

    Ah, I see, because it's about the "Wall street". A sure way to get plenty of attention on /.

  4. Re:Practical on The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years · · Score: 2

    anyone who lives within 6km of work now has a viable method of commuting that completely avoids traffic

    It's called 'bicycle', and it's slightly cheaper than 150k$.

  5. Messenger bag on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? · · Score: 2
  6. Demand higher wages! on Study Questions H-1B Policies · · Score: 0

    There is this one city in USA, where workers secured themselves high wages, thick safety nets and generous pensions.

    Detroit.

  7. Re:Here's an idea on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    Monies! The best superpower ever!
    (confirmed Mr Stark)

  8. Re:Better plots? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, because Americans are the pinnacle of intellectual development.

  9. Re:The sorts of things you get on Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle? · · Score: 2
    Oracle has more features than PostgreSQL, no argument here. But Postgres development seems to b more agile, and these guys are catching up fast:

    Materialized views (and all the related magic)

    Partially there, more features to appear soon.

    Index only scans (can be a major performance boost)

    Available in PostgreSQL too.

    Oracle uses a statistical optimizer for execution plans in the engine.

    So is Postgres.

  10. Re:what keeps us from switching ? on Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle? · · Score: 1

    Mongo will work in specific domains, as long as you put a lot of forethought into your schema

    So will .ini files! And, who knows, they may even be more reliable!

  11. Re:MongoDB--run away on Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mongo is not worth the pixels it's been written on. I've been there, I've seen that, I don't wish my worst enemies to go there again.
    You can store any arbitrary data, index it in any way, and run any language you like server-side with Postgres. And all this with full ACID, reliability, deterministic resource consumption and very decent performance.
    MongoDB is a toy in comparison.

  12. Dumb on How Old Is the Average Country? · · Score: 1

    The stupidest thing I've seen this week.
    Age of a country != Time since last occupation.

  13. Them females? on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    Women?

  14. To meet chicks on Why Engineering Freshmen Should Take Humanities Courses · · Score: 2

    To meet girls. Simple!

  15. Re:Whoosh on Microsoft Kills Xbox One Phone-Home DRM · · Score: 1

    And yet they dominate the desktop market, and they will until the end (their's or the market's).

  16. Re:Whoosh on Microsoft Kills Xbox One Phone-Home DRM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

  17. Re:Hope they will fix the motion sickness problem on Oculus Rift Raises Another $16 Million · · Score: 1
    You could join Space Marines to

    See exotic planets, meet interesting and stimulating sentient beings of an ancient culture... and kill them.

  18. Re:Good on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 2

    They are not charging for the exchange, they live off the spread between bid and ask. (OK, most of them. But I only ever seen commission taken in the UK).
    So the tax would be, in the end, paid by the traveller ("long term investor"), and not by the exchange shop ("high-frequency trader").

  19. Re:Good on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    And what about other assets, like currencies? Should they be taxed in similar way?
    You may not be so familiar with this in the US, but here in Europe, despite the Euro, people exchange currencies (effectively buying.selling financial instruments) quite often.
    It may not be big thing for a traveller, but a currency-exchange kiosks are doing tons of small transactions very frequently.

  20. Re:Much awaited.. on Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back As the Terminator · · Score: 2

    All I can remember is size-adjusting of boobies :)

  21. Re:Wanna earn $200K+? Two words... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 2
    Most of the financial companies in London recruit devs without any financial background.
    So:
    1. 1. Move to London,
    2. 2. Be prepared to have commute from hell,
    3. 3. Profit.
  22. Development in the open on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    So Microsoft is following the Open Source projects in crowdsourcing the design process. They also seem to adopt "release early, release often".
    The only missing bit seems to be github upload.; And maybe a public bug report system, with #1 bug along the lines of "Linux has a majority market share".

  23. Re:Rosebud on Green Lantern Writer To Pen Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    I wanted to jokingly reply that I'd like to see the further adventures of Scarlet and Rhett, but apparently there was a sequel event to that...

  24. Re:A great disturbance... on Green Lantern Writer To Pen Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    This was when Vulcan was destroyed, right?

  25. Re:This does not inspire confidence in me on Green Lantern Writer To Pen Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The new Dredd movie was notable for not being notable! It was notable for simple, brutal, gritty story. It was notable for the lack of showing-off, CGI-generated landscapes/action sequences etc. It was notable for not being preachy. And for the main character never taking the helmet off too.
    I loved it.

    But, being South African/British, it was not really a Hollywood movie, was it?