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  1. Python and C on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 2

    Python gets you producing stuff fast, lets you concentrate on learning to program rather than learning to compile.

    Then, C. Build a Python extension which gets you up to speed with C (and serves as a base for many other languages as well). C Is a good starting point for C++ or Java or Objective C.

    This stuff is all free on Linux. If you don't have a dedicated Linux machine, download Virtual Box and install Linux on a VM and use that. After than then go ahead and pay Microsoft if that is your desire.

  2. I thought the Ohio River separated the two states.

    Not that this would stop them, but it seems mighty inconvenient.

  3. Re:Take a hike on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    hahahaha that was good

  4. While I think the H-1B program has been exploited to hell and back and would like to see it stopped.... the wording is odd.

    "Give priority to higher paid workers?" Very odd, and unenforceable.

    How about, "Limit the number of H-1B visa and raise the minimum salary for an H-1B visa holder to $100,000 per year?

  5. Interpretation suspect, not the data on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    At least in the case of the Reagan example.

  6. Gay people on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Generally have a very low fertility rate.

  7. >> hoping I had kept a copy

    THAT sounds like a trap to me.

  8. ...you don't get to run off with the root passwords. They are not your property, and you will end up on the wrong end of the shit stick.

  9. Asymmetric Warfare on ISIS Is Dropping Bombs With Drones In Iraq (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a great case study.

  10. Re:Cost of living in Silicon Valley on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So work in New York.

  11. A level playing field on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems this this benefits everyone except those who would exploit this program.

  12. Re:Defense contractor on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Job For This Recent CS Grad? · · Score: 1

    Even though they usually are the same companies doing the work and there is a bit of overlap (say when NASA launches a DOD satellite), NASA and DOD work are totally different animals.

  13. Defense contractor on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Job For This Recent CS Grad? · · Score: 1

    Can't be outsourced to H-1B's.

  14. Re: Bloody SJWs on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Job For This Recent CS Grad? · · Score: 0
  15. Profit taking on Bitcoin Is Crashing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    To be expected.

  16. Putting America first is not racist on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you are illegal, we want you out. While illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe, I'm looking at you too.

    A lot is said about America being a land of immigrants. It is true. Sadly you are not going to be one of them.

  17. Re: Do like them thar foreigners on Can Consumers Fight Package Thieves With Technology? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1
  18. The technology was invented 00 years ago on Can Consumers Fight Package Thieves With Technology? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    A US mail box with its trapdoor drop.

    A simple system that is good enough.

    Won't accept large packages - but this is a limitation of any locker type system.

  19. Re:Solutions available in this country : on Can Consumers Fight Package Thieves With Technology? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    No need for a programmable combo lock. The locker could simply have a door like a public mail box in the US.

    Not fool proof - but good enough.

  20. I have both, they are both limited, and there is quite a bit of overlap.

  21. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Oops, that was a typo.

  22. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes are all human and make typos. My password is "qwerty".

  23. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    And then follows up with "he should change is password immediately."

    I flag this excuse as BS.

  24. Re:Except they didn't. on Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It may meet the legal threshold for discrimination. It may not. Not a lawyer, so...

    However, it may be that what you claim is precisely what they are trying to prove.

  25. Intellisense is not AI.