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  1. Re:Sole proprietors cannot develop for PlayStation on Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and many ISPs offer a static IP only to offices in commercially zoned areas, not to home offices.

    It's easy to get a virtual private server hosted at an ISP for a small sum per month to establish an static IP address.

  2. I'm using vsvim inside Visual Studio, which works moderately well. For more robust stuff, I use vim in the WSL. For straight Linux, it is vim all the way baby.

  3. Re:Tax is for the little people on New York Mayor Says Amazon Headquarters Debacle Was 'an Abuse of Corporate Power' (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The notion that corporations pass income taxes on to consumers is not supported by any data whatsoever.

    Really? Any sanely run corporation must pass on all costs to the customers or eventually go out of business.

  4. Re:too deep on Well Water Likely Available Across Mars (behindtheblack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More precisely it is at the level that is 4 km below the "Mars 17 DATUM", which could be thought of as a possible sea level reference if Mars actually had surface water oceans. It just means you need to be located at a site with an elevation lower than that reference to find the water. Still, that doesn't mean it will be easy to access or treat.

  5. Re:Does not matter on Well Water Likely Available Across Mars (behindtheblack.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure Elon will be greatly saddened to be called a nobody.

  6. I've never seen any wireless USB devices. Has anyone actually used one and how well does it work compared to wired USB?

  7. Software Defined Networking Gone Wrong? on FCC Says It is Investigating CenturyLink 911 Outage · · Score: 1

    Did someone decide to deploy a country wide change to the SDN configuration?

  8. Top needed porting too on Microsoft Working on Porting Sysinternals To Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    At one point top needed to be ported to Linux too.

  9. Re:Use the right options on Encrypt NFSv4 with TLS Encryption Using Stunnel (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    It is true that the Kerberos infrastructure is a bit of a pain, but it does work well when you have it in place.

  10. Re:Betteridge's law on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 2

    Supposedly that is what a software architect should be doing, the high level design, outside of the pressure of the agile sprints. Ideally then you have a roadmap to where things need to go, with an initial set of stories defined for the sprints. Yeah, that doesn't seem to happen where I work either.

  11. Bah! on Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember when all we had was a paltry 1 GHz clock speed, and we were happy to have that. Get off my lawn!

  12. Real Nethackers don't need a numeric keypad on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Bah, get off my lawn!

  13. Re:Images? on Nokia's Banana Phone From The Matrix is Back (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    UBlock Origin helpfully kept their images off my screen.

  14. I call BS on The Most Productive Days and Times In 2017 (rescuetime.com) · · Score: 1

    One size fits all is almost never appropriate. I know I'm most productive at the start of the morning before people start interrupting me for questions, and usually through a good part of the afternoon before 4 PM.

  15. Hope it doesn't end up like this tho... https://www.amazon.com/Three-B...

    I thoroughly enjoyed The Three Body Problem and its sequels.

  16. Keep it simple on Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Explain Their Work To Non-Programmers? · · Score: 1

    I used to say "I store bits for scientists that they want to get back later" (archive and file systems). Now I say "I help save people's lives" (medical devices).

  17. Re:overcast on Apple Has Ruined Its Podcasts App (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree, Overcast gives me the tools to listen the way I like, I gave up on the Apple podcast app about a year and a half ago.

  18. Re:Thanks Slashdot! on Jonathan Coulton's New Dystopian Album Becomes a Graphic Novel (jonathancoulton.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I feel that way about movies.

  19. Yawn, just a boring launch on Atlas 5 Rocket Launches $400 Million NASA Satellite Into Space (spaceflightnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing even landed back on Earth on a pillar of flame. Space-X has ruined ordinary throwaway the booster launches for everyone.

  20. Close the other person's account if possible on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    Had a young woman open a Pinterest account with my unusual email address. I can't figure out how she would have ever pulled it out of thin air making it up. Clicked the "forgot my password" link on the web site, changed it, then closed and deleted the account.

  21. Excellent on O'Reilly No Longer Selling Individual Books, Videos Online · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the pointer.

  22. Private companies upgrade regularly, realizing it improves security/productivity.

    If only that were true. Where I'm working at the moment, we are still using Office 2007. Other tools for software development are nowhere near current. Instead, the IT department has rolled out some kind of USB connected display device for which the device drivers regularly break so that no one can actually display anything on the meeting room TVs. That solution undoubtedly cost more that a couple of types of video cable per room.

  23. I liked getting PDF format ebooks on O'Reilly No Longer Selling Individual Books, Videos Online · · Score: 2

    I can read PDFs on the systems I need to use without too much hassle. Now it appears that I won't be able to get them from O'Reilly or elsewhere for a one time charge. Signing up for Safari doesn't sound like a great deal to me. Anyone have experience with Calibre for reading ePub on desktop systems? Is it s reasonable alternative to PDF?

  24. Carriers lag in deployment, most people don't care on Apple's New iPhones May Miss Out On Higher-Speed Data Links (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    By the time the carriers actually manage to roll this out to most areas, Apple will probably be delivering the iPhone 9 that will include chips that will handle it. Most people won't care anyway, as they can't read/send enough Tweets to matter.

  25. Maybe stop making crap movies? on Hollywood Producer Blames Rotten Tomatoes For Convincing People Not To See His Movie (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't watch very many movies anymore, too many of them are just remakes of older movies or are just not interesting subject wise. Why do producers think that everyone will want to watch their particular piece of drivel?