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  1. Re:Get back to me... on Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    1, You just need a building that doesn't let groundwater in, and put some guards in front of it.

  2. Quit on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It seems her boss doesn't value her work, and quality work in general. I wouldn't advise to stay at such a company on the long term. Nothing will change until she gets overwhelmed and burnt out, and then she'll be the scapegoat for the crisis.

  3. Re:Target scam was pretty good. on Twitter is Struggling To Contain the Bitcoin Scam Outbreak (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Twitter was stupid to allow to change the name of a verified account without doing the verification again.

  4. Re: I fail to see what this has to do with ethics on IBM Researchers Teach Pac-Man To Do No Harm (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Meanwhile SuperPac Man just gobbles up all the points and uses them to lobby the game developer.

  5. Re: Bug or feature on How the Finnish Survive Without Small Talk (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What counts as social skill depends on the society.

  6. Re:uber is all most Enslavement with others left h on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FYI people didn't work 12-16 hours on a farm on a regular basis, the industrial revolution made people work longer hours than before.

    http://groups.csail.mit.edu/ma...

    https://www.adamsmith.org/blog...

  7. It's called Calc.

  8. Re: It's a slippery slope, but..... on Humans Having Sex With Neanderthals Gave Us Protection Against Ancient Epidemics (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    The sickle cell disease that's common in Africa might not qualify as an autoimmune disease, but it's the result of a similar tradeoff.

  9. What if no one wants to sell you a VPS or let have your own dedicated server in their datacenter. Is that not a violation of free speech?

  10. Yeah, von Neumann totally didn't have access to computers.

  11. Raised on a steady diet of Russia Today, I must conclude it must have been done by George Soros personally.

  12. Re:What has "programmer" Martin Fowler actually do on The State of Agile Software in 2018 (martinfowler.com) · · Score: 1

    He got some cushy job at a big corporation, but I don't see any game changer project.

  13. Re:Do you know what this will actually do? on Wikipedia Had No Idea YouTube Was Going To Use It To Fact-Check Conspiracy Theories (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's hope that Youtube will donate some money to Wikipedia for the extra traffic.

    The linked articles will probably be locked fast.

  14. That it doesn't happen to all of them at once.

  15. "The inverse of that hologram is then applied to the source point, cancelling out the probability of the target being at the source location"

    This part is the desintegration. I understand that the writers of Star Trek didn't want it to mean death, but in reality this would be death.

  16. Re:administration on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    IMHO being able to install programs is like driving and creating programs is fixing your car.

  17. administration on Learning To Program Is Getting Harder (slashdot.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If someone just wants to learn to program, they shouldn't have to learn system administration first.

    I disagree with that. Being able navigate your hard drive and install programs is more important than being able to code, and should come first.

  18. Re:A pop group? on Japan's Latest Sensation is a Cryptocurrency Pop Group (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    When it's invented, it will be called Lolicoin.

  19. Re:Driven by Raspberry Pi? on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Java and PHP are very different beasts. The fractal of bad design refers to PHP.

    Java has minor design oversights like type erasure in generics, but otherwise a decent language with decent tools and libraries.

  20. Re:Driven by Raspberry Pi? on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's correct, however most of the example code you'll find is written in C style C++.

  21. Re:Driven by Raspberry Pi? on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can use more advanced programming languages on the Pi that have decent execution speed too, like Java or C#. I think C's popularity is more driven by Arduino, where other alternatives don't exist.

  22. Re:Its worse than all that on Will Millennials Be Forced Out of Tech Jobs When They Turn 40? (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    trying to work out how to provide self driving components to auto makers.

    So how is machine learning and computer vision not "pure tech"?

  23. Re:Tell me something I don't know ... on Just 14 People Make 500,000 Tons of Steel a Year in Austria (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't worry, we'll all be gainfully employed as artist-prostitutes.

  24. It should be a highly parallel language, where you can program with constraints.

  25. Re:Not sure if it's good or bad.. on IT Leaders Will Struggle To Meet Future Demands, Study Says (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    AI, Robotics, and OO Programming (Java is there but may be on decline in a few years in favor of Python or improved JavaScript and possibly C/C++).

    Python is getting stronger in data mining and the cloud (AWS lambda), but that's because it has nice bindings for a lot of c/c++ libraries. Typescript is nice, but it doesn't have a mature ecosystem (like a mature IDE).
    C++ is still overly complicated which prevents good autocomplete and needs expensive tools to sanity check.

    General purpose computing will be the domain of Java and C# for a long time.