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  1. cost of living on Interns at Facebook, Google Out-Earn the Average American (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    cost of living in the bay area is high. tax brackets and AMT and benefit qualifications do not take cost of living in to account.

  2. Sometimes you need the Sistine Chapel. Mostly, though, you just need to cover up some mildew above the shower before the in-laws arrive.

  3. the thing that stinks the most is that the AMT is absolute, not relative to cost-of-living.

  4. Re: It has its uses on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Object is still strong. It's just not static.

  5. Re: C coders are brain damaged on Stack Overflow Reveals Which Programming Languages Are Most Used At Night (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    > I get paid $120/hour to solve other people's C problems.

    Yay!!! Learn "C" so you can fix other people's problems for a living!!!

    How dull.

    I prefer to make my own stuff.

  6. People who write c# obviously have other stuff to do outside of work hours. Like spend time with people they love, or read a good book, or sit in the dark in their mom's basement frantically drinking Diet Coke and coding some meaningless tripe.

    Oh, no, not that last one...

  7. So... If you want to earn money coding, learn C#?

  8. Ok, so if the h1b quota stays the same, and the h1b salaries increase, then that implies that US citizens' salaries will decrease.

    Is that the message he's sending?

  9. Re: Mine: on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    The book is about as subtle as a brick in the face, and in some cases it seems
    like it's advocating for fascism. The film, on the other hand, does it with satire (and bugs and boobs). All of which makes it significantly better than the book.

  10. Re: The only thing about Ubuntu on Canonical Killing Unity For Ubuntu Linux, Will Switch To the Superior GNOME (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    have you tried xubuntu?

  11. one solution is to use blackbird to turn off all telemetry and uninstall builtin spy/adware. be warned, though, i had some basic things break (like start menu search) after running it.

  12. unless they waive the ~2.5% credit card charge for doing this, i don't see the point.

  13. Re:They both suck! on Someone on Medium Just Said C++ Was Better Than C (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    do yourself a favor and look at the C grammar section that deals with types (including function declarations), consider the constraints that a LALR grammar places on what you can do, then it'll all make perfect sense.

  14. Re: It's become derogatory? on 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to go talk to Socrates.

  15. Berkeley _is_ a state college, though.

  16. Re: And now a Rant from all the Vista Supporters.. on Microsoft To End Support For Windows Vista In Less Than a Month (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Jet brains is doing a resharper/IntelliJ thing soon, apparently.

  17. Re:Is it that expensive? on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    for individuals, startups, or open-source development, it's free.

  18. Re:64-bit on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    it's pretty easy to OOM Visual Studio with huge C# projects - the language service just brings it to its knees.

    but for a file->new->todo-list product launch demo it works just fine. ship it!

  19. Re:bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    you can definitely boot to zfsonlinux on jessie.

    i have used the following to set up a jessie machine with a single root raidz8 pool:

    https://github.com/zfsonlinux/...

  20. Re:bit rot on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    i have a machine running debian squeeze with a raidz4+1 ssd cache pool that has hosted several VMs with heavy load for 3 years now. i have seen 1 error that was found and fixed during a routine scrub.
    http://zfsonlinux.org/ has more.

  21. Re:Risk Averse CEOs are holding us back on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 1

    but more importantly, it wouldn't sell many more than one that's just a little bit faster than last year's one.

    you can only justify 10x R&D if you can guarantee 10x revenue. also, once you're made your quantum leap in performance, presumably it's going to be harder to make the same relative performance gain that it would have been if you hadn't leaped, so subsequent releases' revenues would end up less than before.

  22. Re:Because there's no such thing as one "performan on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 1

    yield is more closely related to area than gate count.

  23. Re:The Once and Future CPU on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 1

    huh? Moore's law has always been about transistor density. You're probably thinking of that other law that has something to do with whatever the hell it is you're talking about.

  24. Re:One word on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 1

    > physics

    wrong word.

    the real reason is: money.

  25. Re:Can we please have that here in California? on UK: New Drivers Caught Using a Phone Will Lose Their License (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    i wonder. if you have your parking brake on, does it count?