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  1. Re: They're right you bunch of freetards on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 1

    Facebook definitely does have customers. They are called 'advertisers'. And they do pay. Lots.

  2. Re: Week old news on AT&T Bills Elderly Customer $24,298.93 For Landline Dial-Up Service · · Score: 2

    All of history. Old news. No story there.

  3. Re: She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    Have you been to a movie recently? Or watched tv? Or gone thought the checkout line at a grocery store/supermarket/newsagent? Or do you just live under a rock?

  4. Re: Atom? The shittiest text editor around? on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio Code Preview For Linux, OS X, and Windows · · Score: 1

    The goal was to have win95 run as well as OS2 in 4MB ram. I saw graphs of various perf metrics vs build# and I believe they were all made on 4MB machines.

  5. Re: I can't believe it's not bitter on Google Insiders Talk About Why Google+ Failed · · Score: 1

    And the public persona you're going for is 'pathetic troll'? Congratulations!

  6. Re: What we are seeing is ... on Google Insiders Talk About Why Google+ Failed · · Score: 1

    Pathetic typo troll is pathetic.

  7. Re:Is most of it empty space? on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    The boundary isn't just infinitely long, it's 2D!

  8. Re:Ehhh What ? on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    Isn't decoherence a thing?

  9. Re:evolution on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    The universe does all that by existing.

  10. Re:Ehhh What ? on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    you're confusing conceptual and abstract. they're different.

    concepts are the components of thought, and require a mind.

    logic (math) is abstract and does not require a mind.

    the question of whether or not logical absolutes can exist without a universe is probably not a useful one to consider.

  11. Re:Ehhh What ? on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    > Math doesn't depend on the Universe

    are you saying that if the universe didn't exist then Math could still exist?

    that's a bold statement, and i'm not sure you have a proof.

  12. Re: Holy acronyms Batman! on Microsoft Starts Working On an LLVM-Based Compiler For .NET · · Score: 1

    You're not. This is a tech website. Click the link near the box where you typed 'Google.com' marked 'Martha Stewart'

  13. Re: Or perhaps MS wants out of the language biz on Microsoft Starts Working On an LLVM-Based Compiler For .NET · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the office team. When we get C# as the embedded language in office, maybe then VB can die. For now, it lives on like a zombie dragged, toothless, by an ex-lover through the programming landscape by its old OLE apis.

  14. Re: Hard to trust them on Microsoft Starts Working On an LLVM-Based Compiler For .NET · · Score: 1
  15. Re: Anticipating RMS response on Microsoft Starts Working On an LLVM-Based Compiler For .NET · · Score: 1

    Rms won't sleep until gcc outputs gpl. (write that in bash)

  16. Re:my 9 year old is a Roblox Creator, here's how: on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce a 7-Year-Old To Programming? · · Score: 1

    the AK processing tutorials are excellent. please don't show it to your kids, though. 'cos i want mine to have a better chance in the job market.

  17. Re:Tabs vs Spaces on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 1

    axiom: there are two kinds of spaces used in programming: 1) block indentation, and 2) alignment (for long lines, variable initialization lists, etc...), and type 1 always appears to the left of type 2 on any given line.

    if you use the same character for both then you are unnecessarily contributing to the heat-death of the universe.

  18. Re:Tabs vs Spaces on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 4, Informative

    tabs are an undefined constant number of spaces. not random.

  19. Re: Why not? on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: 3, Informative

    I dual-booted slackware with Linux 0.97-pl2 on my testing machine at Microsoft, and nobody gave a damn.

  20. religious freedom on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    religious freedom is one thing: a poor excuse for behaving badly.

  21. Re:Isn't the solution to block Baidu ? on China's Foreign Ministry: China Did Not Attack Github, We Are the Major Victims · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't we block Baidu and make GitHub unavailable from China ?

    You'd have to convince everyone outside china to block Baidu. And as for blocking GitHub for Chinese users, China would love that. The only reason they're not blocking GitHub is that so many Chinese engineers use it. If someone outside China blocked it for them, they'd be killing two birds with one stone: censoring the VPN info and making another country look bad.

  22. Re: What are you saying? on UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE · · Score: 1

    IE9...

  23. Re:I wonder how the Gen Con people would feel on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    nobody's forcing the baker to participate in any function other than baking a cake.

  24. Re:Leave then on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    please, please try those kind of double-think tactics when addressing real legal circumstances in your life. send us a letter from jail, K?

  25. Re:Do It, it worked in AZ on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    Doing business with whomever one wants, while denying to do so to others on whatever whim, is a fundamental tenet of freedom

    so is the right of the rest of us to tell you go to fuck yourself.