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  1. Re: Major features are complementary on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    No. No it isn't. THe method names would tell me just the same used inside a forloop. You have added no value, while making it harder to debug and harder to read. If you use streams you're a shitty programmer.

  2. Re: Major features are complementary on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you think that mess of streams is clearer than a for loop would be, you're on crack. It's incomprehensible.

  3. Re: Row row row your boat on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly the opposite. Streams took easy to read and understand for loops used by every language on earth and replaced it with gibberish that you need to work through to understand, and is far more difficult top debug as there's no damn place to put a break point or print statement. They're banned everywhere I've heard of

  4. Re:Odd, this "free range" environment... on How G.E. Is Transforming Into An IoT Start-Up (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I've worked at both as well. I'll take the open any day of the week. People are more accessible, you feel less like interfering if you talk to someone. Frequently you'll overhear a discussion that your input on is important. I feel an individual might get more done in some circumstances of private offices, but the team gets more done in an open one. And that's what's important. Especially if you're a team lead I would never choose an office over an open desk.

  5. Re:Or... on The US Army Has Too Many Video Games (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Someone doesn't know their history. its you. Look at the wars america was in before 1940. For example- the Spanish-American war. Basically caused because we wanted some of Spain's stuff in the Carribean, and trumped up on an explosion in port that ended up being an accident.

    The Mexican American war- because we wanted to move our southern border to the Rio Grande.

    The War of 1812- multiple causes and may have happened anyway, but at least part was a desire to annex Canada.

    The Indian Wars- all undeclared, but we took each tribe's land one at a time.

    The US has been an imperialistic war monger from the beginning. We just kept it to our own continent until the 1900s.

  6. I have low expectations from Slashdot editors, but on 'SingularDTV' Will Use Ethereum For DRM On A Sci-Fi TV Show (rocknerd.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this really manages to fall below them. Was there anything in that summary that was supposed to make sense?

  7. Re:Shying away from OOP(s) on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Except those are such a tiny fraction of the things anyone programs. I'm totally ok with all of those uses you mentioned, but the number of time I've seen them abused to be clever far outweigh the number of times I saw them used appropriately.

  8. Re:Shying away from OOP(s) on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in the 90s and early 2000s operator overloading was thought of as really cool and was used in all sort of horrible ways. Some of that even slipped into the standard library with the > overloading the traditional bit shift and meaning output. Nobody really has a problem with using it for math, but it was way too frequently used for evil. The set of problems it logically helps on is so small it probably wasn't a net gain.

  9. Re:Shying away from OOP(s) on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh, got it. You're one of those people who just want to hear themselves talk and try to get the last word in rather than actually discuss things. I'll go back to ignoring you.

  10. Re:Shying away from OOP(s) on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I actually think you're completely backwards. Most programmers think in terms of basic OOP and procedural programming. Nobody thinks in terms of functional programming- that's why no functional language has ever been a major commercial language.

  11. THey're called hobbies on Millennials Are Obsessed With Side Hustles Because 'They're All' They've Got (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And most of us have them. We leave work and work on something we're passionate about, but might not pay enough. Or might not pay at all. Or we volunteer at a charity. Or at our kid's school. This is nothing new, the number of people looking to make money from them is just increasing. Maybe. Its not like doing side jobs was ever that rare.

  12. clip on accessories make a lot of sense from a mobile perspective. Only having one device to carry over multiple means you have less chance of forgetting or leaving it somewhere and an easier time carrying it. The projector sounds really cool. I'd never carry around a wireless one, I might do the clipon.

  13. Re:What is the appeal of these things? on Smartwatch Shipments Fall For the First Time; Apple Only Company In Top 5 To Decline (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Putting it on my wrist doesn't add convenience, it detracts from it- you're forcing me to use a tiny display with unusably small text. Taking my phone out of my pocket takes 0 effort. It provides literally a negative benefit and makes the experience worse. That's why sales are plummeting.

    ANd no, I don't think a watch is more convenient even for telling time. I'd rather have a compact device in my pocket and not have to remember putting on a watch, or deal with the discomfort of wearing one. A phone beats it even for that.

  14. Re:What is the appeal of these things? on Smartwatch Shipments Fall For the First Time; Apple Only Company In Top 5 To Decline (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My phone combines other devices and puts them in one spot- with a screen big enough to use and small enough to put in my pocket. Putting it on my wrist adds 0 functionality, increases the likelihood it will break, is uncomfortable, and makes it much harder to write a decent UI for. The first thing I did when I realized my first cell phone told the time was throw out my watch.

  15. Hell no on Slashdot Asks: Do You Install Preview Version Of An OS On Your Primary Device? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A not yet finalized version of an OS on my primary device? My primary device only does security upgrades- I can't afford for my primary device to go down for days while I try to get it to work. Now my secondary device like a phone I'd consider it- but still I'd probably wait for 2 or 3 releases later before doing so seriously.

  16. Re: I want to like Donald. on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention (nbcbayarea.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like that means there won't be a president. In that case, the house votes with 1 vote per state. Which given the current house and reasonable assumption they vote party lines means trump wins

  17. Re:Cost of Living Tradeoffs on Tech Workers Think Silicon Valley and Startups Are Losing Their Luster (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That was what is known in colloquial circles as "a joke". The interviewer didn't literally want you to grow a beard, he was trying to make light conversation to prevent things from being awkward and build rapport. You didn't lose the job because of lack of a beard, you lot it because you either flubbed the interview or you acted like an asshole in response to said joke.

  18. Re: I remembe seeing her on TV on Theranos Faces Congressional Inquiry Over Faulty Blood Tests (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. If she had raised money, failed, and not tried to sell the product anyway then its just failure. Feeling sorry for her is reasonable.

    But she raised money, failed, hid her failure, and then pretended it was working while giving inaccurate test results. That's fraud.

  19. Re: median vs average on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't have any of those (friends who are gearheads, not friends in general). Nor would I impose on them like that if I did. If you do have a close friend willing to help, more power to you. I'll just buy new and not worry about it, once every 20 years or so.

  20. Re: median vs average on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I buy only new. I know nothing about cars, don't have a deep interest in them to want to learn to maintain them, and have no place to do so anyway (home ownership is actually a huge money loser and cost me at least 300k over renting- and I broke even on the damn thing on paper). However I keep it until it's unreliability becomes a problem or it breaks beyond worth of repairing. My current car is 16 years and going strong. My major consideration is whether to replace some of the ripping leather on the driver's seat. Given it's mileage is 60k, I expect it will hit 20 years before I replace it. At which time I'll get another new car, in cash, and expect it to lay till I'm 60+. Buying used is took risky if you don't know about cars.

  21. Re: Why is it not ^? on ECMAScript 2016: New Version of JavaScript Language Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    It's bitwise xor, in pretty much every language.

  22. Re: So... they are making a feature phone? on Huawei Is Working On Its Own Mobile OS In Case Things Sour With Google (theinformation.com) · · Score: 1

    And yes, that never typo (should have been before) was made with Swype

  23. Re: So... they are making a feature phone? on Huawei Is Working On Its Own Mobile OS In Case Things Sour With Google (theinformation.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft didn't buy Swype. Nuance communications did. Source: was android lead there never the buyout

  24. Re: So where does mr. Elon Musk figure in all this on Elon Musk's Tesla Plans To Acquire Elon Musk's SolarCity For $2.7B In Stock (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Value is. Investors of Tesla are diluted and investors of solar city will make money. Musk well most likely end up owning more of the combined company than he did before the deal.

  25. Re:US Legal system on Man Sued For $30K Over $40 Printer He Sold On Craigslist (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    How else would you get your money back? The only way to take someone to court is to sue them. There is small claims court in the US which has a maximum amount (differing by state). But even then it can cost- lets say you're suing Comcast, because they suck. Comcast isn't a person. THey have to hire a lawyer, either on payroll or off. So there's still cost involved.