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  1. Re:Answers for both on Samsung Officially Unpacks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge At MWC · · Score: 2

    No, we want a quick way to do a 100% reboot if the phone is in a bad state.Without that your only option is to wait 1 day until the battery is dead. Or longer if the radio is off in that state.

  2. Re:Nope on Samsung Officially Unpacks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge At MWC · · Score: 1

    Or buy a competing product that does do what you want. Like one of the gadzillion other android devices out there.

  3. Re:Inproper influence on Oracle Sues 5 Oregon Officials For 'Improper Influence' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's not nearly as true as you'd think. Besides which, there's a difference between Oracle's database (which is widely used), and Oracle's consultancy arm which while used has never put out a decent project in their history.

  4. Re:The Civilization Series will never be the same. on Leonard Nimoy Dies At 83 · · Score: 1

    Beep... Beep... Beep...

  5. Re:That is okay on Teamsters Seek To Unionize More Tech Shuttle Bus Drivers In Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    You think being responsible for the literal lives of your passengers for 8 hours a day, needing to be alert the entire time is *less* responsibility and stress? You're out of your fucking mind.

  6. Re:Don't forget Firefox Hello! on Firefox 36 Arrives With Full HTTP/2 Support, New Design For Android Tablets · · Score: 1

    Those applications are all *drumroll* web pages. They are not video conferencing or any of the other crap Mozilla has been putting in there lately. Anyone who thinks those belong in a browser is a fucking idiot.

  7. Re:I've posted this 1312 times on Firefox 36 Arrives With Full HTTP/2 Support, New Design For Android Tablets · · Score: 1

    Define "default android browser". Each OEM ships their own- Google has one, but so does Samsung. If you have a Samsung phone you've never used the default Android browser.

  8. Re:Don't forget Firefox Hello! on Firefox 36 Arrives With Full HTTP/2 Support, New Design For Android Tablets · · Score: 1

    In *browser*? Abso-fucking-lutely. If Mozilla Foundation wanted to write the Mozilla Videoconfrencing app, that would be fine. But there is 0 reason to put it in the browser, and it only decreases security of everyone involved by having it in there. A browser should display webpages- period.

  9. Re:As a millenial on The Case Against E-readers -- Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading On Paper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I read several novels a month. But I wouldn't read a technical book on an ereader if you gave it to me for free and paid me to do it. And I've tried- I originally bought it thinking it would be great for tech books. But the slow speed of page switching, the inability to flip through pages rapidly, the reduced area per page all make it an unbearable experience. Ereaders are good for fiction reading, they're completely unsuitable for anything that isn't read beginning to end with no branching or backtracking.

  10. Re:iPad too fucking expensive on L.A. School Superintendent Folds on Laptops-For-Kids Program · · Score: 2

    Tablets are a horrible replacement for books. Lets ignore the fact they have massive amounts of distractions built in. They're harder to read, worse for your eyes, run out of batteries, are harder to take notes on, and worst of all hard or impossible to skim. I own over a thousand books on my kindle, but almost 0 technical books. Its just not a good medium for it.

  11. That's a great way to ensure your code will never perform well. Architectural and algorithmic based performance issue need to be solved at the same time as correctness and understandability, or you'll never achieve it. There's levels of micro-optimizations that can wait, but people stating this kind of shit as a rule are fucking inconmpetent.

  12. The question is- is that because sparc is better, because Oracle optimized for Sparc like mad, or because they purposely degraded the performance on x86?

  13. None on Which Freelance Developer Sites Are Worth Your Time? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But the problem isn't the 3rd world developers, its the unrealistic buyers. They aren't companies that understand tech, they're mostly individuals who don't understand that programming is work and want the sun, moon, and stars for a hundred bucks. Worse they don't know what they want or need, they just know they want/need something. You have to be designer, project manager, and developer in one, for a 3rd world salary. I don't think very many of the projects there are successful, and those that are tend to be the very simplest ones. If you have access to any job in the US, its just not worth doing. You'll make more per hour job hopping or putting the extra time into your real job in hopes of a raise/bonus.

  14. Re:They're all frauds on Another Bitcoin Exchange Fraud · · Score: 1

    No, but if you own bitcoins you sure as hell are. But tell you what, I'll give you a discount rate on buying all the Flooz you want.

  15. They're all frauds on Another Bitcoin Exchange Fraud · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Does anyone still think that sending money over an unregulated channel for a dubious commodity is a good idea? There's a good reason banks are one of the most regulated industries on the planet.

  16. Re:Libertarians on Ask Slashdot: What Will It Take To End Mass Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    Have a way that wouldn't destroy the rest of society in the process? Because honestly, I'd prefer the surveillance than the utter destruction of our economy, loss of all protections against those with money, and the untold human misery their policies would create.

  17. Re:It's because they don't work... on The Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition · · Score: 2

    Depends on your accent. I get about 98% recognition. I still don't use it because its easier to type/swype.

  18. Re:I assume the Wikimedia developers... on The Bizarre and Complex Story of a Failed Wikipedia Software Extension · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, they just didn't allow any checkins at all as they were "original research".

  19. Re:Never used recursion on AP Test's Recursion Examples: An Exercise In Awkwardness · · Score: 1

    Never had to walk a tree? Recursion is usually the best solution, unless you're just walking down 1 branch. It's not a frequently used technique, but it's definitely used.

  20. Re:Why not websites? on Why It's Important That the New Ubuntu Phone Won't Rely On Apps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because websites aren't available offline, are much less responsive, have security and privacy issues, provide worse UX, and are less integrated with the hardware and system so can't provide polish that other apps can (such as sound muting if the user picks up the phone). Websites are ok if your purpose is to get up to date information, but they're a poor replacement for a real app.

  21. Re:It depends on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Great Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    Yeah- now in reality that doesn't happen. The whole lone programmer thing is almost completely a myth- pretty much all non-trivial programs are worked on by a team. At the absolute best you'll get someone who comes up with a new algorithm to do something by himself, but even then it will be one part of a larger whole that will need to be worked on by the full team.

  22. Re:It depends on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Great Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    Both. But in this case I meant the second one. In reality Lisp is dead as a doornail, and the rest of the functional languages with it.

  23. Re:It depends on Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Great Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    No, they don't. But a lot of academics like to think they do.

  24. Re:grandmother reference on Ubisoft Revokes Digital Keys For Games Purchased Via Unauthorised Retailers · · Score: 1

    Depends on your definition of harm. The money the people had to spend doesn't disappear- it gets spent in other ways. Many of those other ways will be local businesses, which will improve the local economy. The long term effect may be positive. Especially with software that can just be pirated.

  25. Re:HTML = programming on Ask Slashdot: Has the Time Passed For Coding Website from Scratch? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you're wrong. By your definition, this post is programming because I'm encoding commands for what should be displayed on screen in the form of ascii commands. HTML and CSS are not programming, they're design.