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  1. string matching substring on Facebook Glitch Lets You Search For Pictures of Your Female Friends, But Not Your Male Ones (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    'male' is a substring of 'female' any search for the string 'female' would not match 'male' but a search for the string 'male' would match 'female'

    It couldn't be that simple could it?

  2. Re:It's a rainforest without rain on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    but how could a six ounce sparrow carry an eight ounce coconut?

  3. Re:Can iFixit die already? on Schools Won't Like How Difficult the New iPad Is To Repair (ifixit.com) · · Score: 1

    whoosh

  4. Re: This is the way it's supposed to work on Uber Challenges Study Suggesting Its Drivers Earn $3.37 Per Hour (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Mathematically Incompetent Theories

    That sounds pretty insulting to me. Pointing out a error is not an insult. The word "incompetent" is an insult.

  5. Well the "ability" to have insecure (meaning public) data on s3 is a necessary part of their service for many use cases.
    But the **default** setting on any s3 bucket (the actual term for the resource on their service) is to have it private and can only be read by users that have been granted explicit authority.
    That makes this story that much more tragic, because a problem of this nature requires that some fuckwit actually logged into amazon and edited the settings on this bucket to "make public"
    How that happened, is a simple one-D-ten-T (1D10T) class of problem.

  6. what? bad idea? on $500 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency Stolen From Japanese Exchange (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "That, my friends, is the prime reason why speculating in cryptocurrency is a bad idea!"

    It seems that if this stuff is worth stealing, it has value. Wouldn't that make it a good candidate for speculative investment? Now allowing some half-assed third party to hold my investment in a way that could allow hackers to gain control of my funds, now that sounds like a bad idea.

  7. Re:People are jumping to other Crypto on Bitcoin Watchers Running Out of Explanations Blame Slump on Moon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile every shit than Elon Musk flushes down the toilet is plucked out of the stream and saved like baby Moses.

    oh i'm keeping that one

    heheh

  8. Net Neutrality's potential impact on Google and Facebook's current business is overall evenly positive and negative, leaning slightly toward the negative.

    Big orgs like this have the bargaining power to negotiate "fast lane" traffic and use those agreements to squash their competitors if Neutrality was rolled back. If you had to have a new multi million dollar contract with a telecom to get any of your traffic to be transmitted, Those are certainly the ones that have the power. and this will give big players a distinct advantage.
    The only real minus for big computing that I can figure out is that it will reduce the number of startups and new ideas that emerge and become potential acquisition targets for them.

  9. UK behind Germany? on IT Leaders Will Struggle To Meet Future Demands, Study Says (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    So Technology and engineering in the UK is in danger of being substandard compared to Germany?

    Say it ain't so!
    Next thing you know Mercedes will be more reliable than Jaguar!

  10. Re:Our society is fucked on New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Or waiting on there spelling and grammar handbook to be delivered?

  11. Re:That's interesting on Android Was 2016's Most Vulnerable Product, Oracle the (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    +1 Pedantic

  12. Are you managing the people or the project? on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Manage Developers Distributed Across Multiple Projects? · · Score: 1

    If you are a Project Manager, sure Agile, Kanban, Scrum, lots of good ways to make sure that people can say they are going to do something, say they did it, and show it to somebody else.

    If you are a Development Manager, your first questions should be: Do I know what I expect out of my people? Do my people know what I expect out of them. Do I know how to look at their work and tell if it is any good?

    I have managed people across geography and timezones on matrixed work. We did it with weekly 1 on 1 meetings over videoconference, Devs would tell me what they have been doing, show me code in screen sharing, and talk about expected results of that code.

    If you are a Dev Manager, think like a developer and stay close to the technology, make sure your staff knows you expect to see results. Have meaningful, helpful things to say about their work.

    If you are a Dev manager and you can't look at their work and tell if it is any good, get a job as a Project Manager.

  13. So that is where you put the things that were not apps?

  14. actually... there is a standard way of typing the glyph on a typewriter or in ASCII

    O(+>

  15. Brink's ?? it belongs to someone named Brink? on Feds: Brink's Employee Makes Off With $196,000 In Quarters (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    nice greengrocers apostrophe
    http://www.oxforddictionaries....

    sorry to go all grammar fascist but the name of the company is Brinks right?

    http://www.brinks.com/

  16. Lasers? In space? on Asteroid Impact Mission Sets Sights On New Laser Communications Record (esa.int) · · Score: 4, Funny

    But the sharks will die in a vacuum won't they?

  17. Buzzword compliant on IT Departments Try To Avoid Getting "Ubered" · · Score: 1

    and content-free

    Seriously, who writes this garbage pretending to be shit pretending to be I have no idea what.

  18. Re:Let the dumboning begin on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    answer: heartbleed

  19. 1998 called on UK's Legalization of CD Ripping Is Unlawful, Court Rules · · Score: 3, Funny

    It wants its controversy back.

  20. Re: Interesting. on Indiana University Researchers Get $1 Million Grant To Study Memes · · Score: 1

    If we are going to get pedantic, methodology is the study of methods. (Like geology is the study of the geo ~earth)
    The word you are looking for is "method"

  21. Re:Pete and Repeat on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? · · Score: 2

    There is absolutely a way to get all the keywords you want onto a resume for the Perl engine and also be honest to a human reader

    You could have a section at the end of the resume labeled "keywords" and then put categories in for you proficiency level: guru keywords, master keywords, apprentice keywords and newbie keywords. or any other such arrangement.

    I have spent years as a hiring manager and I would be quite impressed if such completeness and honesty showed on a resume.

  22. Re:It takes brains on Finding More Than One Worm In the Apple · · Score: 1

    It takes a genius to write code that can be understood by an idiot.

  23. Re:Neatness counts on Finding More Than One Worm In the Apple · · Score: 1

    i will go you one further and say that the more open style of braces would have shown the bug quite clearly
    if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update( &hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
    {
       goto fail;
       goto fail;
       if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.final( &hashCtx, &hashOut)) != 0)
       {
          goto fail;
       }
    }
    // if you always put a brace on the line after the evaluation of an if, and tab in, the nesting will be obvious.

  24. car analogy on Theo De Raadt's Small Rant On OpenSSL · · Score: 2

    mod parent up

  25. Re:Sorry about the loss of the magic on Elite Violinists Can't Distinguish Between a Stradivarius and a Modern Violin · · Score: 1

    But time measured with these clocks is warmer and more authentic, and therefore more fulfilling.