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  1. Re:Coordination, not more text on Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Launching an Online Publication To Fight Fake News (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the idea that there are alternate facts and all viewpoints are equally valid needs to die. There really is objective truth and impartial journalism is entirely possible.

    Bring forth your Vulcans!! No aspies won't do, can't understand social context to be effective. Rest of the human race is corruptible.

    See this for a live example of how to manipulate "real news":
    http://www.politico.com/magazi...

  2. Cuck!

  3. This is what happens to SJW-converged institutions. Soon after they prioritize diversity over their core mission, the institution is unable to perform.

    Linux identified this as a threat:
    http://voxday.blogspot.mx/2016...
    "The Foundation's action doesn't have anything to do with Karen Sandler being the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, but rather, her having been the executive director of the Gnome Foundation, which she bankrupted in three years by devoting nearly 50 percent of the foundation's budget to a new Women's Outreach Program."

  4. That's why alternatives are paramount on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Will Create 'Hash' Database To Remove Extremist Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why I've migrated to gab.ai and infogalactic.com. These hashes are the start for censoring anything they deem inappropriate, including political dissident discourse. Twitter has already banned thousands of users for posting anti-islamic content even though it's fact based.

    We need open platforms if we expect to have freedom of expression. Hate speech can be re-defined until it covers anything they want.

    Leave big social media, don't produce content for them. Embrace new open platforms.

  5. Re:The religion of peace on Court Stops FCC's Latest Attempt To Lower Prison Phone Rates (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Where is the Christian / Jewish counterpart for http://www.oxfordislamicstudie... (Dar al-Harb)?

  6. Re:Doesn't anybody have a sense of humor these day on Federal Circuit Overturns Prohibition On "Disparaging" Trademarks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Awesome way to handle it, great video!

  7. Re:pointers & C on Ask Slashdot: Is it Practical To Replace C With Rust? · · Score: 1

    That is entirely correct, in Windows OS resources need to be wrapped in classes that are guaranteed to properly release an acquired resource at time of destruction regardless of context (stack or heap).
    Otherwise you leak OS resources and WILL freeze the box after you exceed the maximum handle limit.

  8. Re:Maybe we should ban pools on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you are obserbably not concerned about toddler deaths, you are a monster.

  9. Re:Maybe we should ban pools on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Not concerned about intent, we are talking about effects, do try to keep up.

  10. Re:Maybe we should ban pools on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you are against the preservation of human life (once they grow).

  11. Maybe we should ban pools on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    According to:
    http://www.livescience.com/448...
    10 people die of drowning every day.

    Therefore guns are aprox 70 times safer than pools.

    Why there is no anti-pool agenda?

  12. Re:Because it was written in Seastar or C++ on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 1

    The issue is that you can't see the artificial complexity of C.

    The number of types in C is crazy:
    http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc...

    How many types of strings can I have in C? How many types of integers? Fractionals? Booleans?
    Signed, unsigned? Why?

    Compare with:
    https://docs.oracle.com/javase...

    For neophyte programmers, writing portable code in C is not feasible.

    At this point, you are too far invested with what you do to try a different way.

    The kitchen sink is portable, by the way, you need a plumber each time you move it, and a mason, and a wood cutter, and a contractor to manage it.

    But it's portable.

  13. Re:Because it was written in Seastar or C++ on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 1

    Porting C code is like moving a kitchen sink from a house to another.
    Java portability is like plugging a laptop into another house.

    Why (to name a few)?
    - Fixed size of primitive types
    - Big-endian/Little-endian,
    - String encoding.
    - Text encoding.
    - Compiled code portability.

    C is a wrapper for ASM with a promise for portability
    Java is a VM platform designed for portability, actually working after compile time.

    You are new, its ok.

  14. Re:Because it was written in Seastar or C++ on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 1

    My kitchen sink can also be ported to another house, it has no house-specific bits.

    Think.

  15. Re:Because it was written in Seastar or C++ on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 0

    Re-read your statement:
    "Platform-specific pieces"

    Means Not Portable.

    Java has no "Platform-specific pieces" as part of the spec.

    Java is not meant for 3D game programming.

  16. Re:Because it was written in Seastar or C++ on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 1

    I agree, legacy technology is the best case use for C.

  17. Re:Because it was written in Seastar or C++ on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 1

    Barring specialized service providers, compute costs are seldom the biggest item in company expenses.

  18. Re:Because it was written in Seastar or C++ on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. C is not portable, it's tied to the architectures/OSs/APIs the programmer chose to target at write time.
    2. Leanness and close-to-the-metal speed are irrelevant in most business scenaios (time to market rules, cores and memory are commodity, see ABAP and related monsters successfully running most of the world transactions regardless of C).
    3. C is not a language meant to implement business solutions, it's a wrapper for ASM for idiots who can't write ASM themselves.(rethorical)
    4. Writing string processing libraries is tuff stuff, text can have different endings, (rethorical)
    5. You haven't done anything really complicated that requires your focus to shift away from "bare-metal" to "time-to-value", by your own logic ASM is better than C.

  19. Re: Amazing on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    As an H1B every time you switch jobs, your Greencard progress goes back to zero. Unless you have one, you are paying regular taxes with none of the long term benefits.

  20. A timeless classic on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    I give you, "Ken Lee":
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  21. Re:Fly Economy - tragic! on How Amazon Keeps Cutting AWS Prices: Cheapskate Culture · · Score: 1

    For certain services, commoditization makes it very unlikely that your internal organization will be able to compete in cost/quality ratios with specialized service providers. Example: Banks used to manage all aspects of their networking due to downtime impact, nowadays redundant providers can deliver networking with adequate SLAs (contractual, penalised) at lower cost than their internal staff, are there any banks that still lay their own fiber?

  22. Re:Wanna earn $200K+? Two words... on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    According to:
    http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/

    200K in Brooklyn is equivalent to $101K in Austin, TX.

    Not that hard to make 100K in Austin, the only issue is that is surrounded by Texas.

  23. Re:Microsoft's Business on Microsoft a Weak Link In Possible Cyber War · · Score: 1

    I can't remember who said it, but it gets the point across nicely: "Money is to business what blood is to a human body, you need it to survive but is not the point of your existence."

  24. China Strong on Teen Killed At Chinese Internet Addiction Camp · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Forget the books on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    That gets you RAID1 (between the server and your wife). for another layer of redundancy with no hardware investment, ask your wife to share your little mishaps with her mother. Far better availability and reliability than the best SAN.