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  1. Re:Sounds like Netflix is a mess on Netflix Gives Data Center Tools To Fail · · Score: 1

    Load balancing is a mess. The vast majority of load balancing algorithms on VIPs are round robin-based. Fine for http requests from a single UI and that's about it.

    This application allows balancing of the services - not the servers.

  2. Re:Indeed, THERE IS NO SILVER BULLET on A Decade of Agile Programming — Has It Delivered? · · Score: 1

    I've worked w/ 2 or 3 apps written w/ database abstraction in mind. They use BLOB's in all the table columns and the middleware handles the referential integrity.

    1. Performs like CRAP
    2. Good luck debugging when you have an issue, especially when your primary key, aka acct number is hidden in a BLOB column causing issues at the db level.

    Oh... and these folks were self-proclaimed geniuses.

  3. Re:Maybe they did it wrong... on A Decade of Agile Programming — Has It Delivered? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but PM's think Agile is a license to introduce changing requirements through-out the first three stages.

  4. They Forked Standard Java Packages? on Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied' Our Java Code · · Score: -1, Troll

    I would give them a free pass if they would have made these packages available to everyone. If not... good for Oracle.

    So much for "Don't be evil".

  5. 443,000 lines of Javascript?? on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This guy has a lot of nerve telling other folks what programming language to use.

  6. Re:The iPad market is about more than just the CPU on Microsoft Signs License With ARM · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is still lost since their tactic of "give the people something that kinda looks the same but cheaper" didn't work for the Zune.

  7. Re:While I agree that anonymity is a good thing... on SCOTUS Rules Petiton Signatures Are Public Record · · Score: 1

    I am not familiar w/ the Washington petition, so help me out here... if a person is for "civil-union" but is against "gay marriage", this person ia a bigot?

  8. Re:How is this news for nerds? on GM Is Selling Saab To Spyker Cars · · Score: 1

    I thought one of the "quirks" of saab's was the push button starter - which GM killed infuriating loyal saab owners and further pushing the brand into oblivian.

  9. I Can't Wait... on Wikileaks Publishes 500,000 9/11 Pager Messages · · Score: 4, Funny

    For that text pager message: "Finished arming the detonating device, Herr Cheney".

  10. Walmart not as well-run as believed... on Wal-Mart, Amazon Battle For Online Retail's Future · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't step foot in a Walmart where I live. Crowded... cluttered aisles... dirty. But a place I visit in WV where the Walmart has no competition... its clean, very organized and very Target-like. It seems when they get serious about their business, they do fine. I would be worried if I was Amazon.

  11. "not as glamorous as fresh, raw coding" on We Really Don't Know Jack About Maintenance · · Score: 1

    And that is the problem. Everyone thinks the glamour is the new code... which they invariably *screw* up and expect someone else to come in and fix those "details". Developers/Architects suffer from ADD.

  12. Re:Kundra sounds like a great manager on DC Fires Tech Contractors, Puts Employees On Leave · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Really... how could the director of the department how no idea what was going on w/ the contracting? Uhh... that IS his job. Lord knows the guy wasn't doing any *real* work like architecture.

  13. Re:Not likely... on ISS's Node 3 Might Be Named "Colbert" · · Score: 0

    He was funny mocking George W. but he has become a parody of himself lately and he's not that funny. When his show is cancelled next year, people will be asking "Colbert who?"

  14. The Volt Was For Show on GM Cornered Into Defending the Volt · · Score: 1

    Mgt: "Quick... mock up some electric-car to help w/ our plea for bailout money so they don't think we're not forwarding-thinking w/ inept management".

    Anyone who falls for this trick deserves the billions being thrown down the tubes. Inept management coupled w/ a draconian union equals insolvency.

  15. Re:Every one... on Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case · · Score: 1

    What terrorist attack on US soil after 9/11? You're just another "inside job" conspiracy nut job. Go away.

  16. Why Not OffShore It? on US CTO Choice Down To a Two-Horse Race · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can't they off shore this position to Pune? What better choice for corrupt politicians than to choose Satyam? Sounds like a match made in... whatever.

  17. Re:Savings on New Energy Efficiency Rules For TVs Sold In California · · Score: 3, Funny

    Typing your rant on a power-hungry computer sucking electricity from that evil coal-fired power plant. Rant on!

  18. He Missed The Most Obvious... on A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009 · · Score: 1

    A South Korean company will purchase the company I founded and bears my name out of bankruptcy and continue to run it into the ground.

  19. Re:Install mac os-x on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I steered my 80 year old mother to a Mac... best decision I could have made. Who wants to be on the phone w/ their mother over computer issues? With my mother... it would be all my fault... I would never live it down and the aggravation would never be worth it.

    Of course I had to pitch in $... because she is a cheap skate and knows PC's are a couple hundred bucks cheaper and there was no way she was gonna spend extra $ when she didn't have to. Typical of one who lived through the Great Depression I suppose.

  20. Re:Oh No! on Are Newspapers Doomed? · · Score: 1

    The problem was these opinion rags were usually penned by anonymous sources - so the public had no idea who actually wrote the piece nor underwritten the rag. Benjamin Franklin excelled at this.

  21. Re:Snarky article on 100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes · · Score: 1

    "who has no particular stake in a local community deciding how that community is best served"

    What?!? I don't know where you live, but my local community has a board for cable/broadband service where the providers go to for right-of-way aquisition and other service-related issues.

    Educate yourself.

  22. Re:Landing? on India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon · · Score: 2, Informative

    Must not be mentioned in the article you read... in the one I read it states:

    "Space official Shiv Kumar said the 34-kilogram probe hit the moon surface traveling at 1.6 kilometers per second, which is a speed of 5,760 kilometers per hour (3,579 mph)."

  23. Re:Landing? on India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Uhh... it impacted at like 3.5K MPH. They assumed it landed because transmissions ended.

  24. Re:For those that don't get the joke on Michael Crichton Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    Nice try trying to recover from a serious error in your argument... you don't even know what books he wrote. You don't agree w/ the author's views so you slag him... nice.

  25. Re:Except... on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    We literally have the "religious right" to thank for abolishing slavery. Quakers, Presbyterians... we all owe a debt of gratitude. Oh... and those pesky Republican bastards... what were they thinking supporting John Brown - who for all intents and purposes WAS the modern day Jesus Christ - who sent those damnable Democrats to a place where they belonged!!! A GRAVE!