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  1. Re:Women and Computers don't mix! on Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of COBOL, Dies at 89 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Slashdot has never gotten the scoop, because Slashdot has always been a news aggregator. You ignorant idiot.

  2. Re:No bug tracking on Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Team Track And Manage Bugs In Your Software? · · Score: 2

    4 hours of meetings every day? You have 4 half-time devs, and you're wondering why you can't keep up?

  3. Re: Bugzilla on Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Team Track And Manage Bugs In Your Software? · · Score: 1

    I've used JIRA with 2/3 (second company was acquired) companies, and it worked well for us in all of them. I guess if you have competent administrators, you're good to go. Blaming the tool is the refuge of the incompetent.

  4. It's amusing that you think being real-time has anything to do with keeping time.

  5. Re: musings on PE, EIT, and unlicensed designation on Oregon Man Fined For Writing 'I Am An Engineer' Temporarily Wins Right To Call Himself An 'Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You may or may not be an engineer, but you're clearly a moron. A fucked-up shitwad who shouldn't be given air to breath.

  6. Re:Kudos on his honesty on Netflix CEO Says Net Neutrality Is 'Not Our Primary Battle' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What if we build a decentralized internet search databases, everyone keeping a little bit on their systems, no data mining, no ads, just the roast chicken recipe you were looking for, what would Google do?

    Nothing. Because Google wouldn't even notice. One of the things Google Search is known for is its speed. So much so, that a speed report is still prominently displayed before the search results. Decentralized searching would be agonizingly slow.

    Your other examples are similarly ridiculous.

  7. Re:Oh Dear Lord! on EFF Sues FBI For Records About Paid Best Buy Geek Squad Informants (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    It's different because the FBI hasn't asked and paid MS employees to do it. MS is doing it of their own volition.

  8. Re:Read the summary on Man Fined $4,000 For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts on Facebook (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Here's your response:

    Commit suicide by stabbing a rusty spike through your eyeball, you antisemitic and homophobic piece of shit.

  9. Re:When there's evidence of dead voting. on Investigation Demanded Over Fake FCC Comments Submitted By Dead People (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the degree of accessibility. An online form is several orders of magnitude easier to take advantage of. The same kind of tactics, at the same scale, for voter fraud requires millions of people.

  10. Re:If you are willing to go non-Mac on Intel Drops Thunderbolt 3 Royalty, Adds CPU Integration and Works Closely With Microsoft (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    I have never used a touchpad like the one included in MacBooks. I don't know if it's the hardware or the driver, so perhaps a Hackintosh with the same hardware would work just as well, but I have a feeling that isn't the case.

  11. As if Wintel hasn't been a term since at least the mid 90s.

  12. Re:Huh, someone was paying attention to Firewire on Intel Drops Thunderbolt 3 Royalty, Adds CPU Integration and Works Closely With Microsoft (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    I would guess he means the old iPhone and current lightning connectors.

  13. Re:Bad reason on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 1

    You must be a pretty stupid person if those things confuse you. [ is for arrays, { is for dictionaries. Trivial. Spaces are never significant, though they are preserved within strings. Quotes are necessary to quote things, like strings. Otherwise, they aren't. Gosh, that was hard. I have never seen a | used in JSON, so I don't have a clue what you're on about. Also, semicolons are not used in JSON.

    If you're a programmer, none of this is hard. The syntax is far simpler than even the simplest scripting languages in wide use.

  14. "Hell is other people."

    There's nothing magical about meeting other people, especially if one is an introvert.

  15. Re:This isn't about a trademark on PayPal Sues Pandora Over 'Patently Unlawful' Logo (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    Every company is a technology company. That is a stupid, meaningless and shit-headed distinction to try and make. With the possible exception of prostitution, I can't think of any business that doesn't use technology.

  16. Re:Back to Ada? on Why The US Government Open Sources Its Code (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Pascal made it out as Object Pascal, and had a long life in various Borland, etc. products.

  17. Re:Where is MS Office's worthy competitor? on Endless OS Now Ships With Steam And Slack FlatPak Applications (endlessos.com) · · Score: 2

    People who run businesses are not programmers. They are not interested in architectural purity. They want to get their work done. Yesterday. They use the tools at hand. If you want them to do a better job (whatever that means to you), you have to give them better tools.

  18. Re:Use Swift! on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The Swift compiler and runtime are Open Source. They've been ported to Linux and Windows (I believe the Windows port is unofficial). IBM has picked it up as a server language. It's no more controlled by a single company than Java is.

  19. Re:Kind of hard to take this seriously.. on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I doubt there are many large companies who don't use Linux. Ford's been using it for at least the past 15 years. Ford is hardly a trailblazer when it comes to new technology and platforms.

  20. Re:For the Young... Some Background. on New OS/2 Warp Operating System 'ArcaOS' 5.0 Released (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1

    You must have really sucked at life. OS/2 was well-known as a better Windows than Windows because it was natively preemptive, which made it easier to kill misbehaving Windows apps. Its compatibility was so good, it practically killed OS/2. No 3rd parties wanted to create OS/2-specific versions of their software when they had a perfectly good Windows version that worked just fine under OS/2.

  21. Re:Fire them, hire replacements. on More Than 35,000 AT&T Workers Threaten Weekend Strike (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, voting has never required logic.

  22. Re:All over except for the shouting on Net Neutrality Goes Down in Flames as FCC Votes To Kill Title II Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All forms of regulation are bad, if you're a billionaire looking to keep the spigot flowing. The second part of your statement is wrong, however. No one involved here wants a free market. Free markets allow competition. They want monopolies without government oversight. That's all.

  23. The very first link was between 2 universities. They weren't second-string on the Internet. Or DARPANet, as it was called then.

  24. We'll under 50% of the Earth's population are White males, yet half the cast of this show are. That's only underrepresentation if you can't do math.

  25. A class case of correlation not being causation - something lost on a lot of younger generation researchers, it seems.

    A class [sic] case of a shit-wad on slashdot who didn't read the study before spewing shit from his mouth.