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  1. Re:Don't Do IT! on The Programmer's Path To Management · · Score: 1

    Because the company can hire TWO 27-year-olds (or FOUR Indians) for what they have to pay you? Because of the "perception" that you're an old fart who's hopelessly unhip and not into the latest and greatest thing? Even though you're right, things should be done maintainably rather than fashionably?

  2. Re:Um.. we don't see it as advancing our career on The Programmer's Path To Management · · Score: 5, Informative

    Once you hit 45, you had better have moved into management, or be a white-bearded wizard with some kind of obscure language/system (MATLAB, SSA, SPSS, COBOL, DB2, etc.); otherwise, if all you know is stuff like Java/C/C++, you're going to be unhireable after the age of 50. This is the voice of experience speaking.

  3. Re: In other words on Protesters Block Effort To Restart Work On Controversial Hawaii Telescope · · Score: 0

    Oh? How many native Hawaiians live on the summit of Mauna Kea?

  4. Re:Sure ... on University Students Made a Working Model Hyperloop · · Score: 1

    "LaForge to bridge: Captain, the inertial dampeners are offline. Do NOT drop out of warp."

  5. DIR :== PURGE/ERASE/NOCONFIRM/NOLOG




    I knew the goddam lameness filter was going to interfere. I'm not shouting, it's the Vomit Making System!!!

  6. Re:well done. on Samsung Cripples Windows Update To Prevent Incompatible Drivers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm trying to calculate just how much Kool-Aid you have to drink until "the OS decided to reboot all on its own" becomes acceptable behavior.

  7. Too funny.

  8. Re:Lots of great features and no kdbus on Linux 4.1 Kernel Released With EXT4 Encryption, Performance Improvements · · Score: 1, Troll

    Which distro are you using that isn't already infected by systemd? I'm SO glad Gentoo still allows me to use OpenRC...

  9. Re:It really doesn't matter on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What utter nonsense. You're saying that wealthy Republicans weren't allowed to contribute before Citizens? Or that organizational contributions in general weren't restricted/limited? In a word, bullshit. What Citizens allows is unlimited, anonymous contributions by corporations under the legal fiction that they (as artificial persons) have MORE freedom of speech than natural persons. If the difference between that and what we had before escapes you, then I suggest you invest in a 7th-grade civics class.

  10. Re:It really doesn't matter on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess you slept through that election if you think Romney outspent Obama.

  11. Re:what EVER could we do? on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You're forgetting about focus groups, which is where most politician's views/presentations are actually crafted. Polls are used as feedback for "how are we doing with 20 to 30 year-old Latino transvestites who self-identify as Republicans" to identify where (demographically) more advertising money needs to be spent.

  12. It really doesn't matter on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Post Citizens United we're going to get the best government that money can buy.

  13. Re:In other news on The Tools Don't Get You the Job · · Score: 2

    Sorry, gotta disagree there. The "you typed it, you meant it" structure ADDS to the discussion. On "every comment other site" you see responses to comments that are NO LONGER as they were posted.

  14. In other news on The Tools Don't Get You the Job · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Random updates (downgrades) to the UI don't get you more readers (or clicks).

  15. Re:It's a small small world... on After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs · · Score: 1

    It's a small world after all
    It's a small world after all
    Oppose us and we will crush you
    It's a small small small small world

  16. So vague as to be virtually meaningless on Amazon Publishes Opaque Transparency Report · · Score: 2

    So, a lot like their annual report, then?

  17. Re:Block-Transfer Computations on A Computer That Operates On Water Droplets · · Score: 1

    Luckily, they don't make bubble memory anymore.

  18. Re: Whats so repugnant? on Feds Want To Unmask Internet Commenters Writing About the Silk Road Trial Judge · · Score: 1

    No, the "culprit" was admonished for shouting "You're lying" during a State Of The Union Address -- you know -- breaking decorum by acting like a drunken heckler at a comedy club.

  19. Re:This is a two pronged argument on Feds Want To Unmask Internet Commenters Writing About the Silk Road Trial Judge · · Score: 1

    Nope, just thanking you for paying attention and adding to the conversation.

  20. Re:This is a two pronged argument on Feds Want To Unmask Internet Commenters Writing About the Silk Road Trial Judge · · Score: 2

    I wish I'd said that - half an hour ago - in the post right above yours.

  21. Re:This is a two pronged argument on Feds Want To Unmask Internet Commenters Writing About the Silk Road Trial Judge · · Score: 1

    And that's when the prosecutor decides to do a half-assed job.

  22. Re:This is a two pronged argument on Feds Want To Unmask Internet Commenters Writing About the Silk Road Trial Judge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think this case is a perfect example of the old saying that "a good prosecutor can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich".

  23. Yikes on Feds Want To Unmask Internet Commenters Writing About the Silk Road Trial Judge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Clearly, suggestions that she "should be taken out back and shot" or "fed into a wood chipper" are LITERAL threats that the posters are going to immediately drive cross country in a diaper to perform these acts. And statements like these clearly cross the line into "repugnant".

    I seem to recall that the Framers Intent for free speech and freedom of the press were written by men who had actually *anonymously* printed TREASONOUS and SEDITIOUS pamphlets against their lawful government just a few years before.

  24. ...and the award for Lifetime Achievement goes to: on First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame · · Score: 5, Funny

    Duke Nukem Forever!!!

  25. Re:WoW? on First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, absolutely. If we're doing introductory inductees (say that 10 times fast) WoW doesn't really belong with Pong and Pac Man, especially in the abscence of Space Invaders and/or Galaga.