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  1. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    You should have read the follow up before posting. Embarassing for you.

  2. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I typoed the parenthesis. Careless.

  3. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, I mean (n*(n+1))/2.
    Tens of AC's are all trying to correct me, and I assume none can see each other's posts.

  4. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    Yeah, thankfully my test-first implementation caught my mistake.
    ((n)*(n+1))/2, for clarity.

  5. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    Thanks for being the only person courageous enough to post the correction non-ac. Want to come have an interview?

  6. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    yes, i did, thanks.

  7. Re:Waterfall on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    Could you clarify any of the differences between iterative waterfall and agile. We have a very successful agile process at my shop, but I would be hard pressed to define a difference between what we do and iterative waterfall.

  8. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do you care whether they write a loop or return (n*n+1)/2? (where n=100 in this case?)

    (curious whether you are looking for the person who knows the clever solution, or the guy who can write a basic loop).

  9. Re:Perfection Has a Price on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    I thought you were talking about WAAAAY older software until you talked about wordperfect 4.2 on 386 hardware. That stuff was buggy as hell, and when it crashed, it took down your whole computer with it!

  10. Re:Previously unattainable with legacy technology? on USB 3.0 Is Ten Times Faster; Get It In 2010 · · Score: 1

    The result will be that usb3 devices connected to usb3 hosts will attain speeds that are unattainable by usb2 devices connected to usb2 hosts. Is it not clear that was what they meant?

  11. Re:That speed comes at a cost on USB 3.0 Is Ten Times Faster; Get It In 2010 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    USB has basically zero compatibility problems that i've ever seen. There are 3 port varieties (for small, medium, large devices), and you have to match that properly (or be really strong). There are 3 protocols (1.0, 2.0 low speed, 2.0 high speed), and you get the fastest that both sides of the cable support.

    The disastrous mistake the USB forum made was to allow 2.0 low speed to exist. They should have just bitten the bullet and said that 2.0 labeling is for high-speed only. But they had too much 2.0 low speed product in the channel that didn't want to be labeled 1.0, waaah waaah i want to put a 2.0 label on my product!

    But still, in spite of the poor labeling, there has been zero incompatibility that I or anyone I know has experienced. Some 2.0 devices work slower than you would expect (because they are low-speed), but they WORK.

    Hopefully with 3.0 they won't make the same mistake, and will only allow labeling with 3.0 for devices that use the full speed link.

  12. Re:Apple Computer, The Homosexual's Favorite on AMD Plans 1,000-GPU Supercomputer For Games, Cloud · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ok metamods, nuke from orbit for the 'redundant' mod please.

  13. Re:Apple Computer, The Homosexual's Favorite on AMD Plans 1,000-GPU Supercomputer For Games, Cloud · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow ... the effort that went into writing that boggles the mind. I mean, I feel bad wasting 5 seconds of my life typing up this reply.

  14. Re:Yes on Nvidia 480-Core Graphics Card Approaches 2 Teraflops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1920x1200 is the most preferred resolution because it is the native resolution of most of the 24" panels. If you don't play at native resolution, you get to experience glorious scaling artifacts. Glorious, glorious scaling artifacts.

  15. Re:Sounds good but.. on Nvidia 480-Core Graphics Card Approaches 2 Teraflops · · Score: 1

    According to:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)

    The ps3 cell would be capable of 1 teraflop, IF you could keep it fed. The nvidia part is actually getting that level of throughput.

  16. Re:Tell me how big it is. on Nvidia 480-Core Graphics Card Approaches 2 Teraflops · · Score: 1

    "The card fits into any normal PCI Express slot."

  17. Re:Rest in peace on Roland Piquepaille Dies · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you see death walking up the path to your door, start typing fast.

  18. Re:Less taxes. on Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer · · Score: 1

    The cost overhead of training a new workforce in a new location, buying up property and leasing new office space, etc. The 10 year rule is essentially a bet that a corporation, once they have a decade-long investment in a specific location, will get stuck (or stuck enough that shifting their operations will cost more than the increased tax load).

    Obviously, these were either highly untrained jobs, or the difference in tax load was way too big. Bad bet by the Irish.

  19. Re:A good first start on Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer · · Score: 1

    That's known as protectionism, and indeed, the developed world was much better off before we gave it up.

    Protectionism essentially bars corporations from shifting jobs to countries where human rights abuses allow them to manufacture more cheaply at the cost of human lives.

  20. Re:Global Economy == Global Poverty and Ruin on Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer · · Score: 1

    People in developing countries are the only ones capable of being enslaved or killed to make things for export. That's really the key to their market competitiveness.

  21. workers are stupid on Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer · · Score: 1

    If there is one lesson to be learned from this economic downturn: it is just stupid to be a worker in the modern economy. Instead, you should be in ownership or upper management. Kids, adjust your career plans now.

  22. Re:They're talking about address space on Panasonic Working On 2-Terabyte SD Cards · · Score: 1

    Then unfortunately, there is currently no consumer camera you can buy for digital video. And there probably won't be for at least a decade, maybe longer.

  23. Re:They're talking about address space on Panasonic Working On 2-Terabyte SD Cards · · Score: 1

    At 2 TB you have room for hours of 8K 120fps 3d stereo video. You don't likely need more, so as long as your camera is backwards compatible, you won't have much reason to upgrade.

    Of course, it will be so ridiculously cheap to upgrade that you will anyway. I thought I would carry my 4GB SD cards onto my next camera, but by the time I upgraded cameras, they were throwing in 16GB SDHC cards with purchase!

  24. Re:Nooooo on Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    Congress approved both.

  25. Re:What happened to Homer Simpson, with no TV? on Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    Actually, whittling down the dumber portion of the population would probably help a lot with the economy. Food distribution costs would plummet, freeing up capital for new investment, among other benefits.