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  1. Recruiters? on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    Pfft. Recruiters are ghosting too. So what are they complaining about?

  2. Keep up the good work on Slashdot Outage Update · · Score: 2

    Hope you will recover soon.

  3. Stop whining on 'This Isn't AI' (shkspr.mobi) · · Score: 1

    New technology always starts like things. Things will improve.

  4. Re:I doubt this... on Microsoft's Cool Quantum Computing Plan Embraces Cryogenic Memory (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    $hit. I was just thinking about a career in QA :(

  5. Yahoo is dead on Verizon Executive Says Company Unsure About Yahoo Deal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Let it rest in peace.

  6. Amber Smalltalk on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link to Amber Smalltalk! I didn't know this one. It's good to hear there's something going on with client side Smalltalk.

  7. What happened? on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is just me, but I stumble over a lot of this "old programmers" articles recently. What happened? Well, maybe it's just the Google bubble I live in. *sigh*

  8. And what should we do with UBI? Play video games all day? I don't get it.

  9. Emacs and Vim live together in perfect harmony on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 1

    Emacs and Vim live together in perfect harmony
    Side by side on my keyboard, oh Lord, why don't we?

  10. Where will all the data go?

  11. Retail Stores? on Amazon Will Open 100 Retail Stores (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Brick and mortar business? Whoa! Old school. My butt "everything online".

  12. Microsoft! Fixes bugs! In Skype! For Linux! on Microsoft Fixes Bugs in Skype for Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh my god! What a beautiful day! Let us celebrate this!

  13. So we all should buy Mathematica?

  14. Congratulations! on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Qapla' ! :-)

  15. But why? on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 1

    Why do they have to motivate their programmers so badly? Bad projects? Bad programming language?

  16. Why So Apathetic? Why not? on It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? · · Score: 1

    Programming as a job sucks.

  17. Good luck! on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    Good luck on your search. I hope to follow you soon. All the best.

  18. He's right on Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites" · · Score: 1

    This guy knows what he's talking about. They will not charge for everything, but certainly for 'premium' content. Whatever that is.

  19. Re:soo... on McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux · · Score: 1

    "Would you like fries with that?" translates to "Moechten Sie Pomm Fritt dazu?"

    Good luck on your next trip to germany. ;-)

    HTH, Markus

  20. Re:soo... on McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux · · Score: 1

    Germany is paralysed by German Angst. We are down because we feel down. That's the problem.

    But i agree with you on dumping R&D and selling management 'skills'. But then, who wants to be an engineer today?

    Markus (wishing he was a lawyer)

  21. Re:free? on Open Watcom Effort Makes First Public Release · · Score: 1

    Fortunately i took the early-bird access. :-)

    Markus

  22. Re:It's dead. on Open Watcom Effort Makes First Public Release · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Would love to hear an OS/2 users opinion on this one. Or was that eComStation?

    Any OS/2 users out there?

    Markus

  23. Re:Hmm on Open Watcom Effort Makes First Public Release · · Score: 1

    Huh? Because developers have alternatives to test against, they write compiler dependent code? I hope this was not the message of your comment.
    Don't know how you're doing development but i'm using as much compilers as i can get to compile my sources. I have a bad feeling just using one compiler. This includes gcc and Watcom as well.

    Markus

  24. Re:Eh... Am I missing something? on Open Watcom Effort Makes First Public Release · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just rip out the stuff they can't distribute, and publish the incomplete source?

    And you would do that on more than a million lines of source code in a few month? Wow! I'm impressed.

    Markus

  25. Re:Already? on Open Watcom Effort Makes First Public Release · · Score: 1

    Hmm, so a project does qualify as open source if it releases new versions very often?
    Hey, wait a moment! You mean Microsoft qualify as open source, right?

    This project is not as big as the few successors Apache, Samba and the like (yes, there're only few). So they *need* publicity, they *need* a few more dollars in donations, because not everybody wants to work for nothing.

    You took a look at Mozilla and 'the early 'C complier releaseed by Dennis Ritchie'? And it was 'immature and not well-done'. And you have contributed better solutions? Please say that you have...

    Markus