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  1. Re:Yawn on "Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs · · Score: 1

    Yes, emacs, in its glorious tolerance of even the worst free ideas, sports a Vim-equivalent mode.
    This is typically discarded after the vi-recovery phase.

  2. Re:Patriarchy on US Academy President Caught Embellishing Resume, Will Resign · · Score: 1

    Threaten the fabric of society; turn into a Senate seat for Elizabeth Warren: what difference, at this point, does it make?

  3. Dear Mr. President on Researchers Implant False Memories In Mice · · Score: 1

    As with your economic stylings, this purported knowledge isn't going to last too well past the first encounter with reality. You should have listened to Moltke, not Marx.

  4. Re:Unsigned on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    OK, so you're making the pragmatic point that, yeah, it's a virtual machine, but the expense of some operations could be prohibitive.
    I'm good with that, but I still want to laugh about how our mighty JVM is really kicking the "M" in the groin here, and reducing itself to a "common" scripting engine.

  5. Re:Unsigned on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    Gosling didn't include it because the behavior aren't defined in CPU independent ways.

    I don't follow this argument. The JVM is a "virtual" machine, no? Wouldn't offering consistent handling of unsigned types be a selling point of such?

  6. Re:Finally Fixing the Date stuff on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    But what does that mean?

    It could still mean "an address in memory", or "the datum at that address" but I'm not sure.

  7. Re:Finally Fixing the Date stuff on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, you have to instantiate a BigDecimaFactory in the inversion-of-control container and pull in a lot of org.apache.whizbang.dont.we.love.us.some.nested.hierarchies code, plus update your ant scripts to maven, and don't forget to feed the Tomcat, but, with sufficient struggle, you can still get to "Hello World 1.0" in Java.

  8. Re:Gawd on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    RIP, Mary Jo Kopechne

  9. Re:Typo? on Five Charged In Largest Hacking Scheme Ever Prosecuted In US · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, this is a Ukrainian copy of the Fox News show, the Five.
    "But, Commies have been passing themselves off as MSNBC for years," complained the Ukrainian show.

  10. Re:AHA! on FreeBSD Co-founder Jordan Hubbard Leaves Apple To Join iXsystems · · Score: 1

    Yes, the "l" gets incremented by two characters.

  11. Ronng! on FreeBSD Co-founder Jordan Hubbard Leaves Apple To Join iXsystems · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Lobbying lawyers are also citizens... on Crowdsourced Finnish Copyright Initiative Meets Signature Requirement · · Score: 1

    And rightly so. Admirable as giving citizens a direct voice is, it's not necessarily representative.

    Fair point, but in what larger scope do you manage "representative"?
    Smaller groups of people can always label efforts "not necessarily representative", if those smaller groups are wielding too much power, can they not?
    I suppose that time is the only way to sort out the tyranny of the minority vs. tyranny of the majority issues.

  13. Re:German code comments on Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Released With Major New Features · · Score: 2

    In Soviet Russia, Office Opens you!

  14. Re:German code comments on Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Released With Major New Features · · Score: 2

    I think you meant it make people run faster from maintaining your programs. Unless your comments are in Klingon, in which case the would-be maintainer is vaporized.

  15. I'm applying to patent our patent system on How Joel Spolsky Shot Down a Microsoft Patent In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Description:
    1. Follow a well-fed dog around for a while, carrying a plastic baggie.
    2. Use your imagination.
    There. I have both characterized and shown how to implement the U.S. software patent system.

  16. Re:Lobbying lawyers are also citizens... on Crowdsourced Finnish Copyright Initiative Meets Signature Requirement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stand by for this exercise in self-government to be crushed in 3 ... 2 ...

  17. Re:businessmen in software on Fedora Project Developer Proposes Layered, More Agile Design to Distribution · · Score: 1

    ButButBut. . .Java can be a sexual encounter between Cobol and a bagel, if you just want it badly enough!

  18. Where is the capitalism? on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1
    What's counter-intuitive is that, if Hollywood sucks pond water, yet people still want movies, why any number of other things haven't occurred:
    • More alternative locations challenge Hollywood. Sure, Sundance: but why haven't festivals begotten more local challengers?
    • More amateur auteurs, given the lower barriers to entry for hardware.
    • More traditional stage productions.

    I suppose its a time/money/advertising thing, but this craptacular economy seems like it should be freeing up some time to explore for some folks.

  19. Re:We can thank the code breakers on Sunken WWI U-Boats a Bonanza For Historians · · Score: 1
  20. Re:we didn't had submarines in ancient Greece on Sunken WWI U-Boats a Bonanza For Historians · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am Greek living in Greece and i feel insulted

    As well you should, but not for this particular reason.

  21. Re:We can thank the code breakers on Sunken WWI U-Boats a Bonanza For Historians · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't you get on Al Gore's internet* and start blathering about facts, young man.



    *Al Gore did not invent the internet. This reply is meant for humorous value in this specific context only, and is not intended for use in a factual exchange.

  22. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1
  23. And even if you get swell guys now on Welcome To the 'Sharing Economy' · · Score: 1
    As noted by Ancient Commenter Solomon in Ecclesiastes 2:

    16. Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
    17. And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

  24. Sounds sub-Surface on Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    'Softy sinks, sadly.
    Should sell suckless,
    Savory servers. Seriously.

  25. No way, man on Linux 3.11 Features Fall Into Place With Merge Window · · Score: 1

    "If I can't have Linux for Bob
    I don't want nobody, baby"