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  1. Re:Offshoring firms did. on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Devlivery would be a great new term. A bespoke developer indentured to an equity lord.

  2. Trying to understand this complex problem on US Consumer Groups Warn 'Robot Car Bill' Threatens Safety (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have a good car analogy?

  3. So interesting, thanks!

  4. Re:Coffee on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? · · Score: 1

    +1 Not sure I would want to work with either one of them.

  5. Quite possibly the best post ever written, to anything.

  6. Re:Dumb on Has The NSF Automated Coding with ExCAPE? (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Nicely said, thanks.

  7. You want a project? on 'I Know How To Program, But I Don't Know What To Program' (devdungeon.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a project. Model how any small part of the Interplanetary Transport Network works. Then please send it to me. Here is a paper to help you get started: http://www2.esm.vt.edu/~sdross... Have fun coding!

  8. Re:"most heated arguments in anthropology" on New Study Shows Mystery 'Hobbits' Not Humans Like Us (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    +1 for "scraping at dirt with a bricklayer's trowel"

  9. Re:Orbital Cleaning Services - 1 gigadollar/terali on Caltech Astronomers Say a Ninth Planet Lurks Beyond Pluto (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Funniest post all day.

  10. Re:What if we create AI on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil a question · · Score: 1

    Funniest thing I have read all day.

  11. Re: But on Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator (space.com) · · Score: 1

    "Active suspension via recirculating kinetic transfer" Provide a link please? Not even sure what this phrase means.

  12. Re:Such as occurred in the 1960s on The Two Modern Space Races (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I too remember the exact day. It was one of those defining moments.

  13. Re:Old-Timer's Advice on Ask Slashdot: Have You Tried a Standing Desk? · · Score: 1

    This.

  14. Re:Who watches this crap? on Watching People Code Is Becoming an (Even Bigger) Thing · · Score: 1

    Well, please post a link to your videos.

  15. Re:Prime Scalia - "Words no longer having meaning" on Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies · · Score: 1

    The symbolism of Southern honor and courage known as the Confederate flag was stolen years ago by a domestic terrorist organization known as the KKK. Because the South did not prevent the theft, they have now lost their flag. It's your own fault this happened.

  16. Re:Only Two Futures? on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    Throwing away my mod points to say what a useful and interesting post this is.

  17. Re:Agile. on Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? · · Score: 1

    The customers of your webapp may tolerate continuous deployments and the inevitable rollbacks, but not all of us are so lucky. After their production network crashes and burns because of our product, we quickly learned that paying customers will take the latest release and park it in their lab for 6 months or a year before risking it on their live network. Agile is great for keeping devs accountable and on track, but real software cannot be continuously released.

  18. Re:Ehhh What ? on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 1

    Plants are engines powered by the Sun. The very purpose of those leaves is to tap the flow of solar energy. When the giant celestial nuclear reactor is taken into account, the entropy of the entire system is increasing.

    Plants are engines powered by the Sun, made almost entirely out of water and air.

    Just had to throw that in, otherwise I would have modded up your answer.

  19. Re:you're doing it wrong on Overly Familiar Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    Thanks, looks like a good book, will check it out.

  20. Re:Old saying on New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping · · Score: 1

    Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit at the wharf all day drinking beer and fishing.

  21. Re:Show me the evidence on Most Planets In the Universe Are Homeless · · Score: 1

    It's posts like this that keep me reading Slashdot.

  22. Re:$230 on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    I can't mod this up any higher, so: Haha too funny!

  23. Can we make the walls out of ice? on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    Because winter is coming.

  24. Re:"Simplest explanation" on Evidence of Protoplanet Found On Moon · · Score: 0

    Where are my damn mod points!

  25. Re:Read his books on Author Charles Stross: Is Amazon a Malignant Monopoly, Or Just Plain Evil? · · Score: 1

    The comparison to Wal-Mart is particularly apt.

    A better comparison is the Sears catalog, for those who remember it.