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  1. It's in all fields. Nursing is the slightly worse one. Not many others are worse than tech. Not all nurses are paid by seniority.

  2. Think of the current day progressives you know.

    Are they athletic? Are they motivated? Are they independent-minded? Are they willing to deal with their peers to accomplish things?

    Think of that Christmas day guy who tried to bring down an airplane by lodging a device in his underwear. Is this guy going to be of any military significance?

    Most of the current day shooters are HRC contributers and/or progressives and they often fail to take down unarmed people. The Colorado Batman movie guy succeeded here, and the Las Vegas shooter, but then those are just sucker punch victories.

    I think the progressives should steer clear of this path. It is in their best interest.

    The overall public certainly gains little from civil war.

  3. This is just pushing a political agenda here by means of deliberately conflating subsidies with tax breaks.

    Why would a city want to kill all the jobs?

    I'd rather have a job than a municipal government.

    Or ANY government for that matter.

  4. Re:Reality has a liberal bias on Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Everytime I see the word "reality" I think, "Oh, clear as day ... someone is disguising their opinion so they can ram it down my throat because they don't think they can sell it on their merits."

    Thanks for the advance warning.

  5. People are dying, but we are barking about drones? on Colorado Lawmakers Want To Make It a Felony To Fly a Drone Over a Wildfire (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    So while people are burning to death in their homes we going to start putting people in jail because they're flying drones.

    You know what should be a felony is this nasty police state the beurocrats in Colorado are building.

  6. "You give someone the privilege of flying through a space..."

    Ha !! This reminds me of the jumped-up French explorers cruising down the Mississippi proclaiming that France now rules over all and everyone there can only stay if they are extended the privilege.

    You would think the federal government BUILT THE AIR they are sooo generously allowing air planes to fly through.

    Human beings are like bugs, and the abstractions and policies and blah blah blah they hold over each other are much, much lower than that. I'm surprised sometimes heaven doesn't just reach down and squish us all.

    Next we're going to hear about what a privilege it is to keep some of our own money that we earn. And about how the government was the one who really earned my paycheck, etc. etc.

  7. I can see how people form their whole opinion about something based on political ideology or about Jesus or if it got their parents laid off or whatever.

    But microtransactions? That's like not buying a home based on whether the surrounding school population is a hair above or below average.

    Micro-priorties seems to be how you are calling your shots.

  8. Re:Why have we let ourselves come to this? on Fortnite is Generating More Revenue Than Any Other Free Game Ever (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    You could easily ask this about buying video games.

    Or going to the mall and buying nice clothes.

  9. Re:Plenty of children using parents money.. on Fortnite is Generating More Revenue Than Any Other Free Game Ever (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    You are stroking the itches of a diseased echo chamber.

    Some people don't mind just playing to have fun and don't mind other people paying their tab.

  10. Re:Plenty of children using parents money.. on Fortnite is Generating More Revenue Than Any Other Free Game Ever (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Everything under the sun is a vapor.

    How is another person making a profit hurting you?

    You are wasting your days chasing your breath.

  11. On slashdot ... if it moves, it's an idiot.

    Or a racist.

    Nah, nobody needs the benefit of the doubt.

    I'm guessing you don't either.

  12. Re:IBM acquires companies, fires acquired employee on Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM's Problem with AI (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    You could say Newton didn't make anything new (forget about his lenses for a moment) in his general gravity models.

    But wasn't it a big discovery?

  13. Re:They're highly paid on 57% of Tech Workers Are Suffering From Job Burnout, Survey Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    There's a fair number of IT jobs that max people out, but the demand is high enough you can easily switch to a good job without much any digging.

    The age thing is a much bigger challenge. I guess I can't say that authoratively, though since I'm just 36, but I'm always the oldest wherever I work. And I can't get my older friends jobs.

  14. In my experience ... the places that pay out more expect less of you.

    Or if they are finance / corporate / gov

  15. Re:Let's also sue everyone who uses oil! on Judge Rules Big Oil Can't Be Sued For Climate Change Costs (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know what is going on ... but SOMEONE owes me a million dollars !!

  16. Re:Big shocker. on Judge Rules Big Oil Can't Be Sued For Climate Change Costs (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    "If the oil companies turn off the tap, people will die."

    Where is the TIME magazine cover on this one ??

  17. Re:Cosmetic vs. pay to win on Fortnite is Generating More Revenue Than Any Other Free Game Ever (recode.net) · · Score: 0

    If someone else pays money for that, how does it infringe on you?

    Reminds me of Charlie Sheen's character in Ferris Bueller asking why his sister cares so much he gets the day off.

    I think your problem is you.

  18. Whaaat ... multithreading massively expands the complexity of whatever is getting run.

    There are a lot of test conditions that fail indeterminately (e.g. possibly only in production) when you bring multithreading in.

    In a lot of enterprise software you don't need the extra cores or processing power (since your DB is would be your first bottleneck anyway).

    I try to avoid multithreading where I can.

  19. You could Roslyn some C# to machine code. And unsafe all the checks out.

    C++ is just too hairy to maintain.

    Spent 7 years only doing C++ and 8 years doing mostly C#

  20. There is a lot to be said in favor of that ...

    On the other hand, I am so glad when I go to access a method on an object and the IDE knows what methods it has and gives me a list.

    I've never seen that work very well for a weakly typed language.

  21. So did I. I largely agree with this, but in consulting it helps to keep up with other frameworks due to business demand (rolling off a C# customer to a Java customer next week).

    I prefer C# to Java, though. Also doing Node and some Python in my free time.

  22. Re:Java has just about dropped of my list ... on Oracle Plans To Switch Businesses to Subscriptions for Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Tell me more about these non-proprietary languages ...

    C# is the best language to work with by far, but ... sadly ... I'm reviewing Java in my home time because there is so much business demand for it. Since you bring up 'sexiness' as a criteria, I note that getting paid to know a language makes it much more, ah ... attractive, shall we say ... than something like Kotlin which may have associated job listings for later.

    Also, I'm rolling off a .NET project / client and onto a Java .NET project / client next week. Tells you something about what the demand is like and what is out there. The cushy jobs are all enterprise VM languages.

    Cool Seneca quote, btw. John Calvin wrote his dissertation on that guy. Sartre, Kierkegaard, and Nietchze are similar writers worthy of a read.

  23. Re: Just a money grab... on Oracle Plans To Switch Businesses to Subscriptions for Java SE (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't see similar (or any) language following a similar business model.

    What's to stop everyone from doing all new projects in another language?

    Not hard to migrate Java to C#.

    I can't see this as having a good effect on their (already declining) marketshare.

  24. Morals are causing a panic !! on WHO Gaming Disorder Listing a 'Moral Panic', Say Experts (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    What the UN is saying is that our lives would be so much simpler if we would just eject our morals and panic less

    Maybe it is time to eject the UN ...

  25. Not the answer you were looking for ? on India Eyeing a New Monster 100GW Solar-Capacity Goal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Q: How do I impoverish my country as successfully as India has?

    A: Solar panels