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  1. Re:jscript on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 0

    As should be obvious from what I wrote, I'm a .Net developer so my environment is VS.Net debugging against IE. The javascript project is not my primary target, so I don't have, nor do I wish to have, special tools specific to JS. It isn't "stupid" to debug against IE while reading news with IE, as it's a damn web browser. As for your last statement, this is a fucking comment section, not a dissertation, hence the lack of arguments up to your exacting standards.

  2. jscript on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just started on a web project that is heavily javascript (even though it's an ASP.Net app). It feels like I stepped back in time 10 years. I'd have code not execute. Why? Some error somewhere in the code that was ignored. I had a typo on a property set somewhere else. No error. Why? Because javascript created a new property with the typo and set *that*. And every change requires me to run the app to see if it works, because I don't have a compiler to check the basics out ahead of time. And then, because I'm debugging an app in one window, when I'd open a new one to read the news, I'd hit other, non-ignored errors on those pages (advertisements) because 90% of commercial pages these days have error-laden javascript because people rarely check for error conditions. Horrible language.

  3. Deja vu on Is Amazon Making a Sub-$300 Console To Play Mobile Games? · · Score: 2

    I feel like I'm reliving the 80s, where every electronics manufacturer on the planet seemed to come out with a Z80-based console to take the market by storm.

  4. Re:Hand operated CNC? That's a new one. on New 3D Printer Can Print With Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're talking about the mold that gets CNC'ed?

  5. Re:Spell it out the first time on Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken · · Score: 1

    Maybe it does...Torvalds tends to think a lot of things in the world are broken.

  6. You've got virtualization on Ask Slashdot: Configuring Development Environment On a Shared Workstation? · · Score: 1

    So just use a virtual machine to set all of this up. Set up a VHD in Hyper-V, install Win8.1 and all of your tools to it, and it affects no one else. Alternatively, you may be able to do cloud-based development, since MS has an internet version of VS as well as a cloud DB and storage, but then you may lose the Android stuff.

  7. Re:WTF? on New Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the person has a large family. Maybe the person is rich. Maybe the person wants a special room for each kind of drug he wants to indulge on. Maybe the person wants to piss off self-righteous douches. It's part of the luxury of having one's own income and the freedom to do with it at will.

  8. Re:You mean on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 1

    No, because there is a zero percent chance of her being president, her wave function never intersects with the presidency.

  9. Re:Some Things Are Still in the Stores Today on Ancient Pompeii Diet Consisted of Giraffe and Other "Exotic'" Delicacies · · Score: 1

    Not quite the same as the Roman recipe. Try Colatura for something closer to the real thing.

  10. Re:Why are pins stored? on Encrypted PIN Data Taken In Target Breach · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. It seems to me that the user should enter the pin, the bank and store should exchange keys, encrypt the pin, send it to the bank for decryption/verification, and that's it. What would be the point of storing the pin at the store?

  11. Re:He's not "conceited". He's absolutely correct! on Is Ruby Dying? · · Score: 1

    This.

  12. Re:Spreadsheets? on Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome · · Score: 1

    They've got a framework extension for .Net that works similarly, not coincidentally named "Reactive Extensions". The typical sample usage is iterating through a collection of mouse events. The enumeration is observable, so the code can be written as a traditional foreach loop, but the iterator will increment a step every time a mouse event occurs. Simple, yet very powerful, like much of .Net's newer asynchronous constructs.

  13. Interesting on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is the first site I've come across that has interprested Larson-Green's presentation to indicate MS is ditching RT. Every other one has assumed that they're just going to merge the WinPhone shell into RT and make Modern UI more scaleable across screen sizes.

  14. Re:Good thing clippy never got ahold of that stuff on Apple Officializes Purchase of Motion-Sensor Firm PrimeSense · · Score: 1

    Still holding on to Clippy jokes, are we?

  15. Definition on CMU AI Learning Common Sense By Watching the Internet · · Score: 1

    Common sense is what a politician believes his or her opinion is.

  16. I've lost count of how many projects I've been on where the architect decides to "make his mark" by using unconventional design choices. Then the project gets stuck in a dev hell where the actual developers struggle with either integration headaches or difficulties with the code not acting like they expect. There's something to be said for plain vanilla.

  17. Re:Ice cube jokes on At Long Last: IceCube Spots 28 High-Energy Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    This almost makes up for all those stupid family films he's been making. Well, this plus 21 Jump Street puts him over the top.

  18. Re:Gotta ask ! on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Read Michael Abrash.

  19. For the runtime errors. The lovely, lovely runtime errors!

  20. Re:IE 9? on Google Ends Internet Explorer 9 Support In Google Apps · · Score: 2

    Because they're the latest versions, and they're free?

  21. Re:Strange classification on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's Slashdot; what do you expect?

  22. So basically on HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The web site turned out like every other v1 web app that gets rushed out to an externally-set deadline?

  23. Thick on OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 · · Score: 2

    As a brick

  24. No media servers? on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 2

    What's the point of that? As someone who has terabytes dedicated to local media storage rather than counting on the cloud to reliably stream (or even carry) a particular album or movie, this trend is really ticking me off. I'm going to take a guess that XBone won't serve as a Media Center Extender as well. Was hoping for a single device to play games, watch TV, and listen to music, but it looks more and more like I need to get a separate NUC (or equivalent) for the media server access (although that was going to be necessary anyway, since XB360 won't play ripped DVDs)

  25. Rich on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Coming from a professional panty-sniffer.