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  1. Welcome to engineering on 'Just Let Me Code!' · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "because "spec" is a moving target that never solidifies. "
    Too damn bad. Welcome to engineering.

    " Agile processes...not even attempting to nail down requirements beforehand"
    This is an acknowledgement of reality. Welcome to engineering.

    Your argument boils down to "Engineering is hard". If it were easy, everyone would do it. Welcome to engineering.

  2. Re:The UN on MIT's Ted Postol Presents More Evidence On Iron Dome Failures · · Score: 2

    Clearly, Israel should bomb the UN.

  3. Re:suspect results. on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 1

    From the article "The study reveals nothing about the nature of the link between socialism and dishonesty."

    So are you the one person who read the article before posting and are paraphrasing it, or yet another jackass who like to parrot a clever line without knowing whether it applies to the given situation?

  4. Re:let me correct that for you. on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 1

    "Libertarian != Anarchist"
    That sweeping generalization looks silly in the face of the existence of the Dallas Accord.

  5. Re:let me correct that for you. on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 2

    Employing a Marxist theory of capitalism to refute socialism? Fascinating.

  6. Re:Yet another reason to turn off Ecmascript on A New Form of Online Tracking: Canvas Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    "The Amish reject technology across the board, whether useful or not."
    Clearly, cell phones are not technology.

  7. Re:Is that what it is come down to? on A New Form of Online Tracking: Canvas Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    Note that it's not loading images, it's creating a new image.

  8. Re:Who benefits on Russia Prepares For Internet War Over Malaysian Jet · · Score: 1

    B52s are only operated by the US Military, and have 8 jet engines.
    B777 have two jet engines and are not operated by any military.
    An24/26 that had been previously shot down have 2 turboprop engines and also are incapable of flying at 33,000 feet.

  9. Re:Shitpost is shit on Ask Slashdot: How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need? · · Score: 1

    It is interesting that the submitter found the topic where it is even less useful to ask Slashdot than asking about the law.

  10. Re:Some more info: on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    MH1, which flies LHR to KUL, also trends to courses over the Sea of Azov. However, on both the July 10th and July 16th departures it took a route north of the sea. The latter departure was 14.5 hours before MH17. It seems plausible that this is just hunting for good tail winds.

    On the other hand, KL809 which departed AMS just 3 hours before MH17 went to the south edge of the sea. BR76, LH782, and AF246 have been sticking to the north edge and center of the sea respectively, but neither had departures on July16.

  11. Re:Wow. Terrble Turn. on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    He found them left behind in a bar, with an iPhone prototype.

  12. Re:High useage on Amazon Is Testing a $10-Per-Month Ebook Service · · Score: 2

    "Similarly, it makes zero sense to buy an ebook from B&N if it is available through this program."

    If you *currently* have the subscription service then your *current* choice would be to not buy thorugh B&N. However, your *future* choices are not constrained if the terms of the service change unfavorable (since you can you just drop the service).

    Since "constraint on future decisions" is what lock-in means, and there would be no constraint, there is no lock-in.

  13. Re:Double standards on Rand Paul and Silicon Valley's Shifting Political Climate · · Score: 1

    It's like you've never heard of Karl Popper.

  14. Re:Weren't they trying to merge with Comcast? on Time Warner Turns Down Takeover Bid From Rupert Murdoch · · Score: 4, Funny

    That case was solved by sorting them into either "Verizon" or "AT&T".

  15. Re:High useage on Amazon Is Testing a $10-Per-Month Ebook Service · · Score: 1

    "switch entirely"
    Actually no, it does not prevent you from buying paper books at all.

    "locked into Amazon"
    Actually no, the most you can be out is only the amount on money you've spent for the current subscription term plus one more if you are currently reading something that is completely unavailable from any other source and which you are unwilling to leave unfinished (though if that work is so important I wonder if purchasing would not have been the correct move anyway).

  16. Re:So... how is this any better than a library? on Amazon Is Testing a $10-Per-Month Ebook Service · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's better because this is capitalism and libraries are damned dirty communism.

  17. Re:Totally would buy on HP Claims Their Moonshot System is a 'New Style of IT' (Video) · · Score: 1

    Your limiting factor is actually cooling. For the W/ft^2 you can pull out of a room you can't fill every rack to the top with Xeons.

  18. Re:4.3 U on HP Claims Their Moonshot System is a 'New Style of IT' (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is actually an established size from HP. It allows two 3.5" drives per vertical blade (cheaper than 2.5") which would not fit inside of a 4U chassis, but fits one more chassis per rack than 5U would

  19. Now everyone can use theri real name on Pseudonyms Now Allowed On Google+ · · Score: 1

    The real name policy had rules that excluded people's real names. Now that the rules for what constitutes a real name don't matter everyone can be sure that their real names won't be excluded.

  20. Re:Useless coins on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    "Dollar coin never took off because they kept making bills. Other countries that have dollar coins stopped making the bills,"

    El Salvador uses the US Dollar as their currency, and dollar coins are in use all over the place.

    There must be more to it than just keeping the bills in circulation.

  21. Not only will the US agree to defend your mineral extraction with a publicly funded military (by recognizing your extraction rights), they will disclaim any right to tax you on your gains (by not trying to claim sovereignty).

    Privatize the profits, nationalize the risks!

  22. The sequel involves stopping the revolt with cavalry lead by an undead George Patton.

  23. Re:another language shoved down your throat on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 1

    RPI

    Looking at the current course catalog, they seem to has moved this later in the curriculum and pulled data structures, algorithms, and some computability topics in before coming back around to the subject of languages. It looks like they put in some compiler design too.

  24. My biases, let me show you them on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 2

    My recommendation for an initial language has long been Pascal. Technically, it has nearly all of the big concepts that you'd want to demonstrate in a computing language. Practically, it is sufficiently annoying that the student will be receptive to the idea that the language of a program is a design choice rather than getting stuck on the first thing they learned.

  25. Re:another language shoved down your throat on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 1

    In your non-Python language of choice, how do you tell the difference between an error in indentation and an error in marking the beginning and ending of blocks?