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  1. Re:Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get invit on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    Because when I look for facts I choose okayafrica, wordpress and breitbart above all.

  2. Re:memory loss defence? on Bank's Severance Deal Requires IT Workers To Be Available For Two Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I searched but couldn't find more on the severance package. This could be an attempt by the company to pay severance only while the prior employee remains unemployed. I'm not saying that that's right either, I'm just saying its hard to paint a clear picture of whats going on with only one piece of information.

  3. Re:Islam early history on Court: Lawsuit Over NYPD Surveillance of Muslims Can Proceed (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    To look at the misdeeds of Islam and ignore those of every other religion is obtuse. From your argument, Islam isn't the issue. Religion is.

  4. Ah cold fjord, the fool's fool. I guess it doesn't mater that most crimes (violent or not) in the U.S. aren't committed by Muslims. But don't let facts and reason get in the way of your bigotry.

  5. Re:What if I don't want to own a car? on Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously this was modded up? I can't go five minutes on the interstate without some jack a** in the fast lane swerving and going slower than traffic on the right because they are texting/eating/putting on makeup/whatever. I have yet to see an autonomous vehicle do any of those things.

    That being said, the day autonomous cars can do their own make up, god help us all....

  6. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    I was being facetious.

  7. Re:Gee-zus on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 2

    There is absolutely something to see here. Whenever a 9th grader is arrested, suspended and sent to a juvenile center for making a clock, there is something seriously wrong. Under no circumstances should this happen.

    The teachers should've been more attentive and not only known about the clock project but supporting and cultivating his interests. The school administrators should've caught the problem immediately and not called the cops. The cops should not have done an number of the things that they did. We have cultivated a system that tolerates this kind of lunacy and its not ok. These teachers, administrators and police offices should be held responsible for their actions against a minor including unlawful seizure and detainment.

  8. Re: Unavoidable on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    The terrorists didn't win. Our fear mongering, overpowered, fascist, police state of a government won.

  9. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well if he wasn't a terrorist, he is now. Gotta love the land of tolerance.

  10. Re:it means nothing, on What Congress' New Email-privacy Bill Means For Your Inbox · · Score: 1

    Its ok, we're on a mission from god.

  11. Re:US Bill is only 4 Trillion? on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any data model that puts the U.S. at $4 trillion in the whole and China in the black regarding pollution is incredibly inaccurate, especially since the dates measured are after both the U.S. and China industrialized. One set is from 1990 to 2013 and still shows China in the black.

    This is sensationalist journalism posing as science. The publication itself looks to target wealth as an indicator of carbon emissions. Its abstract is clearly biased which is just bad science. The article by Brian Merchant is just terrible. I tried reading it and its just slander. The guy touts himself as "Apocalypse spotter, utopianist, science fictionalist." Seriously, this whole article is just a big pile of crap.

  12. Re: Programming on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    That explains the ISS toilet failures. You simplified that exponential equation to a straight line.

  13. Re: Programming on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    That's a question of time now vs time later. I would rather have the non working code assuming I have the time to fix it. If we need to meet the deadline I'll take the working code. But as I said, most bad coders produce unreadable non-working code.

    If I had to pick between having a bad coder and an illegible coder, I'd take the illegible one because coding practices are easier to teach than how to code.

  14. Re: Programming on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    Well now we are talking about mathematicians. They have to write their own Integer class because MAX_INT just isn't close enough.

    But more seriously, readability, maintainability and good coding practices are something you learn from experience, not some innate understanding of the concepts. If you had to choose between working code that's unreadable or non-working code that is readable, which would you take?

    Not that that's a good example, most bad programmers I know produce code that doesn't work and is unreadable.

  15. Re: Programming on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 2

    I've never met a good programmer with weak math skills. While your general statement is true, math is not needed to program, mathematics and logic are too tightly coupled to be good at one and bad at the other. The same type of thinking is needed for both.

    Someone inherently good at programming will be inherently good at math and vise versa. Someone who can't understand mathematical concepts will struggle with logical ones. As to your point about engineers, most of the best programmers I know came from fields other than programming that required a higher level of mathematics, like engineering.

  16. Re:Isn't this thing already deployed? on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 1

    Its probably an effort to decommission the A-10. They've been trying to do it for a long time but its such a great aircraft. Its sad we haven't designed anything comparable in the last 40+ years. Really goes to show the state of American politics in regards to military spending.

  17. Re: Isn't this thing already deployed? on F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test · · Score: 3, Informative

    Its a true story. The A-X (experimental attack) program was modified in 1970 specifically to make the 30 MM rotary canon the main focus of the vehicle. The design revolved around making an aircraft stable enough to fire that thing continuously.

  18. Re:When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A symptom is not a disease. Restless legs is a symptom just like overreacting to nearby electronics. Making useless diagnoses based on a single symptom with no underlying explanation is not really a diagnosis nor a disease.

  19. Re:Can this bubble burst already? on Deep Learning Pioneer On the Next Generation of Hardware For Neural Networks · · Score: 1

    I've written some pretty crazy decision tree algorithms and some deep learning neural networks. There are use cases of neural networks, including perceptrons, that no traditional algorithm can solve.

  20. Javascript on Tech Nightmares That Keep Turing Award Winners Up At Night · · Score: 1

    Javascript keeps me up at night...

  21. Re:If you don't like it, don't watch it. on "Sensationalized Cruelty": FCC Complaints Regarding Game of Thrones · · Score: 1

    Oh but we are. That thought you just had, sick. We will be filing an injunction to prevent you from having it again. Expect a call from our lawyers.

  22. Re:So now we have a new paradox... on Stephen Hawking Presents Theory On Getting Information Out of a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Now he can name the effect after himself.

  23. Was it intentional to use a George Orwellian phrase to describe an article about Ray Bradbury?

  24. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    This may seem like a moot point but I would think it's the thief's fault your stuff got stolen.

  25. Re:Very sad - but let's get legislation in place N on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    Legislation made in the heat of the moment is always a good idea.