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  1. Re:The Future's So Bright on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 1

    So you want to hold back your best cyclists because you're afraid of getting the occasional boo-boo? Better idea: don't hire muppets in the first place.

  2. Re:Climate Change on Slashdot? Bring on the fun! on Blueprints For Taming the Climate Crisis · · Score: 2

    The only startling thing is your poor spelling and grammar. Read.

  3. Re:The Future's So Bright on Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But good developers make less mistakes in a language where there's less freedom...

    Some of us like having the training wheels off our bikes.

  4. Re:A heavy, complicated solution to a rare problem on Radar Changing the Face of Cycling · · Score: 1

    Remember that a motorist making a left turn in Santa Barbara doesn't mean the same thing as it does in London.

  5. Re:Ossifying? on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 1

    Code reviews can help you with that. Your company should try them.

  6. Surprise on Judge: $324M Settlement In Silicon Valley Tech Worker Case Not Enough · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The proposed settlement mainly benefits the lawyers and not the people damaged. What a surprise.

  7. Re:whistling on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    No email archiving? really? Of an IRS director?

    Do you know what the data retention policy/rule/law is for an IRS director? Not what you think it should be but what it actually is?

  8. Re:Democrats voted on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 4, Informative

    this is so important because california's legislature is so horribly disfunctional, and because you need 2/3 vote to pass any bill that levies taxes, it means a minority can basically shut down regular operation.

    btdubs this was just one of the reforms passed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who I think will be remembered as one of the best governors in CA history.

    First, the legislature was so screwed up because it used to take a 2/3 majority to pass a budget, which meant the minority party could shut down the government if they threw a hissy fit. Since Prop 25 passed in 2010, we've had a Democratic majority in both houses and a Democratic governor and gridlock is gone. Balanced budget! Surplus! Arnold didn't support Prop 25.

    Second, Arnold didn't "pass" anything regarding open primaries. Prop 14 was a constitutional amendment that passed both houses of the legislature and then was approved by the voters. Arnold supported it but didn't pass it.

  9. Re:Good on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 1

    Sounds rough. I am so glad there is no politics in jobs outside of education.</sarcasm>

  10. Re:We banned Perl on Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework · · Score: 1

    Good choice because, goodness knows, you can only copy/paste Perl...

  11. Re:I think it would be funny as heck if.... on Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework · · Score: 1

    NEWS FLASH: Dumbass programmers make dumbass mistakes and produce dumbass code.

    Those of us at the adults' table get to use real forks and steak knives and we don't hurt ourselves at all.

  12. Re:I think it would be funny as heck if.... on Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework · · Score: 1

    But really, you wanted Mojolicious.

    This.

  13. 2.4M Lines of Java? on No, HealthCare.gov Doesn't Require 500 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    To be fair, most of that is probably getters and setters.

  14. Please cite the law that you claim is being broken.

  15. While I've never been ticketed, I always ride on the side of the left lane (against traffic).

    So you're one of those jerks I have to move my bike into traffic to go around as you head towards me in my lane because you don't have the survival instincts of all other mammals? Or is it that you're a sociopath?

  16. You're wrong. If there is no bike lane, a cyclist is supposed to be traveling as far right as is practicable and safe (there are several exceptions, of course). That could mean the paved shoulder and it could mean the far right of a lane. What you're saying is that a cyclist should always take the whole right lane, which is incorrect. From your example, the bike is already on the far right of the right lane so passing in that small space is just a continuation of what they're already doing, it's just that now the bike is passing cars rather than being passed.

  17. Re:Environmentalists eat your heart out. on Feds Issue Emergency Order On Crude Oil Trains · · Score: 1

    He debunks the paper by claiming the data it used, while valid, was incomplete (i.e. cherry-picked).

  18. Re:Environmentalists eat your heart out. on Feds Issue Emergency Order On Crude Oil Trains · · Score: 1

    The data doesn't lie.

    That paper is not about facts but statistics (as in "lies, damned lies, and statistics"). Not the same thing.

  19. Re:$18.7 billion?! on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 2
  20. Re:women are stalkers too on As Domestic Abuse Goes Digital, Shelters Turn To Counter-surveillance With Tor · · Score: 0

    Because there aren't shelters filled with abused men and their children they took with them when they escaped the abusive relationship (that I'm aware of). I'm sure that won't stop your miserable whining, though.

  21. Re:You can already buy from alibaba and aliexpress on Chinese E-Commerce Giant To Enter US Market · · Score: 1

    I've ordered several items from aliexpress and haven't had a problem. If I did have a problem, I would have withheld payment, since payment doesn't actually get done until the buyer receives and is satisfied with the product (though you provide your CC# when you order). I'm sure they know the bad reputation buying from China has so they're doing this to overcome that. I made a small purchase first, then bought several more of the same type of items (cycling kit) from the same seller after that purchase went well. You do have to take a "buyer beware" attitude but my experience has been good.

    I would also like to point out that not all of my eBay experiences, especially in the early days and certainly not from Eastern European countries, were wonderful. Ah, the adventure of globalization at the personal level!

  22. Re:now I never looked into it on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 1

    Ah, I stand corrected. Thanks for the link.

    Still, planning to build a nuclear plant in a state with a "moratorium" on new nuclear plants (since 1976) is a pretty dicey business plan.

  23. Re:now I never looked into it on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 0

    Um, no.

  24. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    The correct interpretation is 'Thou shalt not murder'.

    Interpretation? Interpretation? Interpretation of what? You mean god left something like killing open to interpretation? What, did he say "Thou shalt not bump off thy neighbor."? Not very smart of god to leave something so important like that up for debate.

  25. Koch Brothers on Oklahoma Moves To Discourage Solar and Wind Power · · Score: 5, Informative

    Perhaps this is all a part of the vast right-wing conspiracy against green energy. Can't let the hippies win!