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  1. Re:Stay Put on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Yeah that was a mistake. He should have said TEN average 25 year olds.

    http://www.devtopics.com/programmer-productivity-the-tenfinity-factor/

  2. Re:VB.NET on Office 15 Development To Go JavaScript, HTML5 For Extensibility · · Score: 1

    You're pretty much right. Do a google search for "Visual Fred", a name given to VB.NET by MS MVPs.

  3. It ain't over until on What Happens After the Super-Hero Movie Bubble? · · Score: 1

    ...they have a Squirrel Girl movie.

  4. Re:PSS: Brought to you by the Google Health Vault on Google Announces Google CDN · · Score: 1

    It's just the next Wave of features from their Labs.

  5. Re:Keep your Inbox clean for Frak's Sake! on 7 Days In Email Hell · · Score: 1

    No! Especially if this is GMail we're talking about, *archive* and not delete. Delete should mean GONE (with a 7- or 30-day safety window, for example).

    - I do agree with the second point. Delete if you've read it, do not need to act on it - but keep it if you thing you might possibly need to refer to it someday. Archive it.
    - Avoid leaving things in your inbox. Do it, defer it, or delegate it. If you defer, set a calendar event or a todo item (that links to the email message if possible) and get it out of your inbox.

    Keep your inbox like your physical mailbox. You don't leave stuff like bills in your mailbox until you are ready to take care of them, right?

    Basically it boils down to: don't use your inbox as your task list! Otherwise, your process list is all backwards. Whatever comes in most recently into your inbox seems to take the highest priority, and it shouldn't be that way. Use a proper task list or calendar for stuff you need to take care of.

    It is a bit of work to do this, but keeping organized is not automatic, it takes some discipline.

  6. Re:What? on 7 Days In Email Hell · · Score: 1

    Exactly, the key is "inbox zero". People who leave messages in their inbox are just putting the issue off and causing their own "hell".

  7. Re:Mexico on Canada Rolls Out Plastic Money · · Score: 1

    Are you profiling? Let's not propagate that canard.

  8. Re:Offensive? on Ars Technica Review Slams Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 2

    1) Climb off high horse
    2) Read review

  9. Re:Offline, JIT, and camera on JavaScript Gameboy Color Emulator · · Score: 1

    From my understanding, 5MB is the default, and if it grows the user is prompted to allow the increase. That may be just for databases though, I haven't personally tested it.

    See: http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9780596805784/ch05_id35816678.html

  10. Physical mail, and delete on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    I had this for months, it started to get out of control when the other person bought a bunch of stuff on HSN and I got all the invoices, shipping notices etc. Fortunately (or un-, depending on your viewpoint) they had shipping addresses in the emails. I wrote a direct but polite letter telling them that they are using the wrong address for everything. It really tapered off after that.

  11. iSSH is not for jailbreaks on iOS 5 Jailbroken · · Score: 2

    iSSH is just* a SSH client, available from the App Store. Installing it means nothing. TFA should have referred to installing OpenSSH server and connecting to it through [something like] iSSH.

    *by just, I don't discount the amazing featureset of the program, including tunneling, VNC and X11. It's a "must have" app.

  12. Re:Print is Obsolete on Book Review -- JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 6th Edition · · Score: 1

    I intend to get the $4.99 e-book upgrade, I think I want this in both formats.

    Regular books are still very useful, they free up a load of screen space and have excellent portability.

  13. Re:1100 Pages on Book Review -- JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 6th Edition · · Score: 1

    Hint: if the book says "Definitive" in it's title, it's probably going to be big.

    You're probably either looking for "Javascript: The Good Parts" or a moderate weight-training program.

  14. Re:jQuery? Really? on Book Review -- JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 6th Edition · · Score: 2

    No.

    But if you need a reference, you should have one that includes jQuery, given how widespread it is, don't you think? There are only 43 pages that cover jQuery directly, so it's only a quick intro anyway.

  15. Hardly a competitor on Amazon Challenges Apple With Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    There are just over 200 titles and more than 130 of them are for learning a language. Besides that, the store is US-only.

    The Mac App Store is lame, but this is much much worse.

  16. Re:Maybe I should try this on Workers Will Smash Their PCs To Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    May I suggest that at the 80,000 user level you're not seeing the issues individual users may be going through? I'm sure at that scale you probably have closely managed systems with mostly homogeneous platforms. With that kind of platform to run on, yeah even ME would probably work fine.

  17. Why 50km from Fukushima reactor? on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 2

    This is not an incredibly informative measurement, it would be more useful to learn of the radiation levels in the evacuated areas (10km & 20km, last I heard) as well as the cautioned areas (30km, stay indoors).

  18. Re:Apple is Notorious for Going "Cheap" on Hardwar on 2011 MacBook Pros Confirmed To Crash Under Load · · Score: 1

    Explain how a quad-core i7 laptop is underpowered, please & thanks.

  19. Re:Baen Books on Book Piracy — Less DRM, More Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You need to read more Keith Laumer.

  20. Re:Split screen? on Split Screen Co-op Is Dying · · Score: 1

    For racing games you'd think it's an unavoidable fact, but try and find a split-screen racer on the PS3. GT5 supports it, but that's not really arcadey (i.e. approachable for a group in the same room who may not be racing nerds).

  21. Re:just dump it already on Yahoo! Says Delicious To Get the Boot, Not the Axe · · Score: 3, Informative

    First, I will never have, nor even tolerate Facebook, and second, link sharing isn't really what I used Delicious for. It's about link collection, archival and retrieval. I have moved my stuff over to Pinboard, which is not only incredibly versatile, but has the subtitle "antisocial bookmarking"... exactly my cup of tea.

    Now get off my lawn.

  22. Re:Oblig SCTV ref. on The Joke Known As 3D TV · · Score: 1

    Would you like some more... SYRUP!?!?

  23. Re:*Shrug* on Google Buys iPhone Search App, Kills It · · Score: 1

    Yep, DeepFish from the makers of PocketInformant: http://www.webis.net/products_info.php?p_id=deepfish

    No connection to the company, other than being a rabid supporter of PI...

  24. Re:Fate? on Google Buys iPhone Search App, Kills It · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not identical, I'm sure, but it's been out for a long time already. It's called DeepFish http://www.webis.net/products_info.php?p_id=deepfish

  25. Re:Feh on Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Over R4 Mod Chip Piracy · · Score: 1

    As #2, let me add PuzzleManiak, ScummVM (all legal games I have CDs for, plus Beneath a Steel Sky), Video Games Hero, DiceWars, DScent and AmplituDS. I also have physical copies of six DS games, which I loaded most of them on to pick and choose from when on the go.

    For commercial games, I either pay for it, find a freeware/OSS equivalent, or just play something else. I don't need to, nor desire to pirate games and it does gall me to hear all the experts here ignorantly stating that "everyone who has an R4 is a pirate". I imagine the many many other posters here that have stated otherwise are also rather annoyed.