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  1. 3872? Punk kid needs to get off my lawn. :)

  2. a whole "half a day", eh? on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Teach 'Best Practices' For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    If that's all the time you've got, you've got a systemic problem. This kind of thing needs to be an ongoing process of education. You can't cover anything like this in half a day. Or a full day. WTH.

    Schedule "brown bag" sessions once a week for ongoing training and discussion, and get subject matter experts in for different things: security, TDD, algorithms, optimization, etc. And keep going; don't just do each of those once, because each of those is a full course full of stuff (at least).

    If you're only going to get one day for this, collect a bunch of online resources for people and go over it. Then find a job at a place that values ongoing education, because HOLY CRAP. How can a *University* not value ongoing education?!

  3. Re:Still just using jQuery/UI on Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    They do different things, and can - and often are - used together.

  4. Missed opportunity on Can We Replace Intel x86 With an Open Source Chip? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's too bad the project at Sun to produce an asynchronous CPU was cancelled; that seemed like an interesting path. I wonder if anyone else if experimenting with that now.

  5. Good for Lisa fans, but... on Apple To Release Lisa OS For Free As Open Source In 2018 (iphoneincanada.ca) · · Score: 1

    I'd much rather they release the source to all the Apple ][ & // lines. Apple ][, ][+, //e, //e Platinum, //c , //c Plus, and //GS. And anything else I missed.

    They can keep the source to the Apple ///. :)

  6. Getting closer... on GM Plans To Build, Test Thousands of Self-Driving Bolts In 2018 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Now if they can just make a self-sealing stem bolt, we'll be all set!

  7. A bumpersticker I saw at a Microsoft parking lot once:

    "The computer is your friend. Trust the computer."

  8. 8N1
    ATH
    Acoustic Couplers ;^)
    DSDD
    Floppy notcher
    HAM (not radio)
    The Turbo button is not always your friend
    Green vs Amber, the eternal war
    8-bit Bucket List: TWO floppy drives!

    I'm old.

  9. Looks like Chris Rock called it. Well-done, sir.

  10. bad reporting on Star Wars Actor Kenny Baker Dies at Age 81 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Kenny Baker isn't dead; he's just returning the map.

  11. 136 employees before layoffs? Amazon could absorb that in a DAY and not even blink. I'm not exaggerating.

  12. No on Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a _living_ one.

  13. Wordpress- sorta on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS? · · Score: 1

    Wordpress.com - don't self-host because you don't have the experience to secure and maintain it properly. Once you start adding plugins, the maintenance and security issues pile up exponentially. It _can_ be both performant and secure, but only by someone who REALLY knows what they're doing.

  14. taught myself on Slashdot Asks: How Did You Learn How To Code? · · Score: 1

    I learned my first programming language - Apple BASIC - from computer magazines back in the early 80s, then had it reinforced in 'Computer Math' classes in high school, and learned a few more languages in college (Fortran 77 and Turbo Pascal in classes, and REXX on my own). Then took C in a college course in the mid-90s, plus learned all the web stuff on my own starting in '94. Everything I use professionally, I learned on my own, other than the logic course I took first semester of college (which should be a required course in high school, IMO).

  15. Re:color me skeptical on Samsung Ships 15.38TB SSD With Up To 1,200MBps Performance (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    i will believe 1.2Gbps when i see it in a respectable review site.

    You should check out reviews of Samsung's _consumer_ PCI-e M.2 SSDs, then. This thing is not that fast by comparison - it's just very dense.

  16. FLoating-point Operations Per Second. It makes no sense to speak of one FLOP, two FLOPs, as the S is not for plural.

    This comment is endorsed by Pedantic-Man(tm)!

  17. Re:Good time to be an Android developer! on Google Confirms Next Android Version Won't Use Oracle's Proprietary Java APIs · · Score: 2

    Application-wise, probably not much, what with the official move over to ART.

  18. wow, look at that! on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The stopped clock is right on something.

  19. Re:big deal on Physicists Uncover Novel Phase of Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Nothing new here - I've been reading novels for decades!

    Read the article; they mention lasers; but, sadly I did NOT see any mention of sharks.

    Tim S.

    Sharks are often just metaphors. Though sometimes a shark is just a shark.

  20. big deal on Physicists Uncover Novel Phase of Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    Nothing new here - I've been reading novels for decades!

  21. Re:Git, obviously, but there's a way to make it ea on Ask Slashdot: Selecting a Version Control System For an Inexperienced Team · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I've never even _heard_ of gitk before. That bug sounds rather scary, though.

    We're using SourceTree where I work as it's an Atlassian product that integrates well with the rest of the Atlassian suite, which we're also using.

  22. Git, obviously, but there's a way to make it easie on Ask Slashdot: Selecting a Version Control System For an Inexperienced Team · · Score: 2

    Use a GUI like Atlassian's "SourceTree". It's what we use at work, and it works pretty well. You'll still want at least one Git expert on the team for when someone does something stupid, but you'll need that for whatever platform you choose.

  23. price found online for PM953 480GB M.2 on Samsung Unveils V-NAND High Performance SSDs, Fast NVMe Card At 5.5GB Per Second · · Score: 1

    http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/...

    $306. I don't know if that is wholesale or what.

  24. Re:I would hope so on MH370: Fragment Is From Missing Flight · · Score: 1

    The part is specific to a Boeing 777. MH370 is the only missing Boeing 777.

  25. Re:Another browser on Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: the Browser That Will Finally Kill IE · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's great when you can get away with that, but all too many companies (like where I work) have to deal with our customers as they are, not how we would wish them to be.

    It's all the people like you who are the problem. If "use something standards-compliant or have a bad experience" were the universal norm, we wouldn't have these problems.

    You say that like you think it's my decision to do this. I assure you, it is not.