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  1. Re:Clickbait title? on Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Who cares? If that happens then the school program moves onto a different platform. They're not locked into 'programming for minecraft' in any way shape or form. Not that I see this happening anyways, Microsoft is definitely on the python bandwagon with their education environment development.

  2. Re:MISSION: To obliterate the wages of programmers on Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you're a 'I sit at a desk and chunk out functions all day long' programmer. But that's bound to happen anyways, doing that isn't a secret anymore, hasn't been for a long time.

  3. Re:Clickbait title? on Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? · · Score: 1

    Or on the flip side, as a business/industry you can stop paying a premium for consultants and just do the work yourself.

  4. Re:Proxies? on Quebec Introduces Bill To Mandate ISP Website Blocking (michaelgeist.ca) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't really matter. Just banning the site itself will handle the vast majority of traffic. Proxies, VPN, and so on are not on most users radar.

  5. Re:He's got his talking points on Apple CEO Tim Cook: "Microsoft Surface Book Tries Too Hard To Do Too Much" (hothardware.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, you can turn off apples 'walled garden' Oh right, you can't, because it's a WALLED FUCKING GARDEN.

  6. Re:Yeah it's called being self-insured on App Companies Propose New Model For Worker Benefits (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    serf srf/Submit noun an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate. You aren't in any way bound to an employer for benefits. Retirement can be rolled, becoming a new employee automatically qualifies you for open enrollment. Technically relying solely on the government for said benefits more fits with this definition, much harder to expatriate than find a new job, although also not impossible.

  7. It needs to be able to survive on the Ocean, which is not a great place for small craft to hang out in for month+ long periods of time. Plus equipment, and fuel for said month+ long periods of time.

  8. Re:National level? on Bill Confirming Property Rights For Asteroid Miners Passes the Senate (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it applies to US companies launching from US facilities and returning to US facilities. If the UN wants to handle organization of space based 'land grabs' that's on them, not on US Congress.

  9. I don't know a single 'drag and drop' coder that knows what waterfall is, let alone any that would actually implement it.

  10. Re:I'm beginning to see a pattern here. on US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Well I'm basing this on RTFA. If they're blaming waterfall, you know exactly what happened.

  11. "The company’s initial approach proved especially controversial. Known as “Waterfall,” this approach involved developing the system in relatively long, cascading phases, resulting in a years-long wait for a final product. Current and former federal officials acknowledged in interviews that this method of carrying out IT projects was considered outdated by 2008. “The Waterfall method has not been successful for 40 years,” said a current federal official involved in the project, who was not an authorized spokesperson and spoke on the condition of anonymity." Long live the waterfall.

  12. Re:I'm beginning to see a pattern here. on US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when you can't say 'No' to feature creep, they are the federal government after all.

  13. Re:I wouldn't put it past Putin on UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Why bother with all the cover up and so on when you know if you poke somebody like ISIS they'll just try it anyways.

  14. Re:This seems contradictory on Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden · · Score: 2

    Snowden isn't accused of a sex crime as Assange is, and that ultimately is the only difference really that I can see. Assange isn't under thread of extradition from the 'espionage', it's that whole other thing.

  15. There isn't a difference if your main point is based on the implementation of redundancy, none what so ever.

  16. Re:redundancy on Google Fiber Goes Down During World Series, Credits KC 2 Days of Service (pcmech.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We lose broadband in my town (Time Warner) for 4-6 hour periods, roughly once in a calendar year depending on the weather. And no, they've never credited me a dime for it, nor will they since they already have the market cornered.

  17. Re:Maybe Johnny just doesn't give a fuck on Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? · · Score: 1

    Should be a test for this. I mean if Johnny doesn't give a fuck maybe I shouldn't give a fuck about paying his welfare when he goes on to double major in the Humanities. Maybe he just doesn't give a fuck about doing you know, 'homework' and doesn't do well enough to set himself apart from the pack and can't find a job after college.