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  1. Working in Enterprise IT.... on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This would actually flip our organizations entire wage scale upside down, and pretty much cause a good 50-75% increase in the IT budget as a whole until the organization is able to adjust. And you know what... I really like the idea... it needs to adjust for inflation though.

    It is ridiculous in this day and age that I had to essentially go work for an H1B company, get paid an H1B salary (as an American), and then struggle for a couple years to become "internal" IT to the company I was contracted for, and now I'm technically not supposed to be allowed to code any more because of it, which is even more ridiculous, just because it looks cheaper on paper to outsource the work.

  2. Explains a lot... on Mozilla Ends the Advertisements In Firefox's New Tab Tiles (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Now I understand what all the proxy block spam when I opened firefox at work....

  3. "without internet access" on Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It is now a thing for people to learn something without being able to google how to do it.

  4. How did they figure this out? Spying on us, or by surveys that almost nobody takes.

  5. Looks like ML on Julia Programming Language Receives $600k Donation · · Score: 1

    A good functional language that reminds me of the ML language. Looks like a decent replacement for fortran. Mandelbrot numbers appear suspect to me, as by definition, LuaJIT is written in C, and could not have magically performed better than C, unless their C implementation of mandelbrot was really crappy to begin with.

  6. Re:Major Fail Update on Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 (windows10update.com) · · Score: 0

    What exactly is a "proper windows"?

    Windows 10 is a nice upgrade from 7, it fixes a lot of 7's issues and brings forward many new technologies...

    No. No its not. Anyone going from 7 to 10 in a daily work environment would never say that.

  7. Researchers need better maths. on Usernames Reveal the Age and Psychology of Game Players (sciencedirect.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    subjects over the age of 20 were not included in our analysis......The distribution of birth years from all servers between the 1985 and 2002 (inclusive) are shown in Fig. 2a.
    1985 = 30 years of age.

  8. Re:Another example of why Java sucks on Vulnerability In Java Commons Library Leads To Hundreds of Insecure Applications (foxglovesecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    C++ maybe, but never C. Its simply not possible.

  9. Re:Spamming of audit messages to syslog fixed? on Fedora 23 Released (fedoramagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, in a year or so data centers will realize that systemd raises their labor costs and start dropping the option.

  10. Yes, but don't focus on OOP. on Can a New Type of School Churn Out Developers Faster? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    But stop with all the focus on only OOP. the programmers that come out suffer from Dunning Kruger and usually aren't as skilled as a good C or JavaScript programmer at the same point in their career. If you didn't spend a good chunk of time on block structured and functional coding there is no point in me hiring you.

  11. Great... on FLIF: Free Lossless Image Format · · Score: 1

    Another image standard... hopefully Microsoft won't drop the ball on this one like they did with png over and over.

  12. Why the hell... on Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit · · Score: 1

    would anyone even think of doing that... wait... are you high? can I have some?

  13. How about a bike license. on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bikers don't have bike licenses in most places. They aren't taught where to ride, they ignore traffic signals, they don't try to get out of the way when traffic lines up behind them and police officers mostly do not enforce traffic laws when its a bike. They take up half a lane and are moving at a dangerously slow pace compared to motor vehicles. It is similar to when a sailboat is in the way of a freighter, but here the larger and faster vehicle really has no place to go other than to collide or slow down. I would like to expect that they would at least behave as good as a guy on a moped, but this doesn't happen. The laws in my state say that they should be treated the same as a motor vehicle. This is not what happens. At least our state has added some good long distance bike paths and bike overpasses, but these are mostly used by the trendy and health conscious, not for people actually trying to get anywhere.

  14. Re:Seems simple enough to reverse this strategy on Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' · · Score: 1

    How about this particular XKCD comic, available as a signed print from the author? https://xkcd.com/1416/

  15. Re:North Pole on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 2

    Try Antarctica, the North Pole is often liquid.

  16. Not surprising on Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden · · Score: 1

    This kind of contradicts the polls that came out way back in 2013, but I'm not surprised how our media can sway public opinion. ACLU has their own article about it which portrays it in a slightly different light, with poll results linked at the bottom https://www.aclu.org/news/inte...

  17. Re:OS-X Unix certification on Ask Slashdot: Good Linux Desktop Environment For Hi-Def/Retina Displays? · · Score: 1

    Close, it was certified Unix 03 in Leopard 10.5, which was the previous release.... Opengroup

  18. Pilot G Tec C4 Steel tip gel ink pen. on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 3, Informative

    This here sir, is the pen you are looking for. Anything else is just common garbage.

    google search for Pilot G-Tec-C4
    It comes in both 0.2mm and 0.4mm, although I would recommend 0.4mm on thinner paper.
    It is a steel tip gel rollerball pen, and the ink dries fairly quick and writes evenly unless the tip is dirty,
    which is a little difficult to clean. It can a fair amount of pressure while writing as well.

    It somewhat recently became available in America and is available in multiple colors as well,
    although I have been using them for years by importing them from other countries.

  19. Style = Religion on Does Coding Style Matter? · · Score: 1

    All I am hearing from everyone is philosophy and opinion, but in all of it there are kernels of truth. It is exactly like religion, there is no difference. With regards to what I use, the bulk of it centers around reducing the amount of time it takes to read a code block. If you can't read a code block in a couple seconds that you haven't seen for years then you're probably doing something wrong.

  20. Re:Let's See It on Mystery of Duqu Programming Language Solved · · Score: 1

    That means nothing, All programs are derivations of Hello world.

  21. No Correlation with Reality on Why the New Guy Can't Code · · Score: 1

    As far as resumes are considered, we use them to help guide the flow of the interview a bit, but it ends there. If someone put down AJAX on their resume, it could be that either they set up a simple call through jQuery, they rolled their own AJAX library, or they're just padding their resume with keywords. So what we usually do is one continually building question, that starts out with very basic algorithms and moves through things such as SQL joins and normalization, AJAX, advanced javascript, PHP, SQL injection and input filtering. What seriously bothers me is the very large number of applications who have several years of experience, but can't work out in their head how to find the largest number in a large set of numbers.

  22. Re:The only question I have is on Firefox 4 Beta 8 Up · · Score: 1

    Ive experienced this problem 3-4 times. It seems that this is because windows does not immediately write data to disk. I believe that it may be either buffering the data, so when a crash occurs some important file nodes are missing and/or the resulting rollback of the journal undoes the entire transaction. Unfortunately its been two years since I've done any low level file code, so my memory is a little bit fuzzy with regards to it.

  23. Tabs... on Firefox 4 Beta 8 Up · · Score: 1

    So, when are they going to fix the usability issue with the changing tab width? For some time people have been complaining about the inability to put the close button on the left side of the tab. They of course refuse to do this, but they still haven't gotten that the issue is really that people just want the close button of the next tab to line up under the mouse every time you close a tab. For those who don't what i'm talking about. Download Chrome, open up enough tabs so that the tabs have to shrink to fit the window. Now close a few. You will notice that in Chrome the tabs don't resize until you move the mouse away from the button. FF4 unfortunately resizes immediately on closing, making it a pain to close more than one or two tabs at a time.

  24. Re:Wait a minute on Many Popular Windows Apps Ignore Security Options · · Score: 1

    This is probably a reference to this clause, found both in Vista and Windows 7 eulas. Available here in various eulas, such as Vista Home Premium English and Windows 7 Home Premium English, found here: microsoft Searching the XP sp2 eula does not seem to contain a similar clause.

    "6. POTENTIALLY UNWANTED SOFTWARE. If turned on, Windows Defender will search your computer for “spyware,” “adware” and other potentially unwanted software. If it finds potentially unwanted software, the software will ask you if you want to ignore, disable (quarantine) or remove it. Any potentially unwanted software rated “high” or “severe,” will automatically be removed after scanning unless you change the default setting. Removing or disabling potentially unwanted software may result in other software on your computer ceasing to work, or your breaching a license to use other software on your computer. By using this software, it is possible that you will also remove or disable software that is not potentially unwanted software."

  25. Re:Really? on NASA Finds Cause of Voyager 2 Glitch · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would imagine that it was relatively easy. Voyager has not only a small amount of memory (about 541kb) about 10% of the command system's memory is dedicated to fault protection. Read here: Jet Propulsion Laboratory