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  1. Re:One thought...... on NYC Poised to Ban Firms From Asking Job Candidates About Pay (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Female candidates are about to become a protected class...

  2. Re:Next time will have gag order. on The Trump Administration No Longer Wants Twitter To Reveal the Owner of an Anti-Trump Account (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    What grounds exist here to "unmask" an account that is posting stuff you dont like...? Thats what I'm struggling to understand - are they alleging the account owner is doing something illegal by mocking them?

  3. Re:The Expanse Novels on Slashdot Asks: What Books Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 1

    Corey is a pseudonym for two writers in collaboration :)

  4. Re:Is Google slowly Dieing? on Google X Worked An Older Employee Until He Was Hospitalized, Then Laid Him Off (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Which backend would that be?

  5. Re:Contract negotiation... on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Nope, I simply did good work and got successive significant pay rises as a result. Never threatened to leave, never felt the need to job hunt. When I did hand my notice in, I actually left, no threats involved.

    I wouldn't ever work in a company where the only approach to employer-employee relations was the equivalent of a battlefield, with such weapons as threats and coercion being employed - and thats what you get with what you describe. If you aren't happy with your situation, striking and making threats isn't exactly going to improve matters overall, it simply fosters dissent and ill will on both sides.

    Ultimately, from my point of view, the strongest card in the employees negotiation is a good relationship with the employer, thats always done me well.

  6. Re:Contract negotiation... on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Really? Thats the bullshit you are going to comment with - an attempt to use a tired old phrase to somehow devalue my opinion on the matter?

  7. Re:Contract negotiation... on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 0

    I doubled my monthly take-home over the past 4 years without ever going on strike or changing the work I do. Striking is *far* from the only option.

  8. Re:It's just too expensive on Westinghouse Files For Bankruptcy, In Blow To Nuclear Power (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Its worth noting that the test they conducted on that fateful day at Chernobyl was actually the fourth time the test was being run, so it wasnt the test that was the issue, it was the fact that the test this time was run it was done so without meeting the initial test parameters...

  9. It wont get them the demonstrator. It wont get them the engines for the demonstrator. Not even close.

  10. Nope on Aerospace Startup Will Build A Supersonic Mach 2.2 Aircraft (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Modern commercial aircraft development, testing and certification programs take upward of $5Billion these days, just what do these people think they are going to achieve with $30million? That won't cover the cost of the engines...

  11. Re:Probably a minor oversight. Will likely be fixe on Blinking Cursor Devours CPU Cycles in Visual Studio Code Editor (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It looks like its actually an underlying issue with Chromium, which is what powers Electron, the UI framework which VS Code is based on.

    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/ch...

    Simple CSS Keyframe Animation Causes Too High CPU Usage

    Steps to reproduce the problem:
    It happens on my Mac.

    Demo page here: http://output.jsbin.com/vogaxa

    Add a simplest keyframe animation to an element and Chrome will use 5-6x more CPU than it should.

    e.g: .blinking { animation: 1s blink step-end infinite; }

    @keyframes "blink" {
        from, to { visibility:hidden; }
        50% { visibility:visible; } }

    What is the expected behavior?
    CSS animation should consume equal (or close to equal) CPU load than its Javascript animation alternative.

    Javascript setInterval consumes around 1.2% CPU on my Mac (Chrome's task manager)

    1.2% for Javascript animation of a blinking cursor btw is the same usage that I get with no animation and the default cursor inside an input element.

    CSS animation should produce the same results.

    What went wrong?
    CSS keyframe based animation consumes 7-8% CPU which is unjustified for such a simple case.

  12. Re:The actual real problem with Mars... on SpaceX Disappointed In Lack of NASA Mars Funding; Starts Looking For Landing Sites For Its Own Mars Missions · · Score: 1

    I never said they were one off rockets, I said they were custom built for specific launches, and that is correct - no launcher company has a stock from which they pull a rocket the week before a launch, the launch requirement comes well before the launch vehicle exists in any capable form, including the ICBM-conversions.

  13. Re:The actual real problem with Mars... on SpaceX Disappointed In Lack of NASA Mars Funding; Starts Looking For Landing Sites For Its Own Mars Missions · · Score: 0

    Since all launchers to date have been custom built for specific launches, where is the excess industrial capacity that is being used to launch Mars missions...? Which launch company is suddenly going "awww shucks, we have a spare rocket, anyone want to launch a Mars mission" or "we arent building anything next tuesday, anyone want a rocket for Mars"?

  14. Re:Makes Good Sense on Plans For London-Paris Electric Flight in 'Next Decade' Unveiled (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The weight reduction from not having to carry the turbine portion of the engine (you still need to carry the fan part) is *massively* offset by the fact that you carry your "fuel" the entire distance of the trip, 100%. Current planes get more efficient the longer they fly, as they burn off their fuel they get lighter - replace that fuel with a storage system like batteries and your plane is going to weigh as much on landing as it did on takeoff, with no efficiency gains en route, so the energy needed will be constant throughout the flight.

    And yes, this is still an issue on short haul flights.

    Don't kid yourselves, batteries for powering aircraft is a non-starter, the economics simply dont work.

  15. Re:Alternative competitiveness on Microsoft Just Showed Off Exactly What Salesforce Was Worried About (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My comment refers to the Marc Benioff quote from June - it was whining.

  16. Re:Alternative competitiveness on Microsoft Just Showed Off Exactly What Salesforce Was Worried About (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm interested in what SalesForce was going to use LinkedIn for, if not precisely this - they are basically whining about someone else doing what they intended to do, while trying to push it as some sort of abuse of monopoly (where exactly is the monopoly here?)

  17. Re:bloviated shit gibbon on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Angela Merkel doesn't have a pussy, she has a growler. With teeth. Trump wouldn't stand a chance, and he knew it.

  18. Re:Stick to the important stuff on US Lawmakers Propose Minimum Seat Sizes For Airlines (consumerist.com) · · Score: 0

    You need to reread your linked source (and also find something better to do with your life). It doesn't say that there were six bills repealing "Obamacare" that were passed to Obama, it says that the House passed a repeal six times - it only made it to Obamas desk once, in January 2016. And that was his only veto of any "Obamacare" repeal.

    Given that the Republicans had control of both the House and the Senate for the 114th Congress, they had plenty of opportunity to force a repeal through...

    So no, they havent just got "thoughtful" at all.

  19. What a lovely ideal you have - unfortunately, $100 over a typical ticket today isnt going to fund the reduction in seat rows needed to create 2 foot of leg room per passenger...

  20. Re: And now a Rant from all the Vista Supporters.. on Microsoft To End Support For Windows Vista In Less Than a Month (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Jetbrains Rider (their .Net IDE) has been in beta now for about a year, and is coming along nicely, but still not a VS replacement.

  21. Re:Poor analogy on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I take it you have never seen the accounting floor of a large business circa 1970 then, because it would have been filled with semi-skilled people filling out numbers in books and passing aggregated numbers to the next tier. Thats how books were done in those days. And those positions were replaced by spreadsheets, with automated cascading on changes, no need for more than a few people anymore.

    See the following image for an accountancy department prior to computerisation (computerisation as we know it today):

    https://benpadley.files.wordpr...

    Its no different at all to your factory worker example. No different at all. You just never noticed the accounting jobs disappearing.

  22. Excel on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Microsoft made its billions off the back of putting millions of accountants and accountants interns out of business with the rise of Excel (and its contemporaries), and yet there were no issues about automation taking over back then... nor any tax on spreadsheets....

    Automation has happened all of humanities history - we don't buy cotton material from cottage based weavers any more, and blacksmiths don't build train engines.

  23. Re:Maybe in the long term on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    But at least they get to concentrate on one language, rather than splitting their valuable attention and time over multiple languages, all with their own foibles. Far far too many "full stack web devs" claim to know JS but actually know very little, and subsist on broken pockets of experience. Think of how many atrocities have been committed with JQuery plugins by "full stack web devs" who basically chain pre-existing stuff together.

  24. Re:Maybe in the long term on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Meh, not so much - its the *default* language for clientside web interaction right now, and thats the *only* reason it has the establishment that it has.

    The only thing that would have to happen for Javascripts domination to be threatened is for multiple browsers supporting something better, and thats happening with WebAssembly. Once developers realise they can stick to their language of choice and cross compile to WebAssembly, thats pretty much game over for JS - think of all the reasons touted for using Node.js, just this time think about them being used against JS...

    I wouldnt be at all surprised to see a significant shift start to happen in the next 18 months.

  25. Re:Sounds clunky on Microsoft Continues Porting Visual C++ To Linux (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Please keep your closed mindedness to yourself.