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  1. Re: Well Trump has one thing right on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    J1 is only good for up to 3 years though.

  2. Re:Well Trump has one thing right on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure post-doc can all easily apply for the J1 then the O-1 visa.  People are probably getting the H1B right now because it's easier.  But if H1B becomes harder, they can switch to using O-1.

  3. Re:You bet your ass they are on Uber Loses Right To Classify UK Drivers as Self-Employed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If they had real jobs, they wouldn't be uber drivers.  They are trying to turn their side gig into a real job.  That's not going to happen because the economics just isn't there.  There is already a real job for drivers, it's called being a taxi driver. 

  4. Re:What is the driving forces? on Linux Marketshare is Above 2-Percent For Third Month in a Row (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    You get windows when you buy a computer, which you'll pay anyways if you buy a computer for Linux.  Office365 with desktop app is 8.25 a month.  I don't see how it is expensive.  Do you live in parent's basement or something?

  5. Re: Worm all the IoThings! on China Electronics Firm To Recall Some US Products After Hacking Attack (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Thankfully turning it off and on fixes the problem!

  6. Re:Product placement on More NFL Players Attack Microsoft's $400M Surface Deal With The NFL (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    That's why a lot of games now include a 'lag meter' to let the user know it's not the software but the connection.

  7. Re:Keeping up with the emojis on Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages (googleblog.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it's more, this is all the glyph in one font, where as before, you had Chinese, Arabic etc. all in separate fonts.  The other half the problem google had was that they didn't have good font rendering in Android, e.g. how you actually render the font.  Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe had it figured out a long time ago and all that knowledge is part of the OS.  So google is basically just playing catch up and open sourcing the data part.  Also... do we really want to load that large of a font when most people only use a fraction of the data? 

  8. Re:Maine Implied Warranty on Class Action Lawsuit Grows Over iPhone 6 Plus 'Touch Disease' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But that law only applies in Maine, plus, you have to detail the design flaw, not just, 'It doesn't do what it was designed to do'.  I imagine the cost to get an engineer to essentially, reverse engineer the design, and to come up with a new design to show that the old design was flawed is going to be a bit expensive.

  9. Re:Never again. on Class Action Lawsuit Grows Over iPhone 6 Plus 'Touch Disease' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    If you are having that many problems with that many devices, it's probably you and not the devices.

  10. Re:50-60 batteries, out of 2 millions sold on AT&T Considers Stopping All Samsung Note 7 Sales (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no recall in the EU because it is not even for sale in the EU until end of October.  It was suppose to be on sale on September 2, but they didn't because they announced the recall on the same day. 

  11. Re:This again? on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    x86 vs ARM vs 68000 assembly language.  They are more similar than completely different like you claim.

    // === x86 asm
    add     eax, #2         // Add immediate:   eax += 2;
    add     eax, ebx        // Add register:    eax += ebx;
    add     eax, [ebx]      // Add from memory: eax += ebx[0];
    inc     eax             // Increment:       eax++;

    mov     eax, DWORD PTR [ebx]        // Load int from memory:    eax= ebx[0];
    mov     eax, DWORD PTR [ebx+4]      // Load next int:           eax= ebx[1];

    // === 68000 asm
    ADD     #2, D0          // Add immediate:   D0 += 2;
    ADD     D1, D0          // Add register:    D0 += D1;
    ADD     (A0), D0        // Add from memory: D0 += A0[0];

    MOVE.L  (A0), D0        // Load int from memory:    D0= A0[0];
    MOVE.L  4(A0), D0       // Load next int:           D0= A0[1];

    // === ARM asm
    add     r0, r0, #2      // Add immediate:   r0 += 2;
    add     r0, r0, r1      // Add register:    r0 += r1;
    add     r0, r1, r2      // Add registers:   r0= r1 + r2;

    ldr     r0, [r2]        // Load int from memory:    r0= r2[0];
    ldr     r0, [r2, #4]    // Load int from memory:    r0= r2[1];
    ldmia   r2, {r0, r1}    // Load multiple:           r0= r2[0]; r1= r2[1];

    You are hilarious wrong.

  12. Re:Independentd ealerships=ineffective retail syst on Tesla Sues Michigan Over Sales Ban (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Look up European Delivery. Oh, of course, only available for people who can afford it. So plebs loose out.

  13. Re:these new companies trying to get around old la on Tesla Sues Michigan Over Sales Ban (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy a car direct. for example European Delivery.

  14. Re:these new companies trying to get around old la on Tesla Sues Michigan Over Sales Ban (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The manufacturer already set the price with invoice pricing and MSRP. Just 3 days ago, "GM sets Bolt electric car price at $37495". So... how does having dealerships help?

  15. It's not Linux on Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's GNU software that runs on Windows.. There's not even a bit of Linux because it is a clean room implementation.

  16. Things designed in 2016 won't be developed and shipped until at least 2018. So no... All their software are probably many many years old.

  17. Re:Simple: Restore from your backup on Air Force Has Lost 100,000 Inspector General Records (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Bet they are in the same situation as I am. I have a back up. The backup restores correctly, all the data is there. Except the application can't connect to the db because it is trying to login with a hard coded password. And the database is on mssql 7. The company that made the software has long been dead. We still use the application, but trying to upgrade it to sql 20xx has been a challenge.

  18. Re:"an eternity in the world of coding" on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting that a lot of useful stuff were written in ActiveX controls and Java applets at the time of html4. I still see tons of those and still have to deploy them on new machines. I guess still like to use those too....

  19. Re:The real question on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    Here's what is interesting... I have seen a lot of things being re-implemented in node.js, that is.. these are complete rewrite of a protocol, api, etc. but using pure js. The speed that things are getting written is really really fast. I have been looking at making the jump from C++ to node because of this. It's the most lightweight dev platform that let's you 'write once' and run anywhere. It's like.. java but better. The only issue is, node.js is really designed to be used on a cluster of machines on the server side.

  20. Cheese-o-matic on AIs vs Humans - Next Battle: Starcraft (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Every games will be over in 4min as the computer just cheeses everyone.

  21. Do you know C#, Swift, Java, or RoR, or Javascript and know how to use git? If you do, how do you not have a job? Or.. learn cobol.. I dunno.

  22. Re: Did not "win" jeopardy on IBM's Watson AI Implanted Into a Robot, Evolves, Can Now Sense Emotions (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    How's the ability to buzz-in before anyone else a faulty design? Whoever buzz-in first gets the first crack at the answer. A lot of contestants will buzz even if they don't know the answer, but hope that they know the answer before the limit is up. Watson just so happens to be able to buzz-in faster than any human.

  23. Re:Opt for Swift, not Kotlin. Please! on Google May Adopt Apple's Swift Programming Language For Android, Says Report (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I am curious where node.js/V8 stands... Coming from a C++, C# background,I am trying to learn 'the next' thing, and javascript with it's write once run anywhere seems like a very good idea.

  24. Re:God damn it, just PICK A FUCKING LANGUAGE ALREA on Google May Adopt Apple's Swift Programming Language For Android, Says Report (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    You are describing asm.js. It's scary, and amazing at the same time.

  25. Re:undocumented gzip on HTTP GZIP Compression Leaks Data On the Location of Tor Web Servers · · Score: 1

    I think it's because gzip only ensures the content stays the same. The archive itself can change from version to version or implementation to implementation.