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  1. Re:Paul Krugman, 1998 on Krugman: Say No To Comcast Acquisition of Time Warner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Krugman admits to not be a technologist.

    Well, that's a start. Let us know when he admits to not being an economist.

    -jcr

  2. Future? on Mathematician: Is Our Universe a Simulation? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    According to this theory, some highly advanced computer programmer of the future has devised this simulation, and we are unknowingly part of it.

    Wouldn't he have to be a computer programmer of the present, if he wrote this simulation and we're in it RIGHT NOW?

    -jcr

  3. Re: I looked up where this dude works on Good Engineering Managers Just "Don't Exist" · · Score: 1

    Boy, you seem grumpy today.

    No, actually I'm somewhat amused.

    -jcr

  4. Re: I looked up where this dude works on Good Engineering Managers Just "Don't Exist" · · Score: 1

    Medallia has been profitable for quite some time and it's growing really fast, so hardly a waste of VC capital.

    A company is profitable when it's earned more than was spent to get it off the ground. Have you reached that point?

    our sentiment analysis models for some industries are better than anything else out there

    "Sentiment analysis"? Ok, I'll take your word for it that you're making slicker snake oil than the next guy, but you're still not convincing me that you're doing anything that would attract first-rate engineering management.

    Working here I've met some of the brightest people in the world (I stand by that)

    Sounds like you need to get out more.

    -jcr

  5. Re:I looked up where this dude works. on Good Engineering Managers Just "Don't Exist" · · Score: 1

    For my part, I've met an awful lot of great engineering managers, in companies ranging from five-man startups to the Fortune 1 (Apple).

    -jcr

  6. I looked up where this dude works. on Good Engineering Managers Just "Don't Exist" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not at all surprised that he's not able to recruit good engineering managers to work on yet another waste of venture money. It's not a company that develops anything new or different.

    -jcr

  7. Blame the lawyers. on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The cost of manufacturers liability awards is what's killing the light aircraft industry in the USA.

    -jcr

  8. Re:How is this any different from Fed practice? on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 1

    It is illogical to suggest that a government can counterfeit money.

    Bullshit. Governments have been counterfeiting money ever since the Romans got the bright idea to pass off bronze slugs as silver dinari, and kill anyone who refused to pretend they were honest coinage.

    -jcr

  9. Re:Go after the real thieves lol on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 2

    Yes it does. It deprives you of the income you should have earned from the funds you risked by putting them in someone else's hands in exchange for interest.

    -jcr

  10. Re:Go after the real thieves lol on Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec · · Score: 1

    What about all the times printing money saved an economy?

    Like, never in human history.

    -jcr

  11. Speed? on ARM Researching Novel Chip Memory · · Score: 1

    The article mentions the feature size and its temperature tolerance, but I'm not seeing anything about performance. Anyone here know?

    -jcr

  12. Not the only one. on In an Age of Cyber War, Where Are the Cyber Weapons? · · Score: 1

    Stuxnet is an anomaly: the first and only cyber weapon known to have been deployed.

    What about this?

    -jcr

  13. Polygraphs are bullshit. on Anti-Polygraph Instructor Who Was Targeted By Feds Goes Public · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's a reason they're not admissible in court.

    -jcr

  14. Re:It might be an unpopular opinion... on Ask Slashdot: What Does Edward Snowden Deserve? · · Score: 1

    Pardons are for the guilty. What Snowden deserves is explicit exoneration, the thanks of the American people for exposing billions of felonies committed routinely by the minions of the NSA, and WE all deserve to see every last one of the perps behind bars.

    -jcr

  15. Funding isn't the problem. on K-12 CS Education Funding: Taxes, H-1B Fees, Donations? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Public schools, just like Microsoft, have no shortage of money. What they have is a plague of incompetent management.

    -jcr

  16. Re:It's about tactics: GPL helps free software on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    It wasn't the license, it was the fact that LLVM is a superior alternative.

    -jcr

  17. Say, what? on US Supreme Court: Patent Holders Must Prove Infringment · · Score: 0

    Isn't the burden of proof in any civil litigation always on the plaintiff?

    -jcr

  18. Re:The problem with Google Bus on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1

    I realize that it's easier to be an asshole than think and read,

    I'll have to take your word for it.

    The excuse that it's "Greener"

    What's to excuse?

    It's convenient for the companies and more profitable for the companies.

    You say that like it's a bad thing. It's not, and you're an idiot.

    -jcr

  19. Re:The problem with Google Bus on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't suppose it's occurred to you that the number and capacity of the busses is adjusted according to what the operators know about their client's needs?

    This isn't a government operation we're talking about here.

    -jcr

  20. Re:The problem with Google Bus on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If every bus was carrying one person, you'd be right, but they don't, and you're a moron.

    -jcr

  21. Re:The problem with Google Bus on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    this is not as eco-friendly as you might think.

    It easily beats having those people all driving themselves.

    It also causes congestion in the city,

    No, it reduces congestion in the city.

    -jcr

  22. Re:The unseen enemy on Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That condescension is standard Feinstein bullshit. Anytime someone objects to her desire to usurp ever more power, the cunt will claim that we "don't understand" what she and her cronies are trying to do.

    -jcr

  23. Re:She's nuts on Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    She's not crazy, she's evil.

    -jcr

  24. "Accenture", my ass. on Accenture Faces Mid-March Healthcare.gov Deadline Or 'Disaster' · · Score: 1

    I still call them Anderson Consulting, because they don't deserve to get away from the stench of the Enron disaster.

    -jcr

  25. Re:How long would that last... on Programmer Privilege · · Score: 0

    Go get your meds adjusted, kid.

    -jcr