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  1. Re:1..2..3 before SJW on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 5, Funny

    It might be that they are intimidated by my stylish wardrobe furnished by TJ Max.

  2. Re:Oh bullshit on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    And we'd still be wearing neon polyester shirts under our cool-ass denim jackets.

  3. Re:What? on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 0

    Modern feminism is rooted in this idea that women should be doing things, specific things that feminists decided they should be doing (having specific jobs, voting for certain political parties, eschewing families, championing the right causes), and if they aren't doing those things then they must be brain-washed idiots or evil self-haters. I reject this.

  4. What? on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am by no means a feminist; but this sounds like patronizing, paternalistic bullshit. News flash: woman have brains and they do what they want. They don't want to code. Deal with it.

  5. First rule of software design on Ask Slashdot: Event Sign-Up Software Options For a Non-Profit? · · Score: 1

    Don't give them what they ask for. Give them what they need.

    Following this, I am 99% sure that a spreadsheet is sufficient for their actual need. Don't waste time, money, and resources on pie-in-the-sky vaporware. Just get it done.

  6. Re:These hands KILL... on 3-D Printed "Iron Man" Prosthetic Hands Now Available For Kids · · Score: 1

    Also, polylactic acid will kill your child just as surely as a bloodthirsty jew.

    A vacuous tautology, then.

  7. Re:Maybe on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 1

    FWIW, he didn't invent the LED. He invented the red-visible LED. Scientists at Texas Instruments invented the infrared LED first.

  8. Re:Whales? on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 2

    No. They are both cetaceans, though.

  9. Loosely translated: on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hey buddy. Hey pal. You wanna come swim in my tank? Come jump on over, my tasty friend. We have lots of fish to fill your delicious belly."

  10. Re:Glad I don't run Linux on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    There is nothing saying you have to be involved in the bickering. I own an iPhone, and I don't give two shits about Samsung vs. iPhone. You don't have to join a suicide cult to get religion.

  11. Re:metric you insensitive clod! on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    Introducing the 2000 SUX:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re:metric you insensitive clod! on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it."

  13. Re:LED lighting on 2014 Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To the Inventors of the Blue LED · · Score: 1

    I would prefer a car analogy.

  14. Re:More of an "Engineering" Nobel on 2014 Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To the Inventors of the Blue LED · · Score: 1

    What is engineering but applied math and physics?

  15. Re:Navel gazing on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Speaking as a non-libertarian, I don't think you know what a libertarian is.

  16. Re:Good attitude but rarely much aptitude on Why Military Personnel Make the Best IT Pros · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The best IT guy I've ever known was an Air Force guy in Saudi Arabia who managed our UNIX servers from a tent on a desert base. I'm embarrassed to admit he could also code circles around me, and often fixed bugs in my code while I slept.

    For every anecdote, there's a counter-anecdote.

  17. Re:...create an augmented reality experience on Microsoft's "RoomAlive" Transforms Any Room Into a Giant Xbox Game · · Score: 1

    Coincidentally, I have Cueball's haircut.

  18. Re:...create an augmented reality experience on Microsoft's "RoomAlive" Transforms Any Room Into a Giant Xbox Game · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. I can still see the pixels. I have an eye for these things that most people don't.

  19. Re:So the Italians win the latest round ... on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh yeah? Then explain why the first bible is in King's English, why don'tcha?

  20. Oh, great. on Microsoft's "RoomAlive" Transforms Any Room Into a Giant Xbox Game · · Score: 1

    "Mooooom! Barclay is stuck in the RoomAlive again!"

  21. Re:Is it time for C++? on Object Oriented Linux Kernel With C++ Driver Support · · Score: 1

    Gah, I need to stop clicking through "preview". Sorry about that.

  22. Is it time for C++? on Object Oriented Linux Kernel With C++ Driver Support · · Score: 1

    I started .NET development about 12 years ago and stopped following C++ for that time; previous to that I coded purely in C, both professionally and in my off-time. At that time, I got the impression that C was faster and less prone to quirky, inscrutable API's than C, so I was in agreement with Linus on the decision to remain pure-C.

    How is C++ doing these days with respect to compiler optimization and complexity of available API's?

  23. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong on GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus · · Score: 1

    Thanks, AC. Then it makes good sense that they have a stockpile, I assume for making vaccine.

  24. Correct me if I'm wrong on GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus · · Score: 1

    But haven't we eradicated polio? Of what use, then, is cultivating concentrated polio?

  25. Re:Good...and terrible on Facebook Ready To Get Into Healthcare · · Score: 1

    For hypochondriacs (or the modern variant, "webochondriac", that spends hours on end diagnosing themselves on WebMD) this is the worst. possible. thing.