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  1. First they fire employees on HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    then whine about not being able to find talent.....

  2. Re:Who would have guessed? on NASA's Outsourced Computer People Are Even Worse Than You Might Expect (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Just wait until EDS+CSC , a black hole of IT despair.

  3. And Columbus discovered America on Internaut Day Might Not Be the Web Anniversary You're Looking For (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Film at 11.

  4. so you like talking to people who are paid to be polite to you.

  5. Re:Dumb on Has The NSF Automated Coding with ExCAPE? (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    And those are actually optimistic episode. How about "We want everyone to use the system without logging in but we have to track their identity".

  6. you wish

  7. Re:HPE Buying more hardware on HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    An interesting idea. Though Intel would have to agree to it.

  8. Re:How is SGI relevant to HPE? on HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They are dumping off their services division.

  9. HPE Buying more hardware on HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They are dumping off Enterprise Services, are buying SGI, and wanted to buy EMC. I predict that they will sell or spin off their software division soon and make a pure enterprise hardware play. Which makes sense as software is hard to manage and HPE understands hardware much better.

  10. Re:How is SGI relevant to HPE? on HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    HPE is dumping EDS

  11. Re:I wonder what on HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    revenue != profits. Net income ~ -39 million. Probably bought for their technology portfolio.

  12. whoosh

  13. If you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear.

  14. eventually it will be consistent.

  15. Re:That's Mr. and Mrs. Buttle ? on Kansas Couple Sues IP Mapping Firm For Turning Their Life Into a 'Digital Hell' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Conputers don't make mistakes, programmers do.

  16. Re:It's the same crap over and over again on Older Workers Are Better At Adapting To New Technology, Study Finds (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never work with a system which did not require ACID compliance. Can you give some examples?

  17. Re:It's the same crap over and over again on Older Workers Are Better At Adapting To New Technology, Study Finds (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I wish I could mod you "informative".

  18. It's the same crap over and over again on Older Workers Are Better At Adapting To New Technology, Study Finds (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    NoSQL databases == hierarchical databases
    Unstructured data[*] = recipe card normalization
    Graph databases == network databases such as IDM or IDMS
    Java => UCSD Pascal
    Machine Learning == pretty much Bayesian statistics (I haven't seen the rules based or simulated annealing versions of ML though. Are there such beasts?)
    Go == an upgrade of C
    R, Scala, Haskell, etc. => basically LISP

    That's just off of the top of my head.

    Some of the details differ but the basic concepts don't change very much. If you are good at generalizing and you see it a second time it becomes old hat. Boring at times, and infuriating when you see the same old mistakes being made over and over again[**]

    [*] seriously, unstructured data is noise. If you don't understand that you shouldn't be in tech.
    [**] Non ACID compliance? WTF?

  19. Re:Dammit Cartman! on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    After we build the wall to ensure no one can get out.

  20. Re:in retrospect... on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    When you have nothing more to lose is when you go for it.

  21. Re:Game developer friend just left Amazon on Amazon Reaches New High Of 268,900 Employees -- Skyrocketing 47% In Just One Year (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    ummm yes, I've seen that before The "container" paradigm. We know there are no challenges there when all the pieces finally have to integrate. Right?

  22. Re:Game developer friend just left Amazon on Amazon Reaches New High Of 268,900 Employees -- Skyrocketing 47% In Just One Year (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    I was going to make a comment about "The Mythical Man-Month", which applies to more than just software. The management complexity is going to increase dramatically. It will be interesting to see if they hit the wall soon.

  23. Protecting users? on Dark Patterns Across the Web Are Designed To Trick You · · Score: 1

    Working for unethical or immoral companies is protecting users? That's like saying a concentration camp guard leading people to the gas chambers can protect the victims.

    Your time would be better spent writing plugins to detect and flag shady practices. Quit now while you still have a soul.

  24. Re:dark patterns huh? on Dark Patterns Across the Web Are Designed To Trick You · · Score: 1

    I think you just got "whooshed".

  25. Re:Wrong solution on Feds To Deploy Anti-Drone Software Near Wildfires (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume people who live in the forest know how to run a chain saw.

    You should see some of the places I have seen, 7k sq ft "cabin" occupied for a few weeks out of the year, occupied just long enough to get the tax write off. Let them burn.