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  1. Re: If it was easy on Drag-and-Drop "CS" Tutorials: the Emperor's New Code? · · Score: 1

    How do you know if something is fraudulent if you know nothing about how it works? Ditto for setting timelines, testing, etc. How do you manage something you know nothing of?

  2. Re:Visual vs wall of code on Drag-and-Drop "CS" Tutorials: the Emperor's New Code? · · Score: 1

    So C is to the language you use as assembly id to a compiled language. That would make sense. Esp. since C has been referred to as a high level assembly language.

  3. Re:UGH on Python 3 Is Coming To Scrapy (scrapinghub.com) · · Score: 1

    all the cool kids use Ruby

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  4. Re:Scrapy is a web spider on Python 3 Is Coming To Scrapy (scrapinghub.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Scrapy, a web spider, now has beta support for Python 3."

    TL;DR ;)

  5. Re:What on Python 3 Is Coming To Scrapy (scrapinghub.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The "s" is silent.

  6. Re:Thanks, Obama. on Python 3 Is Coming To Scrapy (scrapinghub.com) · · Score: 1

    Can yo condense that for me? Perhaps submit it to /.?

  7. Re:Thanks, Obama. on Python 3 Is Coming To Scrapy (scrapinghub.com) · · Score: 1

    That's worth at least $10 million in crowd funding!

  8. Re:fresh clean water? on EasyJet May Trial Hydrogen Fuel Cells For Taxiing (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    of course dosage matter. Strychnine in small doses is OK. But it will kill you faster than salt water.

  9. Re:fresh clean water? on EasyJet May Trial Hydrogen Fuel Cells For Taxiing (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    dosage matter. but it is more dangerous than salt water.

  10. Re:fresh clean water? on EasyJet May Trial Hydrogen Fuel Cells For Taxiing (thestack.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Distilled water will kill you if you drink too much of it.

  11. Re:Consumables on Tiny Pluto Big On Frozen Water Reserves · · Score: 1

    Computations please. A simulation would be nice too.

  12. Re:Consumables on Tiny Pluto Big On Frozen Water Reserves · · Score: 1

    Which is the basic principle behind gene canons.

  13. Re:Consumables on Tiny Pluto Big On Frozen Water Reserves · · Score: 1

    Could you post some calculations and a plan on how to do that? Perhaps using Halley's comet as an example as it's period is very "handy"?

  14. Re:Consumables on Tiny Pluto Big On Frozen Water Reserves · · Score: 1

    We simply transport the water from Pluto to Mars. Like duh! how hard can that be?

    (In case you missed it that was sarcasm)

  15. Re:you should rewrite it in node.js on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    I think this is what OP was referring to.

  16. Re:Gifts for the advanced child in mathematics... on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    "Applied ballistics are pretty fun".
    Archery, ball sports, golf, tennis, etc. are good choices. Get the kid outside and being a kid.

  17. Something kinesthetic on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    Like Top Spin. We used it in my undergrad Abstract Algebra. The assignment was to define the Algebra of the game so that anyone could pick it up and solve it in the lease number of steps. We had 3 days to complete the assignments.

    Any puzzle which can then be used as a door way to higher Math while being fun to a 10 year old.

  18. Re:Nine years of pair programming? on Code Reviews vs. Pair Programming (mavenhive.in) · · Score: 1

    I was responding to a post made by another person who refernced group programming. So no I did not misunderstand, I knew exactly what as going on.

  19. It will impact the stock martket too on Insurance Companies Looking For Fallback Plans To Survive Driverless Cars (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Insurance companies are cash rich. SO they invest much of it into the markets. If they start struggling for cash the impact may ripple through the entire economy.

  20. Teaching languages considered harmful on Stephen Wolfram: No Need To Teach With 'Toy Programming Languages' Like Scratch (wolfram.com) · · Score: 0

    Stop teaching people toy languages. Because before you know it people will be using them in production in a role they were never intended. If you want to see what damage that can cause look to BASIC and VB, and Pascal. As they were the only languages people knew, especially managers, they were forced into a role they were never intended to fill. Hence they had to be kludged to actually be useful.

    So pick a scripting language such as Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. instead.

  21. Re:Nine years of pair programming? on Code Reviews vs. Pair Programming (mavenhive.in) · · Score: 1

    Does having 5 people huddled around a computer increase productivity or increase slippage?

  22. Re:Internal subversive on The Story Behind National Reconnaissance Office's Octopus Logo (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    You did.

  23. Re:Leaked from where on The Most Popular Bad Passwords of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 0

    Of course that is only as random as the "random" number generator. And since it is "random" people are more inclined to write it down somewhere, e.g. a sticky note on the monitor or in a "secure" spreadsheet in the cloud.

    You should really pick up a book on security.

  24. I'm safe on The Most Popular Bad Passwords of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    "Shadowfax" didn't even make the list.

  25. Internal subversive on The Story Behind National Reconnaissance Office's Octopus Logo (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    SO, perhaps there is a person, or small clique, who feels that things are out of control. They may have obligations which prevent them from quiting or believe in their mission but not the execution of it. So they create these images, or acronyms, codenames (Carnivore?) etc., to sound the alarm bell but to stay innocuous.

    That's just a thought.