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  1. Re:Anita Sarkeesian: Destroyer of Shareholder Valu on No One Wants To Buy Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Somehow I don't think blocking a few rightwing nutjobs caused Twitter to lose value. Maybe it's that the big boom of "hey we've got lots of users we must be worth a lot of money" is over, and potential buyers now want to see evidence that such companies actually make sense as a business.

  2. yes, yes, of course, it's all part of the international conspiracy of the media, the bankers, the administration, the IRS, the Mexicans, the Republican leadership, and pretty much everybody else.

  3. Re:His opinion is invalid since he.... on Silicon Valley Big Data Startup Palantir Responds To Labor Department's Discrimination Lawsuit (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    no, statistically it just means that he's highly likely to be racist and think of women as second class people.

  4. Re:Is Perl really that hard to learn? on Melinda Gates Was Encouraged To Use an Apple and BASIC. Her Daughters Were Not. (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Perl is a HORRIBLE language for beginners - filled with irregular rules that defy all logic. The oldest versions of Basic are poor languages, but VB6 and beyond actually have reasonable structures and concepts.

  5. Re:Is Perl really that hard to learn? on Melinda Gates Was Encouraged To Use an Apple and BASIC. Her Daughters Were Not. (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If they are learning Perl, they are experiencing more pain than I did with Fortran, and I used card-oriented Fortran. I used to start lines in column 10, instead of 7, just so I didn't make a mistake and accidentally create a continuation card.

  6. Re:How relevant is this? on AT&T Considers Stopping All Samsung Note 7 Sales (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And by the way, it's a prepaid plan... so i could leave tomorrow if I want to. Not locked into anything.

  7. Re:How relevant is this? on AT&T Considers Stopping All Samsung Note 7 Sales (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure made sense for me... I bought my phone thru US Cell and lowered my bill to $35/mo. Why wouldn't I do that?

  8. Well, head on over and let us know how it's going in the socialist paradise. Just don't accidentally get in front of any AA guns.

  9. Idi Amin? The leaders of the Khmer Rouge? A variety of African and Indian leaders during various ethnic cleansings? Your list is a list of German officials... not too surprised they are white men.

  10. Same here. I've never understood why MS considers this to be a good thing. Especially when you have multiple files that only differ by extension.

  11. Number one rule: if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

    cue the "boo hoo, he was just using a computer" chorus.

  12. Re:James Bond Did It... on Implication of Sabotage Adds Intrigue To SpaceX Investigation (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    I could picture Musk stroking a white cat in his underground lair.

  13. Re: So are we... on Elon Musk Proposes Spaceship That Can Send 100 People To Mars In 80 Days (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Such nonsense. Do you think Mars is "habitable"? Even global warming + nuclear war wouldn't make Earth as uninhabitable as Mars is.

  14. Yeah, it's not like we have rovers on Mars, orbiters around Jupiter, functioning interstellar probes, missions to pick up pieces of asteroids... oh, wait...

  15. Yep... not exactly a snail's pace. Remember what they were starting from... trying to put a couple of pounds in orbit.

  16. Re:Wow on SpaceX Shows Off Its Interplanetary Transport System in New Video (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is if you miss landing on a barge, you lose the booster. If you miss landing and hit a giant fuel tank, you lose a lot more.

  17. Re: You wouldn't download an Oreo on ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    ...
      The network consumes land, power, leased lines, leased fiber that the power company put up, equipment maintenance, etc etc. Thats operating cost.
    Double stuffed Oreo cookies should cost more than Oreo cookies, and faster, better networks should cost more than shitty ones.

    Exactly.

  18. Re:You wouldn't download an Oreo on ISP To FCC: Using The Internet Is Like Eating Oreos (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    I would if I could download milk along with it.

  19. Re:Do away with them on TypeScript 2.0 Released (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, sure, I just stand down in the face of your incredibly superior logic... of course 50 years of CS is wrong, there's no need for nulls. Wow, amazing no one made that argument before.

  20. Re:Do away with them on TypeScript 2.0 Released (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And what do you do when something doesn't have a value? A new employee has been hired but you don't know his birthday? Plug in 1900-01-01? And check for that? Nulls serve a purpose.

  21. Re:yippie on TypeScript 2.0 Released (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. Amazing how much stuff gets layered onto Javascript in an attempt to turn it into a usable language.

  22. Re:Steam? on Blizzard Is Getting Rid of the Battle.net Name (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Gamers are gamers. But it's a nice irrelevant try.

  23. Re:That's too bad.... on It Took a Couple Decades, But the Music Business Looks Like It's Okay Again (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    So you want them to pay taxes on money they never received?

    Think of it this way: if someone stole a bunch of CDs from one of their warehouses, would you want them to pay tax on that like the CDs were sold??

  24. Re:CS should _not_ be taught to teenagers on Code.org Disses Wolfram Language, Touts Apple's Swift Playgrounds (edsurge.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely right. Let's start with being able to coherently read, write, and do math. If you want to code, fine, but you don't need to do it, any more than you need to be able to build an engine in order to drive a car.

  25. Re:All right, hold on, now. on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    suddenly I'm hungry