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  1. Re:Side-effects? on Here's What 2019 Holds For Paint.NET (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    These days you can compile to machine code (OS specific) using Windows Universal Apps.

    I suspect it wouldn't be a major port.

    But then its not my time.

  2. Re:UI Framework on Here's What 2019 Holds For Paint.NET (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A couple options. For C++ folks there's Qt. You can build UIs from 99% the same code base for every platform.

    It's been a while since I checked out Java GUIs, but you can make them.

    Most developers are inclined to more broadly used technologies, e.g. like a web UI. React is the hot tamale at the moment. If you need a true think client app you can do electron.

    There are some mold and oldy options too like Tcl/Tk that have cross-platform GUI options.

    I'm not the biggest fan of .NET core. When I try to do something simple like file I/O and there's no google-able easy path ready it just seems worthless.

  3. Indians are the ones who suffer on India Curbs Power of Amazon and Walmart To Sell Products Online (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine you are a citizen of India and you want to buy an Amazon Echo. Sorry !

    I wouldn't be happy about that.

    The message I would get is people think I am too incapable, too stupid to know how much Amazon is oppressing me.

  4. this masks real abuse on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Disagreement is not abuse. Failing to validate someone is not abuse.

    I really believe articles like this are going to set women back because people are going to think abuse against women is just a lot of exaggeration and whining.

    You can't address the real problem until you can be confident you are dealing with real instances.

    I say this as a man with a wife, two daughters, a mom, and two living grandmas.

  5. OK. Sounds like we are on the same page. Crimea isn't a NATO member, and we should reduce our involvement in it.

  6. The US is supposed to use its military to stop some countries that pose no threat to itself from invading other countries?

    And they weren't "successful" in accomplishing this thing you think they were "trying" to do?

  7. relief for forgery makers on Louisiana Adopts Digital Driver's Licenses (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Instead of making it harder to create forgeries, this will reduce the effort required to provide fake IDs for people.

    I am sure they will use the extra time to give back to their communities and spend quality time with their families.

  8. Re:Which is really stuuupid on South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    I thought you would want something closer to the equator (than just south) so you get the rotational velocity of the earth in launches. The equator is where you have the most rotational velocity.

  9. Re:We are falling behind... on Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, are you suggesting how *many* is not as important as how *good* ?

  10. Do they want to work past 43? on What Student Developers Want in a Job (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry your degree is only good for 18 years then you need a commercial truck driver license.

  11. After the guy at google died at desk on Half of All Tech Workers Surveyed Think Their Workplace Is 'Unhealthy' (wfaa.com) · · Score: 1

    According to WaPo Amazon is much better with employees who just cry at their desks instead of dying.

  12. Along with half of all malicious websites having TLS / SSLs ...

    Goes to show our security systems are more hazardous than the bad guys.

  13. Re:Housing is unaffordable on Americans Are Moving Less Than Ever, and It's Bad For the Economy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but cost of living and other prices are not "coastal".

    So you get the best of everything.

  14. Re:Housing is unaffordable on Americans Are Moving Less Than Ever, and It's Bad For the Economy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Three words for you: Raleigh, North Carolina

    bam !! :)

  15. Re: How will success be known if no communication? on China Set To Launch First-Ever Spacecraft to the Far Side of the Moon, Will Attempt To Grow Plant There (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently I read it too fast. Apologies.

  16. Re:How will success be known if no communication? on China Set To Launch First-Ever Spacecraft to the Far Side of the Moon, Will Attempt To Grow Plant There (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Bwha ha ha ... nice.

  17. huh? this is what that country DOES on China Announces Punishments For Intellectual-Property Theft (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The Chinese don't just permit IP theft ... they PIONEERED it.

    This is the pot calling the kettle black.

  18. If there's no communication with the far side of the moon, how will they know if the plant is growing?

    Send out some auditors? A "take my word for it" kind of thing?

  19. Re:Environmental impact of a tunnel? WTF? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why driverless cars are so supported in CA but not underground tunnels.

  20. This has about the same military significance as the Great Wall of China, i.e. very little.

    An adversarial nation could destroy this super expensive base with little effort using existing capabilities. I don't believe the estimates because they tend to use low-tech solutions that are much more error prone and take a lot more time. No opportunity to industrial sabotage the tech from other countries here either.

    Keeping a carrier there (which, by the way, you can move) would be far cheaper, less dangerous for the troops, and extend their reach just as much.

    Sounds like their sizzlers were a major advance, but this is throwing good money after bad.

  21. Re:Lessons learned the hard way... on Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Fundamental just means you can build on it. Perhaps you meant intrinsic right?

    Couldn't the legal power of all legal rights go away if enough people give up on them?

  22. Well ... THAT is a major problem too.

    There's more people with C++ skills than there are C++ positions.

    The 7 years part was intended to imply one wasn't keeping up with other stacks (was my story), but that isn't necessarily true.

  23. Re:Office Temp on China's Fusion Reactor Reaches 100 Million Degrees Celsius (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    I can already see the recruiter email:

    Want to work with some hot technologies ??

  24. The real danger is having 7 years of experience in C/C++ and then trying to land a dev job.

    Framework knowledge ... skill with pointers ... Linux/Windows ... IDE/GDB debugging ... doesn't matter.

  25. I'm often encouraging people to hire older people for IT / technical positions.

    This man is not advancing my efforts ... :(