Slashdot Mirror


User: reanjr

reanjr's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,025
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,025

  1. Re:questionable axiom on Lessig Launches a Super PAC To End All Super PACs · · Score: 1

    With wedge issues, this is true. But a lot of issues have a significant slant between corporate and non-corporate interests. These types of issues are heavily weighed towards corporate interests because that's where the money is.

  2. Re:Procedural Rules? on Lavabit Loses Contempt Appeal · · Score: 1

    There's no good reason decisions like this can't be made by a jury.

  3. Re:Managed langauges on Code Quality: Open Source vs. Proprietary · · Score: 2

    I've never been in an interview where they asked for memorized framework and library facilities. As a web developer, I get questions about data normalization, graph theory, and complicated SQL JOINs.

  4. Re:Girls just do not like programming as much as b on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    That doesn't explain why women CS graduates have been in decline since the 80s.

  5. Re:It would be inequal to provide equal rewards on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    I'd really like to know how the computer education in private girls schools is going. There are no silly boys to distract the teacher from focusing on the girls in that setting. So one would expect private school girls are far more likely to enter a career in software, correct?

  6. Re:Discrimination of girls is bad and unethical on Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. If Gucci noticed a dearth of designers in the handbag industry and decided to use their considerable wealth to attract heterosexual male designers, that's their concern. Their money. Their right. Their "speech" if you will. As a consumer, you have a right to not buy their products.

    Private enterprise is not a government body. They are not held to the same legal framework as government. That said, a public university basketball team taking funds from the government has no right to discriminate. Our money. Our rights.

  7. Re:Mixed Linux/Windows Environments Don't Work Wel on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Three words: P D F.

  8. Even more so now on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? · · Score: 1

    Mt. Gox disappearing is good for BTC. From what I've been reading, people who left their money in Mt. Gox accounts have mostly been blaming themselves for trusting an untrustworthy organization. The signs were all over the place that people should pull their money out. And judging by the decline in volume at Mt. Gox, it seems most people did already. And observers need to know that these exchanges are not secure places to keep their money.

    Anyone who willingly lets someone they hooked up with over the internet hold hundreds of thousands of dollars of their money should know the risks involved.

  9. Re:Working men top out around $120k on The Mystery/Myth of the $3 Million Google Engineer · · Score: 0

    That's bullshit. I know well over a dozen working software engineers making above $150k. Get better at your job.

  10. Re:64-bit computation vs. 64-bit storage on Asm.js Gets Faster · · Score: 1

    The only difference I can think of is that the generated code will be larger because 64-bit operations take more bytes. This may have an effect on caching and branching.

  11. Re:*erior on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    Any merchant using a strategy of selling their BTC at the end of each week would have benefited from price gains against the local currency over the long term. There's plenty of good reason to hold on to them. Of course, once the price settles, that will no longer be the case, but we're probably still a long way from that.

  12. Re:Can someone explain bitcoin banks to me? on 195K Bitcoin Transaction · · Score: 1

    In theory, BTC quantity will cap at some point and the expected increase in economic activity combined with the very gradual loss of coins to things like hard drive failure will make BTC act like a slowly deflating currency. This amounts to approximately the same thing as interest.

  13. Re:Ghost transactions on 195K Bitcoin Transaction · · Score: 1

    That's one approach. I think most people who are actually concerned use a mixing service.

    https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mixing_service

  14. Re:Distributed security HEIST? on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 1

    BTC is a lot like cash. If you choose to hand over a giant wad of cash to someone to hold for you (like these people did), you are at as much risk as would be expected.

    You can always hold onto your own coins if you want to realize the promise. Of course, then you need to handle your own security and backups.

  15. Re:Then you're stuck with GitHub's terms. on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 1

    My personal interpretation is that any project on GitHub that has no explicit license is covered under a very permissive BSD-style license (without any attribution requirements).

    Typically a license grants you rights and informs you of your restrictions if you choose to exercise those rights. In this case, with no explicit attribution or GPL-like openness stated, but with forking a right implicit to public code on GitHub, I am led to believe I can take everything, then make closed modification to the software for my own personal or commercial use.

    In other words - unless this is your intention in publishing on GitHub - you should definitely include a specific license.

  16. Re:Better Application Hooks on What Features Does iOS 7 Need? · · Score: 0

    Doesn't cause a problem for Android users. Are iOS users just to ignorant to select decent software? Do they need Apple to hold their hand and tell them the stove is hot?

  17. Java was a bad decision in the first place on Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates · · Score: 2

    Own up to your company's bad decisions, bite the bullet, and STOP USING PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE!!!

    Seriously, you people who complain about all your own bad decisions are really getting on my nerves. Java was a bad idea 10 years ago even without the time restriction. Why? Because they throw in a time restriction whenever the fuck they want. Your company was stupid enough to be duped.

  18. Sell network effects on Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good? · · Score: 1

    If part of what you're selling is the network effect of your product, then this very well may be a time when "crippling" a feature makes the product better.

  19. Re:iTunes on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 2

    Windows has an API for hooking into file system events. If iTunes is scanning the hard drive except on startup, then it's because Apple has shitty engineers. Same with USB. Why don't Windows focused apps that do the same thing have no performance problem?

    I'm a Linux/Android user, but you just seem like an Apple fanboy.

  20. Re:Another bitcoin article? on One Bitcoin By the Numbers: Is There Still Profit To Be Made? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps. But they couldn't really cash out all their coins at a reasonable rate. The market cap is 21 million, so in order to dump anywhere near 5 million, you'd have to space it out to not crash the market before you can sell.

  21. Re:The baffling thing... on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 1

    Microsoft doesn't give a shit about the PC market. They need to make inroads on smartphones and tablets. The Windows 8 works-like-touch decision is so that they can acclimate as many dupes as possible into the MS way so that when they get a smartphone, they're more likely to choose Windows.

    MS sells Office. It's what they do. It's the only thing they know how to do. Their entire business is built upon it. If they can't get people to use Office on their phones, they are doomed.

  22. Re:Until they hit the max number of bitcoins on Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem? · · Score: 1

    I don't know how fractional reserve banking would ever apply to BTC, but bitcoins can be broken up down to 0.00000001 BTC (sometimes known as a Satoshi). So, this isn't really much of a problem.

    The equivalent divisible size in USD would be $2.1 trillion. This may be a bit small someday, but that day is a long way off. There is only $1.18 trillion in circulation today.

  23. Re:How do we organic out of on Organic Pollutants Poison the Roof of the World · · Score: 1

    I think technically it can also refer to silicon when it involved in compounds that function analogously to carbon-based organic chemistry.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organosilicon

    There are a few others as well, like phosphorous and sulfur.

  24. Re:DDT gets a bad rap on Organic Pollutants Poison the Roof of the World · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think you're forgetting the primary concern with DDT was birth defects, not cancer. Primarily in animal populations. ...and the fact that insects were becoming resistant to it anyway, in some cases.

  25. Try... on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1