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  1. Re:So much for "do no evil" on Google Urged the US To Limit Protection for Activist Workers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    With the news of Chrome disabling ad-blocking extensions

    Has Chrome really disabled ad blocking extensions?

  2. I paid quite a bit for my Mac, but it's worth it...

    It's a Unix. It works well out of the box but I can configure it almost as well as any Linux.

    Not a gamer, so no reason for me to use Windows.

    But yeah, fuck Windows. If I couldn't afford a Mac, I'd sure as shit be running Linux.

  3. We have to have Concrete on Cement is the Source of About 8% of the World's Carbon Dioxide Emissions (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But that doesn't mean that we can't change the technology used to make it. Solidia claims to have a fix.

  4. So I googled QHD (quad HD) and it has a base aspect ratio of 16:9.Ultra wide QHD has an aspect ratio of 21:9 (note that fraction isn't reduced either). This aspect ratio is in between 18:9. For some reason the smaller dimension seems to have stuck at 9 for QHD. Likely some marketing guy doesn't understand fractions. https://www.google.com/search?...

  5. Re:18:9? Not 2:1? Someone missed 6th grade math? on LG's Upcoming Smartphone G6 Will Have 5.7-inch QHD+ Display Featuring 18:9 Aspect Ratio (koreaherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they like base 9 in Korea?

  6. You can't say for sure whether any single shooting incident would be prevented by a given law. The same way that you can't say for sure that any given 100 degree day was caused by climate change.

    However, you CAN say that laws restricting access to guns decrease the number of gun deaths. So says research.

    Oh and we need to take guns away from people not just prevent their sale. The Democrats bills don't go far enough, but they are a start.

  7. Gun Control Laws Work on Invoking Orlando, Senate Republicans Set Up Vote To Expand FBI Spying (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Gun control laws decrease shooting deaths, both homicides and suicides.

    So says research and common sense.

    If you don't care, then fine. Your rights are more important than (usually innocent) people's lives. But when you oppose gun control, you have blood on your hands.

    As to the 2nd amendment? Stop holding it so sacrosanct. Don't forget that the 3/5 clause was part of the original constitution, too.

  8. Re:Modernization on Bank Heists - Another Profession That Technology Is Killing Off · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These days bank heists are perpetrated by executives when they negotiate bonus packages.

  9. Re:Its always someone else's problem on Flint, Michigan Declares State of Emergency Over Lead In Children's Blood (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I say locals made their bed and now should lay in it.

    *lie. Lay is a transitive verb. Lie is an intransitive verb that often takes prepositional phrases involving "in" or "on".

    Many apologies, but this is a pet peeve of mine.

  10. Ploy to get followers on Twitter Yanks Tweets That Repeat Copyrighted Joke · · Score: 1

    Notice that the user has now protected her account. You can only see her Tweets if she unprotects her account. With this publicity, she'll get lots of requests, thus lots of followers.

  11. Abuse of sudo on Celebrating Workarounds, Kludges, and Hacks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At an old job, we were given sudoer privileges, but there was a blacklist of dangerous commands that we couldn't sudo (such as bash, su, etc), so I wrote a one line script to get around that called hijack:

    $@

    Then I could type

    $sudo hijack

    and sudo any command I wanted.

  12. American Consumers Won't Benefit on Scientists Overcome One of the Biggest Limits In Fiber Optic Networks · · Score: 2

    Because of the monopolistic stranglehold that companies such as Comcast and Verizon hold over the last mile, American consumers won't see a dime of any cost savings from this.

    Meanwhile consumers in Europe and Asia will continue to see faster cheaper broadband.

  13. Ph.D. Program? on Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? · · Score: 1

    You might consider a Ph.D. program. If your grades are good and you have the basics, and you can tell the department a good story, you can get admitted and get funding in many STEM disciplines.

    You'll have to spend a long time getting your Ph.D., but if it's what you want to do, it may be worth it. You should probably choose a program that grants a Master's along the way so that if you don't finish, you'll have something to show for your time.

  14. And in other news... on It's Not Developers Slowing Things Down, It's the Process · · Score: 1

    Expensive consultants have released a shocking report demonstrating that water is wet.

  15. Not Anti-Social If Done Properly on NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders · · Score: 1

    Software development is usually done in an anti-social way. You chunk up a release or backlog or whatever into features, each dev takes a feature and goes off and writes some code. Later there is some collaboration in testing, code reviews, troubleshooting, etc.

    But that is a TERRIBLE way to do it. The wrong code gets written way too often. Designs are bad because people aren't contributing along the way. Requirements get missed because the developer makes an assumption that s/he didn't know was an assumption. The more eyes on the code at all times the better. Devs should be constantly communicating with testers and people who understand the business case (product owners). One way to do that is pair programming. It sounds like a waste of time, but it is actually faster. Silly mistakes get caught right away. Debugging goes faster. Another way to do that is to chunk the work into very small pieces and constantly communicate to integrate your tiny piece with the other devs' tiny pieces. This leads to clean interfaces and modular code.

    The Cowboy Superhero model of software development only makes sense if you are the only one developing a project. And remember in that case, your code dies when you get hit by a bus (or kill your wife and go to prison).

  16. It isn't what you know. It's who you know. on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 1

    Network. Go to career fairs. Meet the hiring manager. He needs talented software engineers. Teach yourself more modern technologies and get certified. I'm not usually a big fan of certifications as they don't usually show that someone knows how to program in a general sense, but your degree shows that.

    I have a pretty ridiculous professional network. (Not bragging really. When you have done in-demand technologies and looked for jobs, the network comes to you.) Message me me and I can add you and perhaps even give you some introductions to recruiters.

  17. It Costs Money on Vint Cerf on Why Programmers Don't Join the ACM · · Score: 5, Informative

    I can get every thing I need from Google. Why would I pay money to join the ACM? A 25 year old bottle of Scotch is a much better value.

  18. Prior Art on Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users · · Score: 1

    Agreed. There is probably plenty of prior art, but one would be crazy to challenge the patent because:

    1. That would give away a trade secret
    2. Facebook could crush most competitors in patent suits

    Congratulations, Facebook, you are a patent troll

  19. Re:One word on Yahoo! Sports Redesign Sparks Controversy, Disdain From Users · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Honestly, it isn't as bad as the Flickr redesign. That one was both uglier and far less functional.

  20. Scrape them yourself on Is 'Fair Use' Unfair To Humans? · · Score: 1

    Scrape them yourself in a semi-automated way, host them somewhere and provide a way to submit a DMCA take-down notice.

    Done and done.

  21. Re:Company rushes to meet launch date on How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have been pulled aside by a very high level manager, told to put all of my development on hold and implement entirely new functionality for a large enterprise product

    This functionality required three months of team effort to develop properly + another two weeks of due diligence, pre-release testing, and deployment. And then he told me to get it deployed in three weeks.

    That's how this can happen.

  22. Customer User Agents on Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects · · Score: 1

    And job candidates who customize their user agents are smart asses who will probably hack all of your systems.

  23. Services on Ask Slashdot: Preparing For the 'App Bubble' To Pop? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apps may or may not stick around, but one trend will continue: the increase in service oriented computing.

    I.e. computing functionality is being broken down into modular services (usually web services) that are simple enough and independent enough to be easily scaled horizontally but that can be composed in order to provide richer more complex functionality.

    If you understand this architecture, it will help your marketability immensely whether you are writing end user interfaces (such as apps) or building the aforementioned services.

  24. Quotation marks on Graphene Aerogel Takes World's Lightest Material Crown · · Score: 1

    The convention in the United States for decades has been to places periods inside the quotation marks. All others are based on the actual quote. The Chicago Manual of Style, as one of many, recommends this, but most guides point out that the British style placing anything not part of the quote outside of the quotation marks is acceptable but may be seen as unusual to American readers--of all ages.

    Although putting periods inside quotation marks is recommended by various manuals of style and others recommend putting them outside, I believe that both approaches are misguided

    Clarity should be the primary concern in language. Quotation marks are used to indicate that the current passage is repeating something verbatim from another source. It is most accurate to include punctuation inside quotation marks if that punctuation is repeated verbatim. In that case, they are punctuating the original. If they are not from the original source, they should be used outside.

  25. What should he buy? on Pierre Deligne Wins Abel Prize For Contributions To Algebraic Geometry · · Score: 1

    Give that he spent decades of his life slaving away over complex mathematical proofs, he really ought use his well deserved prize money to buy

    Hookers