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  1. Re: I like programming that works on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 0

    Functional programming isn't programming that functions. Look it up if you want to learn what it is.

  2. Re: My answer on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't think Iranian is a language.

  3. Yeah that works if it's labeled on the device. Maybe that will catch on.

  4. Re:Becaue you aren't offering to do the work. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    Asimov expounded on that idea: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersi...

  5. I think every device that connects should have its own personal password.

    The problem with that is if you forget the password and have lost your documentation, your device is now inaccessible to you. After that happens once, the vast majority of customers will permanently avoid that brand and go with someone who has a default username and password. Your suggestion would be market suicide.

  6. If the cost were put on the manufacturer, yes. This is just shifting negative externalities around and hoping that helps, without knowing if it will or not.

  7. Re:36% Read your link. They buy nuclear from Swede on Britain Set For First Coal-Free Day Since Industrial Revolution (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When you put your hydro upstream from populations, you eventually get Banqiao (200,000 dead, 11 million displaced).

    Are you saying all dams eventually fail?

  8. Re:My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I prefer not to burn bridges.

  9. He also said "even ignoring syntax problems and semicolons, and just looking at logic flow". That said, I hope they gave the test to some current employees to make sure it was reasonable.

  10. You shouldn't need a compiler to write something that at least demonstrates a logical approach to the problem. He's saying most candidates couldn't even do that.

  11. Re:My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Refusing to train your replacement doesn't get you any less laid off. If feeling self-righteous anger is worth giving up a severance package to you, go for it.

  12. Re:My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 2

    Riker sees what you did there.

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

  13. Re:My experience... on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 2

    What does the H1B program have to do with contracting with a foreign software development company?

  14. What makes you think the app is pointless? Because you personally haven't installed it?

  15. I have never seen anyone else's items appear on my lists.

  16. Re: Don't buy this on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't the washer supposed to do that?

  17. Re: Don't buy this on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Presumably it means it can dry five times the laundry use the same amount of energy.

  18. Re: Excessive collaboration is a good one! on Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm classifying any failed attempt to do scrum correctly as doing it wrong, whether they end up doing scrum but incorrectly, or not doing scrum at all.

  19. I think Android gadgets of all kinds will start to offer more and more traditional desktop features when they get docked with an external display and physical keyboard.

    That's going to be awesome, and MS is already doing it (or maybe it hasn't been released yet). I'm in the same boat, I don't think my phone could handle a full featured IDE, but it would be really cool to just have one computing device. Maybe a dock with a GPU in it for gaming.

  20. Re: Excessive collaboration is a good one! on Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    The question is, why are so many places "doing scrum wrong"? Are these places that would do a bad job of any process, and scrum is the one they've picked? Is scrum just hard to understand and implement? It doesn't really seem that complicated to me. Is there something about scrum that doesn't fit the culture of a lot of companies but for some reason nobody knows that before trying it? Because it's very unlikely the corporate culture is going to change to fit the new development methodology, more like the methodology will be twisted to fit the culture, even if that breaks it.

  21. To play devil's advocate along the lines of what the parent post said, women should be able to level the playing field themselves, because they don't need any help from men to do anything.

    I don't believe that, and I don't believe many women believe it either, but I can see how someone could get that impression.

  22. That's not so much convergence as not using PCs any more.

  23. Re:I'm amazed it's 20% already on Taser Offers Free Body Cameras To All US Police (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they use the batons and pepper spray?

  24. Re:It's not universal if it's not for everyone on New UBI Program Launches In Canada To 'Define Our Future' (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    THE END IS NIGH!

    You have clearly misunderstood what I said then, unless by "nigh" you mean in the next hundred years.

    They've seen all this crap happen before in one form or another; it always blows over.

    Your mistake is in assuming that this change is exactly like the changes that have happened before. It isn't. It's qualitatively different.

    STOP PANICKING.

    There's a difference between panicking and preparing.

  25. Re:It's not universal if it's not for everyone on New UBI Program Launches In Canada To 'Define Our Future' (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not even going to bother answering all your little questions.

    If you think those are little questions, then you haven't thought this issue through.

    Of course there will be things for us to do, in the sense that there will be ways we can spend our time. Currently, our society is structured around people being compensated by other people for doing productive things with their time. If computers and robots become more efficient at doing everything that anyone wants done, there will no longer be a reason to compensate people for doing those things. We can either assume that is never going to happen, or we can plan for it so the society doesn't collapse when it does. If you don't want to think about it that's fine, plenty of other people will.

    You might be thinking of arts and culture right now, and that's fine. There will always be a place for humans doing that, but I doubt we can exist with an economy based almost exclusively on art.