User: sproketboy

MySQL or MariaDB

On: A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs

If you're using MySQL or MariaDB then you're an idiot anyway.

I guess that's it for this hobby

On: Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn

One moron and this whole thing will be banned.

Re:Doesn't matter. Only option.

On: Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier

If that's the only option then it will simply never happen. Which will probably be the case.

Re:Neil DeGrasse Tyson may be right - now, but...

On: Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier

Did you even watch the vid? How is this stupid tripe modded up?

Left 4 Dead

On: Ask Slashdot: Good Ideas For Creative Gaming With Girlfriend?

Left 4 Dead is a great co-op game which guys and gals play.

Re:Free speech

On: Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs

I live in Quebec and I can assure you this is not funny.

Of course

On: China Plans To Stop Harvesting Organs From Executed Prisoners

It's better to get them from from live prisoners instead.

Use Velcro

On: Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster?

Like Kirk did. It's the only way. ;)

Re:Are they still using SmallTalk?

On: Australian State Bans IBM From All Contracts After Payroll Bungle

This was back in the 90's. SmallTalk was IBM's enterprise language which they dropped mid 90's in favor of Java. Specifically the problems centered around the over-use of unary methods and operator overloading. In large applications it would become harder to understand and maintain the whole system.

China has the source anyway

On: China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem

China has the source anyway so they'll just maintain their own edition of XP for the chinese market. What's Microsoft going to be able to do about that?

Are they still using SmallTalk?

On: Australian State Bans IBM From All Contracts After Payroll Bungle

I remember back in the day IBM had a few major project failures around SmallTalk.

Re:It's not the programmers making the decisions

On: Remember the Computer Science Past Or Be Condemned To Repeat It?

Good comments. I wish I had mod points. I solved the semantic web a while ago but I haven't had the time to publish my prototype. :(

Here we go again

On: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Released With Major New Features

Here we go again with all the ranting about the mexican wrestler version. *sigh*

Re:I Am Unaware, Hear Me Roar

On: The H Shuts Down

It's called clicking the link and reading some of the articles? Ever heard of that dufus?

Re:Never heard of them.

On: The H Shuts Down

Erm, cause I clicked the link and read some of the articles maybe?

Re:Bury

On: Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets

Don't forget the Lisa!

Never heard of them.

On: The H Shuts Down

I guess that was part of their problem. Too bad - it's a great resource.

Do no evil

On: Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear

But I guess they do a lot of stupid.

Damn

On: Why Microsoft Shouldn't Worry About Cannibalizing Their Userbases

I hate it when articles give Microsoft advice because they might just listen and I would prefer to see Microsoft go under.

Still don't want to buy it

On: Microsoft Slashes Prices On Surface

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Re:They are now generating memos entirely with thi

On: Say What? Wading Through the Nonsense In Microsoft's Re-Org Memo

I wish I had mod points. :(

Re:I think...

On: Ask Slashdot: Node.js vs. JEE/C/C++/.NET In the Enterprise?

Exactly. Why use TFS since it's shitty.

Re:I think...

On: Ask Slashdot: Node.js vs. JEE/C/C++/.NET In the Enterprise?

Then stop feeding the troll idiot.

HAHA FAIL

On: No US College In Top 10 For ACM International Programming Contest 2013

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Re:I think...

On: Ask Slashdot: Node.js vs. JEE/C/C++/.NET In the Enterprise?

Yeah, a little bit. ;)