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  1. Re:Qualification: patience to fiddle on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Fiddling with JavaScript libraries to get a fancy dancy interface that makes PHB's happy is a sought-after skill, for good or bad. Now that we rely more on half-ass libraries, much of "programming" is fiddling with dark-grey boxes until they work good enough.

    This drives me crazy, but I'm consoled somewhat by the fact that it will all be thrown out in five years anyway.

  2. Re:Seems about right. Constantly learning, studyin on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference between a smart programmer who succeeds and a stupid programmer who drops out is that the smart programmer doesn't give up.

  3. Re: Why not migrate on Oracle Sets End Date for Business Java 8 Updates (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't used those deprecated APIs in a while and I don't remember seeing them used either.

  4. Re:Cage? on The Pentagon's Ray Gun Can Stall Cars (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    That's when they pull out your gun and shoot your tires. Which they should have done in the first place anyway. Especially since they have big vehicle in front of you anyway (or at your side, or whatever).

  5. There's too much money at play for these companies to simply fold up.

    This is a really bad heuristic. P/E ratio is a better way to figure out whether it's a good time to buy or not.

  6. Worth adding that a crash can often be turned into an exploit with a little work..

  7. I'll bet it does that after it mounts it.

  8. Re:Not likely. on Can We Fight Climate Change With Carbon-Absorbing Rocks? (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    When a plant dies, not all of the carbon is released. Some of it turns into soil.

  9. bonfire of fakers on New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the reason I wish programming didn't pay so much....the field is better when it's mostly populated by people who enjoy programming.

  10. Re: Why not migrate on Oracle Sets End Date for Business Java 8 Updates (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Good to know, thanks

  11. Re: Why not migrate on Oracle Sets End Date for Business Java 8 Updates (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think Java compiled under Java 7 will run straight under Java 9, wasn't there a bytecode change?

  12. Re: Why not migrate on Oracle Sets End Date for Business Java 8 Updates (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That just means a new recompile, right? Or is there something more?

  13. Why not migrate on Oracle Sets End Date for Business Java 8 Updates (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Is there any reason not to migrate to the newest version of Java? Is any effort even required?

  14. Re: We've been doing that for ages on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The outcome isn't done yet. War still isn't over, and both Korea's want unification.

  15. Re: Hah! You think that's terrible? It's worse! on Blue Light Like That From Smartphones Linked To Some Cancers, Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Oxygen is pretty bad for you, that's why people eat antioxidants.

  16. I agree that it's unlikely but testing it in a study is not malpractice

  17. Re: How did we come to this? on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a little extreme. Trump did good work but things have changed internally in North Korea, too. Clinton might have been able to finish the peace at this time, there are still too many unknowns to make a judgement. If Kim writes an autobiography I will read it eagerly. As for your post, your partisan rhetoric sounds angry and provokes eye rolls from people who are more sophisticated, people who understand that the situation is complex.

  18. Re:Bullshit on Blue Light Like That From Smartphones Linked To Some Cancers, Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Non ionizing radiation does not cause cancer.

    They have the proposed mechanism: blue light causes your body to produce less melanin, which means less protection against natural sunlight. It is a hypothesis worth testing, anyway.

    Researchers that published this bull shit should be imprisioned.

    That's a little extreme.

  19. Inconclusive on Blue Light Like That From Smartphones Linked To Some Cancers, Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "men who slept in “quite illuminated” bedrooms had a higher risk of prostate cancer (OR=2.79; 95% CI: 1.55, 5.04), whereas women had a slightly lower risk of breast cancer (OR=0.77; 95% CI: 0.39, 1.51)."

    It's not uncommon for a single study to show a statistically significant, or even dramatic, effect on cancer rates. Check out this graph for good examples. You can't say anything about these kinds of studies except, "was within the margin of error."

  20. Re:Camp Humphries on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the main one left in Europe is in Italy. The US still has lots of bases and airfield in Asia, but they are less important now. For a couple decades now, the US has had the ability to launch planes from Missouri, bomb a target in the middle east (or anywhere else in the world, really), and return home so the pilot can sleep in America after the mission. With that kind of projection ability, foreign bases are a lot less important, and to some degree all you need is refueling stations. Of course troop movements still take time, but with North Korea ending their war, there doesn't seem to be any place that requires troops to arrive withing a few hours notice (remember, airstrikes still can happen anywhere with a few hours notice). It is strategically acceptable in most areas of the world (I'm making my own judgment call there, but I think the Pentagon agrees) to ship the troops from the US mainland, especially since the US owns the seas.

    I only know from unclassified comments, but it seems like (again, to me) the Pentagon worries more about losing the ability to wage wars in multiple locations simultaneously (roughly, total military size) than they do about closing foreign bases.

  21. Re:How did we come to this? on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It wouldn't have happened if North Korea didn't want it, so they deserve credit. Kim Jong Un has spent a lot of time outside North Korea so he knows how things are.

    Beyond that, Trump talks like the "internet tough guy." You know how when someone threatens to punch your face on the internet, you just laugh? Once North Korea realized that Trump's threats ("I have a BIGGER nuclear button!") were just noise, they gained confidence that he wasn't actually trying to destroy them. This contrasts with Bush's way of aggressiveness, which sounded malicious ("Axis of Evil"). (I will allow someone else to analyze Obama's way of talking).

    Also Trump pushed China hard to put pressure on North Korea, so that surely helped, too.

  22. Re:Oh, Lord! No! on Design Commentary on Google's New To-Do Tasks App (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 1

    And from a person who thinks it's a good idea to have a web page with grey text. My eyes hurt looking at that blog from the low-contrast, and that's before actually reading it.

  23. Re:Camp Humphries on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Why? They had no problem closing the German bases fairly recently.

  24. Newegg is dead to me. They refuse to collect sales tax and turn over sales info to the state on purchases.

    Uh, of all things, that bothers you?

  25. Re: It's the middle of April on Ocean Current That Keeps Europe Warm Is Weakening Because of Climate Change (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, you are correct.