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  1. I can see what any team I belong to at anytime,

    How often is this really a problem for you?

  2. Yeap.

  3. Slack is huge right now in Silicon Valley. To the point that some people will consider you technologically backward if you don't have it.
    I make an effort to not work with those kinds of people.

  4. Re:This is not a Slack Competitor on Facebook's Slack Rival Is Coming Next Month and Will Charge Per Employee (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    So.....it's a Yammer competitor?

  5. Re:It's the Science News Media's Fault on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the guy in the video I linked to was probably the most powerful climate scientist in the world for a couple decades. (I've been worried about the next billion years, I'm considering becoming a prepper. How many gallons of water do you think I should save up?)

  6. Re:This simply means we're succeeding. on Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Have Become Top Carbon Polluters (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Even in Europe and Japan, where trains are really good, people still take airplanes (for example, from France to Spain).

  7. Re:No they aren't denying it on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    But there are telltale remnants of matriarchal religious traditions in Judaism.

    Eliade suggests that agricultural societies (not necessarily the same as military societies) tend towards worship of the female, so that seems reasonable.

  8. Re:Php tied to platform? [Re:PHP] on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you consider to be the problem in the browser, actually? It won't be fractured anymore than the backend already is.

  9. Re:Seriously, who's the troll now? on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, many will argue that Java is still missing "a lot of the features" that have yet to be added to newer versions of the language

    The copying goes both ways. Maybe eventually C# will get a decent time package like Nodatime.

  10. Re:Pass on those four on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Starting with the IDE, Visual Studio is way behind the Java world unless you start adding plugins like resharper.

    As for the language, Java hasn't been standing still, a lot of the features that were missing before have been added in the newer versions of the language.

    Then there is nuget which drives me crazy and I hate. TBH recently he C# world is becoming too much like the node.js world for my taste.

  11. Re:No they aren't denying it on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, that reminds me of reading somewhere that Celtic 'witches' used menstrual blood in some way or another with their partners during rituals.
    Your reasoning makes sense, since that is also the reason for the prohibition against mixing milk with cow meat.

  12. Re:Pass on those four on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think I could step back into the stone-age IDE's and features of Java,

    Compared to C#? This is how we know you're trolling.

  13. Re:irrelevant. on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "A good programmer can write good code in any language. A bad programmer will write bad code in all of them."

  14. Re:Php tied to platform? [Re:PHP] on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If something came along to replace or reduce programming on the client side, JS usage could shrink quickly.

    WebAssembly. It's supported by most major browsers (experimentally) and has a W3C working group ironing out the details.

  15. Re:How could anyone refute this? on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A refutation would take a lot of space, but the most common refutation I've seen is something along the line of, "All those things are likely to actually happen."

  16. Re:It's the Science News Media's Fault on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, scientists contribute to it too, by saying things like, "that's it for all life on the planet and "the oceans will begin to boil." These are so far beyond the realm of likelihood that they aren't even mentioned in the IPCC report.

  17. Re:No they aren't denying it on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    do you think a law banning having sexual intercourse with your menstruating wife has no motive?

    I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm having trouble thinking of a motive for this one.

  18. Re:Cisco is getting worse... on Cisco Blamed A Router Bug On 'Cosmic Radiation' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They will eventually become another IBM. I was trying to think of a real tangible product that IBM made and sold just the other day. Do they?

    They sell more mainframes now than they did in 1970, believe it or not. One z13 can support 8,000 Linux VMs simultaneously. Cool looking box, too.

  19. Re:Also happens in CS research on Poor Scientific Research Is Disproportionately Rewarded (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh.....back in the 50s someone got a PhD writing a thesis saying that bubble-sort was the fastest sorting algorithm.

    Donald Knuth later said, "That these wouldn't have passed if I had been around."

  20. Re: But not climate change research on Poor Scientific Research Is Disproportionately Rewarded (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    How the hell do you reproduce a climate study anyway? Where are the controls?

    John Christy has been doing that for over 30 years. For example, he wanted to know if the temperature record was accurate or not. So he developed a secondary way to measure temperature (with satellites). That is one example for you to get the feel, he's done the same thing in other areas of climate science.

  21. Re:So basically... on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Churchill saw Hitler for the crocodile he was, and was quite vocal in letting people know about it. In response, people called him a war-monger.

  22. Re:It's not just a cost issue. on Sad Reality: It's Cheaper To Get Hacked Than Build Strong IT Defenses (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In every business scenario I've dealt with, it is simply impossible to protect against every threat and every zero-day exploit that comes down the pipe

    A lot of the exploits we've seen haven't been zero-days or complex attacks. They've been low-hanging fruit that would never be left open by an admin like you.

  23. The first time I heard this story was in 1995 or so. I'm sure we've heard it for longer than that. Apple was getting ready to take on the living room, fighting with Microsoft. We heard it again, over and over (the fight for the living room between Wii/Xbox/Playstation).

    At the end of the day, no one is going to want ads on their thermostat.

  24. Re:Imagine on GNOME 3.22 Desktop Environment Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Bug reports are different......it's what gets done with the reports that determines the quality of the team. If you let the bugs pile up for years, you suck.

  25. That's true, astroturfing makes it hard to have a good conversation with other people on forums if you don't forget to drink your Ovaltine.