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  1. Re:A brief intro on Ask Slashdot: Learning DB the Right Way; Books, Tutorials, or What? · · Score: 1

    You know this. I know this. I'm not confident the GP knows this. :-)

  2. Re:A breif intro on Ask Slashdot: Learning DB the Right Way; Books, Tutorials, or What? · · Score: 1

    Normalization has almost nothing to do with space reduction. Normalization is there to help ensure correctness of your information.

  3. Re:The answer hasn't changed for decades on Ask Slashdot: Learning DB the Right Way; Books, Tutorials, or What? · · Score: 1

    If your career will involve databases for any length of time, it will pay for itself many times over.

  4. Re:No Obligatory XKCD on Ask Slashdot: Learning DB the Right Way; Books, Tutorials, or What? · · Score: 1

    Also, thanks for that. As an ex Slony user, I appreciate that reference!

  5. Re:Scare tactics on Tennessee Official: Water Complaints Could be "Act of Terrorism" · · Score: 4, Informative

    7-pool is better than a 6-pool, but if they wall off before your zerglings get there, you're toast. Roach timings are better, especially if the Terran goes early expand.

  6. However, the situation of "the guy in front of me is drunk or high" is (unfortunately) NOT very, very, rare, especially if I'm on the road after about 9 pm, which is frequently for me. I call the cops at least once a month to report an impaired driver. I do have hands-free though, which helps.

  7. I will play your game, Bennett on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you play my game. We're going to flip a fair coin 10 time, and if it's heads, you pay me 50 dollars, and if it's tails, you pay me 100 dollars. If you refuse to play, you have lost.

  8. I love my country, I love the truth. I, however, do not conflate the shenanigans of Rome-On-Potomac with my country. :-) Also, my love is a tough one, the same one I'd have with my son if he got strung out on meth.

  9. Re:Why don't businesses get it? on PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug · · Score: 1

    Ending sentences with prepositions is something up with which I shall not put!

  10. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    Do you really "need" more? Are you not getting sufficient hydration and calories to sustain life? If not, you should probably spend the time and personal resources you spent responding to me and instead go for a walk and scavenge some discarded recyclables to sell. Few highly paid people in STEM fields really understand what people "need".

    If you're not a subsistence farmer or a hunter/gatherer, this statement means almost nothing coming from you. If you are, well, good on ya, mate. I'm interested in how you get internet, though, because I' d like to be more like you!

  11. Re:*sigh* on Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Don't cross the canons!

  12. Re:Internal procedure change forces external chang on To Avoid Confusion: Oracle's Confusing New Java Numbering Scheme · · Score: 1

    I just had the realization that perhaps auto-correct is some emergent AI's first baby steps at trying to contact us. The GP is certainly evidence of it.

  13. Re:On a side note on Today Is International Day Against DRM · · Score: 1

    Comparing a Galaxy Note 2 or an iPhone 5 to the first handheld calculator is vaguely akin to comparing a Saturn V rocket to the Wright Flyer.

  14. Re:Nook Simple Touch is Awesome (eink) on Barnes & Noble Adds Google Play Store To the Nook · · Score: 1

    I have an iPad from work, and I thought it would be useful at first, but I've found that for me anyway it's a solution looking for a problem. The problem I have with the tablet/ebook paradigm is they're too big to fit in a pocket like my phone (Galaxy Nexus), but still too limited and underpowered to really do anything that justifies carrying it. I'm not even sure where my iPad is right now. I don't think I've used it at all in the last 2 weeks. It's too heavy for me to even read in bed unless I'm propped up, which is not really comfortable for me. Aldiko on my phone is a fine e-book reader and I can hold it in my hand comfortably for hours.

  15. On a side note on Today Is International Day Against DRM · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm old enough to remember when the term "minicomputer" was used to describe a computer that fit in a single room. Our desktops were "microcomputers" and our phones and tablets were "science fiction". :-)

  16. Re:So basically on Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates · · Score: 1

    Or apparently with the definition of the word "tycoon".

  17. Re:My house, my rules on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 1

    Methinks you two are talking about two different influences on history. His rather longer ago than the one in which you are referring.

  18. Re:What's so special about that? on Landsat's First Images Show Rocky Mountains In Stunning Detail · · Score: 2

    Heard a rumor you took at least one really cool picture of the moon with it too. Can you confirm or deny?

  19. Re:great on LazyHusband Smart Phone App Compliments Your Wife for You (Video) · · Score: 1

    Awesome post...

  20. Re:Um, what article? on How a Programmer Gets By On $16K/Yr: He Moves to Malaysia · · Score: 5, Funny

    I must be new here.

  21. Um, what article? on How a Programmer Gets By On $16K/Yr: He Moves to Malaysia · · Score: 4, Funny

    No link in the summary, no link after the fold. Really?

  22. Re:Stardards related on Ask Slashdot: How Many Time Standards Are There? · · Score: 1

    Then Saturday wouldn't be part of the week-END, now would it?

  23. Re:if it's all about women's protection... on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh no, then it would be about sex discrimination. "I'm sorry, you may be making gay porn, but that doesn't allow you to discriminate against female porn actors." So one department will force them to hire females, and then another will shut them down and jailing them for demeaning and degrading women.

    I'd like to think what I just wrote is satire, but when you look at the bending and twisting of legal interpretations by The Powers That Be that are enough to make yoga masters wince, I'm afraid I am probably wrong.

  24. Re:It's not the the docs are bad or not used on Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow · · Score: 1

    I have a question just like that pending for a JPL-maintained library, except that it will be TEN years this November. :-)

  25. Whatever, Cliffy on Cliff Bleszinski: Vote With Your Dollars · · Score: 1

    EA pissed me off one time too many and have been voting with my dollars for years (full disclosure: I did get ME and ME2 as gifts, but EA got the money in any case, so I certainly played them). If I want to call EA scumbags for doing it, then I will call them scumbags and free speech too is part of that same free market. Don't get all butthurt by it.