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  1. Double edged sword on The Real Reasons Companies Won't Hire Telecommuters (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can do the job from home then EditorDavid, manishs, msmash[1] or BeauHD can do it from Calcutta.

    [1] Suspiciously close to an anagram if your handwriting is as bad as your accent.

  2. Oy oy oy, that's the same as my luggage!

    I changed it when word got out about 1 2 3 4. I'm not a total schmuck already.

  3. Re: Indians are immoral on Fake Call Centers in India Scam Americans Of Millions (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Well you need to be able to read. That's the case with most tests.

    I'm not sure why you think that stretches to whatever your original claim was.

  4. Re:Barriers to entry on Linux Foundation Shares LinuxCon Highlights (linuxfoundation.org) · · Score: 1

    Dividing watts by volts so you can look up what SWG you need isn't maths, it's arithmetic.

  5. Re: What?! on Linux Foundation Shares LinuxCon Highlights (linuxfoundation.org) · · Score: 2

    Also, the math and physics are good weed out classes.

    Anything hard is a good weed out class.

    That doesn't necessarily make it a valid one.

    Most people who don't get math and physics are not going to understand programming and computers either.

    Right, because 99% of programmers work on atmospheric modeling, logistics optimisation & ballistics calculations.

    Oh hang on, they don't. They write stock control and accounting systems with VB for companies that are too big for Excel and too small for SAP, using little maths beyond addition, subtraction & multiplication.

  6. Interesting. Do they have true social unrest in Scotland?

  7. Jaron Lanier invented hipsters.

  8. Re:Better replacement already available on Microsoft Is Redesigning the Paint App For Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They should bring out Paint Classic.

  9. Where do I sign up? on Microsoft Is Redesigning the Paint App For Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Downloading it now! Because it was nothing but the poor quality of the paint app that was keeping myself and billions of others away from Win 10.

  10. Re:The only way this will get fixed on Bruce Schneier: We Need To Save the Internet From the Internet of Things (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    According to AmiMoJo, it's a form of transportation that is literally a rapist.

  11. The thing is, is it's actual research, then you can't predict what will turn out to be useful.

    It's fairly easy to predict what won't.

  12. Re: Indians are immoral on Fake Call Centers in India Scam Americans Of Millions (ap.org) · · Score: 2

    Best I can tell, they basically measure your interest and commitment to school subjects.

    Maybe that's why you score so low. If it's asking you what year the war of 1812 started or what religion the pope is it's not an IQ test, it's a general knowledge quiz.

  13. Re:Proof her perf evaluations weren't fair on Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Led Illegal Purge of Male Employees, Lawsuit Charges (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    w/ Trump

    Error: division by zero. Bailing out near line 37 + 4.74i

  14. And what about opening jars?

  15. Since some middle-manager didn't hit his target?

  16. OED says preceding a gerund or noun-verb that "its" is also correct.

    Its failing was a tragedy, i.e. the failing belonged to it. Correct but it sounds a bit archaic to me.

    In the case of passé which is an adjective I'm not sure.

    That's not the same. I'm sure and you're wrong.

  17. Sudden outbreak of common sense? on Prominent Pro-Patent Judge Issues Opinion Declaring All Software Patents Bad (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    A check just cleared or a check just bounced.

  18. That's totally ridiculous! Nobody's expecting them to work for nothing.

  19. Re:Did it make Apple's developer docs usable again on Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store (kapeli.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not sure what the Dash app does or how it works

    It tries to establish the caliphate - a theocratic empire ruled by the religion of peace - by killing people.

  20. Re:Errr on Unity 8 Desktop Session Arrives in Ubuntu 16.10 (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Grehb34d! Aren't you familiar with the fundamental design principle of "nearly always break expectations"?

    It's second in the commandments. Right after "nothing demonstrates your individuality like a shitty tattoo, especially one like all your co-workers at at Starbucks have".

  21. 386,000 sq miles

    What's that in elephants (or Belgiums, if you prefer metric)?

  22. Goddam furriners! on British Trio Wins Nobel Prize In Physics For Study of Exotic Matter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Trump will build the Atlantic Ocean and make the Limeys pay for it.

  23. I volunteer to do peer review.

    I see what you did there.

  24. Re:do people really talk to their phones? on Google Unveils Pixel and Pixel XL, the First Phones It 'Designed Inside and Out' (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    Something about wheels and handicrafts, I think.