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  1. Germany too. I remember them warning us before going on a school trip.

  2. Re:This justifies the Revolutionary War on UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    legal council

    Found the person who got his JD from DeVry.

  3. Re: This justifies the Revolutionary War on UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The advantage with a written one is that at least you know what's being ignored.

  4. Re:Struggle is growth on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose you were born knowing:
    a) all the systems, languages etc the employer uses
    b) the subject matter or domain
    c) the company's internal structure, politics etc.

    You must be Indian!

  5. Re:user editable stories. on Washington DC Made GitHub Its Official Digital Source For Laws (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    When slashdot fixes the quotes problem, or at least gets editors who proofread.

    Donawithahatontrademarkt hold your breath.

  6. Re:Betteridge is actually appropriate here on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    I was that new team member once.

    The knowledge I added was "subroutines" and a concept that I don't know the name of but it's along the lines of "if you have five programs that are 99% the same try having one with an IF/CASE statement in it somewhere".

  7. Re:Struggle is growth on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've heard it said that 10 years in one company is more like two years of experience repeated five times over. It's similar to diminishing returns.

    And what one place does well another is utterly shite at, and vice versa.

    Finally, what the fucking hell is a cloud architect when it's at home, which I suspect it usually is?

  8. Re:Consider the lilies on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant? · · Score: 1

    The problem with an individual consultant is that skillets vary

    Do you have cast-iron proof of that?

  9. Massive? I'd be surprised if they don't fit easily onto one side of A4.

  10. Twas ever thus.

    I wonder what William Carnegie's credit score would have been.

  11. Was this the one card he put his business expenses on, i.e. stuff not actually paid by him?

  12. Leasing companies would make a lot more money if they factored in the depreciation when calculating the monthly payments.

    It's a mystery why they don't.

  13. Re:Standing all day almost, if not much, worse. on Standing Desks Are Overrated (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Even something as simple as a peddler under your desk

    If you can't find one of those try a hawker, a costermonger or a colporteur.

  14. I used to have a CD called "A Medieval Christmas" or something like that. The beauty of it was that unless you a) knew Latin and b) listened carefully enough to pick out the words you didn't know it was Christmas music.

  15. Re:Still very much in use in Japan on The Fax is Not Yet Obsolete (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I'm now seeing the image of a middle-aged overweight Japanese man riffling through a pad of paper while his colleagues look on in amusement.

  16. The fact you think a statue is law is hilarious.

    Not as hilarious as your reading comprehension skills. Where did I even mention law?

  17. Re:What kind of software are they writing? on How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes -- And a Global Software Sweatshop (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Christmas must have come early. Training up your future competitors like that. Now that's generous.

    [wipes away a tear]

  18. Re: What white collar workers said... on How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes -- And a Global Software Sweatshop (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he's griping about the use of singular "worker" with plural "they".

    Though the way he writes it's pretty unlikely he'd notice.

  19. Re:I was thinking the same thing on How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes -- And a Global Software Sweatshop (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    It will have wariables without walues in them.

  20. Whatever replaces systemd on What's the Next Big Thing in Tech? It's Up To Us (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    n/c

  21. Any decent country bans poor immigration

    There's a big green thing in NYC wearing a spiky tiara and holding up an ice-cream cone.

    Remind me, what does the caption on that say?

  22. One person lives off the dole, works on the sly and has enough to get by. He never borrows anything because he doesn't need to.

    Another goes into debt for good reasons - say getting training or starting a business - but through no fault of his own it doesn't pan out.

    Which will have the better credit score? Which is less of a burden on the public finances?

    (protip: it's not the same answer each time).

  23. Elizabeth Warren has more Native American in her

    [Spockesque eyebrow raise]

  24. /|\ Found the Pentax shill!

  25. Re: "gig economy" == minimum wage on High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you move to a single payer system what happens to all the insurance and intermediary jobs?

    Put them through an aptitude test for learning to be glaziers. Take the top 20% and give the rest slingshots.

    Do I have to do all the thinking around here?