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  1. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We need to make companies overcome the burden of proof that there is no one qualified domestically for a job before they can get an H1B.

    Also that the qualification is relevant, and that the visa applicant does have it. None of this 15 years on Java 9 with a black belt in origami crap.

  2. Re:Can we get back on NASA's New Horizons Shows Pluto's Moon Charon Is a Strange, New World · · Score: 1

    If you have a strange new world for a freakin' moon then you deserve a better title than "senior asteroid" or "rock++".

  3. Re:Fun thing is... on GitHub's Next Move: Turn Everybody Into a Programmer · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can replace every electrician with a programmer, but how are you going to power that computer?

    I'll just nip down to the makerspace and 3D print a generator.

  4. Re:What is the point of this?? on NASA's New Horizons Shows Pluto's Moon Charon Is a Strange, New World · · Score: 1

    s/life/oil/

  5. Re:TFA, TFS on Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. Does it specifically say it has to be on a horizontal road?

  6. It literally makes my blood boil. on Former Cisco CEO: China, India, UK Will Lead US In Tech Race Without Action · · Score: 3, Funny

    O perhaps you're smart enough to use exponential to describe a situation where the rate of change of something is proportional to that thing, rather than treating it as the linguistic equivalent of parmesan cheese and balsamic vinegar.

  7. Re: Something tells me... on Former Cisco CEO: China, India, UK Will Lead US In Tech Race Without Action · · Score: 1

    Since when has Govt lead IT in the first place whatsoever?

    The thing you're using to share your wisdom was invented by Al Gore.

  8. Re:Bias? Or reality? on Houston's Gifted Education Program Biased Against Blacks and Latinos · · Score: 1

    Poor Immigrants from Asia tend to counter your argument.

    My grandad counters the argument that smoking is bad for you. He used to get through three packs a day from the age of 14 to 90 when he was run over by a bus while training for a marathon.

    It is anecdotes are data week, right?

  9. Re:Bias? Or reality? on Houston's Gifted Education Program Biased Against Blacks and Latinos · · Score: 1

    You have to square the correlation coefficient to get the percent of variance explained. So it's not much more than a third.

  10. I'd say that's pretty impressive. Most people here have never even been outside.

  11. Re:How racism? on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    even though every single study on the issue shows quite the opposite.

    Cite one. One that deals with the scale we're looking at here.

    The Guardian said 750,000 which means it's going to be well over a million.

  12. Re:Oh, that's ironic on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You do realize that every person born on American soil is JUST as much a native as you are, right?

    No they aren't. "Native American" doesn't have the same meaning as adding the individual meanings of "Native" and "American".

    In any case, I guess it's too late and we're stuck with you. We should have sent your ancestors back to Poland, Ireland or wherever as soon as the bastards landed.

    P.S. How many Syrians do you think we should take?

  13. Re:Or in other words... on Linux Foundation Puts the Cost of Replacing Its Open Source Projects At $5 Billion · · Score: 1

    Right. Totally valid comparison, because the hardware grows on trees.

  14. Re:What is the cost of the QEMU code? on Linux Foundation Puts the Cost of Replacing Its Open Source Projects At $5 Billion · · Score: 1

    They're very nice, but what do they have to do with the replacement cost?

  15. Re:Donna Ford on Houston's Gifted Education Program Biased Against Blacks and Latinos · · Score: 1

    Constable Savage, would I be correct in assuming that Ms. Ford is a coloured lady?

  16. Re: Oh, that's ironic on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. Start with these fine upstanding people.

  17. Re:How racism? on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    What the hell does same sex marriage have to do with immigration and refugees?

    Ask the Archbishop of Jeddah.

  18. Re:Oh, that's ironic on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 2

    Yep, mass immigration - that's what America is founded on. And look how it turned out.

    Pretty bad, I'd say.

    But then I am a Cherokee.

  19. Carly pwns Hillary on Carly Fiorina: I Supplied HP Servers For NSA Snooping · · Score: 2

    One server is an embarrassment. A truckload of servers is a statistic.

  20. Re:An argument on Uber Raided By Dutch Authorities, Seen As 'Criminal Organization' · · Score: 1

    Martin Luthor's

    ... brother Lex was always the naughty one.

  21. Re:Evolution is key on Are Enterprise Architects the "Miltons" of Their Organizations? · · Score: 1

    Requirements are not a tiny detail

    Never said they were. Two comprehension fails in a row.

    over-engineering a solution when you don't know what the new requirements will be is a waste of money and time.

    Which is what I said.

    However Tablizer does have a point that you can, with experience, reasonably guess what will come up, e.g. an accounting system probably will need to handle multiple currencies at some point, aircraft fuelling systems need to handle kilos...

  22. Re:Not pr0n at all, no no no on (Over-)Measuring the Working Man · · Score: 1

    I just look at the pictures. Ummm, pictures of cats, yes, that's it. Funny funny cats.

  23. Re:Do I have to do all thinking round here? on How Can NASA's Road To Mars Be Made More Affordable? · · Score: 1

    And a blow-by-blow account of the flight by StartsWithABang.

  24. Re:GPS on John Harrison: Inventor and Longitude Hero · · Score: 2

    You can use just about any continent or any large island if you have accurate maps.

    While your solution of finding your position on the open sea by not being on the open sea shows a degree of lateral thinking, it does rather skip the difficult bit about finding land in the first place without running into it and, like, totally sinking and dying and stuff.

  25. Re:No Cost Clause on John Harrison: Inventor and Longitude Hero · · Score: 1

    A committee of bureaucrats decides to enforce a rule that doesn't exist. The King tells them to sod off, and he's in the wrong?